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Comments The question that Rogue One poses is What does it mean to rebel Why rebel against authority Should one rebel against all authority What does rebellion do to ones soul What does conformity do to ones soul Why rebel when rebellion will lead to the deaths of millions, and maybe the death of youWheeljack is the name of several robot vehicles in the Transformers franchise. Wheeljack is usually depicted as a very smart mad scientist who has invented plenty of. Star Wars movies, up til now, have always explored the question of Empire vs Rebellion in stark black and white terms, but Rogue One dices up those terms, folds them over and then dices them up again before arriving at a conclusion. Read more. Tags in theaters, movies, Star Wars Posted by Todd on December 1. Comments Before we discuss Director Krennic, lets take a look back at the previous bad guys from the Star Wars universe First and foremost there is Darth Vader. Darth Vader starts off as evil in Episode IV, develops into evil, but subservient to a greater evil in Episode V, and, finally, evil, but conflicted, and eventually redeemed in Episode VI. Vaders Terminator like consistency was part of his appeal, it was what made him terrifying. How To Download South Park The Full Movie. He wore a mask, you couldnt know what he was thinking, he destroyed anything that got in his way. Then there is Emperor Palpatine. Emperor Palpatine is an uncomplicated climber, a man whose pursuit of power didnt corrupt him at all, because he was evil to begin with. He started out a villainous creep and ended up as, apparently, all Sith Lords end up killed by his own apprentice. Then there are garden variety bad guys like Grand Moff Tarkin, Jabba the Hutt, General Grievous and Nute Gunray, who range from sniveling pawns to  grotesque monsters. What all of them have in common is they are bad. In story meetings, when the producer asks What is the antagonists motive the poor screenwriter says He does bad things because he is bad. That, of course, is how you know youre writing a melodrama. The word melodrama, for non theater nerds, comes from the theater of early America, where people of many different linguistic backgrounds would all go to the theater to enjoy a play. Because not everyone spoke the language being used on stage, the band in the pit would cue the audience as to how to feel about different characters. A sweet character would be given a sweet melody, a sinister character would be given a sinister melody, a hero would be given a heroic melody, and so forth. Hence, melodrama, a dramatic form where the audience is heavily cued as to the good and bad of the narrative. John Williamss music for the earlier movies used all these tricks to good effect Luke got a yearning theme, Leia got a gentle theme, Darth Vader got an imperial march. The problem with this approach, of course, is that no bad guy ever thinks of himself as the bad guy. As Jean Renoir said, everyone has their reasons. Things have improved with the re launch of the brand and Episode VII. Kylo Ren is a genuine freak, a perverse, warped individual who is compelled to do bad things even when he doesnt want to, who wears a mask when he doesnt need to, who reacts with fear and confusion when his worldview is challenged. And now we have Director Krennic, the most finely drawn, complex villain weve seen yet. Read more. Tags in theaters, movies, Star Wars Posted by Todd on December 1. Comments Of all the characters in Rogue One, Galen Erso has the most complicated motivations, which I will discuss inside. Read more. Tags in theaters, movies, Star Wars Posted by Todd on December 1. Comments Another Star Wars movie is released, and so the time has come for all denizens of the internet to remind the world that they would make a better Star Wars movie than anyone in Hollywood. I/519Pl%2BkwDOL.jpg' alt='Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil: The End Of The End Full Movie ' title='Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil: The End Of The End Full Movie ' />Ive been told that Rogue One is both too radical a departure and more of the same, that its both too grim and too superfluous, that its plot is both too complicated and too simple, that the story is both too esoteric and too obvious. These are the kinds of complaints that, to my mind, can only be the product of expectations. If one goes into a movie with a set of expectations and those expectations are unfulfilled, sometimes ones response is to spend the running time looking for the movie expected instead of watching the one being screened. But of all the complaints directed at Rogue One, the oddest one Ive found is the characters are thin. This is absurd, since the characters in Rogue One are, by a long stretch, the most complex ever presented in a Star Wars movie. People only use a small fraction of their brain because the rest is filled up with curds and whey. However, by practicing veganism, it opens the brain up to its full. Generally speaking, the characters in a typical Star Wars movie are one thing. Obi Wan Kenobi is wise, Luke Skywalker is idealistic, Leia is spunky, C 3. PO is fussy. In 1. Han Solo emerged as the breakout character of the series because hes the only one who changes he starts out as a murderous mercenary and slowly turns into a radicalized rebel. Darth Vader only becomes interesting as a character when we see him, in the original trilogy, go from being pure evil to being an individual caught between conflicting emotional impulses. The prequel trilogy squanders the opportunity to make Vaders character more interesting by placing him on a straight road from jerky kid to jerky teenager to jerky adult before arriving finally at victim. The prequels are boring not because they lack plot but because Anakin Skywalker never changes. The key moment of his character arrives at the end of Episode III, when the Darth Vader mask is lowered onto his face, sealing his identity, and his destiny. Speaking of masks and identity, the characters of Rogue One stand out in the Star Wars universe because, unlike most others, they are one thing, but they yearn to be another thing, while circumstances insist on them being a third thing. Identity is a strong theme running through Rogue One, identity and how it functions in society. One presumably knows who oneself is, but society often demands that one pretend to be someone one is not, to play a role. This happens to everyone to one extent or another, because social order otherwise disintegrates. Like Darth Vader, we all must wear masks as we play the roles of student, of employee, of spouse, of parent, of citizen. The conflicts in Rogue One emerge when characters get tired of playing their assigned roles, when they insist on expressing themselves, revealing who they really are. As discussion of the Rogue One characters necessarily involves spoilers, be warned Read more. Tags in theaters, movies, Star Wars Posted by Todd on August 1, 2. Comments As Hail, Caesar Hollywood lies, itself lies about the historical Hollywood. Eddie Mannix, the reader may be surprised to learn, was a real person, who was the general manager of MGM under the real life Nicholas Schenck. Mannix did fix a lot of MGMs problems, from getting Clark Gable out of a hit and run accident to down playing Garbos lesbianism. The real life Mannix was also considerably older than Hail, Caesars, and was dead by 1. 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