Last Jedi Minute 76: The Snap
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Date
May 17th, 2021
Summary
Guest commentator Riley Silverman returns to watch what Rey sees as she gazes into the Magic Force Mirror to discover the secret of her parents!
Guests
Notes
Film
- This minute starts with Rey telling us that she should have felt trapped or panicked. Ends with Rey's parental dyad coming into focus. There's two parents walking towards us, and then it turns out there was just one set of footprints and then… we don't know it's just a shadow.
- We get Rey's voiceover as she narrates her vision after the fact.
Podcast
- Referenced: "76 Trombones".
- The snap does come back around, but it doesn't go on forever.
- How much of this is real, how much is a vision or a hallucination? It begins and ends with her; she is the center of her own story, nothing else matters.
- Doing "the wave" in a sports stadium
- Other famous snaps in motion picture history. Thanos of course. The West Side Story dance fights.
- Riley is pathologically incapable of snapping her fingers.
- Everyone has their own snapping technique, just as everyone has their own pen-holding technique.
- How does Rey's reaction to what she sees in the mirror compare to how Luke felt in the magic tree? It speaks to each character's relationship with their antagonists.
- What would Luke have seen in the Magic Tree after he learned that Darth Vader was his father?
- We walked backwards into a flashback. This doesn't happen a lot (if ever) in Star Wars. It's also a misdirect because we don't know who she's talking to.
- This scene is highly effective filmmaking. Walking the tightrope, where on one side you have "oh this is just a rehash" and on the other side you have "oh this is not Star Wars".
- This movie does the most to expand the cinematic language that is Star Wars.
When Riley saw this movie for the first time she didn't know for sure that she liked it she had to sit with it and process it so by the second time she was fully on board. Originally, Riley was able to get a ticket to see it until the Saturday after it came out, but randomly she was able to snag a seat at the AMC near her work, so she headed straight over there at 5:00 p.m. on the Friday after it came out. That probably also impacted her first viewing. Similarly, she saw The Rise of Skywalker with her best friend from high school, whom she also saw The Phantom Menace with so she is an apologist for that movie.
Meta Minute
- 36:14 podcast episode length.
Quotes
- Pete: (referencing "West Side Story") When you're a Rey, you're a Rey all the way.
Links
- Audio onnly
- http://www.starwarsminute.com/2021/05/17/last-jedi-minute-76-the-snap
- Video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc9H6GQOMn4