Hating on Tobasco is a meme that’s at least a decade old at this point. You’re not clever.
Those are literally the words the police chief used. What’s the matter with you?
No offense intended, but “old fans” are not the future of Star Wars. The nostalgia for movies that were made 35-45 years ago is strong, but it isn’t going to last forever.
Is he wrong about the answer he gave? Seems like a logical answer to me, which is what the MCU has been trying to do as well.
maybe not, but The Last Jedi wasn’t the middle movie of a trilogy, it was the 9th movie in a saga that needed to get some new blood at the forefront.
Didn’t they lose?
I can very easily understand the White House’s disgust with those gaming clips.
> It is, in the most literal sense of the phrase, cultural appropriation
How about “It doesn’t matter for the story.” If this many people have read the books (including me) and had no idea she was Asian, then IT DOESN’T MATTER to the story and could have been left out.
The second book hadn’t even been written when Garland started adapting the first book. So it’s possible he did ask the author, and the author had no idea because he hadn’t gotten around to fleshing that part out yet.
This is like telling the US-born child of immigrants that they’re not really American because of their lineage.
In the book, the characters are not even given a NAME. Not a one. And apparently none of them were given a race either until the second book, called “Authority.”
Given the circumstances of the way this movie was made (it was put into production before the first book was released and the physical descriptions of the characters that note their heritage don’t appear in the first novel), I think the issue here is more that Hollywood has a problem with picturing every major…
+1. I was like, wait, when do they say she’s Asian?
I read the book about 2-3 months ago and I had completely forgotten that the main characters had any race at all.
Cool, thanks for explaining that. I was thinking to myself, “if they say she’s Asian, I’ll believe them, but I remember zero description of anyone’s races.” I mean, this is a book without named characters for cripes sake.
First of all, the screenplay was adapted while only the first book existed and the other two were not yet written (Source, about halfway down).
Portman was born in Asia (and holds dual citizenship).