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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Sunday August 16 2015, @03:00PM
I tend to disagree with this article's analysis. The prequels are similar to Return of the Jedi because George "Lack of Vision" Lucas had more input into these four films than the first two. If you study the developmental process such as through original draft scripts, the Dark Horse adaptation of "The Star Wars", various "making of" books, and "The Secret History of Star Wars" (all available from Amazon.com from their legal copyright holders, or you can just download them all in one big torrent), the franchise lurched from film to film with no plan at all. Return of the Jedi was largely a rehash of the first two films, except for the long (and pointless to the larger story) sequence with Jabba. Even the Ewok thing was taken from drafts of the first film. Both the second and third prequels had their stories changed to a significant degree after principle filming had ended, which made them even more confusing than they already were, as the film was edited together with parts of different stories from different times during shooting (not all scenes could be redone in pickups) left in the released film. Lucas had not even finished the stories of the second and third prequel by the time the filming had ended, so accusing him of having a master plan for the six films will not have a chance in court once the facts come out. Lucas didn't even have a master plan between the first film and Empire Strikes Back. The three prequels were made up on the spot, because all Lucas basically had was the idea that Anakin and Obi-Wan fought a duel near lava. The entire story with the clones and "the clone wars" is new, and contradicts the ideas for the clones that were around for ESB but never used.
Anyhow, my namesake and RedLetterMedia review the movies as movies, looking at the finished product, but if you legally purchase all the resources I mentioned above (or download a torrent) and study them, you'll see a developmental process that couldn't even produce one coherent prequel movie, let alone some sort of ring theory master plan for hooking all the movies together.
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