Here’s a bit of my own Screwmeneutics.
Episode I: Phantom Menace
Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A couple of quick observations, following the tried-and-true method of pattern recognition followed by interpretation:
- It’s interesting to see the original trilogy (episodes 4-6) have vignetting while the prequels do not.
- Both episodes 1 and 3 have two-person blobs; apparently, the mano e mano approach wasn’t as important in episode 2.
- Empire Strikes Back has a very clear color palette with the opening on Hoth, but it doesn’t seem to affect the finished sum all that much. In the end, it looks fairly similar to Return of the Jedi, which you would expect to have the green tones of Endor dominate. Perhaps it’s Dagobah in Empire that makes for the green tones there.
- Stars show up in both Episode 6 and 7, as well as Rogue One. For all the space travel, it’s strange that these are the only three that feature this. Do they have more time in space? Or is it a feature of something like the credits that causes this sort of burn-in? What’s more, what do we make of the fact that there are two of the “new” films that have stars, one of the “classic” films, and none of the prequels?
