1. It gives the secondary love story time to develop. Since one of them is going to do something heroic to save the other it makes much more sense when they've had time to adventure together and turn him from an idolized "hero of the revolution" to more of a partner.
2. It clearly shows the bad guys (in this movie) are the elite 1% and sets up the whole moral choice point about arms dealers and selling to both sides. For heaven's sake money is used as a literal WEAPON in this sequence. I thought that was really an over-the-top metaphor but apparently some people need clubbing on the head with it. You may not like the choice of politics in TLJ but holy cow is this sequence all about the movie's politics.
3. It gives us the set-up for that crucial bit at the end where the stable boy gestures and the broom moves to his hand. Again, that's a core theme of this film: the democratization of the force. What's more democratic than having a serf-child show he can do that?
I thought the travel bit could've been condensed, and I didn't think much of the chase scenes, but you can't cut this entire bit out without some other parts of the movie picking up the load.
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Date: 2017-12-29 01:17 am (UTC)1. It gives the secondary love story time to develop. Since one of them is going to do something heroic to save the other it makes much more sense when they've had time to adventure together and turn him from an idolized "hero of the revolution" to more of a partner.
2. It clearly shows the bad guys (in this movie) are the elite 1% and sets up the whole moral choice point about arms dealers and selling to both sides. For heaven's sake money is used as a literal WEAPON in this sequence. I thought that was really an over-the-top metaphor but apparently some people need clubbing on the head with it. You may not like the choice of politics in TLJ but holy cow is this sequence all about the movie's politics.
3. It gives us the set-up for that crucial bit at the end where the stable boy gestures and the broom moves to his hand. Again, that's a core theme of this film: the democratization of the force. What's more democratic than having a serf-child show he can do that?
I thought the travel bit could've been condensed, and I didn't think much of the chase scenes, but you can't cut this entire bit out without some other parts of the movie picking up the load.