Smoking Lizard said:
…the Death Star pulls everything downwards (wrong!)I understand that that editing sequence is misleading. The Death Star is built with buildings jutting up from its surface, just as building are built on earth. The gravity is at the core of the space station. So the hangar bay the MF flew into was a tall building structure. See here:
Well, the film “flipflops” the logic of the Death Star so to speak. When the Falcon is pulled into the hangar the gravity is clearly downwards;
Yet, later when they attack it the cannons are pointed outwards like you showed in your picture. There’s also these guys;
It’s like he says in the video, the film makes up whatever logic it needs to tell an interesting story, as well as be visually interesting.
That latter photo of the guy on the cannon is also a good example of his point that SW is essentially just a fairy-tale/fantasy told in a sci-fi setting. Why use a manned cannon on a giant space station anway? Also how is he shooting out a window on a space-station?
Sure, you could start arguing about force-shield technology, or how the laser bolts can travel one way and not the other, but over-all the point is that it’s not really meant to be explained. It looks cool, and the more down-to-earth feel adds a level familiarity that the audience can connect to while at the same time making it more interesting and entertaining by putting it into space.