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What was the rationale behind the ginger mulatta girl?

posted 7 years ago by emo_ville2002 (385)
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Is she just a good actress?

And why did they make so little use of Willow?

[–] joe9019 (19) 7 years ago

Thought about this and whether or not it was intentional, for me it harks back to the days of sea-faring and piracy on earth where a red-headed Irish or Scotsman finding himself on some far-flung shore fathered a child with an indiginous woman. Happened all the time back then I think, with no birth control. Quite subtle really.

[–] emo_ville2002 (385) 7 years ago

So the ginger mulatta is the child of an Irish/Scots spaceman who traveled to a planet as a pirate and made a baby with a black spacewoman? What would be the purpose of that? And was Willow's dad a little pirate spaceman?

[–] joe9019 (19) 7 years ago

It's a subtle reference to the kind of lifestyles these people lead. And Willows dad, if we're going to include him then yes, all kinds of people sailed the world back then, and it would be entirely plausible to imagine a situation where he would be born into those circumstances. There doesn't need to be a purpose, it's just reproductive nature.

[–] emo_ville2002 (385) 7 years ago

Do you think Jar Jar Binks was a Jamaican Rasta from the 70s?

[–] Satan2016 (25831) 7 years ago

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai shows aliens taking the form of Jamaican Rastas. If you have special glasses you can see that many humans are actually aliens who walk among us!

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 7 years ago

It was obviously SUPER SIGNIFICANT. You could tell how important it was by the swell of music and the lingering zoom. One would think that we, the audience, were supposed to know who she was.

[–] AP (5291) 7 years ago

They avoided using any pronouns when talking about the character. I think it was meant to be a surprise that it was a girl under that armor. It was sort f like Samus Aran being revealed as a girl at the end of Metroid.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 7 years ago

And wow, wasn't it amazing? The music really went well with how astounded I was by that reveal. I stood up in my seat with my hands on my head, utterly flabbergasted. I turned around and saw the entire audience looking at each other with mouths wide open. No one could believe this surprise. Truly Star Wars is back.

[–] AP (5291) 7 years ago

I liked the part where she asked Solo to join her at the end and he declined and she said "I have a feeling you'll change your mind someday". I was like "OMG, he did join the Rebels someday. I totally would have missed it were it not for this dialogue!".

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

She was 'bad' ... but really she was SUPER good!

....even though she had an already established reputation as being really bad, s far as history with other characters in the film is concerned?