When Rian Johnson’s Star Wars film The Last Jedi was released in 2017, it came in as a critically acclaimed box office hit, earning four Academy Award nominations and grossing upwards of $1.3…
was released in 2017, it came in as a critically acclaimed box office hit, earning four Academy Award nominations and grossing upwards of $1.3B worldwide. Diehard fans of the franchise, however, took umbrage with the title, very loudly calling out their issues with everything from its plot to its tone.
The filmmaker makes his argument to the contrary with reference to choices made by the franchise’s creator George Lucas in his original trilogy, which embraced the light as a counterbalance to the dark. He says that when he first sawas a kid, “it had this deep, profound impact on me because it was terrifying, because I was just young enough to not experience it as watching aReturn of the Jedi
at “exactly the right age in the theater,” the experience inherent to that film was quite different. universe, I don’t know if they’ve seen. There’s literally a scene where Han Solo is like a cartoon, trussed up to a pole and a torch goes by him to light the fire, to cook him,” says Johnson, referencing the goofy way the character puffs out his cheeks to try to put out the flame.
This “slightly self-aware element of gleeful humor,” Johnson continues, “is something that is part and parcel to], as well. And I think that kind of brazen balance of those two things is also something that’s part of— a sequel to his critically acclaimed, award-winning whodunit— which hits Netflix on Friday, December 23rd, having opened in around 600 theaters one month prior.
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