JJ Abrams directing Star Wars

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oldcatholicguy said:
Kirk starts the movie as an Ensign (pay grade O1) and ends the movie as a Captain (pay grade O6). Rather a major flaw in the script.
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The question was about Abrams as a director. You can’t blame Abrams for the script, he didn’t write it.
 
oldcatholicguy said:
Kirk starts the movie as an Ensign (pay grade O1) and ends the movie as a Captain (pay grade O6). Rather a major flaw in the script.
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I think it is a bit excessive to describe that as a “major flaw”. I look at it this way. A good script needs to do the following things:

— establish the characters and their motivations… the audience needs to have a clear understanding of who these people are, what they want and why they behave the way they do.

— develop some conflict. Without conflict there is nothing to maintain the interest of viewers for two hours. The conflict should ideally be related to the motivations of the characters. In other words the working out of the conflict should allow the characters to be more fully developed as the story progresses.

— provide an ending which is satisfying, yet makes sense in the context of the story. In other words, you can’t have a fairy appear at the last minute and wave a magic wand, thus causing all the villains to disappear and the problems to be solved.

If a script fails to achieve any of these things, that is a major flaw in the script. What you observed about Kirk’s rapid rise is not a major flaw, it’s a minor issue of believability.

Besides, isn’t there some explanation given for his rising so quickly to captain? I haven’t seen the movie recently so I don’t remember.
 
There is an explanation given. Of course in a real life setting such as the military nowadays something like this would never happen. Its very unrealistic. None the less its just a sci-fi movie like I said.
 
oldcatholicguy said:
Kirk starts the movie as an Ensign (pay grade O1) and ends the movie as a Captain (pay grade O6). Rather a major flaw in the script.
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LOL - I didn’t catch that when I was watching the film. If I did, it would have likely killed willful suspension of disbelief. Talk about a piece of fridge logic. “Hey… wasn’t this Captain a cadet two hours ago?”

I don’t much remember the film, but, in the right circumstances, he might have been given a field promotion to lieutenant (in real life, that is).
 
It’s obvious that they should have Han Solo die in the first scene of the movie. It’d be money.
 
GangGreen said:
It’s obvious that they should have Han Solo die in the first scene of the movie. It’d be money.
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I don’t know about the very first scene. Maybe towards the end. 😛

Can you imagine the stress for the screen writer if they were to kill off Han (or Luke or Leia)? Those characters have become nothing short of mythical. I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to kill them off. 😛
 
Han would go out in a blazing glory. If they kill him off it better be cheesy but not bad :p. Luke is easy, he can just die in a epic lightsaber fight like every other important Jedi.
 
Han Solo was boring after Episode 5 in my opinion. If they are bringing him back they better do it right. That said I wouldn’t mind seeing some of the main characters get killed. Of course it has to be for a good reason. :cool:
 
Take it with a grain of salt as there was no link associated with the following Tweet.
Harrison Ford will be back as Han Solo in Episode VII. #NerdHeaven
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Z_Ninja said:
I foresee plenty of epic lens flar… err… lightsaber battles.
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It just so happens that one of the black sashes in our system does just that; he worked on the "Old Republic doing the fight/stunt choreography. 🙂
 
Carrie Fisher has comitted to Eposide VII

mashable.com/2013/03/06/carrie-fisher-princess-leia/
Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, will reprise her role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII, she confirmed to Palm Beach Illustrated.
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Asked point blank whether she’ll be in the next Star Wars film, Fisher answered with a simple “Yes”.
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She goes on to explain how she sees the Princess Leia of today. “Elderly. She’s in an intergalactic old folks’ home [laughs]. I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle,” Fisher said.
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