Re: Star Wars
Posted: 25 Jan 2021, 5:08pm
Hmm, that's thought-provoking.
Love Rogue One. Third best SW movie after ANH and Empire. I especially love that it gets the Star Wars color scheme right. 98% natural/earth tones (black, white, gray, browns, a bit of sky blue and green vegetation) with bright colors like red and yellow used sparingly, mostly for control panel lights. Visually, it fits right in with the movies that made me love Star Wars in the first place.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Oct 2021, 8:47pmAnother long weekend, another SW marathon, another rewatch of Rogue One. The thing that drew my attention this time was how downgraded the Force was. It's basically just faith and a mantra. Aside from Vader doing his shit, the Force isn't relevant at all to the story. It's desperate and self-sacrificing rebels against technological evil. In its own way, it's a serious fuck-you to Lucas' half-baked spiritualism.
I've said before that I wasn't overly impressed when I saw it in the theatre, but subsequent rewatches has it up there with New Hope and Empire. It's total fanfic, but it is done so fucking well. When you know that the heroes have to die yet you're still riveted, that's good storytelling.Kimmelweck wrote: ↑10 Oct 2021, 9:06pmLove Rogue One. Third best SW movie after ANH and Empire. I especially love that it gets the Star Wars color scheme right. 98% natural/earth tones (black, white, gray, browns, a bit of sky blue and green vegetation) with bright colors like red and yellow used sparingly, mostly for control panel lights. Visually, it fits right in with the movies that made me love Star Wars in the first place.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑10 Oct 2021, 8:47pmAnother long weekend, another SW marathon, another rewatch of Rogue One. The thing that drew my attention this time was how downgraded the Force was. It's basically just faith and a mantra. Aside from Vader doing his shit, the Force isn't relevant at all to the story. It's desperate and self-sacrificing rebels against technological evil. In its own way, it's a serious fuck-you to Lucas' half-baked spiritualism.
I'll follow Ming-Na Wen anywhere.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑30 Dec 2021, 8:55pmWatched the first episode of The Book of Robert "Bob" A. Fett this evening. Didn't grab the way The Mandalorian—most of it was dedicated to Robert's escape from the Sarlac after Jedi—but neither did it bore or seem pointless.
With Lucas I thought they were stand-ins for Arabs.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 Jan 2022, 12:28pmAfter two episodes of Boba Fett, it's pretty clear that the series is portraying Tuskens as stand-ins for 19th/20th c North American indigenous people, marginalized and evicted from their ancestors' land. There is zero reason to think Lucas had the same intention when he used them, but their portrayal in his films as anti-civilization predatory monsters is pretty ugh in this light. As with pretty much all things Star Wars, if you think too hard about this stuff, it's not pleasant at all.
I recently read that in an earlier draft, Lucas originally intended the Tuskens to be non-native Imperial spies, and they only became a Tatooine native race in a later draft.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑09 Jan 2022, 12:28pmAfter two episodes of Boba Fett, it's pretty clear that the series is portraying Tuskens as stand-ins for 19th/20th c North American indigenous people, marginalized and evicted from their ancestors' land. There is zero reason to think Lucas had the same intention when he used them, but their portrayal in his films as anti-civilization predatory monsters is pretty ugh in this light. As with pretty much all things Star Wars, if you think too hard about this stuff, it's not pleasant at all.