![]() ![]() (Given that it’s a new Star Wars trilogy, surely someone will be tempted eventually, and when they are, you can be sure that they’ll start sporting darker hues.) But Star Wars fans who know Abrams, and who know a little bit about the sartorial tastes of Jedi and Sith Lords, should start preparing themselves for the likelihood that on Dec. And he, like anyone, could once again be tempted by the dark side of the Force. So, sure, it could turn out that Luke is now Evil Luke, or that Luke is Kylo Ren, or that Luke has really let himself go and become Jabba the Hutt. I’m not going to bat at the hornets’ nest that is the ending of Lost, but arguably the same thing is also true of that show (which Abrams helped create) as well as Cloverfield (which Abrams produced). Everyone assumed it was an alien creature. In the lead up to the release of Super 8, viral teasers showed a sort of literal mystery box, in this case the car of a freight train, from which something was trying to escape. In the run up to Star Trek Into Darkness, the marketing team refused to confirm the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, and in fact Abrams and others lied directly to journalists, saying he wasn’t who everyone thought he was: Khan. Certainly it’s the unifying feature of the way his movies are marketed!īut the not-so-well–kept secret of Abrams’ mystery boxes is that they tend to contain … pretty much exactly what you expect. He’s given whole TED talks about the idea of the Mystery Box, and it’s been at the center of profiles of him, and it’s arguably the unifying concept in his whole filmography. ![]() Abrams likes to talk up the concept of the Mystery Box-unlabeled boxes with unknown contents, with the idea being that the mystery is more enjoyable than the revelation. This also conforms to a pattern in JJ Abrams’ movies. Have you ever seen a Star Wars villain wear a robe like that? Check out the beard, but more importantly, check out the robe. That’s because a set photo of Mark Hamill leaked a couple months ago, before quickly getting scrubbed from most of the Web. Meanwhile, no one really needed to tell us that Kylo Ren was evil: We just looked at his black robe and red lightsaber ( another dead giveaway) and instinctively we knew it.īut thankfully-and here’s where I think we move from speculation to spoiler territory-we don’t really need to confirm the color of the robe in that shot, and we don’t even really need to confirm that it’s Luke. Count Dooku starts out as an ( at least ostensibly) more ambiguous character, and wears brown mixed with black. In fact, any character whose status is uncertain, who may be at risk of falling to the Dark Side, always wears brown mixed with black: In Return of the Jedi, when Luke is tempted by Vader and the Emperor to turn to the Dark Side-this is the key source of suspense in the movie’s final battle-he wears brown mixed with black. Darth Maul, General Grievous, and Darth Vader? Black, black, and black-except when he’s young Anakin Skywalker, which is when he moves from tan (when he’s just a child) to, in some pretty clear foreshadowing, brown mixed with black. Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, and Yoda? Brown, brown, and brown. The evil Emperor Palpatine? He always wears black. The great Obi-Wan Kenobi? He always wears brown.
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