Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 10 Design Secrets You Probably Didn't Know
2. Rey’s Climbing Through Starkiller Was A Tribute To The Original's Visual Style
We all know that The
Force Awakens’ is a pretty strong mirror to A New Hope (with
dashings of The Empire Strikes Back) to a pretty extreme level, but beyond key story beats there’s
some moments that are so subtly executed it’s very easy to miss.
Take Rey’s climbing through Starkiller Base after tricking James Bond into setting her free. On paper that appears to be a payoff of her earlier athleticism in the crashed Star Destroyer on Jakku, but as an original idea it was intended as a parallel to the visual stylings of the Death Star in A New Hope and how George Lucas created the sense of vertical scale with the massive chasms (specifically the tractor beam power controls and Luke and Leia’s swing).
It really is all like poetry: it rhymes.