We spoke to Jon Favreau about ‘The Mandalorian’ references: “The scale grows, so we have World War II cinema as a reference.”
Star Wars continues to give us joy, at least in series format. The medium has known how to explore the distant, distant galaxy better than ever with references of all kinds and, to prove it, this unexpected connection between season 3 of ‘The Mandalorian’ and World War II.
“We always have classic cinema as a reference because Star Wars is a genre in itself“Jon Favreau, the enlightened creator of the series, assures us. “He generally makes references to other genres such as westerns, saturation movies, World War II movies…”
In previous seasons of ‘The Mandalorian’, his fast, brave and fun adventures allowed us to cross genres and references without ever abandoning the essence of the saga. We spent de Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone while they reminded us of Kazuo Koike or John Carpenterproper names that supported Mando’s misadventures.
“In this season the scale grows, so we have as a reference, as George Lucas did, the cinema of the Second World War and the classic way in which big battles were depicted,” says Favreau. “We always looked for that cinematic inspiration, like George did.”
The aerial battles in this season are epic enough to be compared to some of the scenes in the best airplane movies, but if we really want to listen to the filmmaker (and we always do), We have to review our list with the best movies about World War II to keep up to date with what ‘The Mandalorian’ is giving us.
‘The great escape’ (John Sturges, 1963) and ‘A man sentenced to death has escaped’ (Robert Bresson, 1956) were already present in ‘Andor’, that surprise that managed to reach the top of the best Star Wars series , but there are not few who they are finding in ‘The Mandalorian’ enough excuses to talk about ‘Rome, Open City’ (Roberto Rossellini, 1945), ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ (1957) and even ‘The Dirty Dozen’ (Robert Aldrich, 1967).
Also creator for Disney+ of ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ together with Dave Filoni, Favreau assures that he does not want to make Star Wars movies because “here it seems that we continue in the same conversation in which the public reacts and we make the next season” .
In full presentation of the third season of ‘The Mandalorian’, the filmmaker clarifies that he has just “finished writing season four, it has been released and we are in the post-production of ‘Ahsoka’ and ‘Skeleton Crew’ so I love this It reminds me of the old days, playing ‘Dungeons and Dragons’, when every week we had a new adventure and we seem to continue the conversation.”
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