J.J. ABRAM'S "THE FORCE AWAKENS" COMMENTARY

Transcripts of a few portions of J.J. Abrams's audio commentary for STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS. Has some nifty stuff, I guess.

>"The character of Kylo Ren was one of the most challenging characters because he sort of embodied what this movie was. It was a new story, a new personality created from the DNA of what had come before. But because he was the villain it meant that he was in the shadow of Darth Vader, one of the great villains in cinema history. So we embraced Vader. We made our bad guy aware of Vader, as he would be living in a post-Vader time and made him the son of Leia Organa and Han Solo. And in doing so, continued another STAR WARS tradition of having really screwed up families. We actually used to have more dialogue in this scene where he referenced his father and his mother. But it ended up seeming too soon. But we wanted to show how ruthless he is, which we do here. Not just in the killing of Lor San Tekka but also in his freezing of the blast. We wanted to show that he was the real deal. That he was incredibly Force-strong."

Apologize

>watching audio commentary of a childrens movie

>"But something we’ve not seen before in a STAR WARS movie is a stormtrooper acting with compassion. When we were talking about the characters that we wanted to tell the story about, we had Rey, we had Kylo Ren, Poe and Finn. Larry had an idea early on, “What if there’s a stormtrooper who went rogue?” And I just loved this idea. And so having a character that was marked. I figured if we had him marked in the blood of someone he’s lost… Which immediately tells you, “Oh, they’re all humans in there. These aren’t robots.” Because I remember as a kid thinking they were robots. And to have body language and a stormtrooper behaving in a way that showed there was something else going on."

>We wanted to show that he was the real deal. That he was incredibly Force-strong."
yet he has one (1) force push in him during the final battle and gets wrecked by a fucking girl

>"But this is John Boyega who was wonderful in Joe Cornish’s ATTACK THE BLOCK. If you haven’t seen it. I recommend that you do. But John is an amazing actor. He’s a wonderful guy, incredibly versatile and really funny. Super funny."

>I thought they were robots.
>luke and han wear their suits.

JJ's retarded

I'm sorry that you sold out for $4 billion, i would have done the same, but talking shit after that fact is not ok.

>"The idea here was that Rey is this desert scavenger, solitary and resourceful. And Daisy Ridley, who came in to audition, blew our minds the second that we met her. And she came in again and again doing different sometimes more intense scenes. She came in, I think, the second time and read the torture scene. And she was just, every single time, remarkable and reliable and the greatest at taking notes. And I can’t tell you how much I love her and love working with her. She’s just spectacular."

>"We wanted to show, you know, the first time that Rey speaks, she speaks this other language. She’s obviously not afraid. She shuts-up the annoying BB-8. She has the greatest hairstyle I’ve ever seen. But when we were doing this we wanted to show how strong she was and defient and wise. That she had learned other languages, that she can speak droid."

>"Adam Driver was the idea of Kathy Kennedy. Not that Adam Driver was the idea of Kathy Kennedy. For this movie, it was her idea. I mean, he existed prior. But she brought him up, and we immediately thought, “Oh my God, this guy would be amazing.” We saw some other actors, some great actors, partly to keep an open mind and partly because we didn’t know if Adam would be available because he was on a series at the time. And Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham, I owe a debt of graditude because they worked hard to unleash him from the shackles of television. So this was one of the first times that Adam was wearing the costume. And it was just incredibly hard to wear and to see and to exist in. And Adam would just go into these fantastic rages. Not at anyone, just sort of… It’s his process. But I loved the guy, and working with Adam was one of my highlights of my professional career."

talking shit about disney? when he was right?

>"My favourite thing about this sequence is that these two disparate characters, the stormtrooper who was in trouble and turmoil and a pilot who’s in prison, come together and their relationship is suddenly galvanized. They’ve just gone through something so epic and so important, and you just know their friendship is forever. The idea was that Finn had been so dehumaninised by the First Order… And it’s their friendship. It’s Poe giving him a proper name that just shows Finn that he’s important and that he matters."

The way she acts and sounds in this scene is EXACTLY like emilia clarke speaking whatever the fuck on game of thrones.


Cringey as fucking shit.

>"The idea between these two characters was that on the left you have Kylo Ren, who was the Force power and aspect of the First Order, and on the right you have the sort of teacher’s pet, General Hux, this very young general who, clearly, is a warmonger and a strategist. And they’re sort of at odds because one is more of a spiritual power and one is a more intellectual power."

>"This shot, actually, was meant to be used later. If you look when Hux looks to the right, that was when Kylo Ren used to enter. And it’s a scene that continues that you’ll see later. I changed it because I wanted to see that Hux was trying to figure Finn out. He was trying to study and understand how this could have happen. How this soldier of his could walk away from the First Order. And this was actually an important thing for me in a story. I wanted there to be this character who not just abandoned, but did so because of integrity, there was a sort of righteousness to his leaving. He knew what he was being asked to do was wrong. And my wishful thinking was that people who know they’re in a dangerous and wrong situation might even subconsciously remember that they’ve seen it before and that Finn walked away from the First Order because he knew it was wrong and maybe they will too."

>"So this next shot was the continuation of that other scene where Hux looked over. And this scene was meant to show that there was conflict occurring even within the First Order, much like there had been those who doubted Vader, and it made the reality of the Empire that much more interesting. The idea that was the spiritual versus the strategic."

>"Originally, when I thought of Poe, I thought he would seem to die here and come back later, but then, when Larry and I wrote the script, we just killed him. And it was Michelle Rejwan, co-producer of the movie, who said, “You know, Poe used to live, you could have Poe live again.” And I was like, “No, no,no. I think you see it coming.” She’s like, “ Yeah, yeah, but it’s really happy. And the movie needs something happy at that point.” So I called Oscar and said, “All right, you live.” And he agreed to be in the movie."

>"When we first started shooting, we hadn’t really figured out the proper dynamic between Finn and Rey. It was much more contentious, and so in this first scene where they come together, it just didn’t work, and that was what we shot originally in Abu Dhabi, and so we ended up reshooting their entire first conversation, because we needed to change their dynamic. Originally, they were much more angry at each other. And truthfully, it wasn’t working. Originally in this scene, Finn revealed that he was a stormtrooper. And in this scene she had never heard of Luke Skywalker. Which didn’t really make sense because later she’s heard of Han Solo and she’s been wearing the Rebellion helmet. So the idea was that her life was so isolated and so sad and so without hope that the most optimistic thing, Luke Skywalker himself, was nothing but a myth, and the idea is that Finn brings this hope to her. Also this really fun concoction that Finn is lying to her, that his truth that he’s actually a stormtrooper is being covered up with this lie about being with the Resistance, which allows for that great moment for Daisy to sort of fall for this guy. “Whose’s this daring, brave, good man?” But, of course, he’s lying. And she’s so lost in her own life that even when she hears the name Luke Skywalker, here, she doesn’t even believe it’s real. And changing their relationship and their attitudes and what they tell each other, I think helped enormously, in sort of bringing forward this sweetness and the kind of relatability that these characters needed."

>"And this was a bit more combative between the two of them, which was tracking the original conceit of their relationship. But it worked in this moment because they are in such an urgent life-and-death situation."

Is there a point spending $50 and buying this special edition of TFA when I already own the first blu ray release?

Or should I rather buy the new Mad Max box set which comes with Fury Road in Black and white? I think I will do that.

>"So, in this moment, she feels she might have lost Finn, which is meaningful to her. And when he wakes up, he asks her, “ Are you okay?” Which no one has ever asked her. And now she extends her hand to him. And now they’re friends."

>"Finn knew he could fire a blaster. But not until his experience with Poe did he get the confidence to fire these laser cannons. And Rey, who’s grown up here, a sort of worthless scavenger, suddenly realises that her experience in this place is going to give her an insight that will help them escape. This moment coming up, where Rey makes this turn and Finn fires at the TIE fighter and destroys it, was again, all about their relationship, their rhythm, their timing, how well they work together. She does this, so he could do this. And, again, thanks to everyone’s work, including John Williams, these two characters are now bonded forever, as well."

Since when are the stormtroopers robots in A New Hope?

I as a kid knew they were humans and not robots at all.

Very true

>"So, this scene wasn’t like it was on the original draft. We changed it after we felt that the original relationship wasn’t really working. They needed this kind of excitement. This kind of joy and bonding. And they simply weren’t having the kind of fun that felt appropriate, and I rewrote this scene so that they would have a little bit more of that kind of buoyant energy and where they would get to meet and have a sweet moment."

>Fake changes and improvisation
It was all planned out and studied and turned around ten times over and finally decided, and I assure you no one deviated from what was decided.

wish i was living with rey inside the atat
we could just hang out and not be lonely

>"And now we go to this scene, where we actually get a very different side of Kylo Ren. Where we see how unlike Vader he is. How tempestuous he is. How uncontrolled he is. We were really throwing sparks his way. I think the moment I actually just fell in love with Adam Driver was in his timing of this line. “Anything else?” This is the moment of course where Kylo Ren learns about Rey. And now, these two disparate pieces come together."

>Larry had an idea early on, “What if there’s a stormtrooper who went rogue?” And I just loved this idea.
So the one piece of originality in TFA wasnt thought of by JJ?

Really makes you think

>"And this whole idea of going back to Jakku, it’s sort of this throwaway thing, but it was really important to me. It was interesting, when I was working with Larry, it wasn’t as important to him, and I’m sure for a good reason. But for some reason, I needed to know that she expected to and wanted to go back. And this idea that she won’t share with him here is, of course, because she feels like the only belonging she’s ever going to have is her family and if she leaves she’ll never get a chance to see them. So there was a very powerful idea that what she desperately wanted was belonging, which she’ll get, but just not how she expects."

Jakku is the most lonliest shithole.

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...

>"We originally shot Adam Driver with his mask off, that he had the first scene with Snoke with his mask off, and we ended up putting it on in post. So, the mask you see in this shot is actually a CG mask that was added later. So, here’s the moment, where Supreme Leader Snoke doubts that Kylo Ren is strong enough to resist the overture of love from his father. And it’s the first time you see that Kylo Ren might even have some self-doubt. He’s trying to defend himself, but Snoke is not convinced."

Huh strange because when watching the movie.. I never thought of these scenes like this.

The way JJ just described it actually made me care more for the characters.

A shame his direction wasnt as good as it sounds on paper.

>"So, this scene is not about strategy or military might. This is just about crisis. Kylo Ren is doubting his own strenght. And the key for this scene is to set up an uncertainty as to what will happen when the inevitable occurs when Kylo Ren and Han Solo face off. What’s important here is the struggle, the internal struggle that Kylo Ren is experiencing, that he’s not sure. And he’s begging his grandfather for help, for strength, for power. He wants to succeed where his grandfather failed."

One of the best scenes. I want more Snoke.

>"So, like I mentioned earlier, you know, Finn used to reveal to Rey at the very beginning that he was a stormtrooper. It’s still something she doesn’t know. And in this scene where he asks her to go, this was, I think, the third iteration of the scene that we were shooting with them, because we were trying to find the right dynamic between the two of them, not just how they meet and how they are friends, but how they separate. And we’re building up to their big goodbye."

>"This scene, too, was reshot while we were in post. And we did it because this was the moment where we needed to learn Finn’s story, that he was taken as a baby, raised to be a soldier, but he knows it’s wrong. The key to this scene was to allow Finn to be embracing his decision to find a strenght in his intention to not go back to the First Order, to not get involved in that group again. The earlier version of this scene had a Finn that was much weaker, much more in retreat, unsure, afraid. We wanted Finn to own his decision, to have the intention of someone choosing not to be part of this any more, not to get involved in the First Order, a group he knows all too well. So, he’s saying, “Come with me and let’s get away,” and she’s saying, “Come with me and let’s fight.” So, they can’t stay together."

>"And the idea of this scene is she’s drawn to something and you don’t know quite what it is. And we soon discover that what she’s drawn to is the Force. But in this scene she is drawn to this place, almost like Cinderella. And she goes to this box, which, when she opens, she discovers something that, of course, has no meaning to her. She’s never seen this before. Doesn’t know what it is, but has meaning to the audience. Touching the lightsaber triggers, what we called, the Forceback. There were many iterations of this. In one, from this Cloud City corridor, she looked down and saw Vader fighting Luke, which we ended up cutting. We wanted it to be a more personal story, something that she couldn’t comprehend that was overwhelming to her, frightening to her. That was taking her through all these elemental experiences of fire, of rain, snow, wind. But, also that she was being confronted with truths about the Force, about the past, the Knights of Ren here, the past for herself. She realises the cries that she heard were actually her own cries as a young girl being taken away from her family. And then she hears a voice. “Rey” And that’s Obi-Wan Kenobi.”

I can't read anymore. I didn't think this movie could get any worse. Now, I see that I was wrong.

>"Maz is telling Rey what she needs to hear, which is, “Stop trying to go home, it’s not right, it’s a waste. And that the belonging you seek is not behind you, it’s ahead.” And this is the thing that she can’t accept right now. The idea that she has anything to do with this man that she thought was a myth just this morning, and now here she is being told that his destiny is somehow tied into her choices and her actions. So, when Maz asks her to close her eyes and to feel it and to let it in, she’s not just setting up the moment at the end, when Rey is battling Kylo Ren, but she’s also telling her to stop looking and stop trying to understand and just feel and it is that great lesson of the Force. But she can’t do it. She’s not ready. She can’t take it in."

>"This whole location of Maz’s, of course, mirrors the cantina from A NEW HOPE, as this Starkiller Base mirrors the Death Star. These were the kind of locations that felt like a given in STAR WARS. For example, we looked at it like a western or a fairy tale. What are the elements that you’re going to see that makes it this genre, this specific genre? And clearly, in a western, you’re going to have the dusty main street, the saloon. You’re going to have cowboys. You’re going to have the bad guy, who’s probably dressed in black. You’re probably going to have a castle, and a prince and a princess, if you’re looking at a fairy tale. We wanted to give these sort of, fundamental, not cosmetic, but, sort of, prerequisite elements. These locations in which we can set our new story and our new characters."

>"Watch Domhnall Gleeson in this moment. He just kills it. I was behind the camera, just going “Holy Crap!”

>"One of the new relationships that we were focusing on was between Kylo Ren and Rey. They’ve never met but he’s heard of this girl. And so, now comes a moment when their meeting is inevitable. And now we’re back to our heroine. And this moment where she is about to, for the first time, be confronted by Kylo Ren, a character who she’s going to have a very interesting relationship with moving forward. The takes we have of Adam Driver being unable to see in that mask and tripping over these rocks, I think, it just added to the rage that he used in the character. It really is a very specific kind of talent to be able to perform a character when your face is completely hidden. His body language was very specific."

>"So the idea here is that Kylo Ren’s gotten inside of Rey’s head, sees that she has seen the map and is now letting go of the droid as his goal, and focusing just on her. And clearly you think, well he must be able to just extract the information he wants now. But because he’s taken her, you get a sense that there might be something else going on here."

>"This scene, like many in the film,was actually shot twice. And the scene as it lives now is a kind of amalgam of the two versions. In fact, if you watch their performances, you see the backgrounds shift a bit throughout the scene. You’re watching two parents grappling over an incredibly difficult child. And, I think, that’s a very relatable parental conversation. To see it between Han and Leia, I think, was particularly interesting. And you just see how what happened with their son, Ben, it really ripped them apart. When Leia mentions Supreme Leader Snoke, you realise that they are aware of this figure that is responsible for seducing their son over to the dark side. And you realise that Han has been on the run trying to get away from this this whole time. And in this moment, Leia implores Han not to give up again. To do anything he can to save their son."

>"The torture scene was the audition scene that Daisy did the second time that she came in to read for the movie. And she blew my mind. I mean, she was just so emotional. She just was spot-on. And because we used to have Kylo Ren take the mask off in the original version, both in front of Snoke and privately with the Vader mask, and we changed both of those. This now becomes the first time that you see who’s behind the mask. And because of Vader, I think you expect him to need the mask. That, like Vader, it’s some kind of breathing apparatus, some sort of necessity. But when his mask comes off, you see Adam Driver, and he just looks like a sort of prince. And it makes no sense. Why would he wear a mask? That shot, by the way, was originally shot for the scene where he talks to the Vader mask when he took it off. The idea was those are the ashes of his victims. But the question of why he wears the mask was answered in his insecurity. That he was involved with the Knights of Ren, which we have a whole backstory for. But the idea that he was using that mask for intimidation, that he, like many terrorists, is a coward, and he’s someone who’s hiding, who’s trying to scare you. And he knows that what you don’t see is more frightening. And I think he’s also got a little bit of a Vader wish, that he’s trying to emulate his grandfather."

TELL ME ABOUT KYLO WHY WOULD HE WEAR A MASK?

If I take that off, will he be a prince?

>"Daisy just has this remarkable ability to turn on that emotion. And she did it take after take, which I’m sure is exhausting. He’s talking about this ocean, this island. This thing that she imagines when she’s back at home on Jakku. And this is a setup, this island is the thing that she arrives, at the end of the movie. The notion being this wish fulfillment was always in her, that she always knew this inevitability. So the two of them, working together in this scene… It was fun to imagine what kind of sounds there would be. And if you listen to what Gary Rydstrom and Matt Wood did for this scene, the kind of sounds of the Force power between the two of them... here’s kind of this war going on.This battle. It reminded me a little bit of SCANNERS, the David Cronenberg film, at the end between Cameron and Darryl Revok, a scanner battle. You should watch this scene without the audio, because you’ll see it just has much less impact and none of the power that it does with this audio, this music. Her theme starts to come in here pushing back. Not only is she not allowing him to get into her head but she gets into his. And, of course, she hits his insecurity right on the head. And not only is he completely freaked out that she is so strong with the Force, but she realises that thing that Maz Kanata talked about is strong in her too."

>"This used to be the second scene with Snoke where Ren was unmasked, but now it’s the first one. Now, Ren is still trying to get Snoke to give him a shot, but Snoke is saying no. Basically, “I don’t trust you any more, I’ve got to do the job.”"

>"The idea is that Rey is desperately trying to use this Force power that she just experienced with Kylo Ren and on the dim minds of a typical stormtrooper. She just feels that she could possibly, having just been in such a powerful mind, could overpower a weak one."

>"This scene between Han and Leia, like so many, we shot two times. And we wanted to make it more of a quiet understanding, that this was the last time they will see each other. There used to be a moment when Han said, “There’s something I wanted to tell you since I left.” She stops him and she says, “Tell me when you get back.” And it just was too on the nose. Too clearly a sense that they both knew this was a goodbye. Instead we just have this sweet moment. And he takes her into his arms."

>like many terrorists, is a coward
le terrorists are cowards meme

stop projecting americunts

>"The premise for Rey that she was always staying on Jakku, because all she ever wanted was for someone to come back for her and she ends up getting it through Finn. And it just means so much to her. That exchange, ”How did you get away?” We actually added, “I can’t explain it,” because we liked the idea that she was nowhere near a master. But we didn’t have that on the day, we added that in post."

>"Again, moments like this with Adam, where he was wearing this mask, but he’s still able to convey a sense of drama and determination through his body language was great to watch."

>"I will say that shooting this scene was a very tricky thing. I think that both Harrison and Adam brought quite a lot to it. I think, their own personal baggage came to this. I think, the idea of killing Han Solo was a crazy, painful idea. And the truth is, because Harrison had been injured early in the shoot, despite his full recovery, I hated the idea of seeing him vulnerable at all. So, this was hard, I think, for everyone to do, even though we knew it was essential and necessary. People have asked me if I think that Kylo Ren was just playing with him the whole time, if he meant to kill him from the beginning. And the truth is, I think that Kylo Ren in this moment is actually being convinced to walk away from this. Snoke is, as Han says, using him. And I think that somewhere Ben knows this. But I think that he can’t accept it deep down. He has gone too far. We were working on this scene quite a bit, trying to find the right rhythm. And it was actually Jon Kasdan, Larry’s son, who helped us with this. And I think really helped us get to a place where there was a lot of emotion, but also this raw uncertainty of what was going to happen. But I don’t think that in this moment this is a put on. I think that Ben is legitimately going to give up. But then, the idea was that in this moment, where he’s taking the lightsaber and offering it to him as a gesture, the sun finally is drained from the sky. And you see the light go away. And now they’re in this darkness. And darkness takes over. And as if this moment isn’t disturbing enough, he pushes the saber further in and says these terrifying two words. “Thank You.” In Kylo’s mind, what he has just done seals the deal. It’s the ultimate proof to Snoke that he is to be trusted, that he will not be seduced by the light. And I think, the instant that he’s done it, he regrets it."

>"And in another system across the galaxy, his mother feels it too. This established idea that Leia is also strong with the Force has always been fascinating to me. Clearly she took another path, and training with the Force was not her thing. But I have always felt that Leia had the same potential that Luke did."

>"So, of course, Kylo Ren thinks that Finn is a traitor. Listen. See? And he, of course could throw him as well. He could grab the lightsaber with his Force power, but there’s something about this moment that Kylo Ren just feels like he wants to make him hurt. He doesn’t want to make it easy and make it fast. So, he just fights back. And Finn has some moves and there’s a little bit of it. But Ren will have none of it. What I wanted to do in this sequence was have a very rough, unprofessional fight. These are people who whatever their training, it was not graceful training. It was not choreographed training. It didn’t feel like a dance. I wanted it to feel like it was seat-of-your-pants, rough-around-the-edges battling."

>"This moment that’s about to happen, when the lightsaber goes flying past Kylo Ren into Rey’s hand was Bryan Burk’s idea. We were working very early on in development of the script. And he had this thought, “What if the saber just races right past Ren, whose’s reaching for it, and it goes into Rey’s hands?” I think my favourite thing about it, besides the sound effects and the music, is that Daisy is playing this amazing shock that she’s holding this thing, the thing that she said she’d never touch again. But more than that, it’s this moment of acceptance, that this thing that we all knew was going to happen is now something she’s accepting too."

>"I also showed this film, an early cut to my friend Ava DuVernay, and she had a bunch of great suggestions. One of them was that she really wanted to see Daisy, in her attack on Ren coming up, to have one really cool moment. I’ll show you the shot that we ended up getting, per her suggestion. But we always had this moment, from when we shot it originally. And this used to be where she called him a monster and then pushed back. But, instead we reshot this and had her take this moment of hearing the Force and thinking about what Maz had told her about closing her eyes and letting it in. And so she has this incredibly internal moment that is sort of extended in, kind of, movie time, where she basically feels it, accepts it, and is now ready to kick his ass."

You're right, they should be portrayed as the heroes they are

>"While Chloé did a lot of the fighting in the movie as well, most of what you’re seeing here is Daisy. There are a handful of shots with a stunt double, but I have to tip my hat to these two actors for really working so incredibly hard over many, many days. The idea that Rey takes down Ren was something that we knew we wanted to do, but the question became, “Now what? Does she do the very non-Jedi thing and kill him off? Does she do the thing that would be unsatisfying, which is just let him go?” So, we thought, “Well, the planet’s ripping apart.” So, Larry and I decided what if the two of them, in this kind of, operatic moment, actually get separated and the decision is taken away from them and left for another time."

>"And this moment tells you that Kylo Ren will live on in some form, that Hux has been tasked to go get Kylo Ren and bring him to Snoke, which we used to see a portion of. And I ended up losing it because it was, once again, something that didn’t feel necessary."

Is this on the bluray?

>"And now, here in the quiet, you think these two friends are going to perish together. And then a light shows up. And it’s one of her friends."

Thank god he turned out good. Star Wars has been lacking in good villains since Vader and Palpatine.

>"But this moment, I think, is actually lovely and the idea that these two women who’d never met knew of each other, and they’re both Force-strong and they’re both bound by their loss and their strength."

>"Rey, all she wanted in the beginning was companionship, friendship, belonging, and the idea that she’s met people who would sacrifice themselves for her with their lives, human and otherwise, is the happy ending for Rey, even though this is a very open-ended story."

>"And speaking of honoured, this was something I’d been looking forward to the entire experience. Was the moment when we would finally get to see Luke Skywalker. We were shooting this scene and I had my phone, and I pulled up the "Binary Sunset" theme, and played it. And was almost brought to tears by the power of being there with Mark Hamill in this role. And Daisy, who like Rey, had come from this sweet and humble place and was now quite literally carrying the torch for this saga. And her face here, this moment, where she’s reaching out to him and finds a strenght and a determination. And Luke, who looks at her, just knowing what it means to accept this plea to come back and help. And we leave them here until EPISODE VIII."

Ren was his idea and he was the best thing about TFA.

>I figured if we had him marked in the blood of someone he’s lost… Which immediately tells you, “Oh, they’re all humans in there. These aren’t robots.” Because I remember as a kid thinking they were robots. And to have body language and a stormtrooper behaving in a way that showed there was something else going on.

To me this actually worked, which made all of the later scenes where stormtroopers are wantonly slaughtered, sometimes for comic relief, very unsatisfying to watch. Even JJ's successes are fuck ups.

I don't think he meant that literally, retard.

>Reeeeeeeeeeee just admit you fucked up by having her ignore Chewy
>Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

He did. Gotta give him credit for that. Not even Lucas had the balls to admit anything.

I think you'll find that he admitted to going a bit too far in a few places.

George Washington was a coward :)

I think Lucas is more the exception than the norm.

Lucas is a load of old shit.

>what this movie was. It was a new story
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Even though he admitted it was a mistake, one could argue Chewie ignored Leia because he was pissed off at her for making Han confront their psychopathic son.

>And my wishful thinking was that people who know they’re in a dangerous and wrong situation might even subconsciously remember that they’ve seen it before and that Finn walked away from the First Order because he knew it was wrong and maybe they will too."
Holy shit JJ is delusional.

Any comments on Kojima references?

...

JJ is the directing hero we deserve.

fuckyou forever for ruining star wars with your autism.

3D Collector's Edition re-release

>shitty rip off of vader who gets defeated by the main character in the first movie they appear in
What a fantastic contribution.

"Jar Jar is the key to all this"

fucking jew jew abrams

He meant they were metaphorical robots? Then why does the blood matter?

>rip off of vader
I don't think you've actually seen the film, user.

Because it's the first time the audience as well as a character is shown stormtrooper blood.

>sith
>mask
>actually working for a bigger bad guy
>loves torture
>familial connection to the main cast
Yeah no similarities whatsoever here guys.

But if he just meant they were metaphorical robots why would that matter? He obviously meant he thought they were real robots, why do you have to lie?

Does it matter that he bleeds, we don't even know the guy. It humanized him a bit but there still isn't any reason to give a crap about just another stormtrooper.

I can see how a very young kid would imagine them as robots, especially when there's other robots in the film made of the same cheap looking plastic that's supposed to be metal.

Ren is not Sith, nor is he anything like Vader. If you actually watched the film you'd know Ren is vulnerable, insecure, and totally not in control. Unlike Vader, Ren is tormented by the call of the light, the memory of his parents. The guy has psychotic fits and likes to talk to his grandfather's helmet. He's nothing like Vader except for his appearance alone.

>He obviously meant he thought they were real robots, why do you have to lie?
Not that same user but how exactly did he make it obvious he thought they were literal robots. Does he ever refer to them at metal machines?

I had a friend once tell me some stormies were robots while others were human. He might have been referring to dark troopers though.