That’s an interesting–and disheartening–dichotomy. In fact I can’t think of a lot of Black men/white women romances on the big screen in general. There was a discourse about John as a romantic lead a little while back and I’ve been thinking since then, do even undisputed superstars like Denzel Washington and Will Smith count as romantic leads? Will had Mr. Hitch and Denzel had… The Preacher’s Wife? They both have amazing filmographies and commercial success that few actors of any race could rival and yet I don’t think they could be called romantic leading men like Leonardo Dicaprio or Brad Pitt. It seems to be a combination of Hollywood’s distaste for both interracial romances and Black leading women.
There have been several films that Denzel should have had a romance with the co-lead, but because she was white they nixed it because test audiences didn’t like it.
Will, among many other black actors, has had the love interest changed from the original casting call (black) to someone more racially ambiguous to appeal to audiences (usually mixed with light skin or non-black Latina) by studios.
Hollywood is a mess and it’s still in so many ways operating on the 80s & 90s scale of what sales and what won’t, even though a lot of people want better. All I can say is I hope John is able to break that mold. Or at the very least put some more dents in it. He’s on the right track with starting his own production company to make an impact.
Never forget that Rey had been ready and willing to die with Finn on Starkiller base when she thought he was going to die. She didn’t run, she try to find help, she didn’t do anything but lay down next to the boy she adored and wait for the end. At least they would be together in the end.
Finn:*is unconscious*
Kylo: come with me if you want to live
Rey:*looks back at unconscious Finn* guess I’ll die uwu
Found this on reddit, some basic Kylo apologia, just making up its own “facts”:
Really?
It’s only one of the most iconic parts of the Original Trilogy.
I immediately smelled bullshit there. Also OP is in direct contradiction both with Adam Driver’s statement about Kylo Ren’s elitism and with Kylo Ren calling Rey “nothing” because of her family.
I honestly think they saw your meta about Kylo not being a Dark Side character (but still a villain) and decided to respond in a reylo echo chamber. I only saw it because someone on r/StC linked to it.
I thought it seemed like a roundabout reply, too, because the post responded so directly to the points I made. It’s good to know my argument is bothering reylows–and it should, because it targets the heart of their thesis that Kylo Ren is basically Vader except even more victimized. Sucks to be them, though, because they might have had an argument up to TFA (which was what my Rey Solo theorizing–and perhaps yours–was about, trying to fit Kylo into Vader’s mold) but TLJ brutally undercut them and they’re still in denial about it.
Well, maybe. Leia was a Populist senator, after all. I get the feeling that even if the New Republic collapsed and never recovered, the worlds would start building alliances and trade blocs for governance and survival. There was a reason the Republic was created in the first place, after all.
Obviously we don’t know how new canon is going to write its galactic history, but in old canon it was basically colonialist expansion by human inhabited, Core Worlds.
Most of those alliances and trade agreements weren’t entered voluntarily.
I’d also say there’s a hell of a difference between making trade agreements between two more or less equal parties (or more), or having a mutual defense pact going, and be ruled by a central government. Just like the British Empire and US American Imperialism, the Republic was a huge mistake that the galaxy really needs to ditch and then recover from. Though that is going to take some centuries I could imagine.
So its pretty words about democracy and freedom were lies from the start? Its militarist later years weren’t actually a corruption so much as a logical culmination, then. Fuck the Republic, maybe the post-FO destruction will see the emergence of something better.
sorry this may sound dumb but whats the difference
no worries, let me clear this one up. Lexically, there is no difference, as both freedom fighters and paramilitary are English equivalents for guerrillerxs and guerrilla respectively, the difference lies, however on the implications the terms in Spanish and those in English carry.
As I said, linguistically they’re the lexical equivalents and “accurate translations” of both terms. Yet, it’s particularly interesting that Star Wars is deliberately choosing to use the English equivalents and avoid the use of the loan words altogether (which are actually used in English and have a pretty high degree of occurrence).
It’s interesting because of a) the socio-historical and political context in which the OT sees the light (ie: the Cold War, the US intervention on third world countries to stop the ‘threat of communism’ deposing democratically elected left-wing governments and installing dictatorships to protect US interest/ensure control/stop the spread of left-leaning (esp socialist) governments, which in turned caused guerrillas to spring up… do you really think the fact the Rebel Alliance symbol is redis a coincidence and a purely aesthetic choice? More so when ahem GL himself actually hinted the Empire was, in part, meant to take after the imperialist policies of the US at the time); b) the use of said third world countries cultural traumas as plot devices in most of US modern science fiction-oriented media, star wars included.
And I do not find it surprising in the slightest that it was a Latino whose background is tied specifically with the harms of US interventionism (as Oscar is part Guatemalan and part Cuban) the one who reminded everyone that the Resistance (and by extension, the Alliance) are actually guerrillas, and that the FO (and by extension the Empire) can pretty much be read as a symbolism of the US.
It has been brought to my attention that this is Mitaka/Millicent the cat (Hux’s fanon pet). I don’t think it counts since Millicent is not canon and also ewwww anon!
I think more Rogue One, since this is Star Wars and the story has treated these pivotal fights with some dignity and earnestness.
I want IX to finally reach the level of fights that the cinematic trailers for the Old Republic game has. Seriously, those are some of them most impressive and emotional fights in all Star Wars and most of the time there’s no context to what the hell is going on.
Seriously why are the games so many light years ahead of the movies? From KOTOR 2 being more thoughtful and creative about the Force than all the movies combined to a Battlefront 2 single player DLC doing TLJ’s theme better in 40 minutes than TLJ itself did in 2.5 hrs?
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