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Sort of funny how George Lucas filming the original movie at Pinewood Studios in England makes the common sense decision and cost saving decision to cast English actors in secondary roles and a whole industry is created reading into the racial implications of that decision in the Imperial universe.
1 posted on 11/29/2014 7:28:42 AM PST by C19fan
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Somehow I doubt that he’s playing a stormtrooper anymore than Luke and Han were “stormtroopers” when they went to rescue the princess.


2 posted on 11/29/2014 7:30:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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I thought all the stormtroopers were clones of the bounty hunter.

/johnny

3 posted on 11/29/2014 7:30:22 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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What distinguishes the Star Wars universe from the Star Trek universe is the fact that, outside of the goose-stepping ranks of the Imperial military structure, its universe is pretty chill on race, if not totally post-racial.

BULLSTALIN

Remember the bar scene in the first film?

[Ponda Baba gives Luke a rough shove and starts yelling at Luke in an alien language which Luke doesn't understand]

Dr. Evazan: [explaining] He doesn't like you.

Luke Skywalker: Sorry.

Dr. Evazan: [grabbing Luke] *I* don't like you either. You just watch yourself. We're wanted men. I have the death sentence on twelve systems.

Luke Skywalker: I'll be careful.

Dr. Evazan: You'll be dead!

6 posted on 11/29/2014 7:36:11 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Black Stormtropers?
The storm troopers in Star Wars are clones. Theyare clones of the bounty hunter, Jango Fett.
I don’t see how there could be a black clone from a white bounty hunter. And if memory serves me there are about 3/4 billion clones in the stormtrooper army.
As for being white, Jango Fett was Mandalorian, some alien humanoid race.


8 posted on 11/29/2014 7:37:26 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Muslim Creeping Conquest of America and Canada)
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The writer totally sidestepped any talk of slavery in the Star Wars universe as well.


11 posted on 11/29/2014 7:38:44 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Did people forget Billy D. Williams’ role?


12 posted on 11/29/2014 7:40:33 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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The whole theme of the second movie was that a Black man would betray his friend because he wanted the white woman.

The first, of course, was built around nazi themes and pageantry.


13 posted on 11/29/2014 7:43:22 AM PST by PAR35
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Who ever fits the Stormtrooper Armour gets the job ,D’oh


15 posted on 11/29/2014 7:52:57 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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Also, Luke wasn’t born on tattooine.


23 posted on 11/29/2014 8:16:53 AM PST by Ted Grant
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Hey, they came up with a black Vulcan on that one Star Trek series, so who knew?


31 posted on 11/29/2014 8:59:25 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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On the trailer thread yesterday, somebody reposted a great tweet that went something like this:

The look on the black stormtrooper’s face was when he realized he was only the third black man in the history of the galaxy.

Or,

Stormtrooper just looked under his breastplate armor and realized he was wearing a red shirt...


36 posted on 11/29/2014 1:04:18 PM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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