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Ahead of Andor’s return, showrunner Tony Gilroy talks political ideology and playing in the spaces of Star Wars’ familiar iconography.
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This video does a great job at pinpointing exactly what I hated about the sequels: https://youtu.be/CuuDTnMPMgc
In one word, bathos. To many jokes, too many quips, it all made light of the serious undertone. Andor and Rogue One were great because they wanted us to feel the drama, the huge weight being lifted. They didn’t belittle the audience with a short joke because they didn’t think we could handle the drama, they laid it out solid for us.
It’s why I get goosebumps when I think of the guy yelling “LAUNCH” screamed with terror in his voice, or misty eyed thinking “I am one with the force the force is with me”, or actually anger thinking “One way out”. Those were moments, true cinematic moments where the director let us feel those. They didn’t have a joke to lighten it. They didn’t poke fun that we’re watching Star Wars. They let us feel it.
What you’ve described is a problem with most blockbusters of the modern era (since the early 2010s at least): inauthenticity, the feeling like the movie is making fun of you for investing in it even for a moment, because there’s always another stupid joke coming to undermine any real emotion. This exhausts the audience, and I think it’s the real underlying reason for Marvel fatigue. The She-Hulk series was the purest distillation of this and it was reviled, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
I don’t think this era of blockbusters will be remembered fondly.
Fully agree there. I think infinity saga was some of the best. I don’t think anything after that will be remembered
