John Doom said:
Poe giving the data to bb8 and being captured, as well as Rey being brought to SKB and being interrogated while the other main characters get into the prison to save her, they both clearly borrow from Leia in ANH, that was my point. Their scenes (visual references aside) play differently, yet share the same plot points, so it’s still “borrowing” as J.J. said.Well unless SW was the first movie to have a character be captured only to be rescued by the other characters I wouldn’t really call it mirroring at all 😄
It’s a very basic plot point that existed long before STAR WARS even came out. And not only in film but in book as well.
Right, lots of movies have a main character taken by a dark jedi to the stormtroopers’ space station (capable of destroying entire worlds), interrogated by the main villain on the data they’re looking for (which are hidden inside her own droid) : /
If these plot points are not borrowed from earlier SW films (ANH in particular here), then neither are those you pointed out in the PT (like Luke/Anakin fighting Vader/Dooku and loosing his hand), or is it? And yet, they were.
There are plenty of stories that predate STAR WARS that have a main character captured and then interrogated/tortured by the main bad guy in his lair.
Also lets not forget that Leia was interrogated about the location of the Rebel base whereas Rey and Poe were interrogated about the map to Skywalker.