Reading comprehension

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
1

Hello!
I have the paragraph:
‘The wait is over. The movie event of the year is here. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, number seven in the series for those who wouldn’t know a Jedi from a Jar Jar, emerges bloody with unrealistic expectations but gloriously unbowed. It’s everything the kid in us goes to the movies for — marvelous adventure that leaves us surprised, scared and euphoric. So let out a Wookiee roar for director J.J. Abrams who sweeps us out of the black hole of George’s Lucas’ trilogy of paralyzingly dull Star Wars prequels and into a brave new world.
Okay, not quite. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is basically an updated remake of Star Wars: A New Hope, the 1977 Lucas original that changed the face of movie space epics and made us all one with the Force. Now it’s three decades later. Our heroes have a little age on them, they being Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford). It’s great that Chewbacca, C3Po and R2D2 look exactly the same. The newbies are repped by Rey (Daisy Ridley), a desert scavenger abandoned by her family on Jukku; Finn (John Boyega), an AWOL stormtrooper with little taste for killing; and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), a pilot working for Leia, a princess turned general who now leads the Resistance.
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  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a movie that will not be enjoyed by adults.
    A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn’t say
  2. The author of the article considers the Star Wars prequels to be extremely boring.
    A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn’t Say
  3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a modern version of a 1977 movie.
    A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn’t Say
  4. Finn, one of the characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, doesn’t mind killing.
    A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn’t say
  5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens became the most successful movie in 2015.
    A. Right B. Wrong C. Doesn’t say
    The answer key gives: 1-B; 2-A; 3-B; 4-B; 5-C.

Why 3. is B? I think it is A.
Thank you for your time!

2

It isn’t a re-writing of the same movie, so it’s not a modern version of that movie. It is a completely different plot.

3

The question seems debatable to me.

As it goes, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens is basically an updated remake of Star Wars: A New Hope…”
If it’s a remake—‘ a film or television series that is based on an earlier work and tells the same, or a very similar, story’—then it’s not a sequel. If it’s a sequel introducing the heroes with “a little age on them”, then you couldn’t refer to it as an updated remake, could you?

Another question arouse: shouldn’t “of George’s Lucas’ trilogy” be “of George Lucas’ trilogy”?

4

It’s NOT actually a remake, as you discover if you read the excerpt in its entirety. Answering A for 3 shows the reader has fallen into the trap of taking one single part and reading it literally. However, this is not a literal truth. The word ‘basically’ indicates that the writer’s opinion is that the premise is the same. However, that paragraph goes on to explain how the plot differs from the original film.

It should actually be “… of George Lucas’s trilogy.” I assumed a typo.