- Time
- Post link
Why is Leia a princess?
- Time
- Post link
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/bailorgana/
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
- Time
- Post link
I think the general consensus over the years has been that Bail Organa held a royal title, and Leia warranted the title of princess by virtue of pedigree. But that's not always the way it works. She might've been princess by virtue of marriage to a prince, or by popular acclamation/election like her mother. Or Alderaanian royal titles could be accorded on the basis of democratically-elected or appointed positions -- planetary heads of government are acclaimed kings, representatives to the Imperial Senate are acclaimed prince/princess and granted ambassadorial rank, lesser officials are created archdukes, marquesses, etc. In this way, a modern society could maintain the grandeur and tradition of royalty, without the bother of a royal family.
Interestingly, See Threepio, a protocol droid with years of experience among high-ranking Alderaanians, calls Leia, "Your royal highness," in Return of the Jedi. The style "your royal highness" is used for non-reigning royalty; a sovereign is referred to as "your majesty." This is in accord with Leia remaining a Princess and not ascending to Queen of Alderaan (or perhaps Queen of the Alderaanian People, etc). From this we may conclude either that Leia has some relative who ascended to the throne after Bail Organa's death; royal titles are not based solely on pedigree but on some other source of authority or status; or Leia has declined to become the sovereign of an essentially nonexistent state.
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.
- Time
- Post link
"Miss you, I will, Original Trilogy..."
"Your midichlorians are weak, Old man." -Darth Vader 2007 super deluxe extra special dipped in chocolate sauce edition.
http://prequelsstink.ytmnd.com/
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
).Ditto for the return from the Death Star trench run - not even one tear is shed for Biggs, his long-time childhood friend, another strong link to his home planet...
C'mon guys, this is an action movie aimed for young generation, not "Schindler's list"! Things come and go fast, ANH is the most "western-like" movie of all SW movies, somewhat closest to old-school classic sci-fi - it was in later movies (e.g. my fav ESB) where everything became more serious, meaningful, mature.
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
- Time
- Post link
That would be the one. I don't really know if it wasn't mentioned in a film. I don't like to read.
- Time
- Post link
Having lurked at TF.n for the better part of a year, surely you must have seen this question posted over there dozens of times, right?
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: Sadly, I believe the prequels are beyond repair.
<span class=“Bold”>JediRandy: They’re certainly beyond any repair you’re capable of making.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>MeBeJedi: You aren’t one of us.
<span class=“Bold”>Go-Mer-Tonic: I can’t say I find that very disappointing.</span></span>
<span class=“Italics”>JediRandy: I won’t suck as much as a fan edit.</span>
- Time
- Post link
Everything in the original was there because it was a basic story. She was a princess cause it made the mission to find her more interesting for the plot. And young boy fulfilling his destiny to save a princess from capture, and blow up the space station run by the evil empire.
There was nothing more to the story than that, Lucas had some notes and some backround on the characters, but these plans for a huge saga are such malarky, it was originally a standalone movie, that Lucas made Vader survive just in case he could do sequels, in which he had no idea where the story would go from here.
That is why it doesn't make sense if you watch the PT, and then watch the original SW, nothing adds up, cause nothing was there in 1977 yet.
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: RRS-1980
Now, this brings an interesting thing to mind... didn't you guys noticed how well Luke took the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi - his mentor - the person he knew from the childhood, a strong link to his home planet - died from the hand of Darth Vader? Instead of saying in anger "this one is for Ben!" when he blasts a TIE Fighter, we hear only cries of joy "Haha! I got one!" (fortunately not "yippie!" or "oops!" ). Well, at least we get a "I can't believe he's gone." and a few sad faces (even C-3PO and R2-D2 seem to look sad). 
C'mon guys, this is an action movie aimed for young generation, not "Schindler's list"! Things come and go fast, ANH is the most "western-like" movie of all SW movies, somewhat closest to old-school classic sci-fi - it was in later movies (e.g. my fav ESB) where everything became more serious, meaningful, mature.
True. My father used to say that about StarWars: "It's just like a western movie in space", boy was I pissed at him back then as a kid. Now, this brings an interesting thing to mind... didn't you guys noticed how well Luke took the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi - his mentor - the person he knew from the childhood, a strong link to his home planet - died from the hand of Darth Vader? Instead of saying in anger "this one is for Ben!" when he blasts a TIE Fighter, we hear only cries of joy "Haha! I got one!" (fortunately not "yippie!" or "oops!"
). Well, at least we get a "I can't believe he's gone." and a few sad faces (even C-3PO and R2-D2 seem to look sad). Ditto for the return from the Death Star trench run - not even one tear is shed for Biggs, his long-time childhood friend, another strong link to his home planet...
Well in the original version of the film, it's not really stressed that they're that close. Besides you don't have much time for wimpering when a bunch of imperial ties are about to blast your arse into oblivion. C'mon guys, this is an action movie aimed for young generation, not "Schindler's list"! Things come and go fast, ANH is the most "western-like" movie of all SW movies, somewhat closest to old-school classic sci-fi - it was in later movies (e.g. my fav ESB) where everything became more serious, meaningful, mature.
- Time
- Post link
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Now, this brings an interesting thing to mind... didn't you guys noticed how well Leia took that her planet was destroyed, all her people was dead, including her adoptive parents? Couple of hours later she was joking around saying that Luke was too short for a stormtrooper...
Now, this brings an interesting thing to mind... didn't you guys noticed how well Leia took that her planet was destroyed, all her people was dead, including her adoptive parents? Couple of hours later she was joking around saying that Luke was too short for a stormtrooper...
A planet is small beans in a galactic empire. The usual number of member worlds bandied about is one million, from Lucas's novelization of ANH. Alderaan didn't appear to be a city-planet like Coruscant, but probably wasn't as sparsely populated as Tatooine, so I guess it had a pretty average population. So the destruction of Alderaan killed about one-millionth, or 0.0001% of the Imperial population. In contrast, the September 11th attacks killed about 0.001% of the population of the United States. If we extrapolate the US into the Empire, the destruction of Alderaan was on the order of an Oklahoma City bombing or a Port Chicago explosion, which were certainly big disasters, but not big enough to force reogranization of the government or anything drastic like that. Within the Star Wars universe, Alderaan's loss was tragic, but really minor compared to the destruction of the Clone Wars, the Sith War, or the Great Hyperspace War. As an Imperial senator, Leia was used to looking at the big picture, and probably hadn't spent much time on her homeworld in years.
As for the loss of her family, we really have no way to know how deeply Leia felt that. She remembered her real mother*, evidently since she was a very small child. This could have put a wedge between her and her adoptive family. She is also first seen wearing her hair in a Nabooian style (cf. Padme's hair in RotS); while she may not openly acknowledge her Nabooian heritage, she longs for it. And again, as an Imperial senator, she had probably adopted a sort of cosmpolitan, international identity. Notice that she doesn't speak with Bail Organa's clipped accent, but rather an Outer Rim (or at least non-Core) accent; she probably picked it up as a child, travelling with her father throughout the sector he represented, or from a Rim-born tutor.
Finally, she had undergone hours of interrogation, and possibly torture, by a Sith Lord. That's likely to leave one a little mentally unbalanced, probably kind of numb and hopeless. After the destruction of her world, she realized she would soon be executed. That's when things start getting funny. "Too short to be a stormtrooper" wasn't a joke, anyway; it was a cut, a feeble attempt to emotionally hurt the person who had come to abuse or kill her.
* Padme Naberrie Amidala, who FAKED HER DEATH and buried a decoy, in accordance with the fake-Amidala theme running through the first two movies.
Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived.
- Time
- Post link
There's a slight problem with that idea of course - Vader would only have to look at Princess Leia, look at who the Queen was, and then go 'DUH'. But it's a servicable plothole methinks; and there wouldn't have been any Gungans either.
Or at least, if there were, they woulda bit the dust when the Death Star came. Heh.
LUKE: Dad, where are your eyebrows?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_S6UgkQk0
- Time
- Post link
- Time
- Post link
1. Her mother was Queen of Naboo
2. Her adoptive mother was Queen of Alderaan
Before he became first chairman and viceroy of alderaan Bail Organa was called king of alderaan before lucas changed this.
Originally it was hinted at from the arthurian mythos in a new hope that Luke's father may have been a King, or a prince, see the mythology of star wars book from the smithsonian.
A royal consort to the former queen of Naboo, or A Dark Lord of the Sith second in command only to the emperor himself, not too far off the mark.
The myth of the bloodline of heroes.
Why is she given such a position of power albeit in a democracy, because she was Anakin Skywalker's daughter the most powerfull of all the jedi, and the most feared of the Sith Lords Darth Vader. Of course her political skills and humanitarian skills came from Padme but her fierceness and fiery spirit came from anakin.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
- Time
- Post link
"Stardestroyers" were once sleek two-man fighters.
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
- Time
- Post link
they became they twin pod cloud cars in empire.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.