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#this is also what i call the Star Wars Problem (although: wide category lol)#but i mean specifically the thing where george lucas watched a BUNCH of westerns and samurai films and ww2 flying ace films#and then made a space movie ABOUT high points in those other story forms#because he knew those pulp genres inside out and knew what bits he needed to hit in RAF Dambusters pulp when he added laser swords#or in western saloon showdowns when he added spaceships#but then you fast-forward a few decades and people are making star wars movies ABOUT other star wars movies#and like not many of those scenes are going to hit that way - they just wont have the chance#they’ll be a copy of a copy and the emotion is going to degrade like the worlds crustiest reformatted ocr PDF#or a xerox of a xerox of a xerox#they’ve ceased to be about the feeling generated by the Form and have become simply the Form in isolation (via harrietvane)

(good tag essay that hit on what bothers me about disney-era SW stylistically)

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I'm reminded of an exchange I had recently with someone who'd watched the the Han Solo movie. They said it didn't feel like a Star Wars movie, somehow, and I flippantly suggested "not enough sand." More seriously though, I have to wonder about how that original connection to the western genre gets obscured.

hahaha that really does cut at the heart of it though!

it's a good question and would make for an amazing media analysis paper .. there's so many directions one can take it, with how the interpersonal relationships between the cast is approached versus the old heroic stereotypes down to the setting direction to your point about the sand (wide appearing-to-be-barran-frontiers-like vistas...).