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Post by jppiper on Mar 28, 2024 6:24:26 GMT
Just more of diznee giving the people what they want, instead of what they need. What do they need?
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 29, 2024 16:39:14 GMT
In the PT, and a little in the OT, the characters are stuck in irreconcilable dilemmas, maneuvered into positions where they have to choose what they think is best, with their good intentions.
This should get people to think and ponder and reflect on this aspect of life. And hopefully come away with a larger lense with which to look at things, and empathize with the characters.
But, sadly, we've learned most people don't like this. And because they don't like reflecting, they instead call the movies dumb and bad. And say the good guys must be dumb and bad and deserve to die.
So what does diznee do? Give them what they want. Vader slaughtering Rebels and good guys doing too-on-the-nose bad things as a means to an end. I've only seen tfa and r1, so that's all I can speak to, but it felt like a watered down, blunter, easier to digest version of what Lucas gave us.
Maybe that's not a bad thing, I don't know, but do we continually need everything to be dumbed down?
And really it's just all about perspective. Instead of judging the films as bad, just switch your perspective to, "Maybe there's something to learn from this. Let me try to figure that out."
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Post by Subtext Mining on Mar 29, 2024 18:44:48 GMT
And then a friend posts this on fb today. This kind of illustrates what I'm tryna say. Not that life gets easy, but you develop the skills with which to more effectively deal with difficulties. And stories like in the Lucas SW saga, help as myths to guide us, and we hopefully use the lessons learned in them as examples. I feel diznee provides the quick and easy path, gives people the easy story beats. But they don't learn as deep a lesson. In fact, this image also pretty much illustrates Anakin's journey, until the end of RotJ. When he finally makes the hard decision.
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Post by jppiper on Apr 28, 2024 23:00:56 GMT
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Post by eljedicolombiano on Apr 29, 2024 22:12:25 GMT
I cannot wait for this Acolyte show to bomb hard man
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Post by jppiper on May 2, 2024 3:55:33 GMT
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