A HEROINE’S JOURNEY REY’S ADVENTURE BEGINS

USING THE OPENING ACT OF REY’S ADVENTURE IN THE FORCE AWAKENS, TRICIA BARR CONTINUES HER EXPLORATION OF THE HERO’S JOURNEY.

In a January 2013 tweet, Slashfilm’s Peter Sciretta posed a question: “Who said the lead character in Star Wars: Episode VII is going to be a male star?” The internet reacted. In some circles very enthusiastically, in other places not so favorably. Speaking shortly after the opening of The Force Awakens, screenwriter Michael Arndt confirmed that the earliest story pitch from Kathleen Kennedy had been an “origin story of a female Jedi.” Storytelling is an organic process, which often involves running toward an idea you love only to watch it blow up magnificently or fizzle into an ignominious nothingness. Arndt has also noted that his earliest versions of the script involved Luke joining Rey’s journey earlier in the movie, but that “any time Luke showed up, it suddenly became his…

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