How will the 136 minutes be divided

GREAT POST
here is my call......

RUSHED:

Snoke


How the falcon got where it is.

ENOUGH TIME:

BB-8's intro

 

After the OP post Im starting to get worried. He is right, too much to show and tell. I wish TFA would be slower, in a rithym similiar to ANH and TESB.

 

Into 60-second segments

 

I'd break the movie down like this:

1st Act - Jakku
2nd Act - Pirate transport + Takodana
3rd Act - Starkiller assault/rescue mission

Assuming each act is approximately 1/3rd of the movie, that leaves us with about 45 minutes for each...
I'm just going to guess that the 1st act will be the longest, and the 2nd will be the shortest.




Don't expect The Forces Awakens to explain everything that has changed in the galaxy since Return of the Jedi. I believe The Force Awakens will take place "in media res". There will be a lot of material to establish the setting, which won't necessarily be explained in much detail, just as it was in ANH. Lucasfilm have established the Story group for this very purpose. Things which aren't of particular importance to the story will be left for books, games, anthology films, and TV series.


There's a few things which probably won't be covered in any detail, if any at all:
- The Battle of Jakku (any mention of it will be about as much as the Clone wars was mentioned in ANH, except this time there's a lot of physical reminders of it on the planet)
- Finn's origin/family (I think finding his family will become Finn's motiviation in Episode VIII/IX)
- Hux' rise up the ranks (unless he's super important, this will be covered in books)
- Snoke will probably remain a mystery even after the movie (if he is Darth Plageuis, we probably won't even find out for sure until Episode VIII or IX). I don't expect him to have much screentime at all in the movie
- I don't expect them to say much about why they are called "The Resistance." I think we are more likely to learn about why the bad guys are now called "The First Order" but even that probably isn't that likely.

 

You're absolutely right. We won't get an answer for every question. Would be stupid and useless.

 

I'm afraid there won't be more than two or three song & dance numbers.

 

136 minutes...let's say 2 minutes for the crawl, 10 for credits....136-12 is 124 minutes.

124 minutes of:

Spoiler: SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and

 

poor Jar Jar.......

You know my kids always liked him when the prequels came out. It is basically us fan boys/girls old school people that really get bothered by him.

Now older, my son talks about Jar Jar and how he gets a bad wrap.

Lucas centered the prequels around 5-12 year olds and J.J. is centering it around what worked the first time around...

 

True. I am from that same generation. I was 9 years old when TPM came out and at the time i loved Jar Jar. Now I do not mind him.
But I like to see myself as some weird generation that grew up with the OT (really i strtaed watching Star Wars when i was 4 years old, hooked from the first minute) and then the PT became a part of it as well, but I still knew as a kid that eventhough TPM looked shiny and awesome (remember i was a kid ) the OT were still my favorites.

 

The Resistance will be covered in the crawl and can be done in one sentence. Something like....not trusting the intent of the First Order and their intentions, a group called the Resistance led by General Leia Organa has separated from the Republic...