Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Daisy Ridley says she was n’t surprise by the on-line repercussion toStar Wars : The Last Jedi . The sequel to J.J. Abrams’Star Wars : The Force Awakens(which introduce Ridley as the Jakku scavenger Rey ) , 2017’sThe Last Jediwas a vital darling and box office hit , but also one of the more controversial tentpoles in late years .
compose and direct by Rian Johnson ( Brick , Looper),The Last Jedipicked up right whereThe Force Awakensleft off - with The Resistance fly the First Order ( following the end of Starkiller Base ) and Rey make it on Ahch - To , in the hope of gettingLuke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill)to learn her the way of The Force . Much likeThe Empire Strikes Back , The Last Jediwas a darkerStar Warsfilm that fag deep into its heroes and villains ' psychology , revealing some backbreaking trueness in the process . It also took the storey thread allow dangling inThe Force Awakensin steering that some filmgoers loved , while others - put just - did not .
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During a recent interview withUSA Today , Ridley allege that she was n’t taken aback by the tilt aroundThe Last Jediand explain that , in a good sense , she even felt it was fair :
I was n’t surprised , no . It ’s just a dissimilar matter . Everyone ’s going to have an opinion now anyway on the internet , but I also think it ’s fair . If people hold something improbably dear and think they know how it should be and it ’s not like that , it ’s honest for people to think they were done wrong . It does n’t mean they were - ultimately , Rian ’s a film maker and one soul ca n’t dictate how a moving picture is hypothesise to be - but freedom of verbalism , sure .
In the year and a half sinceThe Last Jedihit house , there ’s been a lot of discussion about the film ’s reception and why reactions have been so shared ( if still overconfident overall ) . For example , a late survey indicated that there’sa link between fans who dislike the movieand their political beliefs . Another big ingredient - as Ridley points out in this interview - is modern online discourse and how theorizing can touch on not only what fans expect from an upcoming movie or idiot box show , but also how they respond when their expectations are subverted ( either successfully or not ) . And of course , it ’s all the more impossible to lumpStar Warsfans into one of three chemical group because not everyone have a go at it , hates , or has mixed feelings aboutThe Last Jedifor the same reasons .
If nothing else , The Last Jedireactions demonstrate that people are still as passionate as ever aboutStar Warsand the brand remains highly relevant in the current pop culture landscape . It ’s also given fans something to talk about ahead of this December’sStar Wars : The Rise of Skywalker , which will not only fix the sequel trilogy , but also the Skywalker Saga as a whole . And with Ridley suggest thatThe Rise of Skywalkerwill answer some giving questions left hanging afterThe Last Jedi(like who , exactly , Rey ’s parent are ) , it will be interesting to see what the general response is like this time around .
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Source : USA Today
