The Last Jedi offers humor, excitement and spectacle, with space battles and lightsaber duels. The Last Jedi, from writer-director Rian Johnson, continues that trajectory, though in a more entertaining and crowd-pleasing vein than Rogue One.
By contrast, Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One jettisoned the mythopoeic and even partially deconstructed the traditional heroism of prior films. Abrams’ The Force Awakens tried, too derivatively, to recapitulate the flavor of the original trilogy. The prequel trilogy did neither very well, but enough inspiration remains to mark them as a continuation of sorts of the same creative endeavor. The original trilogy did both well, often brilliantly. White, shaped by the literary theories of Joseph Campbell. On the other hand, they were epic mythopoeia, with roots in J.R.R. On the one hand, they were old-fashioned space opera in the swashbuckling tradition of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, but better (except when they weren’t).
The Star Wars films have always been two things, not always successfully. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi is a strange beast: a swashbuckling action movie that is deeply skeptical of derring-do a middle movie that works better as riff and commentary on the original source material than as a sequel to its immediate predecessor.
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