Rise Of Skywalker's Unique Star Wars Opening Revealed Its Story Problem
The beginning of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was different from previous Star Wars movies, but this uniqueness may have highlighted the real problem with the story. Certainly, it would be fair to say that the reaction to The Rise of Skywalker was somewhat mixed. Story choices throughout played better with some sections of the fandom than others, while it also received mixed reviews from critics and the joint lowest Rotten Tomatoes score for any live-action Star Wars movie. Even so, although it was expected to be more successful at the box office, a gross of $1.074 billion still constitutes a big hit considering the production budget was $275 million.
Following Star Wars’ traditional opening crawl that detailed the return from the dead of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), The Rise of Skywalker began with Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) searching for a Sith Wayfinder. The journey took him across the galaxy to the planet Mustafar, where his grandfather, Darth Vader, had been defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi and where Vader had subsequently been based throughout all the years of the Galactic Empire. This was where Ren discovered the Wayfinder, which then led him into the unknown regions, to the ancient Sith homeworld of Exegol and the resurrected Palpatine.
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What was truly unique about this opening to a Star Wars movie was that, from the end of the title crawl until Kylo Ren reached Exegol, the action took the form of a montage rather than full scenes. Traditionally, montages have been used to convey a lengthy passage of time by using fragments of images to form a shortened whole, most famously utilized in the training sequences of the Rocky movies. This was
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