{"id":8001,"date":"2015-12-04T11:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2015-12-04T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T16:56:59","slug":"star-wars-the-force-awakens-theories-and-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/12\/04\/star-wars-the-force-awakens-theories-and-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Theories and Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is Luke Skywalker the villain of Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/i> or not?! Like father, like son, right? J.J. Abrams has kept things under wraps very well so far, which is quite refreshing in the modern world of cinema, where you can watch half of a blockbuster movie through its hundreds of teasers, trailers, TV spots, and behind-the-scenes featurettes.<\/p>\n

J.J. Abrams once did a monster movie called Cloverfield<\/i>, which built up plenty of anticipation through minimal information about what it was going to be about. Not showing off all your cards as a filmmaker enhances the experience for the audiences going to the movie theaters. Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i> is a bit of a throwback in the way it\u2019s being advertised, since we don\u2019t know exactly what we\u2019re going to get, unlike the Marvel movies.<\/p>\n

Abrams has kept this style of filmmaking, in that he doesn\u2019t make it all transparent for social media to devour, for quite some time. Back in 2013, he gave a rather fantastically logical reason to Entertainment Weekly<\/i> as to why he maintains a certain level of secrecy:<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery choice we make, every costume fitting, every pad of makeup, every set that\u2019s built \u2013 all that stuff becomes less magical if it\u2019s discussed and revealed and pictures are posted online. I just want to make sure that when somebody sees something in a movie they didn\u2019t watch a 60-minute behind-the-scene that came out two months before.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a sense, he wants to preserve the magic for the audience. Sure, it\u2019s tempting to search for the reasons as to why Luke Skywalker hasn\u2019t been featured in any trailers or posters, but that will surely dilute the experience. In a world of instant-gratification, letting things marinate under wraps is an art. Of course, he can\u2019t control everything, and Star Wars<\/i> is too much of a cash-cow to keep entirely everything under wraps; but, luckily not everything has been revealed.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are some potential spoilers that can be read about the role of Luke Skywalker, which is the most significant mystery yet in Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/a><\/em>, but why would you want to read that? What if parts of the assumptions are correct? At the end of the day, watching the magic happen on the big screen is much more satisfying than reading about it. Unless of course, you want to be the guy that says, \u201cI knew that was going to happen!\u201d Nobody likes that guy, not even his mom.<\/p>\n

Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/i> is only a couple of weeks away. Patience you must have my young Padawan.<\/p>\n