Why the Music in The Rise of Skywalker Felt Misleading
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Published 2020-04-30
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I really cannot recommend this podcast enough, they go over EVERYTHING in (and everything that isn't in) TROS and they go into just so much detail about every aspect of the musical themes
Please go give them a listen
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As always, Dr. Lehman's Star Wars Leitmotif Catalogue, even if you're a casual Star Wars fan you owe it to yourself to check it out
franklehman.com/starwars/
Just another great resource for the themes in TROS
www.filmmusicnotes.com/new-themes-and-their-meanin…
All Comments (21)
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They should've used the "lifting vehicles out of water" theme when Palpatine lifts the destroyer.
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Rey: Buries Anakin’s lightsaber in the sand on Tatooine where he was enslaved and his mother died Anakin: >:|
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"Why the music in the Rise Of Skywalker felt misleading" Sideways said calmly.
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Very upsetting fact: John Williams got nominated for Best Original Score for the sequels, but was completely snubbed for the prequels.
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You can’t blame John Williams for the music in this movie, because he had to create music for a movie that didn’t even know its own plot
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"Cashing in on nostalgia" is the motto of modern day Disney.
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Every time he goes "huHMMMMMMM?!?!" He just sounds like a really frustrated Yoda, and I love it. It's like Yoda is channeling himself through Sideways and roasting the misuse of motifs.
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Dude, you miss the point. It’s not the force theme, it’s the HORSE theme. That’s while it plays when they’re riding space horses.
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“We should use yoda’s theme” “Is that a good idea” “Yeah the fans will love it” Basically the entire sequel trilogy
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Rey doesn’t deserve the title of Skywalker. She still has all four limbs
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Honestly, "Leia used the Force to let Han talk to Ben and she died because that drained her" actually makes sense. And it probably wasn't even what they intended.
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Something that hit me after rewatching this video: Not even Cats made Sideways as angry as this movie. What an accomplishment.
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"Rey lookin for Horcruxes" Would explain basically everything about the movie
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To be fair, Lando is the Star Wars character who's the most likely to have a secret child...
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This guy did a better job of telling me why the yoda music matters than the movie telling me why or how palpatine came back
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I'm sure John Williams is really happy he specifically wrote a theme for lifting vehicles out of the water.
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I have never heard Sideways get this angry, I'm scared...
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Rey buried the SkyWalker lightsaber at the place Luke was trying to escape his whole life, in the thing that Anakin hated the most.
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Knowing that John Williams did a new take on Duel of the Fates and it is locked away for no one to hear to me is the fucking heart breaking.
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Pointing all this out to someone who didn’t realize all these mistakes, just makes the music extremely 4th wall breaking because you realize the music is used for the audience, not for the story. It’s almost perfect for the Disney trilogy because it’s the end goal they had in mind, like you said Disney was making movies in response to audience reaction. They only made movies to bring in the Star Wars nostalgia audience. Not to make a cohesive trilogy.
