{"id":121626,"date":"2020-11-27T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:30:10","slug":"hugh-revelations-more-questions-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hugh Revelations, More Questions \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a395610b0a97\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a395610b0a97\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/#The_Direction\" >The Direction<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/#Ahsokas_Quest\" >Ahsoka\u2019s Quest<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/#What_to_Look_Out_For\" >What to Look Out For<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hugh-revelations-more-questions-film\/#Coda\" >Coda<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Hugh Revelations, More Questions \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-647547 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/mandalorian-thejedi-fortressgate-700x293.jpg\" alt=\"The Mandalorian The Jedi Review\" width=\"700\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/mandalorian-thejedi-fortressgate-700x293.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/mandalorian-thejedi-fortressgate-360x151.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/mandalorian-thejedi-fortressgate-768x322.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/mandalorian-thejedi-fortressgate.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, there are <strong>spoilers<\/strong> here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dave Filoni<\/strong>, protege of <strong>George Lucas<\/strong> and a shepherd of the future of <i>Star Wars, <\/i>wrote and directed the thirteenth chapter of <i>The Mandalorian. <\/i>In this episode, Din Djarin finally makes his way to the forest planet of Corvus and the city of Calodan, and it\u2019s there that we meet a familiar face.<span id=\"more-647545\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the city of Calodan, former Jedi Ahsoka Tano (<strong>Rosario Dawson<\/strong>), has besieged a city controlled by an evil magistrate named Morgan Elsbeth (<strong>Diana Lee Inosanto<\/strong>), and her enforcer, Lang (<strong>Michael Biehn<\/strong>). She\u2019s seeking information and Elsbeth won\u2019t give it to her. When Djarin lands, he finds that Corvus isn\u2019t much of a forest planet any longer, s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped of its verdancy. He goes into town looking for leads and Elsbeth offers him a staff of pure beskar if he kills the Jedi.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post -->The Mandalorian makes no promises, but takes their information that leads him to Tano. She attacks him, but he\u2019s able to declare a truce by dropping Bo Katan\u2019s name and he\u2019s allowed to state his purpose. Ahsoka is able to commune with the child and discovers that his name is Grogu. He was a youngling at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and had been trained under many Jedi masters. When Anakin Skywalker marched on the temple during Order 66, he was hidden and whisked away. His memory, though, fuzzy after that.<\/p>\n<p>She refuses to train Grogu, however. While not mentioning that she\u2019s no longer a Jedi, her reasoning is deeper than that. Grogu has formed too much of an attachment to Din Djarin and looks to him like a father. Ahsoka, implying the fate of Anakin Skywalker, says the danger in training a Force user with such attachments is too great. Din Djarin would be better off letting the Force fade from Grogu.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t sit well with the Mandalorian and he tries striking a bargain with Ahsoka. He\u2019ll help her take down the magistrate in Calodan to get the information she seeks as long as she takes Grogu on as his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rentice.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they invade the city, take down Elsbeth and Lang, and liberate it. But Ahsoka reiterates that she cannot train him and suggests that he be taken to the Jedi Temple on Tython, and there Grogu can choose his own path. A Jedi might come looking for him or he might choose to stay with Din. But he\u2019ll have that choice himself.<\/p>\n<p>For Ahsoka\u2019s part, it\u2019s revealed what, or rather who, she\u2019s seeking: Grand Admiral Thrawn.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 -->Ahsoka and the Mandalorian go their separate ways. Din, heading to Tython, Ahsoka to continue her quest.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Direction\"><\/span><b>The Direction<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As Dave Filoni is a student of George Lucas, naturally, he\u2019s a student of Akira Kurosawa as well, and he learned from both capably. The planet of Corvus is eerily reminiscent of the smoky forests in <i>Throne of Blood <\/i>where Toshiro Mifune\u2019s character, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Washizu, encounters three magical witches who foretell their futures. The city of Calodan as well bears inspiration from Kurosawa, as do so many of the shots, specifically from <i>Yojimbo<\/i>. The story borrows from <i>Yojimbo <\/i>as well, casting the Mandalorian as Toshiro Mifune\u2019s ronin who is able to play the villains into writing their own destruction.<\/p>\n<p>There are other flourishes borrowed from the Japanese aesthetic of Kurosawa\u2019s films as well. As Ahsoka appears in at the gates of Calodan, the wind picks up and her theme plays gently. Kurosawa was a master of wielding the wind, sun, and other elements to aid in telling his stories and Filoni learned well. The timeline of the episode is such that the light of day or night is utilized make the most of every scene. The most dramatic showdowns happen in the smoky sunset of Corvus. The most introspective moments happen at night where the characters can be silhouetted by the moon. It\u2019s a small thing, but the time of day in a particular shot or sequence is not an accident.<\/p>\n<p>Filoni also draws on other films as well. Michael Biehn hunting through Calodan for Ahsoka evokes his own scenes from <i>Aliens<\/i>, but the showdown also recalls his turn as Johnny Ringo in <i>Tombstone. <\/i>Ahsoka\u2019s hunting of the guards at the beginning of the episode even get some very Sam Raimi-like quick, tracking POV shots, a\u2019la <i>Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn <\/i>or <i>Spider-Man 2.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are some great moments of storytelling, too. Imbuing the gear shifter from season one with added importance here, creating realistic circumstances for Mando to have it on him, and then using it during Ahsoka\u2019s test was just good writing. It\u2019s symbolic of the choice that Grogu will likely make. Filoni takes this into the design as well. Everything on this world is dead, but when the gates open to Elsbeth\u2019s sanctuary, it\u2019s green and lush like the planet once was, a clear commentary on the nature of greed.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 -->Filoni has grown as a live-action director since the first season and it shows. Everyone this season has been firing on all cylinders and he\u2019s no exception.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ahsokas_Quest\"><\/span><b>Ahsoka\u2019s Quest<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One of the biggest questions I hoped this episode would answer is <i>where <\/i>in Ahsoka\u2019s quest is this set on the timeline. I\u2019m still not sure we have a clear answer, but there are certainly clues for which we can make some guesses.<\/p>\n<p>As we see Ahsoka in the coda to <i>Star Wars Rebels, <\/i>she has passed through flame and shadow in her ordeals with Darth Vader and her exile on Malachor. Like Gandalf the Grey and his transformation to Gandalf the White, we see a visual representation of this in Ahsoka\u2019s white robe. I doubt it\u2019s a mistake then, that Filoni dresses her in gray here, showing us that she\u2019s still on that journey, learning to be that person. Her montrals are also much, much shorter here than they are in the <i>Rebels <\/i>epilogue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_bhX7ABpj8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_bhX7ABpj8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clearest answer we have about what she\u2019s up to, though, is when she finally defeats Elsbeth. the information she seeks are the whereabouts of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Clearly, she\u2019s still on the quest. But this leads me to believe that Thrawn escaped the clutches of Ezra Bridger and is free in the galaxy and that Ezra might not have been found yet. Perhaps they don\u2019t even know he\u2019s alive. It makes sense that Ahsoka wouldn\u2019t seek out Sabine for that part of the quest until she has more solid clues about those whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Ahsoka is interesting in this episode in that she is not quite what would be expected. She\u2019s rather vicious here and more eager to attack than I would have guessed. Though it\u2019s consistent with her treatment of Imperials in <i>Star Wars Rebels, <\/i>which happened less than a decade ago, one would have thought she would be a little more diplomatic. On the other hand, she\u2019s dealing with trained killers and those who would subjugate an entire population and decimate an entire planet.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_to_Look_Out_For\"><\/span><b>What to Look Out For<br \/><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_4 -->There are a lot of cool things for <i>Star Wars <\/i>fans to pick up on here in this episode. Some add a lot of dimension to the story, others are just fun.<\/p>\n<p>On the fun side, you have Tooka cats appearing in the streets of Calodan. These were introduced in <i>Star Wars: The Clone Wars <\/i>and are just really big cats in <i>Star Wars. <\/i>They\u2019re found all over the galaxy and are adorable. Another thing to spot is one of the droids in Calodan looks a lot like 8D8, which is the droid torturing a Gonk droid in Jabba\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n<p>The HK-87 assassin droids in the employ of Morgan Elsbeth are from a long line of assassin droids in the HK <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>. HK stands for \u201cHunter Killer\u201d and they have a long history in <em>Star Wars Legends<\/em>. In <em>Legends<\/em> and <i>Knights of the Old Republic<\/i>, HK-47 was built by Darth Revan to destroy Jedi after the end of the Mandalorian Wars. In the current canon, they\u2019ve only really been mentioned obliquely. This is their first time on screen.<\/p>\n<p>The other big mention here is Grand Admiral Thrawn. In the canon, Thrawn has not appeared this late in the timeline, though in the Legends stories, he came back to the galaxy after a long period away and tried reasserting the Empire in Timothy Zahn\u2019s landmark books starting with <i>Heir to the Empire. <\/i>In the canon, he was last seen over Lothal, when Ezra Bridger lured him into a trap and had space-faring Purgills jump the two of them aboard the <i>Star Destroyer Chimaera <\/i>into the Unknown Regions of space. This took Ezra and Thrawn off the map prior to the Battle of Yavin, but it looks like he could very well have survived and come back. On <i>Star Wars Rebels<\/i>, he was voiced by Lars Mikkelson, a Danish actor who could very capably leap across to play the part, just as Katee Sackhoff made the leap for Bo-Katan.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest clue we have for the future of <i>The Mandalorian <\/i>comes with Ahsoka\u2019s mention of the planet Tython. This is not a new planet in <i>Star Wars. <\/i>Darth Vader and Doctor Aphra traveled to this ice world at one point and it was believed to be the home of one of the first Jedi temples. I wonder if this really could lead us to Luke Skywalker, who is also searching the galaxy in this part of the timeline for Jedi knowledge, temples and artifacts, as we\u2019ve seen in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s like <i>Battlefront II <\/i>and other ancillary storytelling. At the point where Ahsoka Tano isn\u2019t off the table for live action, we should start preparing ourselves to expect <i>anything.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coda\"><\/span><b>Coda<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This was an excellent episode of The Mandalorian, and probably the best Filoni has directed (this is his third episode overall). That doesn\u2019t mean that it doesn\u2019t come with any weirdness to it.<\/p>\n<p>Rosario Dawson is quite capable in the role of Ahsoka, though it\u2019s utterly bizarre to not hear Ashley Eckstein\u2019s voice coming from the character. It helps to hear hints of Ahsoka\u2019s theme, established by Kevin Kiner and translated here by Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, to help make that tie between the properties. The music is beautiful and haunting. She works well enough and gets the cadence of how Ahsoka speaks down, even though the voice isn\u2019t quite right. For Dawson, there are also the added complications of accusations of transphobia and out-and-out assault of a trans man. It seems as though many of the charges in the lawsuits brought against her and her family have been dropped and Dawson\u2019s lawyers describe the accusations as \u201cbaseless,\u201d but for many fans\u2014especially trans fans I\u2019ve spoken to\u2014it still casts a pall on the triumphant return of a fan favorite character.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of Ludwig G\u00f6ransson\u2019s, this might be my favorite episode he\u2019s scored so far. During the celebration of Calodan, he crafts a piece of music that feels like a mix between the Ewok celebration <i>and <\/i>the superior piece of music that replaced it in <i>Return of the Jedi, <\/i>but still somehow new and unique. It\u2019s a really pleasing track.<\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s be honest, this episode is the most adorable Grogu has ever been. Every time the Mandalorian says his name, his response is pure gold. Both the puppetry <i>and <\/i>the sound design is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>This episode was emotional for longtime fans of the <i>Star Wars <\/i>television offerings, animated and otherwise, and all the more reason for those who haven\u2019t watched those shows to catch up. Both <i>Star Wars: The Clone Wars <\/i>and <i>Star Wars Rebels <\/i>are streaming on Disney+ and the more we get into <i>The Mandalorian, <\/i>the more mandatory it feels for fans to view them. There\u2019s definitely a case to be made that fans shouldn\u2019t have to watch the cartoons to understand this show, but the deep lore of <i>Star Wars <\/i>is part of what makes it great for so many fans, too.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend them.<\/p>\n<p>Until next week!<\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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