>>104025560It's not about taste. That's what I'm getting at. Lucas likes to reference a LOT. I mean what is Star Wars but just reference after reference?
And that's ok. Reworking other things can result in new good stuff. Isn't that the basis of rap?
Anyways, the diner scene not being "grungy" enough isn't about taste. It's about execution. There is a tradition of, like I said, the detective going to a diner/bar/shady hole and getting some insight on the case.
But Dex's fails that. It looks like he's going to a fast food restaurant and asking the burger flipper something important.
There isn't enough visual storytelling to say to the audience that Dex knows his shit.
THAT'S the core of the failure of that scene. The visuals do not tell us Dex should know about a rare Kamino dart that is so fucking rare that the Jedi don't have any archive about even the whole planet it came from.
Like I said before, I get what Lucas wanted to do. Dex's diner is all shiny and nice, but he's dark and has history.
You know how you tell that visually. You show the front end of the Diner as nice and clean, Obi Wan comes up and talks to Dex and shows the dart.
Then Dex says "Let's go back to my office".
And then we see the back line of the shiny restaurant. It's grimy and dirty and dark.
It's a metaphor for all of Coruscant! Get it?
But nah, George didn't do that.
So instead we have a serious scene where Obi Wan goes to McDonalds to find out about a planet so fucking secret even the Jedi have no idea about it
Do you see how that fails?
