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Post #903975

Author
Mithrandir
Parent topic
Filmmaker and New Yorker film critic Richard Brody's thoughts on the prequels.
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Date created
3-Feb-2016, 10:11 PM

I do not agree on most of the article.

However, who wrote this has some things very clear, things that are rather uncomfortable truths specially to our forum community:

-PT is (judging pure visuality) better framed and composited than ANH

-Anakin’s journey is Faustian.

-John William’s score is musically brillant, but yes, it quite underlines the moments a lot. I keep thinking of the self-undoing ball of wool Tornatore frames in Cinema Paradiso, when the protagonist comes back home after 30 years. That shot, if I remember right, has almost no music. The message is still there, but not emphatized. What whoever wrote this seemed not to know, however, is that Star Wars is designed as a myth. And yes, myths do tell people what to thing or how to feel, because they have been and still are an educational tool to every society.

-That’s why star wars is mainly audiovisual.
-That’s why no one expects a Star Wars movie to have too much dialogue about politics.

And that’s where Lucas failed.