Why is this same kind of article still being published?
Because near-on two years of this stuff just isn’t enough?
Oh… clicks, ads and $$$ from sensationalising and misleading titles and headlines with certain keywords to try and attract hits to said articles too.
It doesn’t apply so much to this article - yet there’s money to be made from peddling division, hate, toxicity and negativity online - and enforcing (repeating again and again) those views.
At no point are there quotes from Rian Johnson in the article stating he ‘subverted’ anything.
The only quotes from him in the article are…
“I think the instant you start thinking in terms of how do you not step outside of the bounds of what the original movies did, you’re not thinking the way the people who made the original movies did,” he said. “With every movie, they were pushing it forward, with every movie they were stepping outside those bounds and pushing the characters into new, emotionally honest, but surprising places."
“That’s why those movies are great. That’s why they’re alive. If they had been looking at something that came before it and saying, ‘Oh, we better not do this because that is outside of this or that,’ it would’ve been different.”
I really like that quote from Johnson. It’s exactly how innovative film makers should be thinking. If he had stayed inside the lines so to speak I think SW would die a slow death.