![]() ![]() The harassment targeted at Johnson and several of the cast members - most notably Kelly Marie Tran, who was driven from social media by racist and sexist trolls unhappy with the film - manifested in a campaign to “remake” The Last Jedi. And yet it proved rather unpopular with a small but loud contingent of fans who have put quite a bit of time and energy into their worship of what came before, namely Luke Skywalker. Johnson’s thesis offered a way forward for films too often bogged down by their predecessors. Kill it, if you have to.” Only then could the new cast step outside the original trio’s shadows and create something fresh. Hero Luke Skywalker and villain Kylo Ren don’t agree on much, but in that movie they kept repeating the same sentiment over and over again. ![]() If Rey’s parents were nobodies, as Johnson tried to establish in that film, that meant that not just Skywalkers and Palpatines could be the heroes and villains of these stories: Anyone could be a Jedi (including the enslaved kid with the broom featured in the last shot of Johnson’s film.) Shaking off the dust of past movies allowed for new kinds of character arcs and stories, and a path for Rey that didn’t fall in step exactly with Luke’s before her.
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