Q: Okay, fine. If Qui-Gon Jinn IS the film’s main character, which STILL doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, how come he doesn’t change or grow as a person in any way, shape or form? In fact, he doesn’t learn a SINGLE LESSON throughout the course of the movie. Isn’t that, like, the most basic rule of storytelling?
A: George Lucas doesn’t play by society’s petty “rules”. He INVENTS rules. He’s a cowboy anarchist independent billionaire filmmaker, like Batman but with a plaid shirt instead of a cape. You watch. In 10 years, films with boring central characters that never grow or change in any way will be where storytelling is AT.
