The Pros and Cons of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - The Tangential

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Last updated 21 fevereiro 2025

The Pros and Cons of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - The Tangential

Pros “Revenge” throwback in the title. It’s a tidy inversion of George Lucas’s decision to revise the Episode VI title from Revenge of the Jedi to Return of the Jedi, on the basis that revenge isn’t a Jedi value. Proto-original-trilogy design. Typically, when sequels (or prequels) are made in pre-planned sequence, it’s purely for reasons of budget and convenience. (See: Back to the Future II and III.) A valid artistic reason to make movies in batches is to engineer the kind of coherent arc seen in the transformation from the Republic of Episode I to the Empire of Episode III. One of the reasons the original trilogy became classics is because of Lucas’s respect for design, and the precise care devoted to design—sound design as well as visual design—in the prequels underlines the fact that in cinematic storytelling, design elements can be as important as characters. The..