Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 5, 2018 5:13:07 GMT
Jul 5, 2018 4:58:55 GMT merh said:
Kasdan says it was rejected so it never went past "what if?"But it makes a circle.
And remember Lucas also claimed if he remained in charge the final trilogy would be about the Whills, microworld/dimensional beings that control the Force/feed off it so the Dark Side would likely always be required to exist.
But this is why the audience expectations clash with the filmmakers decisions. Same with Indiana Jones.
Marketed as a hero-adventurer in the first film-by the end of the third film he is a figure to mock--deconstructed.
It is a deconstruction of Western protagonist norms.
Luke in comic books and even the release poster was shown as a heroic Prince Valiant/Flash Gordon type--but the movie marketing is one thing, the story itself takes a different turn. Even though they said it was the Hero's Journey, based on old myths, Luke is not a traditional hero. So they used the myth and tradition angle just for marketing or even bait and switch.
Hamill said in 1997 he expected the sequels would have him as an Obi Wan figure passing the torch to someone else. That is traditional. Having him moping on an island and then fighting as a projection before fading away is not.
But the signs of deconstruction were there from the beginning. It just built up over time. Inevitable I think--but they finally lost the audience by such an action reaching its fulfillment, and poorly handled by filmmakers who didn't understand the adventure genre (or did and deliberately set out to be experimentally contrarian).