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The “Winners and Losers” series for the Star Wars movies continues! We’re on to The Last Jedi, and in yesterday’s episode, we talked about the winners. So naturally, today we’re […]
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The “Winners and Losers” series continues! We’re moving on to The Last Jedi, and this movie presented a bit of a challenge. Bad things do happen to characters in Star […]
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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 […]
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In October 2017 (before the release of The Last Jedi), Rian Johnson spoke at an “Ireland Week” event to talk about the movie. The Hollywood Reporter quoted him as saying: […]
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This the 9th of 11 episodes focused on the nature of hope as it’s depicted in the Star Wars movies, and the 8th out of the nine Skywalker Saga movies […]
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This episode didn’t quite go the way I thought. It’s the episode number that matches the year of release for The Last Jedi, so we’re exploring family themes (as with […]
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We talked about some story choices Rian Johnson made in The Last Jedi that were supported by J.J. Abrams in The Rise of Skywalker. But we didn’t talk about the […]