By: Dominic Jones
SPOILER ALERT!
One of the moments that has fans talking coming out of Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the confrontation between Supreme Leader Snoke, Kylo Ren, and Rey. The scene begins with Rey being brought before Snoke and ends with one of the film's most shocking twists: Kylo Ren kills Snoke and declares himself Supreme Leader of the First Order (though he can't convince Rey to join him). There had been a lot of speculation about who Snoke was and what he wanted, thus leading some to feel the his story ended rather abruptly. But, according to The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson, it had be this way to further Kylo Ren's story.
Johnson took part in a live Q&A with Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican where he said,
"When I was working on the character of Kylo, I came to a place where I thought the most interesting thing would be to knock the shaky foundation out from under him at the beginning of this movie. By the end of this film, he’s gone from being a wannabe Vader to someone who is standing on his own feet as a complex villain taking the reins."
He went on to add, "That made me realize the most interesting thing would be to eliminate that dynamic between the ‘emperor’ and pupil, so that all bets are off going into the next one."
It will be interesting to see how Kylo deals with his new position and rule in 2019 Star Wars Episode IX (which writer/director JJ Abram pitched to Disney CEO Bob Iger last week).
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7 comments:
Man, I’m pissed!!
First they have some director that nobody has even heard of, and obviously has never even WATCHED a Star Wars movie...
Then they roll out the big tough villain in the super-douper armour for like 5 minutes and then... Dead! Just like that. No back-story, no kick-ass abilities. Just DEAD. Like WTF?!?
And if that wasn’t bad enough, they do the exact same thing to the HEAD bad guy! I mean come on! This guy uses the Force, and you’re telling me that he didn’t sense that his prodigy, his right-hand-man was about to kill him?? That was it, I was out of the movie from that point.
While we’re talking about stupid, how stupid was it that they killed off a freakin’ Jedi Master without him so much as getting a lightsaber out?!? No battle, no epic sabre fight, no combat to the death, fight... just... dead!! OMFG!!!
And what’s with all the corny lines? I mean there was more cheese than in a 12-pack of Wotsits! That’s not Star Wars, that’s a joke!!
No, that’s it. I’ll never watch another Star Wars film ever again. They’ve ruined it. Good job!
Signed every disillusioned fanboy, having just watched Return of the Jedi, 1983
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