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Post #1404395

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ThisIsCreation
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The Phantom Menace - anyone want to chat about TPM?
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19-Jan-2021, 5:52 PM

jedi_bendu said:

Quattro Bajeena said:

JackNapier said:

In my honest opinion TPM and ATOC are both deeply flawed movies for two different reasons. TPM for providing a rather insensitive Jamaican stereotype race of aliens

LOL, are you serious?

That’s a pretty common criticism. It might not be so much of a problem if the film didn’t also contain an anti-semitic stereotype in the form of Watto and Neimoidians with stereotypically Japanese accents and behaviour.

I think it could be said these were simply oversights and the filmmakers never intended the characters to be seen as racist - they often gave existing accents to alien races (Twi’leks sound French, for example) although that’s definitely questionable in itself. It’s still a totally valid thing to criticise TPM for.

You are 100% right. It doesn’t matter if George had his best intentions in mind, someone involved with the creation of the movies should have realised what was being done. I don’t like the idea of using stereotypes to make the audience laugh at a character, not laugh with.
It has the same issues that the Harry Potter series has when it comes to stereotypes & caricatures of cultures.

I’m not offended, but there should have been atleast some awareness on George & the producers part that they were feeding into something that would be perceived as insensitive.