Star Wars 7 shit talk

watto, morelike

didn't know macklemore was in that one

watto, morelike

― how's life, Friday, May 23, 2014 5:41 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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although i thought i remembered watto being despised for being an ~arab~ stereotype, rather than a jewish one? idk

I don't recall - def coded as Jewish to me when I saw it

i see there's (only) an anti-semitism subsection on the watto wikipedia page, carry on

Looking back now, pretty much all of those horrific ethnic stereotypes were trotted out within the first hour or so of the first movie, right? By halfway through Episode I you'd been introduced to Jar Jar, the Trade Federation and Watto. Were there any notable examples in the later two movies (that weren't additional appearances of these characters from the first one)?

but also, from that Wiki:

Patricia J. Williams of The Nation stated that Watto was also described as a stereotype of Arabs, but that he was "more comprehensively anti-Semitic -- both anti-Arab and anti-Jew."

At least the ethnic stereotypes in the original trilogy relate back to ethnic stereotypes from with the high adventure genre films on which SW is based, i.e. jabba the oriental despot, tusken raiders as excitable natives, etc.

Whereas the prequels seemed to be going out of their way - out of their genre - to reach out, point and laugh at Jamaicans.

Jabba's an "oriental despot"?

i never got that jabba was oriental. i thought he was just fat.

he was originally an Irish geezer

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/FordandMulholland.jpg

http://rt.com/news/jabba-lego-anti-islamic-138/

As far as I know, Jabba's a gangster, not a terrorist. They do have a point about the hookah and the mosque though.

jabba is sydney greenstreet y'all

Yeah thats what I took as the inspiration too. I guess there are some evil sultan sorta trappings.

He's one of my favourite characters in terms of design.

there are a couple echoes there. "the Hutt" vs. "the Hun", Gamorrean Guards vs. eunuchs

Yeah but at least he's like a vaguely-inspired distillation of old tropes, if Lucas had made Jedi in 1999... I shudder to imagine.

If Lucas had made Jedi at all.

"More proof that Star Wars VII will be blessedly CG light"

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stop making me do fangirl cartwheels I CAN'T GET EXCITED FOR THIS MOVIE YET, DON'T MAKE ME DO THAT

It is your DESTINY

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This just in from the Star Wars front: Episode VII has cast 12 Years a Slave Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. From the studio:

Lupita Nyong’o joins the recently announced cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. This year, her breakthrough performance in 12 Years a Slave earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Gwendoline Christie, currently starring in the hit television series Game of Thrones as Brienne of Tarth, has also been cast in the production. She can next be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. “I could not be more excited about Lupita and Gwendoline joining the cast of Episode VII,” says Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “It’s thrilling to see this extraordinarily talented ensemble taking shape.”

goddamnit JJ don't you get my hopes up and fuck this up

must

remain

cynical

You could place bets now as to how many minutes of screentime til he does the Mystery Box twist reveal

jeff garlin sith lord

Yeah I was thinking to myself "Sure, they're cast, and then they'll have as much screen time as Jimmy Smits in Episode II."

master jedis played by greg grunberg and matthew fox.

haha

lol

How exciting space stuff in a dusty desert. There are other planets in the Star Wars universe right?

no

swamp planet, desert planet, forest planet, that's it

star wars catan, basically

forest moon, come on man

let's go back to Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong'o being in this and how that excuses pretty much any stupid thing that will invariably be in this movie

"And let us introduce the new ambassador, Jar Jar Binks the Third."

they're doing vocodered droid voices

yah i have an idea, jj should really shake things up and do a planet that's half UNDERWATER and half ABOVE WATER and the cultures that occupy these two worlds have a SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP

can't wait for the young hip unorthodox Jedi introduced during a speeder race, blasting "shamrocks and shenanigans" by house of pain.

space mermaids!

star wars is way more about desert planets to me than it is about the megacities of the prequels

if Jar Jar had been a double-headed character played by Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong'o, s/he would have been the best character ever created in the Star Wars universe

Yeah but surely there can be a planet that is a desert but the sand is grey or pale blue or something, and the sky is red or whatever. Pick up any random sci fi pulp paperback and just rip that off.

kinda feels more realistic for lack of a better term, like that civilization would expand out to these weird pioneer old west type settlements.

desert planets and saloon fights

Firefly/Star Wars crossover

major spoiler from set design leaked. don't click if you don't want to know!

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it's a big beehive