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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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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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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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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And yet no one ever thinks of the ugly association, or worse, they absolutely do. END RANT.
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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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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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That gives a looooooooooooooot of leeway to the fact that characters behavior and psychology are just deeply inconsistent. If they're trying on different behaviors? That something you dramatize with an arc of change (nux in fury road for example is perfect and economical).
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You need clarity of though process, not just mere affectation. But with a lot of this in his work, you're always on the outside looking at characters, never inside with them.
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I don't see Finn, Rey, or Ren as inconsistent within the text of TFA, though. Their collective journeys are fairly linear. TFA spends arguably more time on the interioriority of these characters than ANH spends on Han, Luke, Leia, and certainly Vader.
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They're not fairly linear at all tho, they're completely spastic. I don't know how to... talk about this if that's going to be the case. And time spent does not equal coherence, nor understanding.
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Coming from a totally opposite viewpoint--I adore Rey and how she's written, directed and played--I would be interested to hear you expand on what you mean by that.
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