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George Lucas likens it to poetry in the video below (excerpted from a The Phantom Menace documentary): There’s actually a tradition of purposely making shots like this look similar to one another that was carried through all of the first six Star Wars films. Not only that, but consider this: Daisy Ridley’s Rey is similar in color and build to both Natalie Portman, who of course plays Padme Amidala, the wife of Anakin and the mother of Luke and Leia, and Carrie Fisher, who plays Princess Leia herself.
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Is this simple shot comparison really indicative of a connection between the Skywalkers? On a purely cinematic plane, it seems to. In the final scene, we can only assume that Rey is on the desert planet of Jakku but though the planet is different, the effect is still the same: blue sky in the background, the primary character looking at something or someone with a distressed expression on her face. In the middle, there’s Luke, looking on in disbelief at the smoking bodies of his Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, also on Tatooine. In the top scene, you have Anakin on Tatooine carrying the dead body of his mother, face contorted with anger and sorrow. Take a look at these comparison shots between Attack of the Clones, A New Hope, and the second teaser trailer for The Force Awakens (props to the team at the Far, Far Away Radio podcast team on Twitter for providing this). Sometimes, though, the effect is less subtle and more profound. Little details like that, though they can be subtle, add extra layers of cohesiveness that visually tie the Star Wars movies into one big story arc.
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The effect of this can be seen by slowing the footage down frame by frame and comparing the shots across the films. What I love about the Star Wars saga as a cinematic experience is the amount of care that is taken to communicate specific concepts and themes.