Saga STAR WARS Poetry - Cinematic Montage

I found this amazing video clip featuring the first six movies of the STAR WARS saga. It was like watching mirror images of the two trilogies:

 

Holy ****

I love Star Wars

 

LZM65 Shouldn't this thread be in the "Star Wars Saga In-Depth" section? Darth_Nub Is it possible to move this thread to the other section?

Great video by the way! I've posted it in the Star Wars Ring Theory thread.

 

Palpatine sure likes rotating in his chair to face people.

 

You're probably right. I didn't realize that I had posted it in the wrong thread, until a few minutes later. I tried to remove it, but . . . couldn't. Thanks for doing it for me.

 

No. Absolutely not. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered!!!
My life is my own.







Best to refer this to the Saga Mods Lt.Cmdr.Thrawn and MOC Yak Face

 

It's a well done clip, but it must be said that he didn't even scratch the surface of the amount of mirrors that exist between the two trilogies.

 

Moved to Saga

 

Must have watch this twenty times; I absolutely love it. Perhaps not as extensive as the links we've been finding in the Visual Links thread, but seeing them in motion like this is fantastic. If I have just one minor complaint, it's that it isn't using a piece of John Williams' score. But that's just a minor issue. The editor did an absolutely fantastic job choosing and compiling material for this video, and I hope to see a part 2 with more of the links we've come to pick up on over the years.

 

Someone posted this video on The "Armchair Directors" facebook page. As some of you may already know, the "Armchair Directors" is a youtube channel in which two independent filmmakers, Crandall and Mercy, review movies. I've checked many of their content and it will be no surprised if I told that they despise the prequels.

But their comment to that guy who posted the "Star Wars poetry" video was the following concerning George Lucas:

Link: https://www.facebook.com/ArmchairDirectors/posts/1490641704586133?comment_tracking={"tn":"O"}

Despite the fact that Crandall and Mercy despise the PT I've checked other videos of them and they seem to be nice guys. But that comment makes me roll my eyes because why does everyone think that the PT should have been the same as the OT? It was supposed to tell the story of Anakin's fall and Darth Vader birth, it was already predictable that it will not be the same story of the journey of a hero as in the OT. I think that shows perfectly what people were expecting from the PT back in 1999: be exactly the same as the PT while it couldn't...

 

I see it as an inversion of the same story

As the OT is about a common boy from a crappy planet who wanted more out of life and went on to become a hero, the saviour of the galaxy, the PT is about a common boy from a crappy planet who wanted more out of life and went on to become a villain, the ruiner of the galaxy

You know the ring theory? Mostly everyone here does by now, astounding essay and has truly expanded by love for SW, but I don't think JUST a ring suffices - I see it as more of a circular mirror. SW is both able to repeat itself and invert itself, though it rarely outright copy-pastes itself

 

That was amazing and also got me to start to rewatch the saga after like 4 years.

 

Wow, what a fantastic video! Some of these similarities I never even noticed. I'm one of the few who actually appreciate the mirroring part of the saga, though I know some people call this "a lack of originality" blah, blah, blah.

Thanks for posting that!

 

Some of the parallels are strictly superficial, and others are even a bit of stretch, but this video is a pristine example of GL's brilliance as a visual storyteller. Some of those moments had never even occurred to me, like the parallel between Anakin looking from Sidious to Mace in ROTS and Vader looking from Luke to Palpatine in ROTJ. Revelatory stuff.