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sending this as an ask so that you can reply at your leisure, but i'm really curious about how you feel about/take the line, "and I will not be the last of the Jedi." either from a storytelling/analytical perspective or even personal preference. to put it mildly, I struggle with it because it seems to undercut the otherwise coherent thematic reevaluation that happens in the third act of TLJ. less mildly, it makes me want to smack my face into the nearest flat surface.
I actually really loved that line. (The Last Jedi spoilers)
(as you already know, and forgive me for talking out loud to order my thoughts) the whole movie, director and Star Wars fan since childhood Rian Johnson is asking the audience really grossly meta questions about Star Wars as a collective intergenerational cultural experience. He’s asking the audience whether Star Wars has inveterate, unmovable qualities that it MUST have to BE Star Wars, asking the audience what their nostalgia means to them, asking the audience if Star Wars can be dynamic, or if their nostalgia makes it impossible to both enjoy Star Wars and be surprised by it.
Rian Johnson is asking us if we’d be ok if we wanted to watch a movie that was more than just a rehash of the old, if this time the characters didn’t have their hands chopped off in the second movie, if the characters didn’t turn out to be secretly related, if there was no legacy, if it was more than just a collection of movie references to the original trilogy. He’s asking if our experience would be ruined if Luke Skywalker was a dynamic character and not a myth from the 70’s. Woud it be ruined if Star Wars didn’t have a lightsaber fight? (The Last Jedi does not actually have a lightsaber-on-lightsaber fight - no two lightsabers physically strike each other in this movie!). Would Star Wars be ruined if Star Wars didn’t have any Jedi? Does Star Wars need the Force? What makes Star Wars work?
Ben Solo/Kylo Ren takes the metatextual stance of just throwing everything we know about Star Wars away. “Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be. It’s time to let old things die. Snoke, Skywalker. The Sith, the Jedi, the Rebels… Let it all die.” Let our preconceptions about Star Wars die, let nostalgia and old ties die. out with the old, in with the new. A story must have surprises.
By the end of the movie, we see Ben Solo brought to his knees by nostalgia/realizing that nostalgia and the ties that bind him (and the audience to the Star Wars series) are important. “[Luke Skywalker and Han Solo] will always be with you,” he’s told. So, Ben’s burn-it-all-down answer is not exactly what Rian is looking for or entirely agrees with. A story must have connection, and nostalgia is one of the biggest selling points to Star Wars.
Specifically about the flawed concept of the Jedi and whether it belongs in Star Wars, we get Rian’s answer through the interactions between Rey, Luke and Yoda.
- Luke: “I will never train another generation of Jedi. I came to this island to die. It’s time for the Jedi to end."
Luke Skywalker doesn’t want to force the flawed concept of the Jedi Order onto a new generation of Star Wars fans, and neither does Rian Johnson.
- Luke: "Now that they’re extinct, the Jedi are romanticized, deified. But if you strip away the myth and look at their deeds, the legacy of the Jedi is failure. Hypocrisy, hubris.”
Thank you for saying exactly what every fan of Star Wars has been saying for years, Rian.
- Luke: “And this is the lesson. That Force does not belong to the Jedi. To say that if the Jedi die, the light dies, is vanity. Can you feel that?"
The Force is the inveterate, vital, spiritual lodestone of Star Wars. Not the Jedi. We can challenge details about the Jedi as much as we want without ruining Star Wars.
- Luke (to Yoda): "I’m ending all of this. The tree, the text, the Jedi. I’m gonna burn it down.”
But then he hesitates, represents the audience’s hesitation about turning completely on the concept of the Jedi.
And then Yoda, puppet molded straight from the Empire Strikes Back, strikes the tree with lightning and laughs. Laughs at Luke’s horror at details about Star Wars changing, or being lost. He’s come from the swamps of Empire Strikes Back just to give us permission. Let the specifics about the Jedi go. Some things about the past (and Star Wars) can die, like Ben/Kylo says, and we’ll be better for it.
- Luke: “So it is time for the Jedi Order to end.”- Yoda: “Time it is. Hmm. For you to look past a pile of old books, hmm?”
It’s not time for the Jedi to end completely (we love the idea of space monks), but it’s ok if we change the details. It really is.
And then Rey becomes the last Jedi. And she’s spent the entire movie completely disrupting Ahch-To, blowing holes in the walls, chopping big rocks off of cliffs, falling down forbidden dark holes, disturbing both Luke and the nun caretakers with her utter lack of respect for the Great Jedi of Star Wars. She’s putting her dirty little hands on everything about the Jedi, and she’s taken the sacred texts with her. She’s her own teacher now. She’ll take what she wants from the Jedi and discard the rest like so much chaff. The Jedi are reborn.
I don’t know, and I don’t know if any of this answered your question in any way, but I really loved what this movie did to the idea of the Jedi going forward. The Jedi are a fun detail about Star Wars, and I can’t wait to see what Rey, the character without a legacy tying her down, does with it.
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