dc20willsave Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 You know, I never really thought about it until now but Leia gets captured in all three movies in the original trilogy and has to get saved. Hell, fucking Amidala has a better track record than her. I suddenly have to rethink who I use as an example of a kick-ass female protagonist in cinema that everyone's heard of. Fuck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 Princess Leia is a stupid character. Literally all she does is shoot stormtroopers and choke Jabba to death. Otherwise she only exists to get captured and be bitchy to everyone. You want a positive female hero, look at Ahsoka in The Clone Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 Will: Ripley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delete Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 Since we're bitching about Princess Leia am I the only one that noticed that Princess Leia only seems bothered by everyone she has ever known and loved being blownup for about 90 seconds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 No. She's too busy putting that entire rebellion thing on hold to go and save her man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 Princess Leia is a stupid character. Literally all she does is shoot stormtroopers and choke Jabba to death. Otherwise she only exists to get captured and be bitchy to everyone. You want a positive female hero, look at Ahsoka in The Clone Wars. Yeah, but you don't get one without the other. To defend Leia, in the first film she's running the plans for the death star to the rebels despite being an Imperial senator and a very public figure. When Luke and Han free her she has to save them almost straight away. Then at the end she obviously couldn't do more because she's not a pilot. She doesn't do much in Empire but then again she's neither a pilot or technician, so her role on the falcon is limited, although when she is captured it's alongside everyone else, so lets not pretend she's any less useless than Chewie in that situation. In Jedi she pilots a speeder like a badass and she's part of the rebel strike force. Plus she takes the badass step of disguising herself as a bounty hunter and facing down Jabba with a thermal detonator. Just saying, for a major female character at the time she's much more capable and confident than most. edit ACTUALLY thinking about it a little more Leia is totally fucking screwed by gender-roles and the Jedi. God-damn Ben and Yoda are like "Ok, we need to train Luke to be a Jedi, and maybe if he gets straight up slaughtered we can use his sister as a backup, but until then we're just going to keep that shit quiet. You know, because we'd rather train this whiny pathetic moisture farmer and layabout than his fucking TWIN SISTER who is already a senator and leader of the rebel alliance and appears to have a god damn clue about what's at stake in the universe." Any sane person would be at least sending them both off to Dagobah. I mean, the moment Luke lands Yoda should just be like "dude, I'm going to train you in some basic shit but you should definitely go grab your sister to come down here so I can train her too" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 "Mm, hot ass Carrie Fisher, bring her to my swamp you should. Wear the metal bikini you tell her. Mmmmm." Yoda is a dirty old man who lives in a swamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 I bet he's there due to the 100,000 light year restraining order that all women in the galaxy placed on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 I'm suddenly thinking that the Emperor was a feminist trying to protect the galaxy from Yoda's wandering force-grip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 Also, Yoda and Ben were pissed that Luke was going to save his friends... ...except that one of his friends was the "other" Yoda mentioned as Luke was leaving. Luke was saving the other possible Jedi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 It's almost like Lucas didn't have this whole thing planned out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 That's not true, he's always told us he had all nine films planned out from the start. That's why Disney can go straight into production, because the script for Star Wars VII: The Dark Of The That's No Moon That's A Space Station has been in a locked safe of his since 1976. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted December 14, 2012 Report Share Posted December 14, 2012 That's not true, he's always told us he had all nine films planned out from the start. That's why Disney can go straight into production, because the script for Star Wars VII: The Dark Of The That's No Moon That's A Space Station has been in a locked safe of his since 1976. See, there are parts of the Internet where this would be a totally serious argument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Parts? You mean the bits not dedicated to porn, funny cat pictures, Star Trek or Doctor Who? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 ABC really really wants to do a Star Wars TV series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 Zack Snyder is Developing a Star Wars Film based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...Huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 They already did that in The Clone Wars. The episode itself was dedicated to Kurosawa, and the plot was almost point-for-point along The Seven Samurai. This seems highly unlikely to be true. However, Snyder directing a standalone action film in the Star Wars universe does not at all sound bad to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 He's denied the rumors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Good. Whoever directs the next Star Wars should at least stay true to the visual style, or at least just use bond-style twists on it. I don't see Snyder doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 Drew Struzan has been asked to do the poster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Star Wars Episode 7: Lens Flare of the Force Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I approve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 It almost seems unfair that he gets to direct Star Trek and Star Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 That's a relief. I was worried they'd choose someone worthwhile and I'd have to care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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