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martyb
on Saturday August 15 2015, @09:58PM
from the does-it-go-'round-in-circles?-♩♫♫♪ dept.
from the does-it-go-'round-in-circles?-♩♫♫♪ dept.
This article provides an interesting take on Star Wars as a ring composition. It claims that all the movies, including the prequels, interact in a way to weave a complex pattern. This pattern is marked by repetition across a border, like an image against a mirror. It compares the composition of the movies to that of of a song, with lyrics which repeat themselves, similar but different. The article is long and full of references and well worth a read, even if you didn't like the prequel trilogy.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday August 16 2015, @12:05AM
Seems like the summary serves the purpose and the article would be a series of examples trying to prove the point. An exercise I fail to see the point of.
It's called continuity and authors, to say nothing about movie producers strive for it, and sometimes pay people to assure it.
Most authors throw stuff into their story that they fail to develop, because the story went somewhere else, and come back to it when they want to write a sequel. Don't assume this means a lot of advance planning. Because most of the time its just un-necessary complexity that they can take advantage of later.
Also when cranking out the sequel, re-use of constructs in the first book saves a lot of time, and impresses a lot of readers, but is often just lazyness, masquerading as good authorship.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday August 16 2015, @02:30AM
Possibly because I remember when Lucas said flat out that "making sequels is for losers who can't think up new stuff" ... I'm with HelloGreedo on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FGBGcvWkdM [youtube.com]
It's basically wanking on deja-recognition of imaginary patterns.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.