Star Wars Episode VII News: Week 51

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2

IT'S OUT! It's finally out. The second trailer for The Force Awakens has finally dropped and it looks fantastic. Time for a step by step analysis.

     The Lucasfilm logo appears onscreen, with familiar music playing in the background, straight from Return of the Jedi. That's great news. It's hearkening back to the original trilogy. Then again, the first trailer for The Phantom Menace also featured that music. The scene fades in, and it pretty much starts the exact same way the first trailer began, with a desert pan, but there's a crashed Star Destroyer and then Mark Hamill narrates and everyone watching freezes, because Luke Skywalker hasn't spoken in 36 years. He says, "The Force is strong in my family" while a pan reveals the ruined helmet of Darth Vader on a pedestal with his breathing in the background. So Luke puts his robotic hand on R2D2 and cops a feel, but Artoo just looks at him and takes it in stride because that's just classic Luke. Then Luke's lightsaber that was in Star Wars is handed to someone, presumably Leia. That's pretty weird, considering Luke lost it along with his hand in TESB when it fell into a gas giant. So anyway, he says something about how his father, himself, and Leia all have the Force, and then he says "You have it too" and he's obviously talking to one of the new cast members, probably Daisy Ridley. Then THIS CHRISTMAS flashes on the screen with that music still playing, X-Wings on a lake, montage of lightsabers and explosions, and a bad guy, clone troopers(?) and space battles, weird, shiny stormtrooper suit, more explosion, and the main actors can't seem to close their mouths. The Millennium Falcon is being chased by a TIE fighter through a wrecked Star Destroyer. Then, fade in to Han Solo and Chewbacca. The dialogue is like this:

"Chewie, we're home."

"UHHHHHSDFSDHTJYUTYDHBGF"

And cut to title. Show's over.

     The shock is setting in. There's a new Star Wars movie that is coming to theaters. That never really fully registered with me until now. I've now seen the original cast in a Star Wars movie, and now it's sinking in. It's real. Luke will be in the movie, contrary to some rumors, and wait a minute WHERE IS C3PO? THIS IS AN O
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Star Wars Episode VII News: Week 50

Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens (Teaser Trailer HD #2)

      

     After almost five months of no official clips from The Force Awakens, we finally have an amazing premier. The trailer has been long in coming, owing to J.J. Abrams' secretive ways, but now I can say that the wait has been worth it. Although, this caught most everyone off guard. The trailer, according to Collider, wasn't supposed to come out for another month, with the premier of Age of Ultron. That would be obvious, and Abrams wasn't obvious last time, posting the first trailer in late November, not attached to any film. The tantalizing 88 second teaser consisted of only eight shots, but it drove the Star Wars frenzy into overdrive. This trailer is a whopping TWO MINUTES and some odd seconds long. Of course, it has much more detail. I don't really want to spoil the details of this, but the original cast makes an appearance, we get to know some of the newer characters, and also the plan of the remnants of the Empire. I love the reveal shot at the end that gets the audience excited. The only thing I would change is to add a bit more dialogue to make it a little clearer as to what the plot was. But I get it. It's a trailer. It did what good trailers should do. It gave us just enough to want the meal. I'm glad Abrams was minimal on the details. It spices it up. I wonder how much J.J. fought the company execs at Disney to release the trailer this way. With 261 days left until the release date of The Force Awakens, this makes me even more eager for the film. Of course, this raises a serious question: will this trailer build up fans so much that the film cannot hope to meet their expectation? It could very well be a horrible flop. But that is extremely doubtful, with all of the money and effort gone into making this. I'm just glad that's the question we're asking instead of, "Is the movie bad? Or is it just the trailer? Fans will find out soon enough.

Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens (Teaser Trailer HD #2)

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