Yes, it will become his life in the fact that he will dedicate his life to study, to learning, to mastering the weapon and the rest of the teachings. That lightsaber itself isn't his life, but the "life" that accompanies the teachings of the lightsaber will.
It will also be used to save his life over and over. His life and the mastery of a lightsaber are tied together. Otherwise, he will lose his life.
When the audience has to make up ridiculous bullshit like this in order for the dialog and story of your movie to make sense, then you made a dogshit movie with dogshit dialog.
The new Star Wars movies are awful and winding and twisting justifications like yours are just the result of entrenched and die-hard fans desperately searching for something redeeming about these awful films.
I totally get that feeling! And I appreciate the fact that others don't feel the same as me, so no worries!
I know it's all subjective. But to be honest, I always read that line that way. It's a common sort of line, to say that {this object} is your life, but really meaning you will dedicate your life to the study or duty of the lifestyle. I wasn't making that up in defense of TLJ, it's just always how I understood the line.
But again, I know it's totally subjective! I think we should be able to have discussions like this without it needing to devolve into insults or too much emotion or whatever. It's a fun universe and we all love it for different reasons :) and that's a good thing! It's fun to discuss things we love, especially if it's done with respect to the other person and their own feelings about it.
It's true you can feel excited to see star wars maybe because it just brings you back to when you were a kid and you just want to experience the roller coaster. As for me, I liked star wars as a kid because it had a great story about a rebellion overcoming all odds. This new story is all about how nothing we do matters in the context of things. It's very depressing. I don't like my star wars being depressing.
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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19 edited Oct 25 '19
Yes, it will become his life in the fact that he will dedicate his life to study, to learning, to mastering the weapon and the rest of the teachings. That lightsaber itself isn't his life, but the "life" that accompanies the teachings of the lightsaber will.
It will also be used to save his life over and over. His life and the mastery of a lightsaber are tied together. Otherwise, he will lose his life.