She doesn’t fall, no. She doesn’t turn evil. But watch that scene again. She closes her eyes. She reaches for the Force. And when she opens her eyes again, she snarls. She beats Kylo Ren back with brute strength and vicious, choppy saber-blows, like Luke used in Return of the Jedi when the Dark Side tempted him. When Ren’s forced to his knees, she circles him with the Dark Side stalk. Daisy Ridley delivers a perfect physical quote of Ray Park’s Darth Maul.”
Here is Part 1. I promise I am getting to the original question 🙂 @corseque & @superkeenstarwarsbean thank you for your patience!
We’ve talked a lot already about how across the saga films, the Force theme has two main iterations in terms of orchestration, tempo, emotional feel, etc. The first is the more meditative, mystical form, and the second is the more militaristic, adventure/heroic form.
We’ve also established that the Force theme is often used to foreshadow events, specifically events that the cosmic will of the Force is intending to bring into being, shaping the fate of the galaxy.
And finally, we’ve seen that the Force theme can apply to many different characters & situations because of the innate flexibility and expansiveness in how the melody is constructed, as well as the rhythm and underlying harmony, and the different ways that JW chooses to orchestrate. It’s built to represent a struggle and striving toward an ultimate climax and resolution. And I believe the Theme is playing out this struggle across all 9 films, as the Force itself is trying to achieve balance.
Let’s get in to the Prequels now. Note: I have mad prequel love. I saw them at a very impressionable age – 16, 19 & 21. It’s very real for me that the OT represents childhood, the PT represents adolescence, and now the ST represents adulthood in all its messy, complicated glory. So I fully acknowledge the flaws inherent in the prequels, I just choose to focus on the good.
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