The trailer starts with the training montage. Luke training Rey just as Yoda trained him. I love how the camera starts on the black ground and then Rey's hand comes down. It is very cinematic and an interesting way to start a trailer. The black of the ground echoes the black of space, which one would expect to see at the beginning of a Star Wars trailer. The music also sounds amazing with the dissonant chord crescendoing until Rey puts her hand down in fram.
I love the circling shots of the island, and I think it adds color and contrast to the film, something so many futuristic films lack.
I also love how Rey is just touching her hands to the stone as the tiny shards of rock lift.
When I saw General Organa, I almost cried. If she had turned around, I would have cried immediately. It still hasn't really sunk in that Carrie Fisher has died. I don't know if it will until Leia isn't in Episode IX.
Darth Vader's helmet lying on the floor is such a powerful image because it seems to imply that Kylo will be breaking from Vader's path, or that Kylo himself is broken? Did killing his father snap something inside him? Plus, the deterioration of Vader exemplifies how the people in the new triology have failed to learn from the original trilogy's story. As Vader's helmet breaks down, so does their understanding of the situation, forcing history to repeat itself. On second look, that may be Kylo's helmet, which leaves the question: does he still wear a mask?
And that bit with balance and the Legacy symbol. So many questions!
Then it goes to the sweeping shot of the island, and Rey practicing with the lightsaber. Such a beautiful shot, such an epic shot.
The ships touching the sand and blowing it back red: a battle, a podrace, some weird farming technique?
What's happening with Finn? Is he going to be comatose the whole film? I hope not.
And then explosions by Poe's X-Wing?! Which is really a shame because that is a beautiful ship.
AND THEN THE FALCON!!!!!!! but han is gone...
Then the battle scenes leading up to Luke's pronouncement. It's really nice that they started it in the middle of this chaos, and then everything dies down as he comes to the controversial part.
"It's time for the Jedi to end."
Is Luke evil? I don't think so. I think he just means that the Jedi Order is an outdated and inefficient way of running things, especially when there are only two people in it. What the Jedi emblemize will still be important, but they may not exist in the form they always have. And that's okay... I think. I really don't know.
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Chorus of the Day!
Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too
Wonderwall by Oasis
La! ~SCP
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