Anyone notice only the men dying?
I saw many female pilots and on board the modified Calamari Cruiser among other places and they only show the males being shot dead (minus that Awing in the hanger that Ren blew up with torpedoes).
shareAbout 80 percent of the cast (and thus military forces depicted on screen) would be male so the probability is higher that men will be killed. Yeah, I do recall female characters being killed early in the movie - the Asian looking bomber pilot, one of the fighter pilots (of an A-Wing?) and Laura Dern's character.
shareSince about 98% of the rebellion personnel died during the course of the movie, I'd say there were a lot of female deaths, including Laura Dern and the bomber pilot.
Comparatively few of the women got close-ups as they died.
I totally concur that the females died as well (off-screen) but I was referring to the death scenes being actually shown. They mostly showed men in cockpit being blown up with their screams (especially on salt planet Crait where they showed majority female cockpit pilots in V-4X-D ski speeders) besides the mentioned 3 females shown as sacrificing themselves and doing the majority of the 'only' she could save us shtick. By that I mean the Asian gunner was the only one to finish that payload drop, (A-Wing pilot I wasn't sure), and Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo saving the remaining fleeing resistance fleet by killing a majority of the First Order pursuit fleet.
shareI've only seen it once, I honestly don't remember all the close-ups as 98% of the REBELLION got killed.
Why is it important to you that there got a couple of heartbreaking self-sacrifice scenes?