En av de största vattendelarna i modern tid hamnade återigen på tapeten i en intervju med GQ där Rian Johnson pratade igenom sina mest ikoniska filmögonblick och Star Wars: The Last Jedi verkar bli något som kommer följa regissören livet ut. På gott och ont.
"For me, everything in the movie is Star Wars, and everything in the movie I can trace back to deeply, in a deep way, what Star Wars is for me. Everyone has a different take. I know there are Star Wars fans who somehow think that Star Wars was a serious thing, like the Batman movies or something. I was so young that when I watched Empire Strikes Back, it had this deep, profound impact on me, because it was terrifying, because I was just young enough to not experience it as watching a Star Wars movie, but to have it feel like too real."
Rian nämner specifikt två ögonblick i originalfilmerna och påpekade exempelvis hur Han Solo i Return of the Jedi försökte blåsa ut flammorna i samband med att Ewokerna försökte steka honom över öppen eld.
"Anyone who thinks that slightly goofy humor does not have a place in the Star Wars universe, I don't know if they've seen Return of The Jedi. Even the first movie, they're in the heart of the Death Star and they're trying to do this desperate gambit to get out with their lives and save the princess, where they're pretending that Chewbacca is their prisoner. The little imperial droid comes up, Chewbacca roars at it, and the droid, like a scared dog"
Han fortsatte även med att gå in i detalj kring sin approach när han filmade The Last Jedi.
"It's not very interesting to just think in a meta way about Star Wars. At the same time, you're dealing with a story that's about heroes, and about a younger generation meeting their heroes, and a generation that is now the older generation of heroes dealing with being role models for the younger generation, and still being human beings with faults and foibles. And somebody who has the role of a legend but who feels fallible as a human being, by the end of the movie realizing the value that that legend has, and realizing their place is to step up and be that for the younger generation. When you're dealing with all of these things, the legends that we grew up, that I grew up with, was the characters in Star Wars. If I think about the thing in my life that's been the most consistent thing of that, it is these movies. And again, anyone who makes a Star Wars movie today is in some way gonna be engaging with their relationship with Star Wars itself."
Har Rian en poäng i vad han säger och förändrar detta dina åsikter kring filmen?
Smaskens!