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Is Brody right?
>Revenge of the Sith's labyrinthine opening shot—of Anakin and Obi-Wan giving chase to Dooku through the space vehicles on the planet of Coruscant—is a mighty and audacious gauntlet-throw, the digital equivalent of the opening shot of Orson Welles’s “Touch of Evil." It wheels and gyrates and zips and pivots with a vertiginous wonder that declares, from the beginning, that Lucas had big visual ideas and was about to realize them with a heroically inventive virtuosity. And the rest of the movie follows through on that self-dare.
>If I had seen ROTS in a theatre upon its release, in 2005, I think that, at the moment when Sheev, sizzling in the blue lightning that Mace Windu reflects back at him, cries out to Anakin, “Power! Unlimited Power!,” I would have leaped out of my seat yelling with excitement. The entire movie is filled with an absolute splendor of the pulp sublime, and that moment is its very apogee. Lucas reaches historic heights in the filming of action: the martial artistry of Anakin and Obi-Wan’s double duel versus Dooku, the gaping maw of outer space and of the airshaft into which the heroic duo drops, Obi-Wan’s light-sabre fight with the four-armed Grievous, and, above all, the apocalyptic inferno of the confrontation of Obi-Wan and Anakin. I watched these sequences over and was repeatedly and unflaggingly amazed by Lucas’s precise, dynamic, wildly imaginative direction.
>The scripted politics of the conflicts have a grand imagination to match. What Lucas brings to the script of the movie is a Shakespearean backroom dialectic of power-maneuvering. The dialogue is just heightened and sententious enough, just sufficiently rhetorical, to convey the grave moment of ideas in conflict and the grand mortal results of that dialectical clash—the making of a villain and the unmaking of a republic.
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tl;dr can someone marathon this post for me, and sum it up?
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>>80807359
he raves about RoTS masturbatorily and compares it to Shakespeare and Orson Welles.
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I feel that underneath the bad acting, terrible CGI awful dialogue of ROTS there is a very compelling story.
it has a few moments of brilliance, like when Anakin makes his choice to turn to the dark side while overlooking the city scape.
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Its a modern day Hamlet
Do plebs on /tv/ not understand Lucas's kino?
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For real though, ROTS was good and what SW should have been from the beginning, technically speaking
I can't even watch IV's duels without cringing, the effects just aged horrible and Lucas' being adamant on them having to hold the sabres with both hands ruins them even further.
Rogue One also had a 10/10 final sequence, like A New Hope
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>>80807229
I couldn't make it through that shit, but from what I read - awful
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>>80810227
Welcome, reddit
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>>80810227
Ciao Reddito!
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>"The prequels have TERRIBLE characters and dialogue!"
I never got this meme, because it implies that the original trilogy had amazing writing and characterisation. No. They were fun B movies, nothing more.
>'That's no moon, that's a battle station!'
>'No, I am your father!'
>'Concentrate all fire on that super star destroyer!'
Yeah, really incredible lines. Not corny at all.
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>In 2012, art critic Camille Paglia praised the film in Glittering Images, comparing some of its scenes to works by modern painters and calling it "the greatest work of art in recent memory".[73] Paglia explained that the film's finale, "has more inherent artistic value, emotional power, and global impact than anything by the artists you name. It's because the art world has flat-lined and become an echo chamber of received opinion and toxic over-praise. It's like the emperor's new clothes -- people are too intimidated to admit what they secretly think or what they might think with their blinders off. Episode III epitomizes the modern digital art movement, more so than other piece from the last 30 years. I had considered using Japanese anime for the digital art chapter of the book, but it lacked the overwhelming operatic power and yes, seriousness of Lucas's Revenge of the Sith."[74]
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>>80813173
Fucking accurate
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