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THE MANDALORIAN Star Wars Disney + Jon Favrau Spaghetti Western simplicity universal themes anti-hero baby Yoda -

THE MANDALORIAN has taken the world by storm. Disney+’s flagship inaugural series, the show has accomplished one of the rarest feats in entertainment of recent years. It’s a piece of Star Wars media that seemingly almost everyone agrees is great. How has the show (and specifically writers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni) done this? The answer is devastatingly obvious in hindsight. Simplicity. The show is about the titular Mandalorian, a clear inheritor of the Clint Eastwood Man With No Name archetype, essentially a spaghetti Western antihero transplanted into the world of Star Wars. The Mandalorian’s visual similarity to Boba Fett...

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