The Good Vs Evil template has served storytelling well.
But is it the right way forward for the new Star Wars movies?
Mainstream cinema is yet to embrace Nietzsche and move beyond good and evil as a basis for its stories.
Its a standard struggle that sustains many a narrative, but not one were likely to tire of.
New tweaks are always being found.
Significantly, in 1977Star Warsset up a film serial, combining self-contained narratives with a bigger storyline.
In 2015, however, its going to be hard to replicate this.
The fate of all Middle Earth is a bit more important than a lost homeland.
Thats reason enough to be impressed by its legacy, even if youre not a fan.
That it took inspiration and turned it into something new is how cinema history was created.
That it came back, and was poor, tainted it.
Now, though, the idea of making more doesnt feel quite as special.
There will be spin-offs.
There will be abundance.
There will be lens flare.
There will be an accountant drinking a percentage of your milkshake.
Do we want another attempt at epic struggles, or to try something new forStar Wars?
Something likeIndiana Joneswhere the series of films dont have strong narrative links?
Im not saying its the best idea, just throwing something into the mix as an alternative.
Another option is the Marvel approach.
Its more involved than a trilogy, the nearby Amazing Spider-man series narratively simple by comparison.
Star Warswill, as a trilogy, presumably have an all-pervading big bad that superhero series generally lack.
Undermining such optimism for a newStar Warstrilogys potential legacy, though, is the existence of the otherStar Warstrilogies.
Its not new anymore.
Were essentially asking the production team to reinvent the wheel.
Star Warswas a bolt from the blue.
The people making it werent exactly confident it would be a hit.
Starting with the final line of this article.
