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12-23-2015
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12-23-2015
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12-23-2015
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"Super sensitive" She like, just had some random vision, did mind tricks out of nowhere, and could wield a lightsaber? SHE IS FREAKING YODA MAN |
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12-25-2015
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Strange
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There's a theory going around that I'd like to share with you all. If you don't want the movie spoiled, or any future movies spoiled, don't read this. Spoiler
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12-25-2015
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12-25-2015
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Here's another theory that is extremely crazy but...it could work really well actually Spoiler
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12-26-2015
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12-26-2015
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I liked it but it was dangerously too close to the story frame of 'New Hope'
Last edited by Mount; 12-26-2015 at 08:39 PM.
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12-26-2015
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12-26-2015
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Til snape is a Sith and not a wizard
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12-26-2015
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ... the director George Lucas screened his very first “Star Wars” movie for John Landis, who went on to direct “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers.” When the film was over, Landis turned to Lucas and asked: “George, is everybody in outer space white?” Pretty much everyone in the original cast was, of course, either white — or an alien. Even Darth Vader — voiced by James Earl Jones — turned out to be, um, white. In the new “Star Wars,” the star is a character named Finn, played by the British actor John Boyega, who is very much not white. When the trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” came out this fall, it was almost immediately followed by the hashtag #BoycottStarWarsVII trending on Twitter. Why? Because according to some nattering nabobs on the Internet (a redundancy, perhaps?), “Star Wars” characters are supposed to be white. A black man as apparently the main character in “Star Wars”? A cultural sacrilege! Never mind that these are, um, fictional characters. Boyega had probably the best response, when he said (via Twitter, of course): “To whom it may concern: Get used to it. ”He is right, in more ways than he might realize. The demography of our pop culture has always had an element of social commentary to it. The original “Star Trek” series was notable for its diverse casting — with an African-American woman (Nichelle Nichols as Uhura) and an Asian-American (George Takei as Sulu), as well as a Russian character (Walter Koenig as Chekov) at a time when the Russians were our enemy. Later spin-offs gave us a black captain (Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko in “Deep Space Nine”) and a female captain (Kate Mulgrew as Captain Janeway in “Voyager.”) Why “Star Wars” should be immune to such casting choices is unclear. Boyega is right. We do need to “get used to it.” The world has always been mostly non-white. Now, America is starting to look more like the world. The United States as a whole is on its way toward becoming a minority-majority country. This summer, the Census Bureau reported that, for the first time ever, a majority of children under age 5 are minorities (50.2 percent, to be precise), which means, of course, they’re not truly minorities at all. Or rather — since that 50.2 percent includes African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians and other ethnic groups — there will be no majority. Instead, it’s more accurate to say that in the future, everyone in America will be a minority — including whites. Want to see the future? Look in Prince William County. It’s still a majority-white locality, but in the county’s schools this fall, Hispanics virtually equal non-Hispanic whites. And that white “Star Wars” universe — which is still mostly white, even with Boyega’s character? A fantasy. |
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12-27-2015
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Mark Hamill got paid over $1,000,000 for his role in Star Wars 7... I'm in the wrong line of work
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12-27-2015
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Hi
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