Leonardo DiCaprio on the Stunning ‘Star Wars’ Influences in His New Movie

Strolling out of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest masterpiece, One Battle After One other, you’ll be serious about a whole lot of issues. Its story of a father and daughter. Its many parallels to trendy society. The filmmaking, the humor, and extra. One thing you definitely won’t be serious about, nonetheless, is a galaxy far, far-off, but the film’s star, Leonardo DiCaprio, disagrees.

In two new interviews, the Oscar-winning star of Titanic, The Revenant, and Inception mentioned Star Wars in relation to One Battle After One other. The primary was chatting with USA Today, the place he went deep about his character’s costume. Bob is a former revolutionary bomb professional stoner who’s pressured out of his consolation zone to search out and save his daughter. For almost all of the movie, he wears a protracted, pink gown, which DiCaprio says he noticed as nearly a superhero cape. Then, he additionally wears a set of wraparound cataract-protecting sun shades, which he selected for a really particular cause.

“There’s the bizarre Star Wars theme to this film,” DiCaprio stated. “I had this imaginative and prescient of those wraparound optical glasses like Boba Fett. These are those I had to decide on.”

What does he imply by “the bizarre Star Wars theme,” although? He mentioned that on the Big Picture podcast.

“There’s a lot intricate thought put in and layering to what’s basically a form of motion movie a few father attempting to get again to his daughter. I in contrast it to Star Wars in a whole lot of methods,” he stated on the podcast. “You’ve got the bounty hunters. You’ve got Princess Leia. You’ve got Yoda. You’ve got Darth Vader, but it surely’s saturated in [the] actual world. The world that we dwell in proper now. It’s holding a mirror as much as society. And the truth that [Anderson] began serious about this 20 years in the past. The truth that it’s so extremely topical to the world and the struggles that we’re coping with now in society. The truth that nobody appears to be listening to at least one one other. That there’s extremism on either side, and the conviction that each one these characters consider of their ideology. That they really feel that they’re proper. And to me, you may see movies which have a whole lot of thought put into them.”

As a result of, very similar to One Battle After One other, Star Wars isn’t nearly Luke, Han, and Leia. It’s about far more. And sure, you may say that about seemingly each different film, however One Battle After One other is certainly a few group of rebels preventing in opposition to an oppressive authorities after which subsequently occurring an journey to avoid wasting a girl they care about who was captured, all whereas being hunted by an unstoppable evil, who has his personal troopers. There’s even a form of Dying Star trench motion scene on the finish. Kind of.

Now, can we 100% agree with DiCaprio right here? Probably not. The parallels are free, at finest. Nevertheless it’s undoubtedly enjoyable how he’s attempting to equate this distinctive, authentic story of affection, worry, hope, and heroism to a different in style film about the identical factor. Plus, there’s at all times these Boba Fett sun shades.

One Battle After One other, which co-stars Star Wars: The Final Jedi‘s Benicio del Toro, is now in theaters.

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