From the beginning, George Lucas had a particular perspective on the look and feel of the foot soldiers of his Galactic Empire. The Stormtrooper would ask for a specific image in the real world wars: "the Imperial people look hard working, non-racist, and like the Falcists" according to war correspondent and costume designer John Mollo in Making Star Wars. It is designed for they look like bones, war tornadoes made a terrifying look at A New Hope, aboard a captured Rebel ship, and climbing the corpses of their fallen comrades.
The stormtrooper is one of the best cartoons from Star Wars, and successive sequels, pre-sequels, sideways, binding novels, video games, and comic books reinforce the image and design languages of that original outfit. A New Hope reference to their industrial and uniform status with the reference discarded in “Clone Wars.”
Years later, Lucas voiced that argument, and voiced its terrible nature. Millions of men, formed from one anointed hunter, were born for one purpose: war. When we first saw them in action, taking off the white armor by the Battle of Geonosis in the climax of the film, they worked flawlessly against their robotic enemies, took out the droids, and showed no remorse for their fallen colleagues.
For all that star Wars is about the epic battle between good and evil, the introduction of clone soldiers put a huge amount of moral and moral responsibility on the treaty, and when Lucas started Clone Wars An animated series in 2008, it did something exciting: it made men less masks and made one of the most complex and compelling stories of the franchise.
On the pulpit until the 1977 release A New Hope, previous reports and snippets of magazines that seriously undermine robotic storms. It's not hard to see why: Their white weapons, precise marches, and bureaucracy adhere to any trace of humanity. The instinctive killing came with the appearance of efficiency.
But in all that uniforms took away your appearance on the battlefield, Lucas thought of real men and women wearing uniforms. Storms were people with complex beliefs, intentions, and motives, which none of the military assets could fully remove. The personality pieces leak under the protective helmets: the two lonely soldiers gossip about driving and the new VT-16 (which saw a heap of headaches in Rogue One), and later, during the opening sessions of J.J. Abrams & # 39; The Army Awakens, watching as one storm, shaken and pressured by violence on the battlefield, takes off his helmet and decides to head out into the desert. Later in the trilogy on Skywalker awakening, we learned that he was not alone: some troops were forced to lay down their arms during battle, failing to follow their formidable orders.
But it was something of Lucas and Dave Filoni Clone Wars series where we see this complex story playing out in great detail.
Attack Of The Clones notify the soldiers in the lab, too Revenge of the Sith they show their identity. From the film's first production meetings Lucas revealed that he wanted the battalions to be separated and individualized, emphasizing that they had developed their own distinctive personality during the war, leading to the armedization of different color patterns.
Other writers once took a picture when looking at the lives of the Empire and its file, such as Doug Beason's short story "When You Turn the Wilderness: The Stormtrooper & # 39; s Tale. ”But with Clasfilm's Glasfilm publishing project, the writers managed to turn the troops into fully-formed characters.
Aaron's first story, "The Pengalan Tradeoff," shows the transition from unnamed soldiers to specific individuals. The story follows a Republican intelligence agent named Joram Kilthe, who was assigned to a rebel group that is starting to invade the planet. When their rifle is lowered by enemy fire, he sees the brutal efficiency of the clones: When Joram works to find their best footpath, he realizes they will have to leave for three or four days to be safe.
“In addition, sir, unless we offer our injured person. Let's get caught or put down. She can't walk. "
"Put him down." Joram became convinced of the cold blooded culture. "How do you feel about the prospect of putting her down?"
The soldiers look uncomfortable. If it is his duty, it is his duty, and ours, sir. But we wouldn't do it if it wasn't. ”
When Joram spends more time with his head-tied friends, he discovers that despite their appearance, they are a lot of people: he encourages them to give their names: When they cross the planet, Joram notices that they are completely different.
Some of the following novels, especially the Karen Traviss & # 39; Republic Commando series, take the same track. To tie up the video game Republic Commando, his first novel, Hard Contact, followed by another special group of armed terrorists when they were first sent to an enemy-dominated planet, but they would be separated from each other when their vehicle collision collided.
Whereas a standard binding novel could be incorporated into something completely different from a video game or movie, Traviss's novel ended up being a thoughtful reflection on the nature of war and the impact it had on the people who commanded it. His bones, Niner, Darman, Fi and Atin, all orphans from their original parts and through the eyes of the Jedi Padawan they connect with, Traviss investigates the brutality of their situations and training, follows them as they work to come to their intended purpose, and emphasizes their humanity.
The Clones may have looked like they were perfectly suited to outsiders, but each group was slightly altered by the governing effects of their experiences, including the influence of coaches.
In addition, Traviss instilled a sense of function within the clones, especially as they began to understand the awesome purpose of a lifetime. When the troops entered Revenge of the Sith obey the command to kill any of their Jedi generals on the site, Traviss falls for another motive: the military forces take their presence into their hands, killing the people they used as a weapon in a brutal battle.
Many of those themes move on The Clone Wars The animated series in 2008, which introduced clone terrorist forces: Echo, Blitz, Colt, Fifth, Hammer, Havoc, Denal, Shiv, Boil, Comet, Draa, Fifth, Hardcase, Jek, Jesse, -Kix, Scythe, Scark, Square, Waxer, Sinker, Boost, Dogma, Tup, Keeli, Lock, Bow, Tire, and most importantly, Captain Rex. In the first episode of the show, Firon works to highlight the personality of the trucks, as Yoda invites a group of athletes to take off their hats, telling them that he recognizes that even though the same appearance appears, they are human. We take off their helmets, we see that they have different haircuts, tattoos and names.
Mainstay main characters like Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and others, Rex provided a useful view of the audience. Well-trained and in a position to remain loyal to the Republic, he punished a man who worked poorly at the beginning of the war, and threatened to report him. The shooter (who received the name Cut Laqwuane) responded by describing the condition of his plane, emphasizing the situation in which they were born: “Everyone I cared about, my team, is gone. I'm just another person who could work waiting for my opportunity to be killed in a war I didn't know. ”
Rex's vision changes as the war progresses. During the Umbara arc in Season 4, he and his subordinates find a new, ruthless general, General Krell, who calls them by their numbers, and sends them in haste in situations where they know they will be slaughtered. A great moment for Rex, who later said: “I always believed that being a good soldier meant doing everything they were told. That is how engineers are. But we are not droids. We are not organized. ”
When given impossible instructions, he blurts out in Krell: “Follow your orders. Even when it comes to strategy, that was my opinion, it has some serious flaws. A tactic that has been lost to us men. (takes off his hat) Not kneeling! Ladies! Certainly as it is my duty to remain faithful to your command, and I have another task: to protect those men. ”
This is one of the biggest contributions Clone Wars brings to star Wars Franchise. While the series stimulates i weak parts in the Prequel trilogy, it moves away from the light-vs.-black dichotomy that defines the franchise. By looking at the clones not as a way to get more action but as a way of looking at the horrors of war, Firon and Lucas have been able to tell a story that none of the past star Wars movies he had been able to tell, even though they were named. Watching the battle through the eyes of its attackers, they pushed back to some of the real world wars that inspired the first film, and, in turn, told some of its most suspected legal issues in the franchise.
