{"id":206094,"date":"2021-03-02T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/star-wars-rise-skywalker-killed-character-off-screen\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:33","slug":"star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-should-have-killed-this-character-off-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-should-have-killed-this-character-off-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Should Have Killed This Character Off-Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Rise Of Skywalker\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was supposed to be the movie in which General Leia Organa took center stage. Much like Han Solo in\u00a0The Force Awakens\u00a0<\/em>and Luke Skywalker in\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>, Leia was set to play a major role in the\u00a0final installment of Star Wars<\/strong>‘ sequel trilogy. Sadly,\u00a0Carrie Fisher’s tragic passing meant that fans never got to see that vision fully realized in the final movie. Having been chosen to replace Colin Trevorrow, returning director J.J. Abrams opted to use existing footage from\u00a0The Force Awakens<\/em>\u00a0to involve Leia. Instead, he should have opted to kill her off-screen.<\/p>\n

Disney’s decision to market\u00a0The Rise Of Skywalker<\/em>\u00a0as the\u00a0culmination of the Skywalker saga was part of a concerted effort to appeal to fans who had been disappointed by\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>.\u00a0Thankfully, it seems director\u00a0Rian Johnson’s own Star Wars trilogy is still in development<\/a>. However, perhaps there was additional pressure to include Leia as a touchstone, to keep fans on board. Ultimately, one of the many reasons\u00a0The Rise Of Skywalker\u00a0<\/em>came in for criticism was\u00a0for\u00a0playing safe and the decision to include Leia is symbolic of that.<\/p>\n

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Abrams, and fellow screenwriter Chris Terrio, in what was often seen as a script written to appease a vocal minority of so-called fans<\/a>. The result is detrimental to final\u00a0cut and the movie is weaker for her inclusion. Each scene she appears in feels stunted, retrofitted\u00a0around snippets of stilted dialogue that offer little in the way of substance or subtext. The actors do their best to convince in the scenes they appear\u00a0opposite Leia, but shoehorning\u00a0lines like “nothing’s impossible” or “never underestimate a droid” into the script as though they are catchphrases without any real context simply robs them of real resonance.<\/p>\n

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The Star Wars<\/em> sequel trilogy suffered as a result of not having a unified vision<\/a>, yet Leia’s scenes were even more disjointed. One interaction with Snap Wexley sees Leia ask if “there’s been any word from Rey?” to which Snap responds “the Falcon’s not responding.” Rose then guides the conversation, asking “do you have to say it like that?” in order to bend the scene around Leia’s next reply, “do me a personal favor, be optimistic.” Snap goes on to say that the situation is “terrific” and “everything’s going to work out great.” Leia appears neutered, a static presence and literal\u00a0embodiment of the famous critique that “the character\u00a0walked in from the set of another movie.”<\/p>\n

Leia’s dialogue doesn’t just disrupt the flow of a scene, it also has a detrimental effect on the narrative. During the movie’s first act, Rey continues her Jedi training on Ajan Kloss, the Resistance’s base planet. Leia has seemingly taken on the mantle of training her, and while the film retroactively conjures an unsatisfying subplot that Leia had her own lightsaber and trained as a Jedi<\/a> after Return of the Jedi<\/em>, the primary reason seems to be that the old footage of Leia fits best with Rey due to her holding\u00a0Luke’s lightsaber.<\/p>\n

The result is an incredibly disjointed opening act that forces manufactured tension between Rey, Finn, and Poe as a result of her staying behind to train while they carry out missions. Compounding this is a feeble scene where Rey explains to Leia that she\u00a0intends to pick up\u00a0Luke’s\u00a0search for\u00a0a Sith holocron in order to reach Exegol and confront Emperor Palpatine. This diluted version of Leia simply says “No,”\u00a0to which\u00a0Rey replies “I don’t want to go without your blessing, but I will. It’s what you would do.” It’s a further example of\u00a0artificial tension that the movie attempts to force into existence, sapping any emotional resonance from the scene. Leia’s presence\u00a0is a hindrance as much of the first act is spent awkwardly contriving scenes around the existing footage rather than fully forming\u00a0the motivations of, and dynamic between, Rey, Finn, and Poe for the rest of the movie. Perhaps there would even have been room for that Stormtrooper rebellion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>‘s d\u00e9nouement, Leia had already passed the torch onto Poe Dameron. “What are you looking at me for?” She says as the last of the Resistance forces look for leadership, “follow him.” With\u00a0The Rise of Skywalker\u00a0<\/em>not picking up immediately after the climax of the previous movie, there was\u00a0a clear opportunity to hand over leadership to Poe and handle Leia’s death in the opening crawl, or indeed in the opening scene.<\/p>\n

Poe and Finn later squabble about who knows what Rey is going through as she struggles with her lineage with Poe lashing out, “Well I’m not Leia!” to which Finn replies “That’s for damn sure.” Audiences can acknowledge the emotional beat, but it has no poignancy – Leia is still alive at this point and Poe has no leadership tasks to suggest he’s even trying to live up to Leia.\u00a0Had she been killed off-screen, it would have\u00a0enabled the film to examine Poe struggling with the weight of following in Leia’s footsteps during the opening act of the movie. Furthermore, it grants more substance to the moment he shares with Lando, as the heroes of the sequel trilogy attempt to emerge from the shadow of the original trilogy’s heroes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whilst her presence in the first act holds the movie back, her final act\u00a0is a stirring moment that is crucial to Kylo Ren’s redemption. The bond between Leia and\u00a0Kylo\u00a0became apparent when he trained his TIE Silencer’s blasters on the Resistance command ship in\u00a0The Last Jedi<\/em>. Kylo, still reeling from killing Han Solo<\/a>, feels Leia’s presence through the force and was unable to do the same to his mother.\u00a0The Rise Of Skywalker\u00a0<\/em>calls back to this moment as Leia reaches out with the force to\u00a0Kylo during his duel with Rey on the Death Star II wreckage.<\/p>\n

As Leia reaches out, she distracts Kylo\u00a0long enough for Rey to strike a winning blow. Much like her brother Luke’s astral projection, the sheer effort required is too much for Leia, resulting in her death. Rather than look at this as justification for her inclusion, it’s more fitting to acknowledge that she serves the story in death, and had she been killed off-screen the plot could have been better served as a whole.<\/p>\n

It would be na\u00efve to argue that\u00a0killing Leia off-screen\u00a0would result in an entirely coherent Star Wars<\/em> movie, this is the same film that\u00a0explicitly\u00a0tells the audience that Holdo manoeuvers are a “million to one shot” and not a plausible tactic – only to show one triumphantly 40 minutes later. That said,\u00a0The Rise Of Skywalker<\/em>‘s narrative is consistently hamstrung by the decision to reuse old footage of Leia.\u00a0<\/em>Even if the filmmakers felt compelled to honor Leia with an onscreen send-off, the manner in which they chose to do so hampered the entire movie.<\/p>\n

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