No one (or at least me) is saying that the nemoidians have dead on southeast Asian accents that are exactly how people from that part of the world actually sound. They sound like any of the umpteen racist portrayals of Chinese and Japanese characters in movies from the 30s and 40s that Lucas would surely have been familiar with.i think he’s recycling tropes in a carelessly insensitive way, not that he’s trying to make some statement about the way the world is.
Post #927998
- Author
- joefavs
- Parent topic
- Filmmaker and New Yorker film critic Richard Brody's thoughts on the prequels.
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/927998/action/topic#927998
- Date created
- 12-Apr-2016, 11:40 AM