#the force awakens

[nkp1981]

Oscar Isaac

#oscar isaac #poe dameron #the force awakens #star wars #dune #dune 2021 #marc spector #steven grant #jake lockley #moon knight

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

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[han-leia-solo]

"It's a girl." "Leia."

#leia organa #swedit #starwarsedit #swcreators #filmgifs #star wars #movieedit #carrie fisher #vivien lyra blair #a new hope #return of the jedi #the force awakens #ours

[bladesrunner]

Why are you helping me? — Because it's the right thing to do. — You need a pilot. — I need a pilot. — We're gonna do this.

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) dir. J.J. Abrams

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[dailyflicks]

STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS dir. J.J. Abrams - 2015

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[w1ldspace]

iii. the king, finn

#star wars #finn #the force awakens #the last jedi #the rise of skywalker #sequel trilogy #star wars fanart #finn star wars #sequels

[popcultureds]

The Force Awakens (2015) dir. J.J. Abrams

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[artbyblastweave]

I think about Star Wars a lot more than I post about Star Wars, and I've had some free time recently to type up some thoughts on Episode 7 that've been swirling around in my head for a couple of years. There were a few ideas and plot beats, and moments of apparent self-examination in Episode 7 which I thought were fairly compelling, even though they ultimately paid no dividends:

First was Finn’s character concept. “Star Wars as experienced from the perspective of a Stormtrooper undergoing a crisis of faith” is a rich hook; humanizing and giving a face to what's basically the platonic implementation of the faceless mook. Unfortunately, the potency of the arc was undercut by the pre-existing textual ambiguity as to what stormtroopers actually are. Star Wars extended canon has settled on the idea that each trilogy features an entirely novel cohort of white-clad mooks, each with a fundamentally different underlying dynamic. The clones and the First-Order forces are different flavors of slave army; in contrast, the stormtroopers are more frequently portrayed in the expanded universe as military careerists, stormtrooper being a thing you work up to rather than a gig for a fresh conscript. A slave-soldier who defects is a very different character from a military careerist who defects, and they invite different analysis. There's a bait-and-switch going on here, in that Finn gestures in the direction of the familiar OT stormtroopers but can't comment on or examine them because he's actually part of a novel dynamic invented for the new movies. And there's one final nail in the coffin here, signaled by the number of times I've had to invoke the expanded universe so far. When Finn debuted, the racists were of course, legion, but I also ran into a number of people who were sincerely confused as to why they'd recast Temuera Morrison. Going off the seven films that existed at the time, it wasn't unreasonable to read the prequel trilogy as an origin story for where the OT stormtroopers came from. Going only off the nine films that exist now, it still isn't unreasonable! It's muddied from so many different directions by their failure to establish the ground rules in the mainline films before they tried to put on subversive airs about it. I am still irritated by this.

Next up is how Han Solo was written. I actually liked the tack they took with him quite a bit. Because initially, right, his role in the movie is just to be Han Solo. He's back, and he hasn't changed! He's still kicking ass and taking names, he's still the lovable scoundrel you knew and loved from your childhood- and the principle cast members react to his presence with the same reverence the film's trying to invoke in the audience, they've grown up hearing the same stories about him. Except that episode 7, at least, is also very aware of the fact that if Han Solo is still recognizably the same guy thirty years on, it indicates that things have gone totally off the rails for him. We find out that the lovable rogue routine is the result of him backsliding, his happy ending blown up by massive personal tragedy rooted in communicative failures and (implicitly) his parental shortcomings. It feels deliberately in conversation with the nostalgic impulse driving the entire film- here's your childhood hero back just as you remember, here's what that stagnation costs. And it also feels like it's in conversation with what was a fairly common strain of Han Solo Take- the idea that Ep. 6 cuts off at a very convenient point, and that Han and Leia's fly-by-night wartime relationship wouldn't survive the rigors of domesticity. Obviously, that's not the only direction you can take with the character; the old EU basically threaded the needle of keeping Han recognizable without rolling back his character development gains. But it felt like they were actually committing to a direction, a direction that was aware of the space, and not a reflexively deferential and flattering one, which at the time I appreciated! The problem, of course, is that for it to really land, you need to have a really, really strong idea of what actually went down-of what Han's specific shortcomings and failures were. And given the game of ping-pong they proceeded to play with Kylo Ren's characterization, this turned out to be. Less than doable.

Kylo Ren is the third thing about Episode 7 that I liked. His character concept is basically an extended admission by the filmmakers that there's no way to top Vader as an antagonist. Instead, they lean into the opposite direction- they make him underwhelming on purpose. Someone who's chasing Vader's legacy in the same way any post-OT Star Wars villain is going to, pursuing Vader's aesthetic and the associated power without really understanding or undergoing the convoluted web of suffering and dysfunction that produced Vader. It's framed as a genuine twist that there's nothing particularly wrong with his face under that helmet. Whatever it takes to be Vader, he doesn't have it, and he knows that he doesn't have it, and the pursuit of it drives him to greater and greater acts of cartoonish villainy. The failure to one-up Vader is offloaded to the character instead of the writers, and it was genuinely interesting to watch. For one movie. The problem, of course, is that if the entire character archetype is "Vader, but less compelling," you can't try to give the bastard Vader's exact character arc. You can't retroactively bolt on a Vader-tier tragic backstory when you spent a whole movie signaling that whatever happened to him wasn't as compelling as what happened to Vader. You can't milk his angst for two more movies when it's the kind of angst on display in "Rocking the Suburbs" by Ben Folds!

There's a level on which I feel like Moff Gideon was a semi-successful implementation of Vader-Wannabe concept; he's the same kind of middling operator courting the Vader Aesthetic for clout, but he's doing it in the context of the imperial warlord era, where there's a lot of practical power available to anyone who can paint themselves to the Imperial Remnants as a plausible successor to Vader. Hand in Hand with this obvious politicking, Gideon is loathsome, which relieves the writers of the burden of having to plausibly redeem the guy; he's doing exactly what he needs to do and there'll never be a mandate to expand him beyond what his characterization can support. Unfortunately, the calculated and cynical nature of how he's emulating Vader precludes the immaturity and hero-worship elements on display with Kylo, which is unfortunate; the sincerity on display in Kylo's pursuit of authenticity is an important part of why he worked, to the extent that he worked at all, and it'd be worth unpacking in a better trilogy. As he stands Kylo is a clever idea, and that's all he is- he lacks the scaffolding to go from merely clever to actively good.

#and these are my unsolicited star wars thoughts #thoughts #meta #star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #kylo ren #moff gideon #han solo #star wars finn #star wars meta #sw sequels #the force awakens #analysis

[rainbowangelcastiel]

I love his smile

#it’s so cute #kylo ren #the last jedi #rise of skywalker #the force awakens #adam driver #star wars

[zacksnydered]

HARRISON FORD as HAN SOLO Star Wars: The Force Awakens ‧ 2015

#han solo #harrisonfordedit #hansoloedit #harrison ford #swedit #starwarsedit #star wars #the force awakens #tfaedit #film: star wars the force awakens. #mine. #edit: gifs. #fc: adam driver. #safarigirlsp #q.

[the1stokiro]

It’s wild to think there was once a time when:

Finn being force sensitive and destined to be a Jedi was a given

Rey being the feral sand daughter of Luke made the most sense

Finn and Rey obviously falling for each other

Poe being the big brother of the new duo

Kylo, Hux and Phasma being a disaster trio

Snoke was this giant threat that would prove to be different than Palpatine

Luke would’ve lost a lot, but not the kindness and bravery that made him…was still there

Maz would’ve been…relevant

Leia would’ve been more than the sad mom

It’s wild to think about the lost potential of the force awakens. I miss that movie.

#star wars #jedi finn #reysky #luke skywalker #leia organa #finnrey #the force awakens #sigh

[nkp1981]

Oscar Isaac

#oscar isaac #poe dameron #the force awakens #star wars #dune #dune 2021 #mark spector #steven grant #jake lockley #moon knight

[clqoo]

i got bored

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[solaraurora]

it's just me & my problematic ships against the world 🔥

#reylo #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #star wars #the force awakens #the last jedi #the rise of skywalker #zutara #zuko #katara #avatar the last airbender #sylki #loki #loki laufeyson #sylvie #sylvie laufeydottir #charlastor #charlie morningstar #charlotte morningstar #demon belle #alastor #radio demon #radiobelle #hazbin hotel

[anakinskywalkerog]

in honor of May the Fourth, a very simple poll ✨ VOTE FOR YOUR FAV

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[izachin]

Guess what I’m rewatching 👀 #reylo #rey #kyloren #dyad #starwars #bensolo #reyxben #sequeltrilogy #theforceawakens #thelastjedi #procreate #fanart #ArtistOnTwitter #art

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