The Mythology of STAR WARS - A George Lucas interview

I just found by chance this video of an interview of George Lucas in 1999.

This is a very interesting discussion about the mythology the Hero's Journey and the Religius part that shape the StarWars episodes.



Interesting quotes from G. Lucas:



Star Wars "recreates myth and classic mythological motifs"

"if it is a tool to make old stories new and relate to younger people, that's what the all point was"

Lego Star Wars the Freemaker Adventures. Episode 4 to 6. Connexions to Cannon world

Hello Freemakers !!

Let me continue our journey through the episodes of the freemaker familiy !

In this series of posts, I will give you some of the nice recalls to the cannon. Hopefully this will give you further motivations to watch this very cool show.

Here you can see the post reviewing episodes 1 to 3. 

The recalls to Cannon:

Episode 4:

The episode takes place mostly on Cloud CIty of Bespin.
There 2 events that are nice recalls : 

 First we see Lego Lando doing the exact same announcement to the people of the city after the take over of the Empire.

Empire Strikes back

Freemaker Adventures S01E04

Secondly we go back to the carbon-freezing chamber and they actually repair the tube cut by Vader during the fight against Luke. 

Empire Strikes Back : Darth Vader cuts the tube

Rowan finds it and tries to repair it

Characters: Lobot, Lando, Chewbecca

Creatures: no creatures on this episode
Ships and vehicles:

Pod racers of various types

Millenium Falcon

Episode 5:

This episode brings us on Kashyyyk in the middle of the never ending conflict between Dosha Trandoshas and the Wookies.

Characters: No special know characters

Creatures: no creatures on this episode
Ships and vehicles:

Luxury 2800 Yacht : That is interesting because a similar yacht (the 3000) was owned by Mara Jade.... what if ??? Imperial Lambda-shuttle
Auzituck anti-slaver gunship: the Wookie Gunship that we had first appearance on Rebels season 1.

Episode 6:

This is a very nice episode with Luke and Leia on the run. The opening sequence of them in a Y-wing chased by tie fighters is awesome.

Characters: Luke, Leia,

Ben Kenoby, Yoda (just a voice quote)
Sorry but why Luke does not have a black hand? This episode should be after cloud city events so Luke should have an artificial hand. 

Creatures: Acklay

Ships and vehicles:

Y-wing

Rogue one Latest trailer : My analysis

Hello everybody.
I am pretty pleased by the official Rogue One trailer. Click here to see it. There is frankly not much new to talk about respect to the previous trailer and the clip shared at SWCE16 but the sequences shown are anyway amazing.

Some insights :

1. JEDHA world 

We learned from The movie Director Gareth Edwards that the Jedha Planet is a spiritual location for the force. A sacred place for Force users. 

In the Trailer we can now see a fortified city with a main tower (looking like a temple) on top of a rock made of steep cliffs.

Jedha Fortified Hill City

Jedha Fortified Hill City

It indicates that the cities had a long history of conflicts (... Like the Mecca ...) and it probably a mix of monks, spiritual peoples and warriors.
This looks perfect to me for a Holy place. It recall me some existing fortress :

Mehrangarh Fort, India

Palmira, Syria

We got informations that the planet features Kyber Cristals that are used to make Light Sabers but also super weapons like the Death Star laser or the latests cannon we saw on First Order Star-destroyer.

Jedha is a desert planet so the battle scene with the Jungle and lagoon landscape is probably on an other location ==> planet Scarif.

In the trailer we see the death star directly over Jedha with a nice Eclipse effect. 

2. Characters. 

We have the same informations than previously

Some infos on Jynn Erso
Baze Malbus and Chirrut Imwe are Jedha fighter. More specifically Chirrut Imwe is blind monk and sees through the force.
K-2SO might be an assassination droid (ex-Imperial)
Cassian Andor will help Jynn but he was not asked to follow by Mon Mothma but it is on his own will. (he seems also quite interested by Jynn...)
Bodhi Rook not more details, he is a former Imperial pilot.
Saw Gerrera is interesting because the hair cut is not the same as the previous trailer. Different time ? Before and after the mission ?

Bail Organa is confirmed but we cannot see him yet.

3. Ships 

We see a lot of these 4 wings Imperial shuttles (same than the one destroyed on the beach)
We see clearly the announced U-wing as a troop transport.
Several X-wings are also involved.
Walkers AT-ACT are again presented.

4. Imperials. 

We still not see death troopers in action. Only normal storm troopers and the tanks.
Orson Krennic is inside the death star but we get just a shot of him and nothing more. I am still wandering about this white uniform and cap that is pretty unusual for Imperials (even of also Admiral Thrawn is dressed white). It recalls me the Royal Guard of Game of Throne !

Is he a special officer directly responding to the Emperor for supervising the Death Star completion ? It sounds strange to me as I thought it was the task of Grand Moff Tarkin.

5. Others

Really a lot of action : street fight, war on the shore, night strike with air support and inside the death star ?

The scene of Jynn facing a Tie Fighter on a platform on planet Scarif looks awesome ! Let see what happens.

6. Darth Vader 

Ok, we can see him only 1 second for just 1 breath. Personally I do not expect that we will see him acting a lot in the movie. The main reason for that is rather simple : He cannot be ALSO responsible for the stolen plans of the death star. He will be taken for responsible for the battle station DESTRUCTION. (Read the Darth Vader comic book to understand the consequence of that and how the Emperor nearly reject him after this event. see here). 

So if Vader is directly involved it means that he is again letting escaping rebels... if you add to that the events of Hoth, Bespin and even the Rebels season 2 final,  this is making him the most inefficient Villain of Star wars.... Personally, as a fan I do not want to see Vader fail again and again.

Overall I cannot wait to see it in december !

Previous Rogue One related Post :

• Trailer
• Saw Gerrera
• First trailer Analysis

Rogue one Latest trailer

Here is the trailer revealed on swce16 finally visible to everybody.

This is amazing. This will be a fantastic movie!!!

My analysis later today. ==> DONE . see here