As the film progresses the young protagonists encounter several characters from the original trilogy, including Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), and the droid C-3PO (Anthony Daniels), and the adventure unfolds. From this starting point we are introduced to our new main characters: Rey (Daisy Ridley), a young girl eking out an existence as a scavenger on the isolated desert planet of Jakku Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the masked and cloaked leader of the First Order who sends a platoon of troops to Jakku after a tip-off that a missing piece of the map is there Finn (John Boyega), a disillusioned Stormtrooper who deserts from his platoon Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), a hotshot Resistance pilot whose latest mission also takes him to Jakku and BB-8, Dameron’s adorable droid companion. However, Luke Skywalker, the hero of the rebellion, has vanished without a trace, with the only hints to his whereabouts being the fragmented pieces of a digital star map, which both the Resistance and the First Order are searching for. The former rebellion has become the new government in the galaxy, with its military arm – the Resistance – still fighting against the remnants of the Empire, now known as the First Order. The film takes place 30 years after the events of Return of the Jedi, in which the Galactic Empire was defeated and Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were killed. Abrams should be congratulated for returning the franchise to its roots, and going some way to banishing the ghost of Jar Jar Binks forever. More than any installment in the prequels did, The Force Awakens feels like a proper Star Wars movie, a return to the fun and crowd-pleasing filmmaking of the original trio, and director J. To say that The Force Awakens, the seventh film in the Star Wars franchise, is an eagerly awaited film would perhaps be one of the greatest understatements of all time – I don’t think I have ever seen a film with this much marketing, pre-release hype, and fevered anticipation – and, thankfully, it does not disappoint in any way. There aren’t many film scores you can point to as being an actual turning point, a watershed moment in the history of the genre, but Star Wars was unquestionably one of those, and it went on to inspire a generation of filmmakers, composers, and fans. When John Williams first sat down to write the score for the original Star Wars over the winter of 1976, I doubt that even he could have imagined that he would still be writing music for those characters, and that universe, some 39 years later. ![]() IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE FILM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WAITING UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE DONE SO TO READ IT. WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS.
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