I’ve heard that said, but I think a lot of the accusations of unoriginality between 4 and 7 are mostly because they have similar themes by virtue of belonging to the same series.
“Ugh, John wick found another reluctant health professional to patch trim up after getting shot”.
kind of thing.
I think Star wars is pushing really hard to reboot Star wars entirely. 2, so they don’t want to do anything new so much as update some of the old stuff with their own characters so that the new movies take over the old ones like the new Canon is taking over the old Canon.
Idk how you could reach that conclusion. Maybe you watched 7 and haven’t seen 4 in a while. It’s not just your John Wick example. The movie is pretty shameless about lifting the structure of 4, it’s not some subtle nuanced technicality.
Do you have some examples that you’re talking about specifically besides mega death Star?
It seemed pretty clear to me that Disney was trying to remimagine elements of four so that they could have a new series all to themselves, but the movie itself felt new in a lot of ways.
Finn was a huge part of that, there was never a character like him before.
They also didn’t have a Kenobi leading them through everything.
It’s the Star wars universe so a lot of the themes and elements (spaceships, and overbearing government, manichean forces) are going to be similar, but you had new characters doing different things for different reasons in different situations for most of the movie.
I’ve heard that said, but I think a lot of the accusations of unoriginality between 4 and 7 are mostly because they have similar themes by virtue of belonging to the same series.
“Ugh, John wick found another reluctant health professional to patch trim up after getting shot”.
kind of thing.
I think Star wars is pushing really hard to reboot Star wars entirely. 2, so they don’t want to do anything new so much as update some of the old stuff with their own characters so that the new movies take over the old ones like the new Canon is taking over the old Canon.
Idk how you could reach that conclusion. Maybe you watched 7 and haven’t seen 4 in a while. It’s not just your John Wick example. The movie is pretty shameless about lifting the structure of 4, it’s not some subtle nuanced technicality.
Watched four through six before checking out 7.
Do you have some examples that you’re talking about specifically besides mega death Star?
It seemed pretty clear to me that Disney was trying to remimagine elements of four so that they could have a new series all to themselves, but the movie itself felt new in a lot of ways.
Finn was a huge part of that, there was never a character like him before.
They also didn’t have a Kenobi leading them through everything.
It’s the Star wars universe so a lot of the themes and elements (spaceships, and overbearing government, manichean forces) are going to be similar, but you had new characters doing different things for different reasons in different situations for most of the movie.