![]() ![]() Abrams was winking at us, having a little meta-fun. When The Force Awakens began with a droid loosed on a desert planet, carrying information vital to the Rebel. But for me, over the course of the movie, the "borrowing" aspect slowly went from sweet and nostalgic to discordant to faintly ridiculous. I'm with Brian Merchant: the movie's "predictable, nostalgia-reliant, repackaged thrills" are "a defeat for what made the trilogy extraordinary in the first place-its madcap sci-fi originality and genre-bending experimentation." (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) There's borrowing and then there's borrowing I find it a little weird that this doesn't bother critics more. Vox's own Ezra Klein has argued that it is a feature, not a bug, a way of bringing comic-book sensibilities to the Star Wars franchise. Some reviewers have dismissed this lightly others have dwelled on it a bit, but ultimately forgiven it. It lifts most of its major plot points from A New Hope (and a few from that film's two sequels), sprinkling in some new characters. Warning: this review is riddled with spoilers.īy now, more or less everyone has acknowledged that Star Wars: The Force Awakens closely echoes A New Hope - so closely, in fact, that "echoes" does not quite do it justice.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |