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    1. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      Wanna know why the Rey parentage story isn't going away despite the emphatic answers? 1. Because JJ doesn't know how to set up actually story turn. He literally said his plan was also for her parents to be "nobodies." This was always the plan. But the problem is...

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    2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      He layers in "the air of mysteriousness" into just about any plot detail to make you question it because he's all about stoking your questions. This has been the M.O. his entire career.

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    3. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      In his mystery box presentation he literally says the answer doesn't really matter. It's just about drawing people in. The problem is that in storytelling the answer is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. It is literally the point of what you are saying and communicating and how.

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    4. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      It's the heart of dramatization. And again, I think JJ's great at so much with direction, I like him, I really do, particularly imbuing things with energy and texture but this constant, fundamental misunderstanding is at the heart of the lack of dramatic punch behind every...

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    5. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      big moment that's had to deliver in his entire oeuvre. He constantly works his stories into bad corners where the intended answers can't work for what he couldn't help but play up with mystery.

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    6. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      Sometimes, you just have to come at things head on and set up the answer you're going to dramatize in spades. Because often it is the best way to make a great moment of character catharsis truly sing.

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    7. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      2. And this is the more important one, we've been conditioned by destiny-fueled hero storytelling to think that genetic connection to superiority is just "how power and heroism works" and that's the grossed gross that's ever grossed.

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      Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018

      And yet no one ever thinks of the ugly association, or worse, they absolutely do. END RANT.

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        2. Film Crit Hulk‏ @FilmCritHULK 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @robpilk

          Opening scene is the best thing he's ever done and it just so happens to be the most straight-forward, ham-fisted drama. The actual story is a mess, but he's really good at executing on all the relationships / characteristics. Probably my fave thing he's done outside lost pilot

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        1. Tuckerscreator‏ @Tuckerscreator 6 Jul 2018
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          I remember Greg Farshtey of Bionicle called this the “sizzle and steak theory”. The smell of the sizzle draws people in, but sooner or later, if you want them to stick around, you’re gonna have to provide steak.

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        1. Guy Incognito‏ @GuyIncognito777 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @FilmCritHULK

          don't always agree with you (I follow you these days to see different viewpoints that I use to have my own internal debate) but this is a succinct and valid take on this story

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        2. Brendan Hodges‏ @metaplexmovies 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @FilmCritHULK

          I don't agree with this take on TFA even if it's true of a lot of Abrams' work. The 'air of mysteriousness' around not just Rey, but all the characters, personifies the way these characters are trying to answer, for themselves and not just to the audience, who they really are.

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        3. Brendan Hodges‏ @metaplexmovies 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @metaplexmovies @FilmCritHULK

          Finn spends 100% of TFA trying on different roles and none quite fit. He doesn't know who he is yet. He's even given a name. Kylo Ren doesn't know who he is, just a hollow shell of Darth Vader seeking validation from his mentor. Rey tries to define herself in the wrong places.

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        1.  🌘 ⛓️ Ⓥ  ▫️ Ⓐ  ▫️ Ⓛ  ⛓️ 🌒‏ @LearYorick 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @FilmCritHULK

          We need JJ to direct a murder mystery so that he can unlearn this gimmick of his (also, crime novels are the best at teaching you about narrative structure and character arcs)

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        1. Kristal Stittle‏ @kristalstittle 6 Jul 2018
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          *after reading some responses about JJ's TV shows* Have you watched FRINGE? If yes, what did you think?

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        1. Sean Diroff‏ @thestoryverse 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @FilmCritHULK

          I remember the first time I was burned by him after wondering what all the Rambaldi nonsense was leading up to on Alias because I thought it would be something great because the setup was so intriguing. Still love the guy, Alias, and TFA but I learned my lesson.

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        1. Kevin W. Ryan‏ @kryanbc54 6 Jul 2018
          Replying to @FilmCritHULK

          Where is "Hulk want to smash that story line!" Power is inherited! Like royalty! That is unAmerican, anti-democratic, elitist BS, and it shows up all the time. And Biblical. We save ourselves. But it helps when parents are solid. Not nobodies.

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