Posted on 01/04/2018 8:03:37 AM PST by MNDude
Rey, on the other hand, never encounters failure. In “The Last Jedi,” instead of being instructed by a wise sage, Luke, in the tradition of the mythic hero, it is she who teaches him. Luke is thus deprived of the opportunity to pass from the warrior-hero into the mentor-teacher. At the end he is still impetuous, still myopic, still being lectured by Yoda. But Rey—she’s perfect. As Yoda tells Luke as the last Jedi archive burns, there is nothing in “those books that the girl does not already possess. In other words, she does not need the lessons of the past or a mentor to guide her. She already knows because she’s empowered. You go, girl! But beyond her inauthenticity as a masculine hero, Rey’s perfection and her cross-dressing deprive the film of another crucial element: a romance.
There are no princesses to rescue in the new “Star Wars.” There is no need for the traditional heroic story of the triumph of good over evil ending in love and children. It is in romance that the masculine and feminine hero journeys unify, resulting in new life. By making Rey a female character in a male role, the movie reveals its own contempt for life-giving femininity and its symbiotic relationship to strong masculinity.
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Men as a whole, have little role in the new film other than as villains (Kylo Ren and General Hux), dutiful side characters (Finn), or incompetent hot heads (Poe Dameron). On that last count, “The Last Jedi” goes to great lengths to shame and embarrass Dameron, the only token white male among the new batch of “good guys.”
Poe Dameron emerged in “The Force Awakens” as a gutsy rebel pilot in the spirit of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles. But in “The Last Jedi” his plot to save the Resistance fleet is both mutinous and disastrous. It ends up leading to the deaths of nearly all of his fellow fighters.
Dameron hatches this plan behind the backs of Vice Admiral Holdo, a purple haired, LGBTQQIA, #WomensMarch, leader of #TheResistance who takes command when Princess Leia, excuse me, General Organa nearly dies. Holdo is as bitchy as she sounds. Instead of revealing her plan to Dameron when he first asks, she kicks him off her bridge, calling him a “trigger happy flyboy” that “we don’t need right now.”
Yaaaaassss! Slay, Queen! Bitter, blue-haired feminists everywhere stood up and cheered at her “savage clapback” to Dameron and his “mansplaining,” I’m sure. But the effect on the film is horrendous. This Hillary Clinton clone, complete with the shrill moral superiority, exists for no other reason than to provide a ham-handed moral lesson about the importance of female leadership.
Couldn’t care less . . . Hollyweird can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. Can’t imagine anyone fussing over this.
I hear that now that Disney has cemented its alliance with Marvel they are planning a new, kid friendly edgy superhero franchise.
Deadpooh: ****s about to get surreal in the 40 Acre Wood
Occupying people’s thoughts with meaningless tripe is a propaganda technique.
Haven’t seen it.
All this is completely correct.
But analyzing it - like this article does - and revealing it for what it is is a worthwhile endeavor.
Regards,
His cork pop gun might pack a real punch.
” a purple haired, LGBTQQIA, #WomensMarch, leader of #TheResistance”
Wait, when was it estasblished in that movie that she was a Lesbian?
Nothing new . . . almost every action movie has the lead played by a woman . . . all kiddy cartoons have the woman leading the pack whenever they’re running . . . all commercials (Liberty Life, Progressive, Spectrum) have the damn dumbest men, usually fat with red hair, getting insulted by their wives. I am so fed up with these nasty anti-white-male commercials and anti-white-male movies.
Good chance to read good books.
Oh, give me a break about Rey.
Spoiler alert
She is far from perfect. She couldn’t turn whats-his-geek-face from the darkside, and it was whats-his-geek-face that ended up killing supereme leader snoke.
I will concede that while they don’t drift away from some of the well worn out plot devices, like having ot destroy a death-star (or Starkiller Base, or Dreadnaught in the latest one), they have drifted almost completely away from good/evil and tried to turn everyone into equivocating, bi-polar sacks of contradiction.
...but even that isn’t new. Remember when Luke at to turn dear old dad away from the darkside. We all knew that Darthy was really just a good guy holding out as a mole under the clutches the mean ol’ Emperor. Right?
Saw it.
Problem wasn’t feminism so much as sloppiness.
It is a mess. Like Homer Simpson’s make-up gun.
Ha. I bet you didn’t know that it was the Germans who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Men as a whole, have little role in the new film other than as villains...
However, as the show progressed, I noticed something odd about the way the characters acted. And then I spotted it: Though the cops were played by a man and a woman, they were actually two female roles. If they had replaced the male cop with a female actor and changed the name to Cindy or something, the character would have made more sense.
And the bad guy really just acted like a regular male.
Once I spotted that, the rest of the show was both funny and aggravating. The latter because I knew what they were doing.
No, it was a mess and feminism was a problem.
That’s feminism’s job, ruining things.
Huh?
The movie ended well, but there were moments there when I was thinking, “Oh, this isn’t good.”
Another movie like this one, and they’ll lose the guys.
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