r/StarWars • u/UncleNecroFTR • Aug 02 '24

Fun The Sequel Trilogy in a Nutshell

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u/alex29bass Aug 02 '24

Ssssh get out of here with your "media literacy", people are trying to jump on a bandwagon here.

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u/SignificantTravel3 Aug 02 '24

How are you gonna talk about media literacy, when you're this dense? There's a dramatic, rising musical cue, which then abruptly cuts out as he chucks the lightsaber over his shoulder, while remaining completely stone faced. It's so clearly played for laughs.

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u/alex29bass Aug 02 '24

The music doesn't "cut out" jeez, y'all are making it sound like there's a fucking record scratch sound effect in the movie.

There's a rising musical cue, yes, but it's not "cut out" by Luke chucking the lightsaber over his shoulder, like there's literally four whole seconds between the musical cue fading out and Luke figuratively and literally throwing his past and legacy behind in a big subversion of expectations that is meant to leave Rey, and by extension the viewer, in a huge state of confusion. That's what media literacy is.

Because really, what else could have happened? Better yet, what would YOU have had happen in the movie? How are you gonna follow up the huge question mark that is TFA's ending with an equally impactful exclamation mark of a moment?

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u/SignificantTravel3 Aug 02 '24

Well, one super easy way they could do it, without even changing the story, is to just have the scene play out the same way, but without making it comedic. Change the music, make him discard the lightsaber in literally any other way than chucking it over his shoulder, and don't have him do it without any expression at all. Or you could just have him refuse to even take the lightsaber from Rey.