

Assuming he accepts - something bound to have happened between this episode and Episode VIII, due in 2017 - she will have lured him back into teaching and will have fulfilled, ironically, the dictum of his rogue pupil Kylo Ren, “You need a teacher.” The final image of The Force Awakens will be of another handoff, this time young heroine Rey (Daisy Ridley) offers long-lost Luke his long-lost lightsaber.
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At the same time, these movies are properly classically constructed, and so such moments have multiple payoffs within the movie as well. That sort of meta-availability is inevitable in contemporary blockbuster moviemaking, where lines in the story are just as readily PR lines for the trailer or, in this case, for fan service. THE FIRST WORDS spoken in Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens come from Max von Sydow’s Lor San Tekka: “This will begin to make things right.” He’s talking about the thumb drive he’s handing off that includes a map to gone-monking Luke Skywalker, but he might as well be talking about how this installment will help clear the franchise of the accumulated muck of the prequel trilogy (and, perhaps, the digitally juiced “Special Editions” of the initial films).
