The Hidden Beauty Behind Star Wars Planets
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- What makes Star Wars Planets so iconic, why do they fill our heads with imagination? In this video I explore the deeper meanings found within these planets and how they shape Star Wars as a story.
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Whenever the moon is visible during the day, it always makes me feel like I'm in the star wars universe
ok cool.
Same
I get what you mean.
nice thought
I’m disappointed you brushed over the prequels. For all their flaws, they have some of the best planets and this WAS a Star Wars planets video.
More prequel stuff would be great.
@Rising Horizon Gaming naboo, coruscant, geonosis, tatooine, mustafar (but he talk about for 1 second)
I think he just don't understand the prequel
@Rising Horizon Gaming
Tatooine is the judea in episode 1 and beacame again a western place in episode 2
Corruscant is antics roma
Naboo athens
About the CGI boards.theforce.net/threads/practical-effects-in-the-prequels-sets-pictures-models-etc.50017310/
And just like the author of this video, I don't think you understand the prequels and I say more, the whole saga...
Yeah, that part was one part where I would say they were on par and maybe even superior to the originals. It's the reason why they had a thriving fandom despite the movies themselves. Just the imagination of those worlds and their potential spoke to people's imagination.
I don’t care what anybody says I like the Prequels and for the Time the planets looked great.
*Dagobah
I would love to see a video on the Prequel planets. Great video as always!
One thing that’s notable about them is that, while the original trilogy and most of the Disney films have retained that “3 planets=3 acts” structure, the Prequels are kind of all over the place with how they do that. The Phantom Menace has 4 destinations, and while it’s 3 planets in reality, Naboo bookends the film. Attack of the Clones has about 5 planets visited, and Revenge of the Sith is very scattered, reflecting the wide range of the war taking place. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Say what you will about TLJ but the planets definitely stand out, especially among the other recent films. Ach-To is filled with ancient Jedi history, Canto Bight shows a side of the galaxy we've never seen before, and Crait creates a very distinct landscape unlike anything on earth and uses it to create a visually stunning battle.
Agreed the film is deeply flawed in my opinion but its planets' design and how it connects to the narrative is amazing.
Story-wise, the movie is terrible. But I loved the visuals of the planets and nature.
Crait is insanely beautiful
@@kaseycombs6968 i think the last jedis story is great, inhow it turns everything we expected on its head, and if you watch the behind the scences featurettes from before the movie was released they promised exactly that a“different” star wars. Everybody including me ignored the quote from john boyega that "rian makes star wars new and fresh" because it just sounded like marketing talk after some people complained that episode 7 was to similar to episode 4. But in the end i was just amazed when i sat there at the midnightpremier and they really fullfilled their promise.
I really love Ahch-To Island and Crait, but I can't stand Canto Bait. It is too similar to Earth and have some other flaws.
TRANSITION GAME IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE
Like 4:11?
Ikr?!
@@GuitarMikeRocks I hope he's proud of that one. I mean... he should be :)
Should’ve went more in depth on the prequels. Hopefully you’ll cover that in another video.
Hopefully.
@@rafaelc.c. Hopefully indeed. Some day. Maybe.
Mustafa means Chosen One in Arabic. #Trivia
Lol!
I hope you’re gonna make a prequel planet video!
Wow! Just wow! This was a master class in clever editing to convey smart observations. I loved the way you demonstrated the transition from Act 1 to Act 2. That's some top notch video essaying.
Also, I gotta give you props for looking beyond the story surface. It seems like one of the chronic issues with Star Wars fans and Star Wars discussion is how literal it is, when the very reason for its popularity is weight of its subtext. It's not complex subtext, but man when you point it out, don't fans just dig their heels in. I'm sure a lot of fans got their hackles raised when you listed the Death Star as a planet, but you nailed its symbolic nature, and how it fit into the the film's thematic language. I honestly never considered that.
Excellent work! Thumbs up!
Ahch-to and crait give me such goosebumps every time I watch them. The foggy and rainy weather feel so weird but perfect on ahch-to especially.
can you make the prequels video pls?!!
I absolutely love the video. Only enriches the movies in a way I’ve never thought about them before!
+1
@11:36 The Jedi Texts weren't destroyed; Rey took them (you can catch a glimpse of them in the Falcon at the end of the film). Today even says that the place "did not contain anything that the girl Rey does not already possess".
BRILLIANT! Great work! unfortunately the prequels + sequels were a bit rushed. I would have loved a 30min version of the whole vid! Great take on Arch-To!
A video about prequel planets would be very good. The universe is shown mostly vivid and vast in these movies
I started listening to this not knowing how long it was, nor when it came out. So I was just going, "I hope he makes it through Rise of Skywalker without having a seizure."
Hello there! I just found your channel. I've watched a couple of your videos now and your analyzing and essays about these topics are very well edited, interesting and easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to make these! You got yourself a new sub!
Excellent work. I never thought about some of these, keep it up!
This made me rethink what I thought about the one biome planet trope. Good job.
Good sound design & soundtrack choices bro! All in all informative meaningful video
the shot from 4:10 to 4:17 was very clever and well done. Great editing!
if you read the art of book for rogue one, they talk quite a bit about the process of planets you visit very similar to the act structure you mentioned for the Original trilogy. Might be worth a read if you ever revisit this idea
Yeah am not a fan of how he skimmed through the prequel era and the anthology films the plants in these movies are very worth talking about.
This was awesome! Please please please do the prequel planets if you get the chance!
this is a great video, however you got one thing wrong at the very beginning: the fact that the characters can breathe on every planet. The Star Wars galaxy has *millions* of stars and *millions* of other celestial bodies. Out of these millions, only very few have a breathable atmosphere. These systems are the ones plotted on the Star Wars maps, and are obviously the only ones the characters go to. These are the only planets that have life, had life, cities etc. There is no reason for the characters to venture to the millions of uninhabitable planets, and they are therefore rarely shown in canon Star Wars and not plotted on maps that we have of the galaxy. even if you tried to make a map that only plotted one in every hundred stars, it would be impossible. Yes, there seems to be an awful amount of planets and moons with a breathable atmosphere, but there really inst. If, say, one in every 10000 planets was livable, the number of planets would still make sense. If you have every played the space game Elite: Dangerous, the galaxy maps will give you a glimpse into the expanse of a galaxy. It is ridiculous. Sure, planets like Hoth, Crait, and Tatooine are completely ice, salt, and sand respectively, but you also have to consider the hundreds of thousands of other purely ice, salt, or sand planets that *no not* have a breathable atmosphere. These three just to have that. Think of our solar system. The entirety of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Humena, and Eris are essentially the same ecosystem all around. The only one with different ecosystems is Earth, whose differences are all in different locations. For almost all planets in Star Wars, we never see an area *close up* outside of a few kilometers of where our heroes are. On earth, most of these differences are not rally seen from space, except for the largest of them, like the Sahara and Antarctica. so yes, it is entirely possible, and in all reality, probable, for these single-themed planets to exist.
This was over 11 minutes of goosebumps
Beautiful montage!
the star wars planets are regular locations with "planet" affixed to them.
Desert Planet
Snow Planet
City Planet
Military Base Planet
___________ Planet
Lol facts
Jungle planet
Returning to Tatooine in RoJ, while not ambitious from a set design standpoint, is very important (bordering on necessary) for Luke to demonstrate how much he has grown, and how much more growth he has to do. Maybe the same can be said for the DS II station as well, although I think that it functions quite differently, personally.
Love your vids
Minute 4:31 damn that snow passing over the title gave me life again
The sequel trilogy uses the cinematography more to give you an idea of what’s happening, while the other two trilogies focused more on the set design
You deserve 100x more subscribers than you currently have
10:37 I do feel compelled to point out that Yoda pretty clearly does guide the lightning which burns down the tree, and that Rey removed the sacred texts from the tree beforehand (as concluded by seeing the books in a drawer aboard the Millennium Falcon during the last scene).
I'm not a fan of single- biome planets but I am a fan of your content (and Star Wars. Even now. Come at me sequel haters)
This video is strong with the force
Great video,(although I think you definitely should have gone more in depth in the prequel era) l always thought there was more to the planets in Star Wars wheather it's a message or an underlying theme releating to the main narrative.
Fascinating, could you videos like this for say, Star trek or guardians of the galaxy?
Wait, why doesn't this have, like, 10x more views?
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Cloud city isn't a planet either, it's a station on the planet Bespin. Endor is a moon.
Dude that editing
I am not a big fan of planets with a single terrain. They make Planets more to something like substitutes of continents instead of real new planets...
But if you think about it, a lot of planets and moons are like that. It just seems odd to people because the planets are meant to be habitable, and the only reference we have for a habitable planet is Earth, which is geologically and climatically diverse.
Europa is all ice with oceans underneath. Io is all sulfuric volcanos. The gas giants are all layers of gas, like Bespin. In Star Wars, these inhospitable worlds are in fact habitable, but otherwise, they echo many of the extreme environments in our own solar system and in others.
On the other hand, Star Wars *DOES* include Earth-like planets with diverse geological features like Alderaan and one of my favorite examples, Naboo. Naboo has high plateaus, open plains, swamplands, and deep pools that lead to a liquid core.
So yes, I would say the planets in the galaxy far, far away are probably indeed representative of "real new planets."
@@Anonymous18531
Naboo is great!
You could justify Starkiller Base as being so icy because it ate its sun.
That's because Star Wars planets aren't supposed to *be* like real planets. Star Wars is a fantasy, and each planet represents a different fantasy realm: the Desert Realm, the Jungle Realm, the Ice Realm, the Swamp Realm, the Cloud Realm, the Forest Realm, the City Realm, the Water Realm, the Lava Realm, etc., etc. Each planet represents an aspect of our world. They're fantastical, yet at the same time strangely familiar. Fantastical yet familiar is Star Wars in a nutshell.
I'd say one of my biggest gripes with star wars planets is how they are all so singular in their biomes. A planet is either entirely sea, or entirely desert, or entirely jungle e.g:
Degobah: Swampland
Kamino: Sea
Hoth: Arctic Tundra
Coroscant: Urban
Tatooine: Desert
Genonisis: Desert
...
The list goes on for a while. That is a major flaw with the star wars planets as they feel so 2D because they are all just one thing. Look at earth for example, we have arctic tundra, deserts, oceans, swamps, woodlands, jungles e.t.c.
A realistic sci-fi world should have more than 1 biome. It is simply unrealistic for every single inhabited planet to have no more than 1. Not only for the sake of realism, but also just diversity in the world building. A complex world full of different biomes, and lived on by dozens of different governments all with their own different beliefs will always be more interesting than just: this planet is entirely a desert and is run entirely by the Hutt gang.
It would be so much more interesting if say: a single desert on a planet is ruled by a gang, and a nearby jungle is run by a communistic society, and across an ocean is a different country that's fascist lets say.
Diversity in worldbuilding is not just realistic, but also very interesting. Many star wars planets lack that diverse worldbuilding.
*Geonosis
First thing: The way I see it is that space is sort of like the ocean, and the planets are just all the islands.
Second thing: ”unrealistic”? Dude. Star Wars. Wars in the Stars.
Third thing: ”unrealistic”? Dude. Many, many planets and moons in real life only have one singular biome. I bet you’ve seen that little thing called the moon a few times in your life. That thing covered pretty much 100% of light grey dust and rocks.
Oh, and fourth thing: as he mentioned in the video, the Star Wars planets are very unlike Pandora. That’s not a counter argument, just wanted to point out that you’re describing something that sounds very Pandora-ish.
Star Wars isn't sci-fi. It's a fairy tale.
And if every world would have been so complex, then the movies wouldn't have enough time to explore more than 1 world. The simplistic worlds allow the filmmakers to present 3 (or more) worlds in every movie, thus creating the magical "journey through the stars" vibe.
Hey what's the name of the ost part in the beginning?
"Enter Lord Vader" from Episode III at 2:10. The version with the drums is "Arriving on Mustafar" at 2:38.
@@WilliamBlandino thanks 👍
Do the prequel ones
Prequels have some of my favorite planets, I wouldn't complain about another video solely for them!
I don't want to be a nerd, but Yavin 4 is a moon
be a nerd! sometimes canon facts exist for this reason. the video essay breakdown is good, but the facts are wanting. the rebel base is a moon, and also CLOUD CITY Is a city, not a planet too. that would be BESPIN. i mean its not like there are copious books and canon encylopedias on the worlds... oh wait
Scarff is my fav
thx
Hey you're forgetting about Yavin a large gas giant that Yavin 4 orbits around
i loved hearing your thoughts on the sequel trilogy so far? would you consider making a video on the Disney movies?
I do enjoy how Return of the Jedi reused Tatooine instead of creating a useless desert planet.
Kinda like what Rise of Skywalker did...
I don't want the SparkNotes version! I want the full version!
Ewoks should of been wookies. Chewbacca has been an underwritten charicter. Hes a monster loyal to han. While other charicters get charicter groth. Chewy has just been there. Haveing the battle take place on a planet where we can visually and phsycally flesh out chewys charicter could be nice.
You almost skipped the prequels! It can't be true! Well, very good video anyways.
Wrong. Star Wars planets/moons fit the old fashioned retrofiction of the rest: they are basically “exotic” locations from a Romantic Age perspective. Space is the ocean, the planets/moons are continents. They follow the formula of icon exotic biomes, as you also find with Zelda or Super Mario Bros levels. Forest, Jungle, Desert, Clouds etc. Sure it’s unrealistic that an entire planet is a desert, but that’s irrelevant. We see a setting that is realistic, earth-like, because they are literally filmed on such locations with minimal trickery. You have to contrast this with SF planets, which could be entirely alien. Also, Yavin 4 is a moon, too /(that one is nitpicking) ;)
When he doesn’t do any prequel planets.
TRAITOR!!!!!!!!
Ah the video was almost 11:38
My sw heart is broken
9:51 if luke has cut himself from the force ..shouldnt he be living in a place more industrial and less natural were the force is weak?
Because where industries are, people are too?
so? it a whole freaking Galaxy of alien people. its not like every single one of them know who the heck Luke Skywalker is or looks like . and it doesn't mean he would be hiding in the open .
and it would make a whole more sense that of he is cutting himself of the force he would be in a planet that represents the Opposite of the force .. maybe even drugging himself or being drunk living the opposite life of a Jedi
Philip kelton Dude, I think you missed the point of the video. It’s not what makes logical sense, it’s what’s thematically true.
Plus, if you’d want to cut yourself off from everyone and everything you wouldn’t go to a factory, you’d hide out in the most remote location possible. People have heard of Luke Skywalker. Rey, a random scavenger on a backwaters planet that no one gives a shit about has heard of Luke Skywalker.
Plus, plus, Luke knew that nobody alive knew that Ahch-To was this old important planet.
In what world do you live were logical sense and thematically true are not suppose to be aligned with each other?
FIRST .. what is the Idea? IS he HIDING or CUTTING HIMSELF FROM THE FORCE?
if he is just hiding, then its fine. yoda did the same.
BUT he Can NOT Cut himself of the force in a place were the force is at his strongest .. that's just contradictory bullshit and makes no thematic scenes. like representing drowning with healthy breathing sounds
Second ..the most remote place in the galaxy Could have been a freaking space Oil refinery run by droids or A.I or any other place else aside Ahch-To
either the production of the last jedi move the story into a place the setting made no sense or the production of the whole trilogy has no idea what thematic true IS and are just try to hit the note people can feel familiar with from the original trilogy as a way to pander to nostalgia .
also Ray only knows who luke was because the writers , producers, j j abrams though it was convenient.. the same way they though it was convenient to NOT establish the status quo of the state of the galaxy ..which only end up coming back to bite them in the A55 with the last jedi ..
( cause the first order.. a group that its treated as if it was a small terrorist group .. just performed space 9 - 11 by destroying 5 planet of 1 single system in a Galaxy composed by more than 24,372 systems and i'm not sure if that is counting the separatist .. but the last jedi pretends that luke skywalker's legend and Leia's personal gorilla army are somehow important to the fate of the galaxy)
Philip kelton I’m not even going to bother arguing this. Your writing is incomprihendsable, you clearly don’t understand the difference between thematic truth and logical sense (like in its basic definition) and I’ve had way too many thread arguments like this where nobody is happy in the end because there is no end.
It’s Dagobah
🙂
Am I the first one to point out that you are missing a few million views and subs?
I get confused with Sullust and Mustafar
3:49 „Living in an older, more civilized age?“
You do know that the ruins they live in were built by Sith
That came later in comics (wich George Lucas never gave a shit, for him the only canon was the movies and Clone Wars). When A New Hope was made, the place was a ruin of a random ancient civilization
@@marca8368 cool. didnt know that
Star warS planetS are unrealiStiC SSSSSS SSSS SSSSSSSS
turn your treble down mate
10:38 i was actually taking your argument about the weather seriously till this moment.
Moon
dAgobah
>makes a video about the terrain of Star Wars planets.
>skips the prequels
EXCUSE ME, WHAT THE FUCK?
Pro.
It's Dagobah, with an A
Only planets
Dagobah isn't spelled Degobah
*Dagobah, not Degobah
Good job on OT, skipped the prequels, excuse to praise TLJ... wow
do a video on The Last Jedi and how it divided the fan base
Loved how you covered ach to as a way to conclude it all, being that it is your favourite planet and that you saw on it the pure representation of what this video is about, how planets have life in their own way in the Star Wars Universe.
For that reason, I was disgusted when you presented NOTHING about the prequel trilogy, just less than two minutes and lazily said: we begin here we end here. (When actually they end in tatooine) the thing is. You presented a thoughtful analysis but then you mistreated your own work by dismissing any chance of expanding on the many layers that the prequels explore. I like this video, but it could have been so much more had you not betrayed yourself and this video like that.
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Wtf you skipp prequels but praise Ach-Tho
So sad
Han didn't shoot first!
#DontBelieveThePropaganda
Well they are not completely unrealistic. We have found mono ecosystem planets, Esspesially frozen amd desert planets. I meam its not 100% but I wouldnt say its 100% unrealistic either
Avatar sequels...
You didn't just skip over the Prequels ew
Star wars has been destroyed. MCU is the new starwars.
Fake ass clown
Waaah waaah Lucas good Disney bad childhood ruined waaah waaah
@Joker ??? I think your confusing the MCU with the DCU
Ok cool.
@Joker ??? You said MCU is shit. I reacted to that that i think u confused MCU with the DCCU
*Dagobah
*Dagobah