LUCASFILM POSTER FOR 2018 COMIC CON
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I agree. It just goes to show how "white" the entire thing has always been.
It's a conspiracy. Just like how they faked the moon landing because real aliens helped them film it. It's so obvious!
And?
And . . . it's a joke, considering that the two male leads of the Sequel Trilogy are portrayed by actors who are African-British and Latino.
I recall reading this article - https://m.facebook.com/vandalayindustries/posts/10216098326906646?notif_id=1530467207280905 - and it seemed to be nothing more than good old fashioned bullshit. You know what? That's it. I'm boycotting "Episode IX".
Once more for the chronically slow of brain: it's not a poster about the movies' casts. It's a thematic piece about time and legacy and family, and as such the characters portrayed are those that have significance to said theme. It just so happens that the bare handful of POCs in the Star Wars movies don't fit into that framework. It doesn't make them less important, just not relevant to the very specific thing this image is going for.
To suggest that they should paste in the likes of Lando, Mace and/or Poe in there regardless of whether their presence is even relevant and just because everyone else relevant just happened to be white...well then that's the very definition of tokenism, which actually *is* racist, unlike this poster or the people failing to have an embolism about Finn not being there.
To suggest that they should paste in the likes of Lando, Mace and/or Poe in there regardless of whether their presence is even relevant and just because everyone else relevant just happened to be white...well then that's the very definition of tokenism, which actually *is* racist, unlike this poster or the people failing to have an embolism about Finn not being there.
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Has anyone seen the new Lucasfilm poster for the 2018 Comic Con?
Is this poster legitimate? I hope not, because there is something clearly wrong with it . . . in the Sequel Trilogy section. For example . . . where is John Boyega and Oscar Isaac? Where are they? Both of them, especially Boyega, are supposed to be the leads with Daisy Ridley in the Sequel Trilogy. Why does this poster have an older Mark Hamill and an older Carrie Fisher, both who were basically supporter characters in compare to Boyega and Isaac?
I hope that this poster is false. If not, Disney and Lucasfilm have a lot of explaining to do.
Think very carefully about who exactly is depicted here. It's clearly about the legacy of the Jedi and the Skywalker family, and Jedi who were most closely connected with the Skywalkers.
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I don’t understand your thought process. The artist clearly explained his thought process, which WASN’T guided by Lucasfilm, is very logical, doesn’t disrupt any of the efforts made by a Lucasfilm to be inclusive up to this point and is a POSTER. Just one of thousands produced for SE films. Yet, you declare all of the above to be “BS” and are going to boycott the next film? I just don’t get it.
Okay. See you December 20, 2019.
BB-8 carried the map to Luke?
Is this illustrative of looking for things to be outraged over?
Wasn’t that really BB-8?
Please don’t mistake me! I would love to see Finn on that poster but that wasn’t the artist’s intention. I don’t think it was intentional. I don’t think it was designed as a racist act or to be a part of an agenda. I think it’s just an artistic choice.
I would have to rewatch the movie, it has been a while. But I thought he was integral in helping her escape Jakku?
Yep. Kylo had knocked her out again.
He and Han also took Phasma out of the fight during TFA’s finale, ensured Rey even got the lightsaber, busted Poe out of custody (which lead to the destruction of Starkiller,) and shot down the TIE fighters chasing the Falcon on Jakku.
Are you for real?
Ray's journey in the Force has little to nothing to do with Finn though.
Though the question is who is the focus of the image. The woman up front, or the "villain" in back? Ray is the central character of the new trilogy. But Padme and Leia were not the central characters of their own trilogies. That would be Anakin and Luke. (though some might debate that the central character of the PT is really Obi-wan). The linking theme seems to be the Skywalkers and their legacy, though unless something radical happens, Ben Solo will be the Last Skywalker.
Though the question is who is the focus of the image. The woman up front, or the "villain" in back? Ray is the central character of the new trilogy. But Padme and Leia were not the central characters of their own trilogies. That would be Anakin and Luke. (though some might debate that the central character of the PT is really Obi-wan). The linking theme seems to be the Skywalkers and their legacy, though unless something radical happens, Ben Solo will be the Last Skywalker.
Rey, even without being related, ends up representing the "Skywalker legacy" because she was the one who, in part, brought Luke back "into the fight" (even if it was Yoda who gave him the 'final push' he needed, Rey kicked open the door a crack and allowed Yoda to storm through it) and because she's taken up Luke's mantle of "The Last Jedi".
Whoa! Now we're dealing with some Serious Business.