![]() And we see Finn, appearing terrified, draw a blue lightsaber to fight Ren’s red hilted one. We see Chewbacca, Han Solo, and Finn lower their hands from behind their heads, as if threatened with arrest. Rey cries in one shot, and in another fires a blaster while displaying extreme emotion. Much of the rest of the trailer is a montage of self-evident badassery-dogfights involving the Millennium Falcon, Kylo Ren standing in the rain with other people in dark armor, Storm Troopers making a land assault on what appears to be jungle ruins, X-Wing pilots mustering for action, explosions, flames, Han Solo. Abrams’s Star Trek Into Darkness was too gratuitous in its use of apocalyptic imagery that evoked 9/11. Perhaps incoming: an updated version of film-critic arguments about whether J.J. If entire solar systems are getting exploded on-screen, it raises the stakes considerably, possibly amping the dread levels beyond the Cold War nuclear fears in the originals. The poster published this past weekend had an image of what appeared to be a renovated Death Star, and info on the Star Wars website hints that it might actually be a Starkiller Base, “an ice planet converted into a stronghold of the First Order and armed with a fiercely destructive new weapon capable of destroying entire star systems.” Later in the trailer, there’s indeed a battle at an ice planet with a big trench à la the Death Star. The trailer then cuts to a shot of a forest being engulfed by flames and shockwaves. It’s spoken as Kylo Ren holds his hand out at a screaming Poe Dameron, the X-Wing pilot played by Oscar Isaac. The line about “What you started” is perhaps the most intriguing element of the trailer. If entire solar systems are getting exploded on-screen, it possibly raises the dread levels in the movie beyond the Cold War fears in the originals. “I will finish what you have started.” The trailer cuts between a straight-ahead shot of Ren’s face mask-not unlike the one for Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-and the remnants of Darth Vader’s helmet, offering what seems to be more confirmation that the big bad guy of The Force Awakens is essentially an original-trilogy fanboy. “Nothing will stand in our way,” says a deep, effects-laden voice presumably belonging to Adam Driver. Then comes the popular Halloween costume of next year, Kylo Ren, looking out of the bridge of a starship at some red glowing light in the distance. ![]() ![]() It’s still not clear whether he’s a Storm Trooper who eventually defects or someone who infiltrates the ranks of the Empire First Order, but the rest of the clip does make it seem as though he’s on the side of good. A damaged TIE fighter spirals down to said sand planet, where we next see Finn, sweaty and scared like he looked in last November’s teaser. “I was raised to do one thing, but I’ve got nothing to fight for,” he says. ![]() Next comes the soundbite for the other young protagonist of the film: John Boyega’s Finn, taking off a Storm Trooper helmet but this time while inside a starship rather than lost on a sand dune. “I’m no one” is a reply that doesn’t help answer the question of whether she has Skywalker blood, but it does perhaps give a hint about how she thinks of herself in relation to the wider universe. This (and the rod-like tool she holds) all makes it seem likely that she’s the hooded person in the opening shot, perhaps exploring the downed Star Destroyer revealed in the first teaser. She’s with the cute sphere-and-muffin-top droid BB-8, traveling across sand dunes and then staring wistfully into the distance a la New Hope Luke. The hooded figure climbs around what appears to be abandoned wreckage of a starship, and the “Who are you?” is answered by an English-accented female saying, “I’m no one.” Then we see Rey, the Daisy Ridley character who: 1) got the best real estate on the poster, 2) was recently tipped by the executive producer Kathleen Kennedy as being very important to the movie, 3) and has been described as a “scavenger” on the desert planet of Jakku. Why So Many Americans Don’t Talk About Money Joe Pinsker
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