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chewvbacca:
so much of TLJ only happens because Rian Johnson wants to “surprise” the audience and to show that the movie isn’t going to go the way we think. luke’s x-wing is only shown under the water so that when he shows up on crait we think he’s really there. it only exists to fool us so we’re surprised when it’s revealed no, he didn’t use the x-wing, he’s not really here!! Holdo’s condescending attitude and her refusal to share the plans with anyone, even officers on the bridge, only exists so that when it’s revealed she has a plan all along the audience is surprised that she was “right” and Poe was “wrong”. A lot of this movie is deliberately misleading so that the audience will be surprised by these twists - some people will accept this and even think it’s a clever thing to do, but really it just shows a lack of ability to create genuine intrigue. Rather than crafting a story where there are little hints of the surprise to come so when the twist happens we put it all together and think “Of course!!” and are satisfied, this movie WANTS the audience to think the wrong thing so that it can cleverly reveal “the truth” (which that had no reason to be hidden in the first place except to surprise the audience). When a movie relies so heavily on Doylist reasoning the audience feels cheated and frustrated AND the characterizations suffer from characters being made to act nonsensically in service of what the writer wants to achieve
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chewvbacca:
so much of TLJ only happens because Rian Johnson wants to “surprise” the audience and to show that the movie isn’t going to go the way we think. luke’s x-wing is only shown under the water so that when he shows up on crait we think he’s really there. it only exists to fool us so we’re surprised when it’s revealed no, he didn’t use the x-wing, he’s not really here!! Holdo’s condescending attitude and her refusal to share the plans with anyone, even officers on the bridge, only exists so that when it’s revealed she has a plan all along the audience is surprised that she was “right” and Poe was “wrong”. A lot of this movie is deliberately misleading so that the audience will be surprised by these twists - some people will accept this and even think it’s a clever thing to do, but really it just shows a lack of ability to create genuine intrigue. Rather than crafting a story where there are little hints of the surprise to come so when the twist happens we put it all together and think “Of course!!” and are satisfied, this movie WANTS the audience to think the wrong thing so that it can cleverly reveal “the truth” (which that had no reason to be hidden in the first place except to surprise the audience). When a movie relies so heavily on Doylist reasoning the audience feels cheated and frustrated AND the characterizations suffer from characters being made to act nonsensically in service of what the writer wants to achieve
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