kyloren:Before, either some who has the absence of hope, and the thing that we started with for “Who
kyloren:Before, either some who has the absence of hope, and the thing that we started with for “Who is Ben, then?” — Ben is someone who has hope. There’s no more ambiguity about what it is he has to do. There’s no more seesaw that’s happening. For the first time, someone who has never had the answer, now finally knows his purpose or destiny. He has to let her know that they’re together. But I don’t know that he entirely is sure of what’s going to happen from there, nor do I think he cares. I think it’s so long as he’s with her, he’s on the right path. — Adam Driver, The Skywalker Legacy Documentary.Right from Episode VII, from the scene in which Rey is interrogated by Ren, is clear that they have a connection that they understand each other, that they can literally read each other’s minds. They’re made uncomfortable by it, and yet, they’re both drawn to each other. Of course, Episode VIII furthered it by creating the idea of Force connection, and I think what we wanted to do was complicate that and say, “Actually, their connection is deeper than that.” We began talking about them as a mythic concept, which is in Joseph Cambell, which is the mythic dyad, that they’re two parts of the same whole. And then finally we began talking about how, if the dyad ever came other, its power would be immeasurable. […] The hope at the beginning of the film that Sidious articulates is that the dyad would come together on the dark side, but the reversal is that the dyad does come together, and it is as powerful as we expected, but they come together on the side of the light. — Chris Terrio, The Skywalker Legacy Documentary.THE RISE OF SKYWALKER2019 | dir. J.J. Abrams -- source link