There are a number of regular elements that make up most Star Wars films. Apart from the requisite awesome music and VFX there are missing limbs and vast, bottomless drops. Den of Geek takes a look at this odd, guard rail-less phenomenon.
I don’t know about you, but I go about my day-to-day life interacting with almost zero chasms. Sometimes at the food court at the shopping centre there’s a 20 foot drop to the cart selling phone covers, but that’s about it. It just isn’t a feature of contemporary architecture, and I’m grateful for it.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away however, man-made chasms are an essential feature of your standard living/workplace, especially if your workplace is a bit of a fascist allegory. You can’t have the bowels of something without the requisite piping, and so it is we see huge drops into unseeable depths throughout the Star Wars universe. Invariably, people fall into them, but lessons are not learned.
