liamnotneeson said:
Star Wars has always been about the diverse rebels versus the white male bad guysHum… have you seen ANH recently 😃 ?
Haha, yes! The fact that there was a white guy in a literal black suit totally proves my point wrong
I would even say that, technically, the only black dude in ANH works for the Empire… (a clue: 5 years later he played almost the exact same role - less the suit - in almost the exact same movie - but set during the Hyperborean era)
and the only other black dude in TESB happens to betray our heroes…
And who does attack the poor Chancellor Palpatine in his office in ROTS ? A black jedi dude ! Can you believe that ?!?
I also have proof - pictures - that a black dude is, at some point in TFA, chasing poor Rey in a desert. Pictures don’t lie !
Joke aside I just can’t stand the “Lucas was kinda racist” speech. The guy was making the movie of a lifetime, do you think he cared about diversity (besides do you think that 70’s UK were as diverse at that time as they are today ?) ? He also wanted Toshiro Mifune to play Obi-Wan, because he was an awesome actor, not because it would give ANH its “asian” diversity (and even without any asian guy in ANH, in Japan the movie was a triumph). I also happen to enjoy many asian movies where THERE ARE NO WHITE MEN AT ALL (was Kurosawa racist when he made 7 samurai ? HE MUST STAND TRIAL !)
I tend to think that Disney is in fact the real racist by making sure that all races have a part in every single SW movie: I guess there is a guy in every Disney meeting checking boxes: “ok,so black dude: checked! asian girl: checked! white girl: checkek! ginger guy: checked! indian girl in both sides: double checked! old white european actor… old mexican actor…etc.”
And yeah at one point Luke was a girl… but in the finished film he’s a “he”, not a “she”, and if you switch that the movie is no longer the same.