There was a fair amount of grousing when Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out
about how it was just a glorified remake of the original Star Wars. Whatever. I thought it was brilliant and did so many
things right. I’d count the ways, but it’d be faster and easier to direct you
to this absolutely brilliant edition of the absolutely brilliant Movies with Mikey.
That's right: it's a bonus video essay! Also, Movies with Mikey is one of my favorite things
out on the Internet right now. It will make your life better.
Anyway, today’s featured video essay has a big ol’ SPOILER
for The Force Awakens.
It feels a bit silly to call out a spoiler warning for one
of the biggest films in film history. Statistically, you’ve either seen this
film a couple times or you haven’t seen it and have no desire to ever see it. Have
you somehow not seen The Force Awakens
but really want to? I don’t know how to help you.
Enough tap-dancing: Today’s video essay comes from The Closer
Look and takes a closer look at the big death scene in the final act of The Force Awakens. Yes, the first few
minutes focus on the cinematography of the scene, but by 3:40 we get a deeper
dive into why this is a masterful sequence from a storytelling perspective. The
really big take-away for me comes at 6:50 – big enough for me to go back and
revise one of the sequences in my own story (duh-duh-DUH!).
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