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#49 - Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast

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The Importance of Luke's Return to the Jedi

JJ Abrams and the script in my opinion is that if we're trying to mirror all these nine movies together what is like the biggest moment in the OT for a lot of us you know him it's Luke becoming the Jedi he always meant to be by finally raising up the X-Wing out of the swamp right. I was like why wouldn't you have her do it thus making it? It seemed like a moment where you could really bring everything together but instead we just want to see Luke do everything, which isn't his story or force goes. The execution of that scene would be better if it showed raised then Ray doing it would mean something more than she did.

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