I think the current humanoid (or semi-humanoid) droids give SW its unique charm. It seems there are droids in the background that are more like TARS or CASE, though–the TLJ novelization states that the Millennium Falcon runs on three droid brains for instance. I mean does this mean we have to worry about the ethics of sending SHIPS on suicide runs now?
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Where did I say the Cuban revolution was noble lmao. The post was about comparing military tactics, my breathless nonny. Furthermore there were actually two comparisons in that article–the Continental revolutionaries and the Cuban revolutionaries. So where’s your outrage for the USAmericans who committed genocide of Native Americans and profited off the backs of enslaved Africans? The commander in chief of the Continental armed forces, George Washington, was an actual slave owner? I find your selective outrage highly suspicious tbh.
In the battle against the evil First Order, Isaac thinks it’s easy to forget that the Resistance “are guerrilla fighters, adhering closer to something like the Revolutionary War fighters or even the guerrillas in Cuba with Che and Fidel and all these guys living in the mountains, coming down to do some attacks, and going back and trying to hide from the ‘empire’ of the United States. It’s that kind of ragged at this point.
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“It is a war movie,” Isaac says. “I mean, above and beyond, it is a movie about warriors.”
Shit, they’re not getting a huge upgrade to manpower? HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING TO WIN otoh he did compare the Resistance to successful revolutionary movements…🤔
Doesn’t look like it, though that does lead to several interesting theories. For one thing it looks like we’re going to see actual guerrilla warfare on screen, only time we’ve got close to that was in Rogue One.
Another is that part of both campaigns is that a lot of it was finding allies, so instead of the ally finding taking place off screen we may get to see that too.
But you know, with all of this, it looks more and more like this is going to be a two parter. JJ simply has too much happening to be able to fit it into one movie, there seems to be more than enough plot for two in fact.
Yeah, for a Rebellion they had very little guerilla-ing going on in the movies. The main Rebellion seemed a well-funded military with multiple Senators in the leadership, and actual guerillas like Saw were called terrorists and extremists. It would be cool to see Episode IX show heroic characters being guerillas/partisans on a sustained basis, which was inevitable after the ending of TLJ. I kind of expected that part to be done during the time skip, but EpIX may be showing at least the tail end of that time period. Maybe the characters shown in the outdoors scene with Finn and Poe are representative of the allies the Resistance is gathering. It also raises the question of when Lando will make his appearance and what kind of resources he will bring to the table.
It seems really late in the game to announce a two-parter–Lionsgate announced it two years in advance for Mockingjay, and if LF is going to go that route it seems we would have heard something by now. But then again LF under Disney and KK has not been a terribly well run operation so nothing would surprise me at this point.
I gotta say I love Oscar comparing the F.O. To the United States cause he is 100% correct in his analysis. It would feel really weird if they split the film up into 2 parts seeing as you said LJ that there was never a prior announcement of them doing such a thing before filming. Maybe it’s just going to be a really long film like tlj but with time being spent wisely. You know not being wasted on alien milking, salt licking, and weird shirtless scenes.
I was debating myself whether to emphasis that part or not. Ended up deciding against it, but damn I was tempted.
As for it not being announced yet. For one thing JJ didn’t even get the script done until February, this production is actually quite rushed. And he might see if he can fit it into one movie. Or he may go a full on Braveheart with four hours and intermission in the middle with IX.
Who knows.
But really, with the hints that Oscar drops here it looks like IX may end up a very different movie and a very different story, from what people have been expecting.
I really find the reference to the Cuban guerrillas and the early American Civil war interesting, because if we look at how those conflicts went down, we had one enemy (British Empire, US backed Batista government) but multiple factions fighting them.
Like the US army ended up allied with France against the Brits, then Span allied with France (but not with the US) and finally the Netherlands jumped into the fray allied with no one. And in the case of Fidel and Che, their rebel army ended up allied with others, among them an Anticommunist movement.
So in IX we may have one big enemy (the First Order) and then multiple factions fighting them, Leia’s Resistance among them, who need to get organized among themselves to be efficient.
Though this indicates that though there is a time skip, it might be a whole lot less than people imagine it to be. The estimates I’ve seen – five years or so – is based on what would be needed to build a functional army to oppose the First Order. But if that is not what is happening between TLJ and IX, the skip might be a whole lot shorter.
There’s obviously enough time for Finn’s hair to grow a bit longer and him to buff up severely, but apart from that we don’t know. It could be skipping only a year or two ahead in time.
Yeah it really does feel like the skips much shorter than we where expecting with the information Oscar giving I wouldn’t put the skip past 3 years. I feel that’s enough time to regroup the people you have left and start looking for new allies.
I’m very interested and nervous to see where JJ plans on taking the film. I think all be happy as long as Finn gets the story he truly deserves.
I can really follow you with the nervous and interested part. The more we get of this, the more torn I feel. Because I think we’re either looking at maybe the best Star Wars movie to date, or one of the worst clusterfucks the franchise has ever made. Not quite as bad as TLJ perhaps, but worse than TMP and AotC.
And the damn thing is, we won’t know for sure until over a year from now. The promotion will probably give some hints and the fact that John and Oscar seems to be enthusiastic again is promising. But as previously shown, the cutting of the movie can change the whole picture once more, so we can’t know for absolutely sure until we have the movie.
It’s going to be fifteen very long months.
I thought what @pikrollo said about the U.S. being the bad guys was pretty much canon–I mean did anyone not immediately think of the Iraq War when they saw the marketplace battle on Jedha? I’m just surprised that Oscar was comfortable making that comparison in public. Also Oscar is from Guatemala, a country that like much of Latin America suffered significantly from U.S.-backed military dictators, so I can imagine he has Thoughts about the U.S. as an evil empire.
From the way John and Oscar have talked about EpIX, in John’s case before even reading the script, it seems like we’re looking at another military movie like Return of the Jedi or Rogue One, scrappy guerillas/saboteurs against a huge military force (at least on the ground, they seemed more evenly matched in space). I could live with that, RO is one of my favorite SW movies and the last good movie LF has put out to date.
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