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Why are the Star Wars prequels so good?
The Prequels Helped Expand Into Animation, And It’s Really Good. And lastly, the prequels gave us the excellent Clone Wars cartoons. The prequels also expanded Star Wars animation in general.
What is the difference between a sequel and prequel?
—Prequels are movies made after an original movie but take place before that original movie. -Sequels are movies made after an original movie and take place after that original movie. So the trilogy of The Force Awakens, Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker are sequels to the original three movies.
What can we learn from the Star Wars prequels?
The prequels give us a more nuanced look at the morality of the Star Wars universe, and suggest that good people can fall from grace. In addition, it suggests that even the purest democracy can be destroyed by fear, and by sowing divisions that are impossible to recover from.
Is ‘Star Wars’ getting closer to the original trilogy?
Subsequent prequels, Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, moved closer to Lucas’s originals, but many fans felt betrayed. This wasn’t their Star Wars. J.J. Abrams’ upcoming seventh film, Episode VII: the Force Awakens, will reportedly hew closer in style to the original trilogy.
What makes George Lucas’s Star Wars movies so good?
One of the best things about George Lucas’s fantasy world, both in the prequels and the original trilogy, is the specificity of the what he’s building. All of these films give you the sense that Lucas knows exactly what goes where, and exactly what everything should look like. The Republic’s ships are the perfect example of this.
Why is the Clone Wars so popular?
Ultimately, The Clone Wars works as a complement to the prequels, but, more importantly, it’s compelling TV. Chancellor Palpatine’s plot is incredibly complicated, and, to the extent that it works, it does so largely because of Ian McDiarmid’s wonderful performance.