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Rian Johnson is still directing his ‘STAR WARS’ trilogy, stop believing things you read on Twitter
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I am like 90% certain nobody will remember this shit in like 3 days
Yeah, I know we're as guilty as they are
People love their Hollywood dirt and if it feeds a narrative, even better
These kind of insinuations really need to stop around here.
So anyway---what about this whole Revenge of the Sith being a better movie than The Last Jedi? I want to hear more.
I'm talking about Star Wars. It's an incredible feat to even fuck up the movies that came before it.
I really don't care what you believe, but trying to connect right-win/Republicanism with not liking TLJ is some hot bullshit.
Im sorry but passing off as white doesn't give you white privilege. I been told im white enough for a lot of things, but im white enough until im not. Telling someone they are white enough seriously makes a disconnect for them and how they see themselves in their community. Do you know how it feels to know you will never truly fit in any community because you are just not enough for some people?
I still dislike TLJ but I'm willing to give Johnson a chance. And I still think blockbuster Star Wars is not his forte despite the beautiful cinematography in TLJ (which is the only good thing I can think of atm). There was a lot of stuff that could have been done better such as Poe and Finn's sequences but its whatever.
The blatant insults in general being launched towards those who did not liked what was done with TLJ are childish as fuck. This thread was embarrassing to read.
The blatant insults in general being launched towards those who did not liked what was done with TLJ are childish as fuck. This thread was embarrassing to read.
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Then stop making this about you. This is about Oscar Isaac changing his Latino surname to something that sounded white so he could get more roles (look it up) and get cast as white folk singers or "Bud Cooper" or "Michael Perry" or fucking Prince John In Robin Hood.
Claiming that he doesn't benefit from white privilege is disingenuous as hell.
Which brings us back around to the fact that Poe's character is ABSOLUTELY relevant to white privilege in the context of TLJ.
I literally do not give a shit about Star Trek right now what do you want from me
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I just watch TLJ on repeat with a notebook and pen so I can study it for future TLJ threads.
No, it really isn't. Did you look at reddit and Twitter after it released?
Dude, you're basically saying you saw a certain group of people behave in a certain way one time and now everyone who behaves that way must belong to that certain group of people, and that certain group of people must always behave that way. You're full of shit and you need to stop.
Do you also attribute certain types of people to being more prone to crime because you have your suspicions?
Oh my god, could you please stop pretending to be victims?
That the people who hate TLJ are Republicans?
How come we can't have a TLJ thread without insanity? I know you want to defend your Star Wars, but holy shit these threads.
It is impossible to talk about Last Jedi. Twitter trolls have completely won in making all talk of this movie toxic as fuck. The trolls are dicks because they are trolls. The fans are dicks because of the trolls. Then the people who simply didn't like the movie are dicks because they are tired of being lumped in with the anti-SJW crowd. Burn all Last Jedi talk to the ground. Trolls won.
Yeah, how dare I, a Latino, talk about issues dealing with Latinos.
And you said his character benefited from white privilege. The first Latino character in Star Wars benefited from white privilege. Okay.
No one has said that. There has been some hyperbole or comparisons you could argue are perhaps daft, but what you've claimed is a strawman.
I think TLJ was a really bad Star Wars movie and I would have been relieved somewhat if this were true, but I do wish Rian Johnson luck with his own trilogy. At least he won't be working with decades of expectations to subvert and he'll have to come up with an entirely new story of his own that will surely be precious to him, so hopefully he'll attempt to actually take care of it.
There's a connotation to "white privilege" as an instrinisc advantage from birth. Many light-skinned Latinos don't feel that way as they come from families and areas that often identify as non-white or marginalized. I understand saying he benefits from "white privilege" because he can pass as white, but that seems more based in colorism than what people typically mean when they say someone has "white privilege".
Also, I'd argue Poe's character is based around masculinity itself rather than "white male privilege".
I dont think it would be reasonable to say that characters depicted as men of color in Hollywood media get afforded the same lenience as someone like Poe.
I nor anyone else has said that. What I said is that the insinuation a person might have suspect motives (along with conservative ideals) when trying to knock down TLJ does not come from nowhere. Reddit and Twitter was absolutely fucking rife with people being intellectually dishonest about the film, only to find under scrutiny they just hated that it had an asian love interest, or that a woman is the main character, or plenty of other blatantly bigoted reasons. "Not my Luke" and "SJW trash" became almost synonymous with each other.
So?
He wasn't pretending to be white but was rather differentiating himself so that casting agents and directors didn't pigeonhole him.
I found an article where he expanded on that answer:
https://oscar-isaac.com/oscar-isaac...last-name-oscar-hernandez-is-like-john-smith/
He has never rejected or denied his ethnicity. At worst he was being pragmatic.
Lol at anyone who doesn't want more Rian Johnson Star Wars. Dude breathed the first breath of fresh air into the franchise.
Yup. Poe being Latino is even better for this point because machismo is still a hell of a thing in out culture.
Yup. Poe being Latino is even better for this point because machismo is still a hell of a thing in out culture.
Glad to hear it's still happening. I really enjoyed TLJ, and I would love to see what he comes up with telling his own story.
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