… I am all of a sudden not looking forward to any more Star Wars movies. why?
I just heard the um, montage music from a few of the star wars movies (the sequence at the end, increasingly long in each movie, that sorta musically wraps up the whole thing. Very simply in the first movie, quite detailed in the 6th…)
you know, the wistful romantic sequence (and music) from the end of Empire, when Lando and Chewie depart to rescue Han, and the others look on, and it’s just, like, beautiful…
the Anakin’s Funeral sequence from Jedi,
etc. Then I heard that from the Phantom Menace (a movie I do not in fact hate at all.)
it was far more complex in this movie (as well as the other two prequels.)
Yoda is speaking to Obi-wan, about training young Anakin, saying, to dark unsettling music (first chronological occurance of The Imperial MArch (which is kinda also darth vader’s theme)
“Grave danger I fear in his training…”
the emotional chords struck by that, because I know and care about the characters (and their leitmotifs)…
I doubt any new characters can match that.
the story’s already been told.
I doubt that the new stuff will resonate.
hopefully I’m wrong.

Tagged #Wagner because, hey, it’s about Leitmotifs.