“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (2015) is the seventh Star Wars film, the first one made in ten years, and, arguably, the best one made in over 30 years. J.J. Abrams directs, not George Lucas, which is probably for the better.
Box office: It made a billion dollars in just 12 days, a record. It cost $200 million to make.
Star Wars films to date:
- 1977: Star Wars
- 1980: The Empire Strikes Back
- 1983: Return of the Jedi
- 1999: The Phantom Menace
- 2002: Attack of the Clones
- 2005: Revenge of the Sith
- 2015: The Force Awakens
New ones are set to come out in 2017 and 2019.
The plot is pretty much like the first Star Wars film, more than you would expect, but the special effects are better and the cast is a bit more diverse. The two main heroes are not the usual White men: Rey (Daisy Ridley) is a White woman and Finn (John Boyega) is a Black man.
Two other new characters: BB-8, a droid, and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), the main bad guy. He is the wayward son of Han Solo and Princess Leia.
Because the action takes place just 30 years after the first three films, tons of old favourites appear: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia (now a general), R2-D2, C-3PO, Luke Skywalker and even that piece of junk, the Millennium Falcon.
Race: At the start of the film, Finn was, in effect, a janitor. Groan. But he goes on to save the galaxy. While he is at it, he avoids at least four racist tropes:
- Black Dude Dies First – even though I knew, from People magazine, that he was one of the heroes, I was still afraid he was going to die 20 minutes into the film. Hollywood has me that conditioned. But, amazingly, after he crashes onto the desert world of Jakku, he walks away from the spacecraft alive, but not the White guy he was with!
- Black Best Friend – he does not become Rey’s sidekick, nor does she become his.
- Mock Ebonics – Thank God!
- Noble but Boring Negro – He does not have an actual love life or family life, but he does show moral complexity, being torn between good and evil, between looking out for himself and saving others.
But the film falls into a fifth trope, common in Hollywood and science fiction:
- Humans are White – Finn is a token: all the other main human characters are White!!! (Reminder: only one human in six is White.) The film, therefore, fails the Bechdel Test for Race big-time.
Maz Kanata, an alien who runs a cantina in an old castle on Takodana, sounded like a Black woman to me. Since there are not many Black women in Hollywood, I tried to place her accent. It turned out to be Lupita Nyong’o!
I saw it in 3D, not IMAX. The 3D was good for battle scenes and the 3D maps, but otherwise it drew too much attention to itself.
On the whole, the film was enjoyable but came off as a remix of the first one.
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
- Lupita Nyong’o
- Hollywood whitewashing
- Mock Ebonics
- Bechdel Test for Race
- How to tell if a character is a stereotype
- What if there were a Black Default?
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I’m afraid I have little time for Star Wars. It is dumbed down, juvenile SF. This latest episode may be marginally less racist than previous offerings but this whole style of SF is racist-by-proxy.
As with most science fiction, non-human species or people are portrayed in imagination-fail, shallow, anthropocentric and anthropomorphic terms. Their motivations, emotions, though-processes are defined and judged by human standards.
ETs are depicted almost as POC-analogues. Treated with suspicion even though some of the main (human) heroes best friends may be “aliens”. That Wookie fella, Han Solo’s buddy – isn’t he just a token ET in a role similar to the kind of roles Hollywood writes for POC?
Maybe in the days of rubber-suits there was a budgetary excuse for making so many ETs look like… well, guys in rubber suits. Now, however, with the flexibility offered by CGI I demand more imagination and diversity. In keeping with film makers’ history of insulting the intelligence of their audiences, it is assumed that we can only cope with species that are like us. We can’t identify or empathise with them unless they follow an approximation of a familiar terrestrial body pattern – two eyes, two arms, a head, a mouth, bilateral symmetry.
SF in movies generally just disappoints and irritates me. Good SF is actually my favourite genre but good SF is hard to find. Star Wars certainly isn’t it, IMO.
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*Thought-processes, not “though-processes”.
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Sorry I was was never a fan of this franchise but happy for the black British fellow getting his chance stardom on the big screen.
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So Lupita is a damn creature? Really they kept talking about Lupita starring in the new Star Wars film and this is it? (Groans and Sighs). I guess two black humans would be too much like right. Pfft.
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What is interesting has been the almost immediate backlash from the first trailer that reveals John Boyega as a Black Storm Trooper. Some of this was because the previous canon depicted storm troopers as clones, but some of it CLEARLY was because Boyega was Black.
The Black man White woman pairing has not been scripted as romantic, but it will be interesting if it goes that direction because the racist resistance will then become unmistakable. Not that everybody will object but it will be much harder for racists to hold their tongues if this happens.
To Pumpkin’s point. I knew that Lupita Nyong’o was going to be in the film, I just didn’t know how. I kept waiting for her character to turn up. But she never appeared. After I saw the movie I looked her up and was SORELY disappointed that she appeared only as an old CGI weasel/woman. SORELY DISAPOINTED!
Star Wars began introducing Black men way back in the 80’s with Billy D. Williams as Lando Calrissian. But it has been a universe almost completely devoid of Black women! Not that Black women have not been cast, they have just not been cast “as Black women.”
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This is a major oversight and really needs to be pointed out as much as possible. Not just Black women but Asians and Latinos as well.
Overall, The Force Awakens was better than any other Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back even with the big plot rehash.
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Abagond you were being sarcastic when you said “Not many black women in Hollywood.” I see what you did there. No mention of magical negros.
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I have a previous comment in moderation
The poster “The Cynic” was the first to being this up (in another thread) but curiously Finn (the Black stormtrooper) seems to be uniquely more inept than any hero ever portrayed in the Star Wars universe.
Especially when compared to Rey.
-He can’t pilot a ship
-He’s not a good mechanic
-He gets gives himself hi-5s whenever he actually shoots and hits anything
-He is outrun by Rey
-He is then beaten up by Rey
-Every time he tries to rescue Rey she ends up having to rescue him
-He has no Force powers (or sensitivity)
-He wants to run away and hide from the Obsidian Order (not fight)
-He has a crush on Rey which she has not clearly returned
His only redeeming quality seems to be defined by the fact that is attracted and very loyal to Rey. Aside from that, what good is he? Well, he did have a short sword fight with the bad guy that left him in a coma… Rey kissed his unconscious forehead and left to be trained further in the Force!
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@King: I have no desire to watch this movie so from reading your post the black dude Finn i guess that’s his name it like he is pretty unimpressive. This seems deliberate to me. What’s there to celebrate? It would seem to me if he was going to have such an premiere role they would make him a super kick-ass dude instead of a weak male character. From what i am reading the female character is more interesting than he is. Something is very wrong with this to me. Like i said i have no desire to pay money to see this. And the fact that Lupita is a creature chaps my hide.
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Mary, it also has to be contrasted against Rey (the White protagonist’s) abilities:
-She can’t pilot a ship as good as Han Solo
-She’s a better mechanic than Han Solo on his own ship
-She beats up 3 bigger guys who jump her and the proceeds to beat up Finn
-She rescues Finn several times
-She is the most promising force initiate since Luke Skywalker
-She wants to fight the evil and tries to get Finn to be moral and fight also
-She has to constantly tell Finn to stop trying to hold her hand when they meet
I’m not sure if this is deliberate Black/White racism or just the result of the vision of White Feminism. But yes, it is deliberate.
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^ she CAN pilot a ship as good as Han Solo
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It’s 2015 and I saw no Latino or Asian characters in this movie.
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This film is a poor attempt at showing diversity, Shakes head.
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I’m not sure if this is deliberate Black/White racism or just the result of the vision of White Feminism. But yes, it is deliberate.
At this point, it’s subconscious. Call it “mental conditioning” if you want, but Hollywood can’t bring itself to cast strong black leads in roles that would outshine or subordinate their white counterparts and risk killing a number of beliefs, myths and conceptions about blacks in general.
That’s exactly why it seems like the black co-lead (because really, who’d watch a Star Wars flick that had a black guy as the sole lead?) seems so damned subordinate. He’s just there to help move the plot along and keep certain people from getting upset over a supposed lack of diversity. Rey’s the star of the film and the audience knows it.
If there’s a sequel, I fully expect Finn to be killed off or put on a bus so he no longer becomes Rey’s ball and chain.
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The star of the movie was the musical score, in my opinion. The plot was all Wizard of Oz, right down to the little robot following along behind the main female (Dorothy) character. In any case, this Star Wars will become this generation’s Titanic — just about everyone will see it.
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@ Pumpkin
I did not say it was “diverse”. I said it was “a bit more diverse” than the first Star Wars film. Relative to the first one it was “a bit more diverse”. I pointed out that Finn is a token and that the film falls into the Humans Are White trope.
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@ Pumpkin
I said:
In the first Star Wars film the two heroes, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, were both played by White men. There was one Black actor, James Earl Jones, but he played a bad guy and we never saw his face.
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Saw the movie. It was decent. Nothing mindblowing.
I liked Finn. I was surprised he had such a prominent role in the film. I was surprised a woman filled the “standard” hero role. Pretty awesome.
Finn was the main comedic relief, which slightly diminished my relief the main characters weren’t just white dudes. No black women. I guess that would be asking too much. A black guy fulfills black quota and the white chick the female quota so black women are pretty much covered by proxy…
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“She has to constantly tell Finn to stop trying to hold her hand when they meet
I’m not sure if this is deliberate Black/White racism or just the result of the vision of White Feminism. But yes, it is deliberate.”
I took that as denouncing the sexist idea that (white) women need to be protected. Which isn’t just an idea white men hold. It didn’t come off properly because the interplay of racism and sexism. A black man constantly trying to hold a white womans has that racist “where the white women at” feel to it. They are adressing sexism overtly and racism covertly if at all intentionally. Basically a color blind approach…which the hand holding scene shows doesn’t really work.
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It was a fun romp through familiar territory
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The first Black women I see gets killed by the star killer base, and Oscar Issac is Guatemalan not white. But he meets the standard look for Hispanic/Latino and Hollywood.
Guess Paul Mooney is right “he is too dark for the Dark side” concerning Samuel L. Jackson character
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@ Bud Dhuu
“SF in movies generally just disappoints and irritates me.”
I agree. The Star Wars franchise is space opera, and it irks me that so many people who don’t read SF assume from the movies that this is all SF is.
Granted, the print realm has its share of lightweight genre schlock, but there’s also some very powerful, insightful, and experimental work being published.
And granted there’s also a problem with inclusion and diversity, as witnessed at the most recent Hugos with Puppygate, but again there are many SF (and some F) writers who strive to fully represent humanity in their fiction. Too often these works get whitewashed when translated to film.
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@ Solesearch
Exactly.
I think they are trying to address racism:
Hey, see we have a Black guy as one of the protagonists, see?”</i?
But they are also trying to make the feminist point
“White women don’t ever need to be rescued.”
Which plays out as:
The White women can beat Black men at EVERYTHING. And although White women never need to be rescued, clearly Black men constantly need to be rescued!
And this is a very false idea of how reality actually works.
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@Solitaire:
I couldn’t agree more.
SF is supposedly “speculative” fiction. Almost by definition it should be at the cutting edge of imagination and thought. It should be visionary. Not only does it fail those obligations on film, but it fails them in literature too.
Ok, so the race/ethnicity/colour of human characters is often left unspecified, but even where the author may have just written the story quite happy for the main protagonist to be of whatever heritage he/she may happen to be, the audiences seem to assume white. Check out the recent sh!t about the actress chosen to play Hermione in the latest Harry Potter (yeah, I know fantasy isn’t SF, but the principle holds). JKR was having none of it. She pretty promptly tried to shut down the idiots by pointing out that, not only has she never specified the character’s race, but the description in the books could very easily have been of a black girl. LOL.
But even more than that, as I mentioned above, the extension of implied racism – or at least fear-of-those-unlike-me – f*cks up all the promise offered by the possibilities of interaction with genuinely different species. What should fascinate, challenge and enchant is, instead, rejected in favour of rubber-suit-guy with human motivations. The hero cannot be other than white/human.
Still, this is nothing new. When Moorcock first described his anti-hero Elric as albino (again a fantasy/S&S reference, sorry), the book cover artist assumed a white guy and depicted white features, despite the fact that albinism is prevalent amongst many African people and people of African genetic heritage. The assumption was apparently automatic.
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well not everyone is going to read hard science fiction like ben bova or david niven, at least it’s better than star trek
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@ v8driver
Actually, in the current debates in the writing world, SF that deals with issues of race, gender, orientation, trans people, etc., is often criticized as being “soft” science fiction.
@ Bud Dhuu
“again a fantasy/S&S reference, sorry”
No worries. The chief offender in my mind when I wrote my comment was the Earthsea miniseries. I had so been looking forward to a main cast that was entirely brown and black. I was hoping Adam Beach would play Ged.
“even where the author may have just written the story quite happy for the main protagonist to be of whatever heritage he/she may happen to be, the audiences seem to assume white.”
True, but there are also works where the non-white heritage of the main protagonist (et al.) is very clearly stated and still gets whitewashed by Hollywood. Or like GoT where all the slaves get cast as black (at least in the first seasons), whereas the books make it clear that slavery is not race-based. There are slaves in the book described as looking exactly like Daenerys, down to the white-blonde hair and violet eyes. But the showrunners apparently decided that slave = black.
“What should fascinate, challenge and enchant is, instead, rejected in favour of rubber-suit-guy with human motivations. The hero cannot be other than white/human.”
Very true.
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So.. according to commentators here the movie should had black, latinos and asians (I think that should mean middle-eastern, east Asian and indian at least). Both females and males for each one. None of them should any worse than anyone else. Everyone should be the main cast and have deep plots behind them. None of them should be the bad guy. Did I got this right?
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Axlone I’m not sure that anyone has said what you have said. What I hear people saying is:
– The VAST majority of the human race is not White so yes, …better mix.
– They already represent males and females, but yes, roles can vary
– Nobody said that no one should any worse than anyone else.
– Nobody said everyone had to be starring cast
– Nobody said that all characters must be equally developed
Reductio Ad Absurdum only works if you are actually using legitimate facts… otherwise it’s just Absurdum.
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King
“– They already represent males and females, but yes, roles can vary”
You were upset about the lack of black female character. Having black male as main cast wasn’t enough. I´m sure other groups feel the same way.
“– Nobody said that no one should any worse than anyone else.”
You gave a big list why Finn was worse than Rey and were upset because of it. Only way to make everyone happy is that everyone are at same level no?
“– Nobody said everyone had to be starring cast”
Many commentators were upset that there wasn’t more blacks cast as strong main characters. Some were upset that Asians were killed off while main cast stayed alive. Not to mention people being upset of having only been “token” blacks so far with Calrissian and Windu characters.
“– Nobody said that all characters must be equally developed”
If they are not equally developed, would that not make them “token” characters then?
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@ Axlone
This discussion doesn’t make sense if you look only at one movie. Of course it cannot include fully developed characters of every imagniable group. You have to see it in the context that some groups are badly represented either by omission or sereotyping in all Hollywood movies put together.
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“Nobody said that. I said that a White gang (that was presented almost in mirror fashion to an Asian gang) survived an alien attack while all the Asians were eaten alive. You’d have to be blind to not detect the racial bias in that, especially since the gangs were clearly split by race.”
Thank you for proving my point: None of them should any worse than anyone else. Frankly, I could not tell who got eaten and who got away. Impression I got was that both of the groups got screwed there.
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Kartoffel
you might right, but how much should different groups be shown then? I mean people here talk how vast majority of human race is not white but this is American movie. Are people as much concerned about diversity in “Bollywood” or “Nollywood” movies?
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@ Axone
Hollywood diversity is relevant because Hollywood plays a big role in shaping our world view, at least in the Western World, I don’t know how much elsewhere. That cannot be said for Bollywood or Nollywood, so I don’t care about them.
I don’t think group represantation has to be exactly equal to population proportion (though it would be an interesting experiment to randomize roles), but it certainly has to be more than now. Escpecially groups that deviate from the white male straight standard in more than one marker are ridiculously (und unjustifiably) underrepresantated.
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^ it is not just about face representation but about character development.
Look at how many characters are just cardboard or conform to stereotypes.
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@ Jefe
True. But the issue of representation is much more clear cut. I’m more familiar with this discussion about stereotyping women and here I see the tendency that in the effort to avoid stereotypes the story-tellers create new ones.
A possibility to avoid that might be, if story-tellers would write their characters without markers and assign them only after character and story are developed. But that of course is not possible with every story.
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@ Axlone
The problem is in your all-inclusive descriptives. Nobody said that “all of” the cast had to be the same. Nobody said that “everybody” had to be a star. What we are saying is that in a movie about another galaxy that shows species as well as inter-human diversity, the balance should not be 85% White without explanation. Given the fact that Europeans only represent 11.4% of the human population..
As for Bollywood, India is very close to racial homogeny, at least in the sense that only a very small minority doesn’t “look Indian.” On the other hand, 40% of Americans are non-White. The Bollywood question is really just a deflection in order to try and justify the whiteness of Hollywood movies (in a racially diverse society) by pointing to the Indianess of Bollywood movies (in a country where 90% or more of the population is Indian. It seems more of a distraction than a comparison.
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Huh?
“Black Best Friend – he does not become Rey’s sidekick, nor does she become his.”
He IS Rey’s sidekick. The only reason he does anything is to save Rey. And the movie makes sure he’s never actually NEEDED by her.
“Mock Ebonics – Thank God!”
DROID, PLEASE.
SW is white feminism uber alles. What’s sad is that everyone treats this movie like something groundbreaking when white female heroes are actually fairly common in sci-fi/fantasy.
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@King
No body said everyone had to be star, they just said people like them should be star. When everyone keeps demanding that then yes, it leads to everyone having to be stars.
You keep talking about world population numbers and how it should a factor in racial make up for the film, yet at the same time that is not problem for Bollywood films. There the local racial make up is the valid number for you. Don’t you think you have double standards? That whites making movies to predominantly white demographics in western world should be expected to make diverse movies when Africans or Indians are not expected to do so?
Other than that, what I wanted to say is that making diverse film is rather futile effort if people keep getting upset about what is the race of the character getting eaten first. Don’t you think so?
@Kiwi
Don’t expect me to be like you. I´m totally fine if whites get eaten there and Asians get away. I´m not obsessed with the race.
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I’m curious: does anyone here know of any sci-fi stories in any medium which roundly and strongly avoid most of the very common racist, sexist, and even “speciesist” tropes discussed here, all in one story?
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@Mike4ty4
“The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” by N.K Jemisin, “Lions Blood” by Steven Barnes, “The Tempest Tales” by Walter Mosley, the “Black Pulp” collection edited by Tommy Hancock, the “Steamfunk” collection edited by Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade. Some of these books are better than others but they all seek to avoid or in some cases reverse certain racist or sexist tropes.
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@ mike4ty4 – Doesn’t ‘The Matrix’ come pretty close?
The Black, female ‘Oracle’ was the ultimate winner in that multi-ethnic trilogy.
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@ Axlone
That is because this is the SEVENTH movie in the franchise and EVERY SINGLE ONE of the protagonists has been White if they were depicted as human at all. I think it would be different if they had cast Asians or Latinos as protagonists in the past. It would also be different if Hollywood did not have a terribly racist history. Not only have they not featured minorities in the past, but they have actually done much to marginalize, ridicule, and demean, certain racial groups all around the world. We are not speaking in a vacuum here. This is AFTER a century of Hollywood racial propaganda that began with “Birth of a Nation.”
There is a big difference between Hollywood and Bollywood. Hollywood has immediate access to to multi-racial casting because the U.S. is a multi-racial country. In order for Hollywood not to cast more minorities, they must literally turn them away. India (for the most part) is not a multi-racial country. For India to cast multi-racial movies, they would have to import the actors. Hollywood operates on $51 billion in revenues each year, while Bollywood operates on $1.3 billion. The average budget of a Hollywood film is $47 million. The average budget for a Bollywood movie is $1.5 million. I think there is an obvious difference here.
Bollywood makes films that are sold primarily in India. Hollywood often make MORE money in INTERNATIONAL movie sales (outside of the U.S.) than it does on U.S. dollars alone. So no, I’m afraid that Hollywood is not “making movies to predominantly white demographics in western world.” Hollywood makes movies to sell to a worldwide market.
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Flaws in this version of Star Wars:
Actually being a Stars Wars fan, my first reaction after watching this movie was “OMG they’ve made Star Wars into Twilight”. They’ve completely dumbed the franchise down for the sake of the Transformers crowd who would’ve watched it anyway. JJ Abrams should’ve at a minimum at least respect the cadence of the movies and spend a little more time explaining what was going on. This movie rushed from scene to scene explaining nothing.
I was shaking my head in utter disbelief my jaw literally dropped when:
1. Since when did the storm trooper program admit black people? Aren’t they all clones? Aren’t storm troopers trained from birth as they eluded to, but then Finn claims he never killed anyone just following orders. You think the program would’ve noticed that before now?
2. 30 or 40 years has passed but other than the ball droid, technology was exactly the same? Heck, the new hero’s can’t even get their own ship?
3. Finn having no knowledge of the force is able to wield a light saber?
4. Rey having no training in the ways of the Jedi or force, can use Jedi mind tricks, beat a trained Jedi in use of the force, and go toe to toe in swordsman fight with a trained Jedi/Sith?
5. Rey instinctively knows how to pilot the Millennium Falcon?
6. An empire/new order general gives over access codes to the entire new order base with mere a shallow threat and a gun pointed at his/her head?
7. Was Kylo Ren supposed to inspire fear or nausea in his enemies with his constant whining and temper tantrums?
8. Kylo Ren can’t even defeat Finn in a light saber battle? They’ve turned an art wielded with grace and mastery that required decades of training into children playing a game of cowboys and indians.
9. Luke Skywalker the last Jedi or Sith alive walks away from his galactic responsibility to not only allowed the resurgence of the empire, but allow that punk Kylo (who can’t even beat Finn) to destroy his Jedi school?
Disney has taken a big steamy dump on this Lucas masterpeice, and insulted the intelligence of many fans, but hey they’re making a fortune in the process.
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As Abagond stated it was like watching a bad remake of episode IV. Like the Rush Hour movies 2 and 3, where they take the same plot, change a few faces, put them in a different country, and do it all over again.
So by this pattern episode 8 will be the “The New Order Strike Back”.
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@ mike4ty4
Honestly? You could pick up any “year’s best” science fiction anthology from the last 25 years or so and most likely find at least one. Earlier than that, a lot of the New Wave fiction of the 1960s and 1970s confronted those stereotypes head-on.
LeGuin’s story “Dancing to Ganam” manages to both avoid racist and sexist tropes of Golden Age SF while examining and subverting them.
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I was so excited when I heard Lupita was in this film. Then I found out she was an…alien??? What a letdown. Why deprive us of seeing such a beautiful face on the big screen?? Damn white folks!!! 😦
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@abagond I guess you missed the part about how the black guy got his butt kicked at teh end and had to be saved by the white woman. Example of the Blind side or dangerous minds, not the same but the white woman had to save the average black man. Also the White chick was a Mary Sue and I am pretty sure she will become a god sue by the third movie. While Finn was fumbling around MAry sue Rey was able to do thing that normal people not even jedi could do. Also you forgot the part about Finn being named by the white/hispanic guy, that kinda like a slavery thing. Plus the white guy didn’t die in the crash he survived.
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@ son2380
That part at the end did make me wince, maybe partly out of sexism, but he already had enough hero points by then, more than Rey in my book.
To call Finn a Helpless Darky, like those in “Dangerous Minds” or “The Blind Side”, is a stretch. He showed agency and courage independent of Rey.
I do agree that Rey is idealized, but personally I prefer a human Finn over an idealized one. He could have easily been made into a Noble But Boring Negro.
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@ son2380
I know. I carefully worded that in the post so as not to give it away.
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To Abagond:
The plot is pretty much like the first Star Wars film, more than you would expect, but the special effects are better and the cast is a bit more diverse. The two main heroes are not the usual White men: Rey (Daisy Ridley) is a White woman and Finn (John Boyega) is a Black man.
Yes, I have heard that is sort of a remake of the original Star Wars. I am old enough to have seen it when it first hit the theaters in 1977. I liked it ok, but even then it seemed to have a dated feel, sort of like a 1950s movie – and as wryly noted by some reviewers at the time – “Space seems to only have white people” which prompted George Lucas to cast Billy Dee Williams as Lando Carrisian in the next film in the series, The Empire Strikes Back.
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To Lord of Mirkwood:
I can’t believe they killed Finn too!
Finn was badly injured and unconscious but not dead. John Boyega is cast as Finn for the next installment of the series.
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Who’s Han Solo? It kind of sounds like a vaguely dirty name.
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What’s your problem?
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@Herneith
What ain’t his problem?
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I don’t have all day.
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I’ll get back to you after I finish shopping and Javexing the floors and bathrooms.
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Sure if you have a filthy mind(I confess I do). But in this instance, I actually have house cleaning to do.
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Because this thread included discussion concerning science fiction by, for, and about POC, I thought this might be a good place to post a link to Lightspeed’s special issue “People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!” taking place this month.
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/
The name of the special issue is a tongue-in-cheek reference to those who fear inclusion of diverse voices will somehow “destroy” the genre.
http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/people-colour-destroy-science-fiction-manifesto/
About half of the content will be made available free online during the month of June (and will continue to be free thereafter). The rest is available for purchase through the website.
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