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So here’s how this happened… In looking at The Rise of Skywalker and comparing it to Return of the Jedi over the past few days, I’ve been thinking a lot […]
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Imagine with me, if you will, a different Return of the Jedi. The primary protagonist/antagonist conflict is not with Luke and Palpatine, it’s with Luke and Vader. And yet they […]
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When we looked at The Force Awakens, it was remarkable how much it lined up with the events of A New Hope. Then we looked at The Last Jedi, and […]
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Return of the Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker start their bad guys in similar places. No one walking into Return of the Jedi ever thought that redemption was in […]
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As we dive deeper into our examination of The Rise of Skywalker, and the comparison of it to Return of the Jedi, structure is where we want to head next. […]
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Last week, we spent time talking about The Last Jedi, and comparing it to The Empire Strikes Back – which is similar to what we did a while ago when […]
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The “I am your father” reveal from The Empire Strikes Back is the ultimate “recontextualization” in cinema history. Recontextualization is a heavy word, one definition of which is: To place […]
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I hinted at us coming to this episode earlier in the week, about a thematic similarity between The Empire Strikes Back and The Last Jedi. Well, here we are now: […]
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There was a funny meme going around back in the day, which had two images, which were the same shot of protesters with torches and pitchforks. And one photo depicted […]
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The May 2017 Vanity Fair cover story on The Last Jedi includes this: But Johnson, in drawing up his screenplay, decided to raise the stakes further. ‘I started by writing […]