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Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky
It's a ripoff In the way that the heroes journey is retold. Is O Brother Where Art Though a rip off of the Odyssey? The idea of balance to the universe and spiraling storylines are built into the almost Shinto religion of the Jedis. It's about connecting to the past. Is it any surprise that we see a new story with parallels to the repeating stories?
Americans have the idea of ripping off ideas way off. It's about iteration and revision. People have been riffing on older stories since we first started telling stories.
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If the Cohens wrote and directed a movie of the Odyssey, then made O Brother Where Art Thou as a sequel, your point might be relevant... Seriously, read my last post again and tell me JarJar Abrams didn't just copy/paste the script of A New Hope. You don't have to repeat the same story to play on nostalgia, you just need to bring back all the characters that we already know & love. Repeating the same story is just LAZY and fails to capture the wonder that made Star Wars worth a damn in the first place. Even the godawful prequels managed to introduce new ideas and themes to the franchise -- TFA does neither.
If this is what passes for quality entertainment in America, then maybe we deserve whatever hell Hillary or Trump are about to unleash on us -- obviously we're just simple-minded children who don't know any better (or at best, we don't care!)