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‘Star Wars’ and the Crisis of Masculinity
Acculturated ^
| 12.31.2015
Posted on 12/31/2015 7:01:09 PM PST by Perdogg
Why did Kylo Ren turn evil?
That’s a central unanswered question of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Ren is the film’s villain, a young acolyte of the late Darth Vader. (Spoiler alert: He is also the son of two of the film’s famous characters, whose names I’m going to reveal).
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hate; hateleads2darkside; muchhatred; muchhatredisense
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To: BenLurkin
And surprisingly that is a possible key plot line - because Rey gives no last name. Finn was a stormtrooper and had no last name. Why doesn’t Rey give her last name? We’ll find out who’s kid she is in the next movie (no, I’m not telling; if you saw this film you already have a good idea by how the movie ended).
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:23:00 PM PST
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:23:31 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: heartwood
The answer my friend, is blowing in the galactic wind.
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:23:31 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: max americana
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:24:48 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: vladimir998
I was bowled over by JJ's homage to Chinese martial arts cinema in his creation of the Rey character's appearenace.
Zhang Ziyi comes to mind:
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:26:06 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
Okay, here's a spoiler. It's A New Hope with a female Luke Skywalker, a Death Star on the ground, and a rolling R2D2 unit named BB-8.
Also Zhang Ziyi
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:31:36 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
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To: Perdogg
I haven’t seen it, nor intend to until it’s on netflix or $4.99 in the bargain DVD bin, but my question is this. The original Death Star was the size of a small moon. The new one is the size of the planet. Why isn’t it called the Death...Supernova? Or Death Globular Cluster? Something bigger?
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:35:05 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(Cruz or Lose 2016)
To: BenLurkin
Getting an Error 403 on that one.
The popular ones are not only the Swiss army knife, but also a chainsaw and a menorah.
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:35:30 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:36:43 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Rey-chan? She’s Sailor Mars?
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:36:47 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: GraceG
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:38:05 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Perdogg
Star Wars?
Is that when Charlie Sheen and Nicolas Cage duke it out over a parking space?
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:38:21 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
To: Richard Kimball
It's true....
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:39:02 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Perdogg
The spoilers don’t matter because the movie is so lame.
I made a special effort to see it with my father who saw the first one with me back in 1977.
God, what an embarrassment.
This new movie is a complete joke.
Don’t waste your time people.
This new Star Wars is nothing but a complete compitulation to political correctness.
It is utterly worthless as art. It is nothing but political propaganda.
I apologized to my dad afterwards.
To: Yardstick
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:42:38 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
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To: Mastador1
That doesn’t make any difference.
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:43:14 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Maximizing my cultural appropriation.)
To: Olog-hai
It's all about the soccer ball robot. Seems to have got a few people bent out of shape.
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:46:24 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: MUDDOG
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:48:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Perdogg
Kilo (Ben) was apparently upset at the microaggression of being sent off the Jedi school to learn about the force...
*sigh*
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posted on
12/31/2015 7:48:17 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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