It opens with some boring pilot asking for permission to land on a ship that looks like a half-eaten donut, with a donut hole in the middle.” 1Īdmittedly, the seemingly bland and uninspired opening of Menace doesn’t pack quite the same punch as A New Hope’s and instead leaves one feeling a little underwhelmed, to say the least. The man behind Red Letter Media’s enormously popular video reviews of the prequel trilogy, Mike Stoklasa, probably summed up the feelings that many Star Wars fans had when they saw this for the first time, particularly those who’d waited 16 long years, since 1983’s Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, for Menace: “From the very start of I could tell something was really wrong just by the way it started. Now compare this to the opening of Star Wars: Episode I -The Phantom Menace (1999): The signature opening title crawl slowly disappears into infinity, we pan down, a small spaceship travels quickly past the camera, and then … lands. This is, of course, the opening of Star Wars: Episode IV-A New Hope (1977), arguably one of the most famous opening shots in cinema history, and rightfully so. It’s a masterful example of visual storytelling. What’s more, the single continuous shot (it lasts about 30 seconds) illustrates both the film’s basic storyline, a small band of Rebels fight an evil galactic empire against overwhelming odds, and one of its central themes, the indomitable nature of the human spirit-all without uttering a single line of dialogue. Suddenly, a tiny Rebel ship flies overhead, pursued, a few moments later, by an Imperial Star Destroyer-an impossibly large ship that nearly fills the frame as it goes on and on seemingly forever. The camera pans down to reveal a large planet and its two moons. The famous yellow letters of the opening text crawl slowly recede into the vastness of space. George Lucas, Vanity Fair, February 2005 But when they do, they will find it’s a much more intricately made clock than most people would imagine. The interesting thing about Star Wars-and I didn’t ever really push this very far, because it’s not really that important-but there’s a lot going on there that most people haven’t come to grips with yet.
How George Lucas used an ancient technique called “ring composition” to reach a level of storytelling sophistication in his six-part saga that is unprecedented in cinema history. Octoby Mike Klimo | Star Wars RING THEORY: The Hidden Artistry of the Star Wars Star wars ring theory You must unlearn what you have learned about a galaxy far, far away.
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