RELATED: Hollywood Is Going To Learn The Wrong Lessons From Top Gun: Maverickīut, unlike recent installments in Star Wars and the MCU, Top Gun: Maverick goes beyond the callbacks. Like Obi-Wan, it aims to satisfy fans with the return of familiar faces - including a touching scene with Val Kilmer's Iceman - and the reprisal of iconic moments like hot pilots playing sports on the beach and gathering around a bar piano to sing "Great Balls of Fire." But, the Tom Cruise vehicle soared to impressive creative and commercial heights under Joseph Kosinski's direction. Nothing dead can stay dead in a late-capitalist system where executives are only keen to invest money in a project if it already has a built-in audience. It is the product of the same mercenary compulsions that drive Disney's machine. Top Gun: Maverick isn't anyone's idea of an art-house project. This summer's biggest blockbuster, fortunately, offers a better way. Remember the old Spider-Men? Remember their old villains? They're in this one! The movie's plot awkwardly contorts to accommodate its casting. Spider-Man: No Way Home became a gigantic box office success because it promised fans more and better cameos. Now, the cameos seem to be the entire selling point of MCU movies.
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It felt novel when Nick Fury showed up at the end of Iron Man, a fun and unique surprise after a movie that was self-contained and satisfying on its own merits. This increasingly seems like all Disney-owned properties have to offer. "See," they seem to be saying, "We know the meme, too." Whereas the original moment served as a small bit of characterization for Obi-Wan, this only serves as characterization of the show and the diehard Star Wars fans running it. This moment is entirely for the benefit of Star Wars fans. There's no reason, though, for Obi-Wan Kenobi to be similarly attached to a turn of phrase he used once 10 years before. Fans latch onto small things all the time.
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Obi-Wan is skilled and assured enough that he can jump into battle with the four-armed, four-lightsaber-wielding General Grievous, and greet the legendary android with cool confidence. The moment isn't especially important in Revenge of the Sith, except, perhaps, as characterization. In scripting this scene, writers Joby Harold, Andrew Stanton, and Hossein Amini are working firmly in meta territory, taking a moment from Revenge of the Sith which became a meme among Star Wars fans, and folding it - freighted with 17 years of assigned meaning - back into the context of the canonical work itself.
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