The Force Awakens Adam Driver as Kylo Ren - Part 1

[Mrs Vimes]

OMG I want that cat!

 

[Superwoman Prime]

That was very spot on.

Thanks.

 

[jokesonm3]

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

heh I saw that earlier. haha its so funny.

 

[titansupes]

Is there more of this? A video?

 

[jokesonm3]

Is there more of this? A video?

Not sure, found it on Reddit lol.

 

[Brother Jack]

Astrix for Luke. Also note that Anakin loved Padme despite everyone believing it was wrong to do so. Luke believed his father could be redeemed despite everyone believing it was hopeless. Both men were pretty darn confident in their own feelings, willing to risk everything to go after what they believed (when they were all alone in believing so).

Luke and Leia each take after their parents, honestly.

Leia believed that of Ben before Han's death. She was betting on her son making the right choice as Luke did with Vader but she was wrong. So I don't know where her headspace will be going forward. I don't know if she'll abandon hope for Ben or still cling to the belief that he can be redeemed.

 

[superkong 500]

whole video[YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8uaHtesie8[/YT]

 

[titansupes]

whole video[YT]z8uaHtesie8[/YT]

Fixed.

EDIT: That was weirder than I thought it was going to be.

 

[jokesonm3]

 

[Kylo Ren]

Hello there.

 

[jaqua99]

Vader>Voldemort

 

[Slade W]

Vader>Voldemort

The movie Voldemort, definitely. Voldemort from the book is better than Vader IMO. He is a much more interesting character for me.

 

[Drizzle]

I personally wouldn't call Voldemort more interesting, but I would say he's more evil than Vader because he is essentially pure evil. Palpatine is a more appropriate comparison to Voldemort than Vader. Vader fell from grace but was later redeemed. There was no humble beginning or last minute conversion for Voldemort.

 

[Loki882]

Voldemort actually has a surprising number of similarities with Anakin. Came from a trouble background (his father abandoned his mother, who died when was very young), raised in difficult circumstances, developed into immensely talented but also deeply troubled young men with psychopathic tendencies, and eventually turn into power-mad fascistic mass murderers.

Really the big difference is that Voldemort also has the racism angle (JK Rowling described as a "self-hating bully" in an interview once).

 

[Octoberist]

Voldemort > Pre-Darth Vader Anakin

 

[Loki882]

Well yeah, he was a far better written character played by a far better actor.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Pablo Hidalgo co-wrote the story for the padawan Ben VR experience and some of the Lucasfilm Story Group were involved:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...star-wars-virtual-reality-20160315-story.html
http://www.starwars.com/news/step-i...g-trials-on-tatooine-with-ilmxlabs-rob-bredow

"Trials on Tatooine" begins with the trademark "Star Wars" crawl, informing viewers -- players -- that a young Kylo Ren is beginning his training with Luke Skywalker to become a Jedi. Its first few minutes are somewhat passive, as the Falcon arrives and Han Solo, never seen, speaks to his son. It becomes more interactive the second R2-D2 delivers Ren a blue lightsaber.

"Sorry, kid," says Solo, making it clear that this isn't a lift home.

But the second the lightsaber came into possession I stopped worrying about the loneliness of a young, still ostensibly good Ren.

I'm not 100% on it yet being canon (even with Lucasfilm Story Group involvement) or inspired by what is going to be the canon backstory.

UPDATE 2016-03-18: I've read a bunch of other reviews besides the LA Times one, and they're not mentioning anything about Ben/Kylo Ren in their reviews. So either the LA Times was wrong/read too much into it, or the other reviews are withholding information.

 

[Mask&Cape]

Does the TFA novelisation specify when Ben Solo went to the Dark Side or how long Luke has been missing?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

No. But the upcoming novel Star Wars: Bloodlines supposedly does. It has a release date one month from now.

 

[Marvolo]

Kylo Ren burns his enemies to ash and keeps them in his room!

In the scene where Kylo Ren interrogates Rey, Ren removes his mask and slams it down in a tray filled with ash. So what was the purpose?

J.J. Abrams on the ash:

The backstory is, that that table has the ashes of the enemies he’s killed. That moment [when he places his helmet down] was actually shot for, and meant to be used in, the scene where he was talking to the Vader mask.
He originally had his mask off the first time we shot that scene. Then we re-shot it with his mask on, but we had that shot which I loved and thought was so cool of the mask being slammed down into that ash. So that shot was stolen from the scene that we had changed and put into the scene with Rey.
He used to place his mask gingerly onto a piece of the set, which was incredibly unimpressive. So this moment made it a much cooler beat.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/jj-abrams-details-what-kylo-ren-does-with-his-enemies-220


Here is a pic of the ash pit as it was in his personal quarters room and him setting his helmet into them:

How ****ed up is that?! Technically because they moved that shot now the ashes are in the interrogation room but him keeping the ashes of his enemies at all is disturbing.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Even Vader be like, "you are trying to hard kid".

 

[Marvolo]

Even Vader be like, "you are trying to hard kid".

Considering how Vader has treated the sith wannabes in the Vader comics, Im pretty sure he wouldnt like Kylo. He'd probably scheme and get Kylo killed in some horrible way.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Considering how Vader has treated the sith wannabes in the Vader comics, Im pretty sure he wouldnt like Kylo. He'd probably scheme and get Kylo killed in some horrible way.

Nah, Vader loves his blood. He just try and straighten the kid out with a lot of head shaking.

 

[TheVileOne]

Even if the story group says something is canon, they could still change it or alter it later in the films.