Why Kylo Ren killed his father

At a glance, the violent choice — killing Han — seems to be clearly the Dark Side choice. And going simply by this movie, it is. But this isn’t just The Force Awakens, it’s a film deliberately built on referencing the past. In this case, Han’s death in the new Death Star, with the heroes watching, is deliberately staged to mirror Obi-Wan Kenobi’s death in the original Star Wars. Along with this, Harrison Ford wanted Han Solo to die, as he states in this quote, "I asked [George Lucas] to ask the writers to kill me off because I thought that it would be good that the character who appeared to have not so much of a complex interweaving with the theme of the force and all that good stuff… [Burps] No, I thought it would be good, uh, if he sacrificed himself in some noble way." Han also died because Harrison Ford had wanted Han Solo to die at least since Return of the Jedi.

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