A little note about iasos add Steven Halpern. Musician friend of mine told me that they worked on these first two albums at foothill college in San Jose California.
This mindset is alluded to by apollo in rocky 4, the champion throughout the ages who exists for the challenge and when the time comes...goes into 'the zone'of confidence,control,to make the killer blow.
I think part of the big difference between the two is Luke grew up free. Anakin did not. Anakin was shackled by slavery and he had no figures, like you say, to look up to. Everyone was a master to him.Qui was the only actual person to him. Which is why Plagueis and Palpatine wanted him gone.
A lovely dedication to a life affirming artist. Realms of light was my first introduction. I hope that one day we might hear a remaster of his first album interdimensional music, i especially love lueena coast. I didn't know Iasos had passed, I only found out yesterday which shocked and saddened me as he looked so well. His loss will be felt by all his music touched. He leaves us a beautiful legacy 🙏❤️
After watching the end of Empire Strikes back, we’ve realized that you are wrong about Luke achieving “exactly nothing” at Bespin. He achieves exactly ONE thing that saves everyone multiple times over: He brings R2 with him. R2 saves Leia and co when fleeing and then saves everyone by fixing the hyper drive at the end when they realize Lando’s people still didn’t fix it. Without him, they’d’ve been unable to jump and been caught again. R2 is the true hero of Empire strikes back. Thanks for bringing him, Luke!
So happy you made this tribute, listening to his music from the very beginning and still listening …it just doesn’t get old, would love to see that raw footage as it is, would be awesome, thank you
It's definitely the best Star wars film. The three originals are better than the prequels, absolutely! But as a standalone revenge of the sith is perfect. It sets up the original trilogy so well.
I think I’m one of the few people that genuinely didn’t want Kylo to be redeemed. I even hate the idea of Rey and Ben switching sides halfway through the Trilogy, as it comes across as far worse “Subverting Expectations” than what The Last Jedi did (debatable, as Luke’s character was terrible in more ways than one). Heck I say the problem is that Kylo didn’t go far enough in the Darth Vader worship, Adam Driver even said that he was told that Kylo was essentially going to start the Trilogy conflicted on which side he’s on, and ends it fully embracing the Dark Side, a reverse of Darth Vader right there. And Adam went into every movie with that exact mindset, even when they didn’t do it at all.
Star wars had crashed and bottomed out with the prequel trilogy, and disney star wars sequel trilogy and shows have redeemed it. Rian Johnson should have directed ep 9 though. TLJ was peek star wars and JJ isn't nearly as good of a director as Rian Johnson is. If Rian had done ep 9 it would have ended much better.
WOW !!! a beautiful video essay. fantastic research, great editing, great sound design, great narration and commentary. you deserve so much more credit, amazing job brother!
Amazing video, I share your immense respect for him and his art. There’s a lot of things I could say, including some other worldly experience provoked by his music that would seem to validate some of his far out inspirations. I remember once asking my friend Lionel from vinyl Williams,”what’s the most cosmic music you know of?” And his answer was “Iasos bro, Iasos” he is an inspiration for me and to be frank I kind of believe he IS getting these sounds downloaded from the being Vista. His entire cosmology was fascinating and gives fans some good lore to chew on. I’m glad you could cover and summarize much of that. Cheers!
So what you're saying is we gotta let the hate flow through us... make us powerful... use it... Brings me back to a bit of insight from someone I met in Japan last year: "If you don't hate what you hate, you will never enjoy what you love."
Love the parallel on the usage of targeting system. Luke learns to trust his intuition whereas Vader relies on the machinery further explaining how far Vader have gone from the very intuitive Anakin to absolute deprivation of trusting his instincts aka becoming a machine. And to add even more layer, that very focus on the targeting system exposes Vader to Han to take him out hence speaking volumes of Vaders lost capability to even take on account that someone would have a friend to have their back (something Vader struggled with even when he was Anakin)
Duel of the Fates is a beloved scene because there's finally no dialogue after 2 hours of nonsense. What if Lucas had written a beloved friend and hero as Obi Wan had described, instead of a petulant whining child who never seems to have any real attachment to anyone and whose "fall" is so telegraphed there's never a moment youre surprised. Its a souless story on rails.
okay, i really enjoyed the video but i don't get one thing the ring theory doesnt really make sense because as you say it has only room for 6 movies but george lucas had plans for the next 3 episodes after return of the jedi. Maybe I didn't get something and all I'm saying is wrong.
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the final sentiment of the video about the sequels. They were not set up to fail. They were given everything they needed to succeed, but their own greed and ineptitude and pride caused them to fail anyway. Their greed made them take it away from the one man that could have told a brilliant story. Their ineptitude made them fall to modern pop culture and wokeism as a source for writing ideas, and their pride made them discard any and all sources of potential good stories and convince themselves that the blandest mush their writers came up with was good enough to compete with the previous six movies for quality. And when that didn't work, this same pride makes them double and triple down for years in pursuit of the same failing strategy, trying to "get it right" over and over...the definition of insanity.
As for #5: Every civilization that has existed in the world - for good or bad - has been dominated by men, therefore the myths originating from these civilizations would be male-oriented which is not Campbell's fault.
Not having strong fathers in the household (thanks to no fault divorce and the government-endorsed theft of husbands and fathers to facilitate the welfare state so "stronkindependentwomen" can be stronk) is destroying western civilization, if it hasn't already destroyed it.
Right on. 👍. Like blaming a basketball player for not being able to play baseball , or missing a shot here or there. The player is amazing on the court at what he does, and brings to the game: Joseph Campbell was brilliant and inspiring! Yet these negative authors can just play arm chair quarterback and look for any piece of possible wrong ness. Joseph Campbells work opened my eyes to reading different stories. Never made me look at stories as the Same.
“When Anakin realizes that he’s willing to butcher women and children, Padme sees the intensity and is excited by the possibility of what he would do for her” This is either the dumbest interpretation of that scene or the worst character assassination via love story I have ever seen being displayed. Whatever the case may god have mercy on all your souls lol
