It has begun. For anyone thinking that a Star Wars movie could go by without people online geeking out about every little part….it’s obvious you haven’t been paying attention all these years. There have been Star Wars diehards that have been memorizing serial numbers of vehicles in the movies, noticing every little detail about every last frame of the movies, and seeking to tear down every last moment of the movies for decades. In fact there are some folks that could tell you down to the second when one person enters a room and why it’s significant. That’s how technical the fans can get, and that’s how overbearing they can be when it comes to the facts and every little nuance of the movies. But to be fair, this one moment that a fan happened to notice in the Rise of Skywalker trailer is, as Ana Dumaraog of ScreenRant puts it, a little bit interesting. After all this isn’t something that a person would need to watch the movie multiple times, frame by frame, to find. You’d just have to be paying attention in order to see how Kylo Ren’s cape is present on his physical body, but not in his reflection.
As Alex McLevy of AV Club has said, with a lot of Star Wars fans it’s an all or nothing attitude that doesn’t really allow them to take anything less than the very best when it comes to cinematography, plot, characters, and, well, pretty much anything that has to do with Star Wars. It’s true that this scene does have a major faux pas that even the casual fan could notice if it was pointed out. But if you’re going to be honest the majority of your attention isn’t typically focused on the reflection of one of the fighters, it’s on the battle that’s taking place on a long, worn piece of metal framing that’s floating on a tumultuous surface that looks ready to rise up and sweep both combatants away at any moment. And all the while they’re still going at it, lightsabers swinging furiously as they work to gain the edge against each other. The mounting tension between Rey and Kylo has been ongoing since The Force Awakens, and if all rumors are correct it’s going to culminate in this movie as the Skywalker line comes to an end and the original story finally buttons itself up.
TIL: Kylo Ren’s cape is completely computer-generated. Look closely at his reflection. from StarWars
It can be a bit irritating when a noticeable flaw in a movie is so blatant that one has to wonder why the director didn’t fix it before moving on to the next stage. But given how much is going on in these movies it’s hard to really say whether they caught this or not, or if they noticed it and decided that it was negligible enough that people wouldn’t think twice about it. Obviously they were wrong on that count if that’s what happened since a fan did happen to notice and has since spread it to the entire internet. Anyone remember the days when a mistake getting noticed was something to laugh off instead of showing to the world in an effort to have little to no effect. It’s almost as though ‘fans’ are at this point trying to undermine the movie already by being super picky and pointing out every glaring error they can find. The funny thing is that if someone were to say that they like Star Wars for the story and aren’t extremely picky when it comes to mistakes, they might be labeled as a casual fan and not know that much about the franchise.
Raise your hand if you’ve ever met one of those fans, the type that will gladly throw their smug lexicon of Star Wars knowledge in your face and wonder how anyone could not know everything there is to know about Star Wars or its inner workings. It’s all well and good to be a fan, a superfan, or a casual fan, but too often in the past few years those fans that are absolute diehards that seem to enjoy watching a movie frame by frame to capture every little mistake are becoming somewhat troublesome. There’s nothing to be done about it really since everyone enjoys the movie on their own terms and posts such as the one above are easy enough to ignore. There’s not even a ‘but’ coming, it’s just the way it is since Star Wars fans are about as diverse as they get considering that we tend to come from every walk of life and are spread out across multiple generations. The upcoming movie is going to be the last for a while it sounds like according Christopher Palmeri and Emily Chang from Bloomberg, so you can imagine that once episode 9 is released and up for review that we’re going to be hearing one story after another of how things could have gone differently. Here’s a helpful hint if you want to just enjoy the story, ignore the majority of posts about it.
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