Who is The Wolf?
Let's just say I'm someone who's hungry for change.
I've seen firsthand what the future of hacking looks like, and it's bad.
We're not just talking about a bunch of kids stealing information and causing chaos.
Those days are long gone.
It's a big business now.
Lots of dark forces at play.
Let me tell you, it's only going to get worse.
More money.
More medical records.
Governments.
Nothing is safe.
Enough is enough.
In my humble opinion, the only way to fix the system is to expose all the holes in it.
And that means tearing the whole thing down, weakness by weakness, so we can reinvent it.
Together.
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It's related to EXO.
I was on the same show as EXO.
I think it was "Open Concert."
They wouldn't let the EXO fans leave after their set
since they didn't want empty seats.
So they had to stay and that's when I came out.
I sang "Amor Fati."
Yun Ilsang said so.
So you benefitted from EXO.
The EXO fans posted on social media.
(That older woman has skills)
(They became new fans of Yonja)
EXO's fans played a big role
behind the success of "Amor Fati."
Did you hear about this, Kai?
I heard this for the first time.
EXO's fans really played a big role.
Yes, I'm so thankful.
The song is serious
and it turns into EDM at around 40 seconds.
That's the killer part.
(This is the killer part)
Lizzy prepared something for Yonja.
Lizzy, what did you prepare?
I want to sing "Amor Fati" as a duet with Yonja.
A collaboration.
(An amazing collaboration)
Let's see it.
"Amor Fati!"
(After the ardent melody...)
(The beat drops)
(The killer EDM part)
(The girls start dancing)
(The old guys are already loving it)
(Everybody party time)
(Even the hosts dance along)
♪ Dating is necessary, marriage is a choice ♪
♪ Just do what your heart tells you ♪
(Things heat up at the high notes)
(They break out all their dance moves)
(One more time)
(Club Amor)
(Heating up a Thursday night)
("Amor Fati" is a huge success)
Let's give them both a big hand.
I watched Yonja sing.
She has some things in common with me.
Can I stand up?
Go ahead.
This is going to be really funny.
(He's ready to make us laugh)
I'm not so great at singing.
So I drop the mic at high notes.
♪ Even a fool can love ♪ I bring the mic down.
Yonja brings her mic down this far.
It looks different when you do it.
Yonja, was that due to the high notes?
Yes, to get through the high notes.
Can you stand up and show us?
♪ I can't see it ♪
(Controlling the volume)
(Satisfied)
You really can't see the mic.
You can't see the mic.
It goes down to here.
(Amazing use of the mic)
I thought it was a relay race.
I thought she was a magician.
(Disappears and appears again)
I was shocked.
Very "Amor Fati."
Her mic disappears when she sings "can't see."
The audio directors might get confused.
Can the mic pick that up?
She brings the mic down since her voice gets loud.
Such great vocal range.
How about a different song?
The song "Hurray for the Champion."
That's Yonja's song too?
It is! That is Yonja's song.
♪ Hurray for the champion ♪
(You all asked for it)
(Explosive vocals)
(She has a touching voice)
Samuel, have you ever heard that song?
This is my first time.
She used to sing this song at ssireum tournaments.
♪ Hurray for the champion ♪
I bet you sing different songs for different events.
Sure, I sing folk songs too.
She sings many genres.
I can sing "Hen Pheasant Hunt."
♪ Hen pheasant, hen pheasant, hen pheasant ♪
♪ We're going on a hen pheasant hunt ♪
(Respect)
Very nice.
That shout.
Let's meet the next person.
Who's next?
Sunmi!
Hello.
Sunmi is on my team.
We should congratulate on her new album.
(Sumi's new song "Gashina")
"Gashina."
"Gashina."
Meaning woman.
It's not the Gyeongsang-do word for woman.
It means going somewhere?
It means growing thorns on my body.
(Aha)
All our guesses were off.
It's not going anywhere. It means growing thorns.
No, it does mean going somewhere too.
It's like a punchline.
It has two meanings.
It's ambiguous.
- Sing a bit of it for us. / - Let's hear "Gashina."
Music start.
(Sunmi is ready to make it big again)
(Starting with her song "Gashina")
(Come on)
(Sometimes she's cute)
(Sometimes she's sexy)
(She's the dancing goddess here)
(Her expressions draw you in)
(Sunmi's "Gashina" is amazing)
(Impressive)
(Gashina, Gashina)
(Ends on a cute note)
(She's great)
Sunmi, trademark...
(A sexy performance that stands out)
Sunmi you were famous for performing bare footed.
I heard you had a lot of problems with that.
I'm not the only one who performs on stage.
So they can't sweep up the stage just for me.
My feet kept turning black when I performed.
I saw that.
I had to look fierce for the camera
but my feet were all black.
Your feet really did look pitch black.
I saw a few performances. For "Full Moon" too.
The cameramen didn't know better
for the first performances so
they showed my feet.
But after 2 or 3 weeks they stopped filming my feet.
Woosung, I hear you're a fan of Sunmi.
Really?
I was eating at home when I was in middle school.
Then the "Tell Me" music video came on.
I thought she was amazing.
I used her photo as my cell phone wallpaper.
Sunmi is a Dongguk University theater major.
Right.
I'm a Dongguk University theater major too.
Stop butting in on his story.
Dahye, please keep it to yourself.
She's a mother.
I applied for Dongguk University because of her.
You really applied to Dongguk because of Sunmi?
Yes. I wrote that as my first reason.
Really?
Unfortunately, I wasn't accepted to Dongguk.
(The story has a sad twist)
I wasn't totally dropped.
I was third on the wait list.
I ended up going to Seoul Institute of the Arts.
So you went there.
- So did Yongman. / - It's a good school.
Taemin and Kai
as well as our other guests who work overseas often.
Yonja started in 1980.
Before Taemin and Kai were even born.
I heard you were hugely popular.
I got 1st place 15 times.
On Japan's Oricon chart for Enka.
You put out an album in Japan recently.
I put out a single on August 2.
How did it place?
2nd on the Oricon chart for Enka.
(All her songs are hits)
I've been working a lot in Korea recently.
So I didn't get to promote much in Japan.
Despite that the song managed to get 2nd,
which I'm very thankful for.
I hear you do dinner shows in Japan
for $100,000 per show.
Yes, I got paid $100,000 sometimes.
I heard you were invited to perform in North Korea.
Yes, I went twice. In 2001 and 2002.
(Her credentials are amazing)
Many elderly are there.
I put on a concert for them.
Kim Jongil wanted to meet me.
- Really? / - Yes.
At the time I went, songs like "Tearful Dumangang"
and "Tears of Mokpo" were banned there.
Then after my performance.
Around 60 banned songs were lifted.
After your concert.
The ban was lifted. So the North Koreans
don't have to sing those songs secretly anymore.
When I went back the following year in 2002,
they were singing the songs around town.
I heard you got to take the special train.
There's a special train only Kim Jongil takes.
You were treated as VIP.
I took it from Pyeongyang to Hamheung.
Is it different in that train?
Totally. It has beds and even a chef.
Was your name Kim Ryeonja on your seat?
Your name is Yonja. Did they spell it as Ryeonja?
We all had name cards at our seats for the feast.
My name was written as Ryeonja.
Then Kim Jongil said, "I know it's Yonja
but we spell in Ryeonja in North Korea."
He apologized.
I heard you were in the North Korean newspaper.
Yes, I was on the first page.
A photo of me and Kim Jongil.
What did the headlines say?
That we met and
he saw my concert.
The 2-hour concert was aired the very next day.
On TV.
Didn't you worry?
What if you went and couldn't come back?
I really worried a lot.
Before that a couple was kidnapped there.
You don't have to worry. They'd never invite you.
(You wouldn't be invited)
It's a relief that she returned safely.
They won't invite you because of "Sorry Mom."
I have to perform that there.
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It's past time we discussed Rey.
My impression is that J.J Abrams and Larry Kasdan wanted to create an underdog.
A hard-working, down-on-her-luck girl who gets taken advantage of, has to scrimp and
scrape for two green leaves and space bread, but despite all that, she keeps on fighting
and has time left to help the weak and small creatures.
In my opinion?
They accomplished the exact opposite.
We meet Rey on a scavenging run in the bowels of a Star Destroyer.
She obviously knows how to handle herself.
Then we get to see her drive her own speeder bike.
She seems to own this vehicle, too, since we see her driving it back to her home.
What Rey does is the equivalent of collecting cardboard and selling it for recycling, something
which is very big where I live.
I've rarely seen any of these people drive a vehicle of their own.
Not even a bicycle, maybe a cart.
Without a horse, most times.
So I will argue Rey is doing pretty well for herself, all things considered.
Plus, she's a skilled fighter, and quite a decent pilot.
More than decent, actually.
She has a place to live in, a big one I might add, and it's all to herself, too.
Oh, and did I mention she has above-average mechanical skills?
Do you see what I'm getting at?
If Rey were a homeless person in our world, she'd be the kind who willingly chooses
to remain so, and makes no visible effort to improve her lot.
Oh, and before you tell me, she's just waiting for her family to come back, come on!
From this flashback, I infer that she was probably eight years old when her family departed
Jakku.
At the time of shooting, the actress was 24 years old.
I don't know if Rey's supposed to be the same age, but for the sake of the argument,
let's say she's 18 years old, the age where people become adults by the standards
of the Western world.
That would mean she's been pining for her family for nearly ten years.
And for some reason she still expects they'll come back.
She's been alone for a decade, why on Earth does she need her family back?
She's had enough time to build a life of her own, learn how to fight, and even how
to fly ships and do maintenance on them.
Okay, let's say she loves her family really, really bad.
Why can't she leave the planet and track them down?
She obviously has the skills.
And it would make her an active heroine.
I've read that some people believe she's an active heroine because she scavenges
for a living, so that means she's pushing forward, that she's not giving up.
That would make sense if her ultimate goal was only to survive, but she obviously
wants to get back together with her family.
So, why not take an active role?
Why not get passage on a ship or steal one and go out into space, see if she can pick
up a trail?
It's a long shot, sure, but so is sitting on a desert planet waiting for your family
to suddenly come back after ten years.
Plus, she's not a very consistent character.
Look at the scene where she rescues BB-8.
She literally rushes to the rescue, threatens the scavenger, and fixes BB-8's antenna.
Obviously, this is a woman who cares about the little things, right?
Except, a couple seconds later she's telling BB-8 to go out on his own to the nearest settlement.
Uh…excuse me?
The scavenger is not even out of the frame.
Why doesn't she volunteer right away to take him to the outpost tomorrow?
And look at her expression when she realizes BB-8 has to come with her.
Five minutes ago you were all gung-ho to help him, and now you seem tired of him already.
At least with Luke Skywalker things were clear.
He wanted to go out and explore the galaxy, but he couldn't just walk out on his family.
And unlike Rey,
he didn't start off highly skilled.
One of the thrills of a story is to see a character grow as a person, to go through
trials and tribulations, and earn their victories.
Rey doesn't fit that at all.
I wouldn't be so upset about Rey if people weren't proclaiming her to be a strong icon
of womanhood, a role model for little girls to look up to.
Don't tell me there's been a scarcity of empowering female lead characters in the
last two decades.
And if the examples I'm going through are too mature for little girls, then how about
some Nancy Drew, a Hermione Granger, or even a Kim Possible?
At least they earn their victories.
You want positive role models?
Then don't settle for the first rushed-out, one-dimensional character that comes along.
Go for somebody more real and coherent.
At least somebody who doesn't live in denial for 10 years.
Join me in part 5 for a showdown between Darth Vader and Kylo Ren, and let's find out just
how deep Kylo Ren is—or isn't.
Until then.
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For approximately 10 minutes, The Force Awakens gives off a darker, grittier vibe than we're
used to in a Star Wars movie.
Which, I admit, I wasn't really hot on.
I don't think the simple black-and-white dichotomy of the Star Wars universe lends
itself to imagery reminiscent of a Holocaust movie.
But I had to give credit to the filmmakers for choosing a tone and sticking to it.
Then this happened.
You wanna be serious?
Fine.
You wanna be funny?
That's also fine.
But you don't mix the two in a way that takes a dump on the tone of the scene.
This is also the sequence where Finn has his change of heart.
After losing his…friend?
Partner?
Stranger? I don't know.
He decides that war is evil and he has to buck town.
A soldier defecting from the army because of his strong conscience?
That's a story worth telling.
But that's not the story they told.
Next time we see Finn, he's releasing Poe from captivity.
Why didn't he bring up the massacre at the village?
That's a very strong reason for defecting, one that a Resistance fighter should empathize
with.
That's the starting point of his dramatic arc anyway, right?
No, it isn't.
Because he only brings it up once, at the cantina with Rey.
And even then, he switches topics and turns the conversation all about Rey.
From this moment on, getting Rey seems to be Finn's more important goal.
That's what gets him involved with the Resistance.
It's not that the First Order is evil and genocidal and has to be stopped.
No, they kidnapped his squish and he has to go rescue her.
Which makes this scene with Orange Head in the cantina even more superfluous.
The purpose here is to convince Finn he needs to stop running, use his skills and courage
to help in the fight against the First Order.
And if that really were the point of his character arc, this could be the beginning of a turning
point.
But of course, the only thing that actually gets him riled is Rey.
The issue is that the movie gives both threads (his feelings for Rey and his defection from
the First Order) almost equal time.
Because of that, neither thread punches with a lot of weight behind it.
Ultimately, we don't know what Finn wants most in life.
We knew with Luke that he wanted to go off on adventures, be a force of good in the universe.
Han wanted first to simply get by, then he learned to care about other people and a cause
greater than himself.
Finn?
At first it seems he wants to help bring an end to suffering, not to be involved with
the ugliness of war.
Until he starts killing indiscriminately himself.
Does he want to find somebody to love?
That goes nowhere, either, because this relationship oscillates between vaguely romantic and vaguely
platonic.
Here's a crazy idea.
Maybe I can't find a cohesive core in him because there is none.
He goes along with the flow of a scene's given tone, regardless of what was established
before.
That's not a character; it's a heap of incoherent traits that amount to nothing,
because all it cares about is pleasing people all the time.
See, the problem with not having a steady, well-balanced tone throughout a story, is
that whenever you want to have a strong, emotional scene, the result is too artificial.
For example, the only hope this scene on the bridge has of working is by tapping into our
nostalgic feelings for Han Solo.
In other words, that we'd be sad to see him go because we know him from the original
trilogy.
The other factor the filmmakers are banking on is that we'd feel outraged that a son
would kill his own father.
But these are fictional characters; so whatever happens here, it's not a big deal.
It's just an empty show that goes through all the motions of a dramatic death, but doesn't
have any emotional underpinnings to hold it together.
We don't know even a fraction of the history between these two, this is the first time
we've seen them together.
There's no emotional background to make this moment truly matter.
Maybe they were going for an Obi-Wan moment.
If that's the case, they missed the very obvious fact that for half the first movie,
Luke and Obi-Wan developed a closer relationship than Rey and Han did.
So of course Obi-Wan's death is going to have a greater emotional impact.
It certainly helped that A New Hope had a more coherent tone and cohesive characters.
We admire reliance, confidence, but people who switch identities depending on their environment
and circumstances don't exhibit those traits.
The same goes for art in general.
You can be highbrow, banal, trashy, deep, shallow, whatever, but choose a main flavor
and stick to it.
Add all the spices you want, but the main flavor had better always be the same.
Join me in part 4 to find out why Rey is a terrible character, and a worst role model.
Until then.
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REMASTER: Why Star Wars Is Great and The Force Awakens Isn't (Part 1 of 6) - Duration: 7:45.
Hi, I'm One Dodgy Dude.
For nearly a year, I wasn't sure why I disliked The Force Awakens, and not knowing was really
getting on my nerves.
Because unlike 99 % of the Internet, I like to have solid arguments before I let fly with
the complaints.
The easy way out would be to whine about the plot holes.
But I can't go very far on that one.
Let me show you exactly why.
How does Rey sneak around Starkiller base undetected?
Don't they have security cameras to spot her?
Oh, wait, that happened in A New Hope, too.
Okay, so how can Finn operate the Millennium Falcon's turret?
It's the first time he's onboard, so when did he learn how to use it?
Oh, it also happened in the first movie.
Well, how can a planet-sized superweapon not have enough TIE fighters to protect it from
a handful of X-wings that--?
Ok, I'll shut up.
So, here's the million-dollar question.
Why do the plot holes in The Force Awakens bother me, but the ones in the original movies
don't?
Could it be nostalgia?
No, because I watched The Phantom Menace two years after A New Hope, and I have no compunctions
against ripping it a new one.
I did find an answer, just not where I expected.
I'm sure you heard about David & Goliath.
Under-equipped shepherd boy against overpowered Philistine giant.
Star Wars is David and Goliath in space.
The opening shot all but confirms it: underdog rebels against gargantuan Empire .
One more thing David & Goliath
has in common with Star Wars?
Neither story makes much logical sense, but it makes a romantic kind of sense.
And by romantic I mean an idealized view of the world, not an expression of love.
In the romantic mindset, it's possible to accept plot holes, so long as the story has
a strong positive message, like the courage of having faith.
In short, if we're dealing with a story of underdogs coming into their own, then their
adversaries should at least have the upper hand.
If you can make it so the underdogs come out on top by the skin of their teeth, or if in
trying to get out of a jam they get into a bigger one, all the better.
But The Force Awakens got it backward . In this movie, the alleged underdogs are formidable,
and the bad guys, with the exception of their doomsday weapon, have all the shortcomings.
With so much going well for the Rebel—I mean the Resistance, their victory is not
exhilarating, or moving.
It's a foregone conclusion.
Let's look at the attack on the first Death Star.
If we tackled this realistically, there's no way the Death Star doesn't have enough
TIE fighters to shoot down every one of the X-wings and Y-wings.
Can anybody tell me how many rebel ships are there?
Don't tell me this moon-sized object can't hold a thousand times that number, at least
.
But we already established this story runs on fantasy logic, not real logic.
So we can sweep some inconvenient thoughts under the rug as long as things are difficult
for our heroes.
And guess what, they are!
The pilots get picked off one by one.
They launch one run that doesn't make it to the target,
another that misses the target, and the final one which hits the target thanks only to a
leap of faith.
Our little David has beat Goliath.
The rebels earned their victory.
A similar moment in The Force Awakens has the same surface look, but none of the tension
or the thrill of an earned victory.
The entire movie is a masturbatory display of how awesome the good guys are, and how
we shouldn't fear for them!
Poe can fly any ship he wants, no training necessary.
He shoots down 9 TIE fighters in a single scene .
How can Rey fly the Falcon for the first time into a confined space, and not get a single
scratch on it?
Even Lando couldn't pull that off.
I know she flew ships before, but that's like saying I'm qualified to drive a Formula
1 car just because I've driven a pickup truck.
In Empire, Han Solo enters an asteroid field to escape the Star Destroyers.
It's reckless, but he doesn't have much choice.
We immediately understand what a dangerous decision that was, and even Han regrets it.
There's nothing wrong with having your hero admit he's not the best; on the contrary
it humanizes him, makes us root for them even more.
Rey and Finn don't need us to root for them.
In this sequence, we never get the feeling they're out of their depth, or that they
got out of trouble just barely
And no surprise there, because watching The Force Awakens is like playing a video game
with all the cheat codes on.
Kill things with one shot and without even looking, infinite lives, you name
it .
There's one moment that sums up all my frustrations with the movie.
I watched The Force Awakens for the second time ever in preparation for this review,
so a lot of things had fallen from my mind.
I jumped from random point to random point in the movie
only staying for a couple of seconds in each scene.
Eventually, I arrived here.
And I was blown away.
Her expression, the track selection that harkened back to another major awakening,
everything made this moment sing.
And I thought to myself, "wow, maybe the movie is much better than I remembered."
But when I watched the movie in order, I got to this exact same moment, and all I could
think of was "what a waste."
Because this should have been the culmination of a great heroic journey, on a par with Luke
deciding to switch off his computer and use the Force to aim his torpedoes.
Instead, it was just the latest show-off moment of why Rey's a total badass who doesn't
have to work hard or sacrifice anything to earn her victories.
So, to wrap things up, the first and most important reason why The Force Awakens is
bad?
It's an underdog story where the underdogs are overpowered.
The theme of the story is at odds with the execution.
Ruining the thematic core of Star Wars, however unintentionally, is terrible enough.
But ruining the character work of the original trilogy's heroes…that's just salt in
the wound.
Join me in Part 2, where I'll discuss why Luke, Han, and Leia got the short end of the
stick.
Until then.
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Who do you think is the luckiest character in One Piece?!
I think it's Sai.
He is so lucky that if he would sail to find One Piece, it will take him just a few days
to find it.
But Sai doesn't need One Piece because he already has it, Baby 5 is his One Piece.
On the first page, we see that Brook and Chopper are incapacitated by Peros' devil fruit powers.
Since Brook was able to put up a fight against Big Mom I did expect him to last a litter
bit longer because he is fighting one of her commanders.
But since Luffy barely did defeat Cracker with the help of Nami I guess this makes sense.
Peros did start to explain how his devil fruit works, both Chopper and Brook started to cry,
which I don't see the point of this.
Are they thinking if they cry enough he will let them go?!
Anyway, on the next page, we see a full shot of Katakuri sitting on the sunny.
The chances of Katakuri joining the crew were 0.00001 % but after seeing this panel now
they are zero.
Because he is way too cool to be a straw hat, the only way he would join is if he would
become the captain.
And that is not going to happen.
Peros says that: "We must send Big Mom over to Pudding, on Cacao Island".
I start thinking how can they do that, she cannot swim because she is a devil fruit user.
She is not going to listen to them and get onboard the ship and wait patiently until
they get there.
The only way I see this happen is if Peros can do what Aokiji can but instead freeze
the sea, he will turn it into candy and create a road for her to walk on.
And then Big Mom arrives, she is still screaming Wedding Cake.
If I will keep hearing these two words I am going to have nightmares and I am sure I will
not be able to eat cake anytime soon.
I am glad that One Piece is on a break next week, there is a limit how much I can take
this.
I need a rest before I am able to hear these words again, this arc at least has a couple
of chapters left.
Katakuri said to the soldiers there that: "All of you, back into the mirror world, in
a few seconds the lot of you will be collapsed at his feet".
This got me really excited because I thought Luffy will do what Shanks did to the members
of Whitebeard Pirates.
But that was not the case, those two soldiers were down but it's not clear why.
Anyway, Luffy and Katakuri clash, based on that panel it seems like Luffy has another
brother.
When I first saw Katakuri's powers I said that they are similar to Luffy's, and in this
chapter, it's clear to see.
Even Carrot says that.
When Luffy attacks Katakuri with "Hawk Gatling", Katakuri looks like he has a Logia Devil Fruit
but no he is a paramecia type just like Luffy.
It will be great to see a real fight between Luffy and Katakuri but we all know that would
not happen.
And then Pedro says to Carrot about the Straw hats that they could be the ones that we are
waiting for to lead the world unto a new dawn.
This is supposed to make us emotional, but it did not do anything for me.
And the reason for that is, this is very generic.
There is nothing new or interesting about the things that Pedro said.
Yes, we know that the straw hats will lead the world unto a new dawn because they are
the main characters.
If they don't do it.
Who will?
Buggy?!
If Oda wanted to get our attention he should have come up with something new and important
to the story.
And not with the most cliche thing that you can do.
One example how to do it is what we did learn in Zou Island that the poneglyphs were all
made by the Kozuki Clan.
This was a big thing and very important for the story.
It seems like Oda is tired from this arc as well.
The quality of the last few chapters is at best average.
I cannot wait for the Wano arc.
And on the last page, Oda wants us to think that Pedro did die.
How many of you think that Pedro is dead?
Let me know in the comments.
I don't think he is dead, for a couple of reasons.
Where was the last time that someone did die in One Piece?
If Pell did survive a nuclear blast, Pedro's chances of surviving this are pretty good.
There is a rule in these types of story, if you don't see a dead body or a grave then
in most cases the character is still alive.
Anyway, what do you guys think about this chapter?
Let me know in the comments
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I started this whole series because of anger and disappointment.
But not at The Force Awakens.
Despite its numerous shortcomings, I think the movie is too bland to deserve all-out
hatred.
Those emotions stirred when I watched an online review of The Force Awakens.
That review deemed the movie as the beginning of a new chapter, a new era if you will.
Since the previous era, aka the prequels, was by and large disappointing, this new one
had to prove itself to the fans by playing it safe first, and only later trying out something
different and grand.
Which, of course, is complete and utter garbage.
Playing it safe is anathema to the core of Star Wars.
Did you ever read about the making of the original Star Wars?
It was like tiptoeing across a minefield, praying it was possible to reach the other
end without setting anything off !
I showed clips of J.J. Abrams and Larry Kasdan discussing the philosophy behind the
making of The Force Awakens.
Let's watch them again.
That sticks in my craw.
Does he think he was the first person to feel that kind of pressure?
What about the novelists who were also handed the keys to the kingdom?
What about the video game developers who turned out masterpieces of their own?
I'm sure they also felt the pressure.
Yet many of these outsiders took on the challenge and produced work that went for the risk,
that strayed somewhat from the road George Lucas had paved, but still stuck to the basic
principles of Star Wars .
Why should novelists, game developers, and comic book artists be held to higher standards
than filmmakers?
Yet you still find people who claim that not only is The Force Awakens good, it might be
just as good as the original trilogy.
I'm not going to claim that the first Star Wars emerged from a concerted effort to mastermind
one of the greatest movies of all time.
Hell, George Lucas was convinced by the end of post-production that it would be a flop.
Lots of hard-working people like composer John Williams and editors Marcia Lucas, Richard
Chew, and Paul Hirsch put in the effort to make something formidable out of Star Wars.
Those four people took home well-deserved academy awards for their troubles.
In fact, the entire movie received 10 academy award nominations, the highest tally for any
movie in the franchise so far .
George Lucas didn't do it alone, and he probably didn't set out to create a cultural behemoth.
But at the deepest level, he must have believed he was doing something special and different,
otherwise he might have thrown in the towel somewhere along the way.
So, the idea that The Force Awakens should get by on nostalgia, regurgitated ideas, and
half-baked concepts is offensively ignorant.
Ultimately, The Force Awakens demeans the franchise.
Despite what J.J. Abrams says, there was no need to play it safe.
Want proof?
2015 saw the reawakening of another old but far less celebrated franchise..
Mad Max
Heralded by many as one of the best films of that year, Mad Max: Fury Road
did what The Force Awakens should have done.
Grab one or two things that made the original movies work, then fashion it into something
different and relevant, but above all else, well-crafted and meticulously thought-out
.
And this is Mad Max we're talking about.
It has nowhere near the same pedigree as Star Wars.
The last Mad Max movie was released in 1985.
You want to talk about a franchise that needed to regain trust?
That's Mad Max, not Star Wars.
Did they play it safe?
No, risk-taking and hard-work turned Fury Road into a glorious movie that nabbed 10
Academy Award nominations, and won 6 of them .
Sounds familiar?
Yes, it's the exact same number of nominations and wins that the original Star Wars had!
Some categories even overlapped.
Coincidence?
Well, yes, of course, but there's one standout pattern.
A passion that, despite all the difficulties in production, still shows through in the
final product.
To sum everything up, Star Wars: A New Hope showed you that if you put in the elbow grease
to create wonderment and emotion, you can achieve great success and reach the souls
of millions upon millions of people.
The Force Awakens showed us that a shoddily-crafted forgery can reach the wallets of millions
upon millions of people with only half the effort.
So, do I think fans of The Force Awakens are fools?
No, I don't.
But aside from sentimental reasons, I can't for the life of me figure out why people who
watched the original movies would settle for something that is so patently inferior to
them in spirit .
What really frightens me is that people like that might start making movies in the years
to come.
For all storytellers out there, let these videos be a lesson in what happens when you
play it too safe and settle for less than greatness.
And ask yourselves this: would a movie like The Force Awakens have worked, if it didn't
have the words Star Wars stamped on the poster?
Thanks for your time.
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REMASTER: Why Star Wars Is Great and The Force Awakens Isn't (Part 5 of 6) - Duration: 5:57.
I know Kylo Ren has fans who believe he is a conflicted character, but from what's
on display, the best thing I can say about him is that Ren is the first draft of one.
In order for a character to be conflicted, he needs to be fighting at least two opposing
impulses.
At first glance, it may seem like Ren fits this category.
He says he's fighting "the pull of the light."
And that he won't be "seduced by the light side."
And I actually enjoy the way he phrases that last one.
There's a problem, though.
We never see a single moment that demonstrates Kylo Ren wants to do good.
We see him decapitate people, mind-rape them, strangle them, throw tantrums, and kill his
own father.
He shows his inclination for evil in spades, but there's no convincing visual argument
to prove he's also inclined to do good.
Perhaps there's one in the opening scene.
Maybe he suspects something is wrong with Finn,
but he walks off and does nothing to him.
The problem is they're both wearing masks, and their body language is too static, so
you can fill in the blanks however you like.
The other moment where Ren might conceivably show a proclivity for being good is on the
bridge where he and Han meet.
But it happens too late in the story.
We have seen Ren do only evil so far.
So, his alleged inner conflict seems contrived.
It's a problem of too much tell, and not enough show.
Whenever Ren brings up the notion of being seduced by the light, he just talks about
it.
For perspective, imagine if Obi-Wan had only talked about the Force, if he'd just told
us what a powerful source of energy it was.
And now imagine if that was the only mention of the Force up until the Death Star trench
run.
Wouldn't that feel like a last-minute cheat?
Like a cool-sounding concept that wasn't developed properly?
So, while Obi-Wan himself doesn't demonstrate the power of the Force in this scene, Darth
Vader does it in the scene right after.
And later, Obi-Wan does a little show and tell of his own.
There's one more demonstration, and another.
So by the time we're on the trench run, we're convinced that the Force is real.
There's no debate to be had, no need for legions of fans to be theorizing on the Internet
to complete the work that was the filmmakers' responsibility in the first place.
That's one half of the problem with Kylo Ren.
He is not only unconvincing as a potential agent of good, he's also second-rate as
an agent of evil.
We meet Kylo Ren when he and Max von Sydow have a confrontation.
From the old man's posture, you can tell he's not intimidated.
But what matters most is the way he talks, and what he says.
Doesn't he sound like a disappointed headmaster?
Kylo Ren lets him have at it, he never asserts his authority until this moment.
Let's examine a similar scene from A New Hope.
Like Max von Sydow, Leia immediately tries to take charge, to prove she's not afraid.
Vader, however, cuts her off to remind her who's in charge.
Leia tries again, and although she has her say, Vader shuts her up and puts Leia back
in her place.
Plus, he keeps her alive because she has valuable information.
How does Kylo Ren deal with people who have valuable information?
Let's focus on the execution, too.
Kylo Ren decapitates the old man.
A gruesome death on paper, a little too quick and clean on the screen.
There's not a strong impact because our senses are not highly engaged.
Here Vader is strangling Captain Antilles.
We hear the captain choking, and the sound effect sells the idea of his windpipe being
broken.
Plus, when Vader finally kills him, this sound effect conveys the brutality of the death
while keeping the scene free of gore.
So, both scenes try to portray the villains as men who are not afraid of getting their
hands dirty, yet only A New Hope does it efficiently.
Not only by way of sound effects, mind you, but by way of character.
Kylo Ren, like most of the movie, is an interesting idea that wasn't taken far enough.
Star Wars's gallery of villains within and without the movies is impressive, populated
by simple but scary villains, complex tragic figures, tireless conquerors.
How can somebody as poorly conceived and so ineptly executed as Kylo Ren belong in this
exalted company?
Well, having low expectations and poor standards certainly helps.
So, what's there left to complain about?
Oh, plenty, but anything else would be an offshoot of everything I've already discussed.
Except for one thing.
I need to explain why, in the long term, giving The Force Awakens a pass is exceedingly damaging
to the standing of the Star Wars franchise.
Join me in part 6 to see why.
Until then.
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REMASTER: Why Star Wars Is Great and The Force Awakens Isn't (Part 2 of 6) - Duration: 6:14.
Perhaps the saddest, most dramatically unnecessary approach in The Force Awakens was to depict
its older characters as shadows of their former selves.
As if growing old were synonymous with turning into a joke.
How can a sequel to the original trilogy go down this road?
Those movies gave us Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, both of whom were old, but also dignified,
and quite spirited if you take into account they were both hermits.
Obi-Wan didn't take lip from anybody, and Yoda sure as hell didn't put up with Luke's
whining.
They were solid, challenging mentor figures.
The complete opposite of the elders in Episode VII.
The biggest source of discomfort in The Force Awakens was Han Solo.
I'm not sad because Han is a different character.
It's been 30 years, that's bound to change anybody.
But imagine you grew up with this uncle you really looked up to.
Successful, charming, fun, confident but not too proud.
Last time you saw him he had the world at his feet: great job, nice family, loving friends,
the works.
Then 30 years go by, no communication between you two.
You run into each other and this paragon of success and confidence is now a hunched-over,
used car salesman paying alimony to six different ex-wives.
Isn't it only natural to ask….what the hell happened?
It's a complete 180.
It cancels out the transformation of a beloved character.
Is an explanation too much to ask for ?
We might as well pull Leia into the mix, too, because her unfortunate transformation is
not that different from Han's.
Long gone is the feisty Leia who took charge in the middle of a gunfight.
Gone's the Leia who jumped right in the thick of things.
Gone's the Leia who raised her voice and didn't sound like a Grandma.
Gone is the Leia who stood up to Darth Vader and Jabba the Hutt.
Instead, we get the Leia who can't keep her own kid under control.
Which leads into the matter of Han and Leia's parenting.
Han even acts like it's not his fault his son turned bad.
Yeah, nice cop-out.
This is the man who returned to the Death Star to save Luke, who risked his own life
on Hoth to rescue Luke, again.
Who had matured enough to consider stepping out of the way when he believed Leia was in
love with Luke.
What happened to that man?
Leia's not blameless, either.
She pretty much foisted her son off on Luke when he became too difficult to raise, though
at least she has the backbone to accept responsibility.
I'll come clean.
I don't like the idea of turning Han and Leia into beaten-down has-beens.
But if the drama associated with that story decision is up to snuff, I'll go with it.
That won't happen if I can't see the turning point that brought them from fulfilled, heroic
characters to deeply flawed human beings.
And don't tell me things changed when their son turned evil.
That wouldn't have happened if they were good parents, and they'd be good parents
if their character hadn't shifted so dramatically for no apparent reason.
So, once more, what went wrong?
Finally, the chewed-up cherry on the half-melted cake: Luke Skywalker.
Most of what I said about Han and Leia, applies to Luke, as well.
But at least we don't have it rubbed in our faces all the time, because he only turns
up at the end of the movie.
Well, kind of.
He's still a major presence.
His name is one of the first things we see.
But there's one fly in the ointment I haven't heard discussed in any other videos.
It's the fact that "finding Luke Skywalker" is not a compelling goal.
First, part of the reason why things are so bad at present is that Luke and the rest of
the old guard dropped the ball so miserably in the last 30 years.
So, why do they expect things will be any different the second time around?
He might screw things up even more .
Luke is not necessary.
As I said in the first part, the scales are tipped in favor of the good guys.
They have the upper hand in every major scrap, even when they shouldn't.
What can Luke do for them?
They have things covered.
The only reason the First Order destroyed the Republic is that the good guys didn't
get off their asses, but when they do, holy moly!
Oh, but the galaxy needs more Jedi to fight against the dark side, right?
Do they?
Because this movie didn't convince me.
Maybe if the Empire had been commanded by seven dark Jedi like in Jedi Knight, the computer game,
I'd be convinced.
But all they have is a cadaverous ghoul, and his incompetent, tantrum-prone apprentice.
Oh, but surely the Knights of Ren must be dangerous?
Oh, you mean the villains who barely appeared in the movie?
Yeah, I'm shaking.
Anybody still thinks Luke is actually necessary?
Honestly, I think the movie's underlying--and probably unintentional--message is that the
universe would be better off without the old guard.
Put these guys in charge: Poe, Finn, and Rey, who obviously can do no wrong, who don't
need to grow as characters.
They don't need the guidance of balanced, wise, and inspiring mentors, because they're
already at the top.
Plus, they wouldn't get decent mentoring even if they wanted to.
What on Earth went wrong?
If the best you can do with the original trilogy's heroes is turn them into washed-out losers
for no substantial and compelling reason, then you didn't work hard enough.
But as we'll see in Part 3, coherence, and the hard work needed to achieve it, wasn't
something J.J. and his crew seemed too keen on.
Until then.
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