Posted on 12/29/2018 8:47:17 AM PST by EdnaMode
Today is the last Friday of the year, and also the last day that Twitter is featuring #SWRepMatters, a Twitter campaign designed to talk about representation in all forms in the Star Wars universe. This runs the gamut from racial and ethnic representation to sexuality to disabled rep, with each month focusing on a new identity. As the year comes to a close, the founders of the event have used today to talk about the ways in which Star Wars did right by rep this year, and where they still need to grow.
We’re a year out from Episode IX now, and none of the films have included a character who identifies as being part of the LGBT+ community. Fans have speculated about the character of Poe Dameron, played by Oscar Isaac, since he bit his lip and offered Finn (John Boyega) his jacket.
Screenwriter Jon Kasdan and star Donald Glover implied that Lando Calrissian might be pansexual, but the onscreen rep for that seems to be his romantic interest in his female-identified droid rather than any actual flirtation or romance with a male character. Rian Johnson said there was no room for sexuality in his film The Last Jedi, all while talking about how Rey and Kylo’s fingers touching is a sex scene.
Now, we’re four films into the new Star Wars, some might say. Give them time. But the problem is is that we shouldn’t have to wait in 2018, almost 2019, for a major franchise that’s been around for over 40 years to recognize that LGBT+ characters might exist. A line about Poe’s boyfriend wouldn’t have dragged down The Last Jedi any more than an unnecessary shirtless Kylo Ren scene did.
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I thought TLJ was SO bad I ignored Solo: A Star Wars Story.
I just saw it last week, and then bought it. If you haven’t, you should check it out. You will be pleasantly surprised.
Star Wars these days IS pretty gay.
Kenneth McMillan really made “Dune.”
Flash was campy, but still great. It helped having great actors in the supporting roles, too. It’s unfortunate they never made the trilogy as planned.
To be honest, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was much more intelligent and less creepy in the books than in the movie. A lot of fans would agree. But then, although I read all the books, I didn’t really like them too much.
My brother met Glover, called him a “weird dude”. I bet the robosexuality was his idea.
Threepio is gay as hell, probably doesn’t qualify as a “hero” though.
I know a lot of true fans hated the Lynch film. I became a fan because of the film. I figure if you’re going to do a memorable villain, make him as outrageous as you can. McMillan’s Baron was deranged and scary. The later miniseries remake with some corpulent English actor was so bland as to be utterly forgettable.
Because women don’t think about how gross fecal orifice obsession is or getting fisted or turning out 16-18 year old twinks at parties by middle-aged queers or knob polishing right after multiple anus sex....homosexual men have a LOT OF PARTNERS
And so forth
Homosexuals are witty charming and creative and beautiful yet non threatening to stupid daft fag hag women
That’s why
Try telling a homo loving doyenne just exactly what homosexual men do to one another
And watch her head explode
“ no no no I don’t want to hear it”
Actually I liked Flash Gordon.
It was a trilogy in a sense.
Dino DiLaurentis made comic book movies out of Barbarella, Diabolik, and Flash Gordon.
Cooler than the so-called Marvel Universe series if you ask me.
But how would you...?
no, nevermind!
ask these hags if they get turned on watching video of two men penetrating one another.
Is that the character Jodorowsky was going to have Orson Welles play in the original mid-70s (pre-Star Wars) adaptation of Dune?
It almost went into production, financing fell apart, and people from the production team went on to make Alien, Blade Runner, and other movies.
Pink Floyd was to provide the soundtrack (and they’d scored numerous films), cast was to include David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, and Salvador Dali. Maybe even Groucho Marx.
They figure if they get married it doubles their wardrobe.
>>. To the extent it’s not a war movie, it fails. And one could argue, it has failed.
It’s not a war movie anymore, it’s a long drawn out soap opera about one family in the entire universe who muck up the rest of existence for everyone else.
And there are a handful of characters in galaxies of uncounted infinite personas who have any relevance to the story even across several generations.
If a man is not interested in a woman and she wants him to be, she’ll call him a fag and question his manhood.
And if he says she’s fat or if he is persuing (or attached) to another, she’ll go balistic.
Yes, with Salvador Dali as the Emperor Shaddam IV (!). It would’ve been a very curious version to witness as a feature film. Obviously, Lynch was influenced by it (and possibly even the “Flash Gordon” ‘80 producers). A potential weak spot of it was the plan to have his young son play Paul Atreides (although he’d have been closer in age to the actual character). Fortunately in Lynch’s version, Kyle MacLachlan was able to do a good job with it.
Do you think that the more it behaves like a family soap opera and SJW drama, rather than a war movie, the more it fails? (There’s also Lucas’ quasi-Eastern-religious aspect too.)
Going into the next one, the rebellion has almost died out. In fact, the Star Wars brand has almost died out. One family’s relationships and SJW politics won’t save the rebellion, or the brand. A full blown war movie is literally its last hope.
Have you seen Solo?
LOL
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