The good folks over at Coffee With Kenobi kindly asked me to contribute a blog to their excellent string of articles, and I was only to happy to oblige. I take a look at the possible use of flashbacks in Episode VII and the language employed in the series so far.
So, flashbacks. How would they be used? Spielberg kicks off each of his Indiana Jones movies with the end of the previous adventure, be it Colorado in Last Crusade, Shanghai in Temple of Doom, Peru in Raiders or Area 51 in Crystal Skull. Only Last Crusade was a true flashback, looking to Indys youth before segeuing neatly into his search for the cross of Coronado while onboard the Vasquez de Coronado. Could Episode VII begin ‘back in the day’ with a young Leia mid-adventure, linking in somehow to the Episode VII storyline? Why not, rumours abound that Star Wars Rebels and Episode VII share some characters and story points, so a younger Leia element might be pertinent. Or perhaps the flashback would happen during the flow of the story in lieu of that other informative device – exposition, a tool that can be cumbersome if employed incorrectly.
