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Chen G.

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  1. Since I'm not Christian nor grew up with Christian people around, I can't get "into" The Passion of the Christ. It actualy wasn't screened in Israel at the time. It just wasn't made for people like me. So I don't feel like I'm in a position to critique it, for better or worst.

     

    Otherwise, I'm happy to say I liked everything Mel Gibson has directed: Not just Braveheart (which words fail me in describing how much I love) but also Apocalypto and recently, Hacksaw Ridge, and even his debut in The Man Without a Face.

     

    Each of these films provided a different challenge for this fabolus director: one, in helming a large-scope production to tell a coherent and captivating story; the other, in coaxing good performances out of a cast of none-professional actors; the third, in making a large-scale film on a shoe-string budget, and the latter, in making cinematic a small domestic drama. Very impressive career, indeed!

  2. That's called a character arc: you don't want your character's traits to be  a constant, you want them to have highs and lows. Preferably, you want the character to exhibit some kind of personality change within the runtime of the film.

  3. Oh, so now that I unabashedly love a popular film, its wrong, too? Just because I love it more than another film in the same series?

     

    To my mind, Raiders has nothing, in terms of stakes, that matches the inclusion of the father figure in this film.

     

    I will say, seeing them go to Nazi Berlin was odd, especially knowing Spielberg's later work. But that's not an issue with the film itself, its just me. As time passes and the memory of the deeds of the Nazis will be less tangiable, I believe people won't have the reaction that I had to it, especially if they don't live in Israel, as I do.

  4. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

     

    Simply put, I. LOVE. THIS. MOVIE.

     

    While I view escapist adventure films as the occasional "palette cleanser" between more serious, emotionally-hefty works, this film is - to my mind - the king of all palette cleansers. Part of why that is so is that while it fully acknowledges that its an escapist adventure film, it by no means lacks stakes, due to the inclusion of the father figure.

     

    I know Spielberg gets a lot of credit for Raiders of the Lost Ark, but something about that film doesn't quite click with me, whereas this film just does beat after beat. The best of the series!

  5. 5 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

    As such, I think it would be really silly and undermining of the whole thing to treat it as a flippant means to an end as you suggest.

     

    The way its explained to us, The Force sustains existence, so you could approach it more in terms of cutting off people's connection to it, rather than eliminating the force itself.

     

    I think its the best way to bring closure to this series, and if you want to do something unexpected yet inevitable, than I feel like that's the way to go.

  6. But it would be a poignant one.

     

    You can write it so Rey discovers through the Jedi texts that the only way for true balance to be achieved is by cutting the galaxy off from the force altogether. It could play off of Luke's notion that the Jedi should end.

     

    34 minutes ago, Pellaeon said:

    TLJ is already the end of the ‘Skywalker Saga’ as such.

     

    I don't think the essential thrust of the saga has ever been the Skywalker lineage. Its more about the conflict of the light and the dark side. The episodes deal with this conflict directly, whereas the spin-offs use it as a backdrop.

  7. Yeah, but to this day, they did not indicate that they want to make more episodes.

     

    Now that they've killed off the characters of the earlier films, there's little that distinguishes - in terms of branding - the episodes from the spin-offs, and so I imagine they intend to wrap up the episodes and continue with more spin-off properties; and they'd be right to do so. Its time for the episodes...to end.

  8. Revenge of the Sith ended that way...

     

    Even if Disney plans on making another trilogy of episodes (which they hadn't even talked about thus far), it'd probably take a while; so I doubt they'd end this trilogy without a strong sense of closure, so I'd say a tragic end is out of the question. But that doesn't mean some the characters' stories can't end in tragedy.

     

    If I were writing this episode to be the final say on all things Star Wars, I would have Rey and Kylo die, and create a cataclysmic event in which people's ability to attune themselves to The Force is undone.

  9. You don't necessarily need too many deaths to create a sense of finality.

     

    But yes, if this last film is to have any sense of heft, some of our main cast should meet their end.

     

    On the one hand, it makes sense for Rey to be it. But on the other hand, it would only solidify the Marry Sue narrative, because that's literally what happens to the original Marry Sue.

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