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Nintendo’s sales haven’t been what they hoped for or expected, so all the executives got together and made the decision to cut their salaries in half to ensure their employees still get paid. They say it’s the fault of the executives that the products aren’t selling well, not their employees, so it isn’t fair for the employees to have to take the hits for that.
Why are there people who don’t like or respect Nintendo again?
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This is unexpected.
How a young Han Solo was considered for Revenge of the Sith
Solo isn’t Han’s first brush with a prequel: George Lucas considered having a 10-year-old Han Solo cameo in Revenge of the Sith. Though he decided against it in the end, the idea made it as far as a draft of the script and approved concept art.
Way back when a Han film was just a rumor, /Film pulled the scans and this Iain McCaig quote:
It’s not in the script anymore, but we were told that Han Solo was on Kashyyyk and that he was being raised by Chewbacca. He’s such a persnickety guy later on – he always has to have the best of everything – so I thought it’d be great if when he was a kid, he was an absolute slob.
From the script:
HAN SOLO: I found part of a transmitter droid near the east bay… I think it’s still sending and receiving signals.
YODA: Good. Good. Track this we can back to the source. Find General Grievous, we might…
As someone who found even having Chewbacca in Sith a bit on-the-nose, I’m glad this didn’t go forward. But it’s an interesting bit of info to amaze and astound your friends, assuming they’re not the type to peruse 13-year-old concept art books.
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This is one of my favorite scenes from Revenge of the Sith. It’s cinematically stunning, and is an excellent example of Lucas using visual storytelling. A few things I’d like to note here.
In the first gif, we see the clone troopers following Anakin into the Jedi Temple in perfect formation. They are organized and committed, following their commander into battle.
In the second gif, we see Anakin ascending the steps. This is important because it represents Anakin’s rise from one of many Jedi to becoming the Sith Lord, Darth Vader.
In the third gif, we have a beautiful top-down view of Anakin leading the troops. They travel from left to right. This indicates forward momentum— Anakin marches to war with purpose and resolve. Any hesitation he may have had before is gone.
In the last gif, we get one of the most chilling shots of the entire film: Anakin Skywalker, dark-eyed and determined, the standard-bearer at the vanguard of the new Empire.
Juxtapose this with Kylo Ren leading his troops into the Crait mine at the end of The Last Jedi:
In his commentary on the blu-ray, Rian Johnson indicates that this is an intentional callback. So, let’s take a look. In the first gif, juxtaposed with the first three Anakin gifs above (but especially the third one), Kylo leads his troops into the base. Several things to note:
Kylo leads his troops, not forward, indicating purpose, but DOWN, and slightly to the LEFT. This symbolizes not only descending, but also backward momentum. Rather than the resolute and determined Vader, Kylo enters the rebel base defeated and regressed.
The troops that follow him are not in tightly organized formation. They are not unified with him in purpose, probably because he himself is uncertain as to what that purpose is.
In the second gif, Kylo is seen advancing toward the camera, like in Anakin’s fourth gif. However, instead of marching confidently to war, Kylo dismisses his troops, leaving them with Hux, who is clearly opposed to Kylo’s reign. More to the point: he continues on alone. He has arrived at the place he thought he wanted to be, and has found it to be empty and meaningless. This is driven home doubly by the disappearance of his father’s sabaac dice, and, of course, Rey closing off their last Force connection and shutting him out.
This is the essence of the chiastic parallel structure of the Sequel Trilogy. Rian Johnson compared the shutting of the Force connection with the scene in Revenge of the Sith where Anakin is looking up at Vader’s mask descending onto him. Some have interpreted this as an indication that Kylo has passed into a deeper darkness, but I disagree.
What we’re looking at is a matter of perspective. Let’s join Anakin as he’s about to have the “door” closed on him:
His eyes widen, and Johnson mused that it was compelling to consider if Anakin felt remorse or regret in that moment, and that the ambiguity of it was powerful. Now, Kylo Ren:
Key differences:
While his spirit is pretty crushed here, Kylo is whole of body. This is very, very important symbolically. Where Anakin was being sealed almost in a walking tomb, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo bears only superficial scars. In a mythological/heroic sense, this means he has possibility ahead of him— what it’s actually coded as is that he remains virile and able to produce offspring, which we’ll look at briefly in the next point.
Where Anakin is at in his journey, his avenue to producing a legacy beyond what has already been accomplished has been foreclosed. Not only has he been physically dismembered, but his female counterpart is dead. In contrast, Rey is very much alive, and so is the future she saw (and maybe Kylo/Ben did, too, based on recent Databank updates).
That’s all for now. I really didn’t mean to do this, and now @mrspostlight is giving me a very frightening glare for doing this during dinner.
A brilliant and incisive meta @postedbygaslight. I have only have one important piece of commentary to add to the conversation:
REYLO BABIES. F*CK YES.
(But really, read this meta. It’s fantastic.)
Right on the money.
I still can’t get over the blatant embryo symbol behind Rey.
OUTSTANDING analysis @postedbygaslight !!!!
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Everything about this post 😭❤
Freddie Mercury talking about Queen getting stuck in an elevator (interview from 1984)
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Surviving Until Dawn
Until Dawn is a interactive drama survival horror game that I really never knew was coming out until a few days beforehand as one of the actors in the game on his Instagram posted a pic of himself from in-game and I was like colour me intrigued. So I did a little digging before its release and noticed this game was originally made for the PS3 as a PS Move game but was redeveloped for the PS4.
And…
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Carrie Frances Fisher - October 21, 1956
The Original Trilogy mirrors itself by having the heroes separated in the second movie and reunited in the third. The Prequel Trilogy had two ultra-happy endings and then one tragic ending where the main lovers (Anakin and Padme) were separated forever.
In order to perfectly mirror the Prequel Trilogy (it rhymes), the Sequel Trilogy will separate the lovers in the first two movies, but must end with the lovers reunited forever. And it’s going to be the happiest movie ending of them all.
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.” - Carrie Fisher
Happy Birthday Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21st, 1956-∞)
Sequel trilogy character analysis (6/?): Anakin/ Padme + Kylo/ Rey parallels
This makes my reverse Anidala heart sing. 💙☯️❤️
