6/6/2005

Y'know, I've been thinking... what if the characterization in Star Wars was bad on purpose? I'm not some die hard fan trying to justify what I saw here, just hear me out. There was some pretty hardcore violence in places despite the fact that it was a "kids movie." So maybe, maybe making the audience not care about the characters was done in order to lessen the impact of those gruesome scenes.

Some kid would be watching, and rather than being disturbed by all that violence, he just says, "Oh, well that isn't real, real people don't talk like that..." I think that if the drama was played correctly, and you actually felt the pain of the characters, the movie would've actually been REALLY intense, y'know what I mean?

The other theory is that they used the first draft of the script and did every scene in one take, basing their actions on the idea that acting and story didn't matter. Rather, the movie was created for the geekier fans of the movies, who just wanted more droids and spaceships to memorize and crash into each other.

In any case, the effects were amazing. And I can't help but wonder... what if someone created a movie in a world as visually fantastic as this, but with incredible depth of character and story as well? I think that would be a hell of a show, the possibilities with all those aliens and droids and stuff are endless, and it "breaks my heart" to see all those awesome things wasted by making the story take a backseat to the effects. I'd like to see a Star Wars story that had nothing to do with Jedi or galactic politics or whatever. Send R2 on an adventure of his own! :^) I dunno, that's just my opinion. I've always thought that the priority in any story should be, well, the story. Set up, conflict, climax, y'know? But I guess not everybody feels that way. Oh well, not my movie. I'm done.