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m_s0
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The New Generation of Star Wars Fans
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12-Mar-2014, 6:46 AM

imperialscum said:

And your example does not properly encapsulate the given SW situation since in your example there is a complete change of the main topic of photos. 

My point exactly.

In case of Tatooine, the main topic remains the same;

It doesn't remain the same, because it doesn't convey the message. Which is why the example does properly encapsulate the situation.

Tatooine is physically inhospitable place. 

It is what it's set up as. The pretty SE shots don't set it up as an inhospitable place.

The degree of visual pleasantness has no effect on the main topic.

The degree of visual pleasantness has a huge effect here  :)

In SW Tatooine is physically desolate and harsh place... i.e. desert. Yet the desert is on many occasions visually beautiful place. So distorting the visual reality (intentionally of unintentionally) to additionally and unnecessarily emphasis the physical inhospitality is just dumb.

I've already addressed this. Preconceptions don't matter. I disagree, in other words.

Let me put it like this. You have a character who has a very unpleasant personality. Does that mean you have cast someone visually unpleasant (i.e. ugly) to play that character?

Huh? In the case of an environment all you have are the visuals cues. In the case of a character you've got much more to work with, not just the way the character looks. It's not analogous.

It's like all of those parts in the PT where Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker talk about however many times they've saved each other's lives to give the viewer the impression they're bros, yet all you see is how they really don't seem to like each other. Or how Anakin Skywalker is supposed to be the good guy who turns to the dark side when he's clearly written as a bad guy with no arc. It doesn't work, needless to say. No matter how much you talk up how harsh a place Tatooine is (while showing the exact opposite thing - yes, I'm not conceding: it is important) you won't convey this message. Preconceptions I've already talked about.

Long story short: I'd say making Tatooine pretty is like creating a character who is supposed to be one thing - let's say a bad guy for the sake of argument -  but who doesn't display any traits or doesn't do anything (the personality thing you mentioned) which would make him seem like he's the bad guy.

We will never agree on this :P