My latest newsletter is about the original Star Wars trilogy, and how to make sure your story is actually about what it's about. (I promise this will all make sense!)
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/what-the-original-star-wars-teaches-us-about/
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I just finished reading your newsletter, actually. Good thoughts -- I agree about the SW trilogy. Empire is my favorite film of those 3, even though it is dark & without my preferred happy resolution. I have goofy love for the original, mostly b/c Lucas had no idea what he was starting there.
@sonomalass @charliejane one of the reasons I love Machete Order is it really raises the narrative tension on Luke's trajectory, *esp* when RotJ opens with him force-choking his way into Jabba's Palace...
@sonomalass @charliejane pretty sure Vader killing the separatists on Mustafar is an intentional mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovrx7R_P4zU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua5vIG1XIyw
