I remember toting my Star Wars VHS tapes to his apartment almost every weekend. There is a lot about my biological father I’ve made myself forget. He always and only attached his name to mine. But that was never the name my biological father wrote on my birthday cards. The court compromised, forcing my younger brother and me to hyphenate our names. My parents had been divorced for a few years by then, and when my biological father found out, he threw a legal shit-fit. It wasn’t my legal name, but I used it anyway because her name was my name. One of my earliest memories is using my mother’s name as my last name in elementary school. It took a long time for both of us to learn that. It belonged to my biological father, and because I had his name, he believed I belonged to him. I was born with a name that was not given to me but forced upon me.
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This is the Star Wars essay I have to write.
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I procrastinated this essay for weeks because just thinking about it got dangerously close to cracking a wall I built for myself over the past 20 years.Īnd then “Empress Palpatine” Rey happened, and the wall came tumbling down. Then it was my loneliness - a whole lifetime of it, reflected in Padmé and Leia and Rey. I started thinking about the connection between romance and loneliness. I thought it would be silly and fun, a deep dive into the joy young women find through shipping in a fandom.īut the more I thought about it, the more morose it became. Originally, I thought I’d write about the women of Star Wars and the fuckbois who love them. This is the Star Wars essay I didn’t want to write. In saying this, the actors in The Last Jedi do have their own charisma and with the injection of a new type of humour for the Star Wars universe, writer/director Rian Johnson is trying to ground the grand, intergalactic scale and show us the small human nuances, even during the most hazardous of scenarios.THIS ESSAY CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. But we also have to get over it and understand, that type of golden casting should be looked upon as rare. In all the films that have followed from 1999 to present day, that same naturalistic interaction between the characters, is not as potent and we have to recognise that this was instrumental to Star Wars' success. She didn't come right out and say it, but other than her annoyance with too much CGI, what I analysed in her consecutive disappointments, was that the chemistry we saw in the original films, between Luke, Leia, Han Solo, C3-PO, R2-D2 and Chewbacca, no longer existed. The Last Jedi has finally answered a question for me, that my older sister had the answer to when the prequel trilogy came out. I think with better lighting, a few more spaceship battles and something else that I can't quite put my finger on, Solo could have been a much better movie. I mean yes, we see some of the important canon in Han Solo's life where this incident takes place, how that situation happened is all laid out for us, but none of it overwhelms you or makes you think 'Oh so that's how it went down!' And that is the film in its entirety, it is a straight down the middle, mediocre-done-well of a movie, but it's still mediocre. Along side that, this is the first Star Wars film that doesn't really have moments. For a lot of Solo, the lighting is dim and grey, yes I understand you want to show how dismal and grey the times are, but give me strength! The viewers still have to still see what is going on with some sort of retina comfort. Technically Disney and Marvel films are starting to suffer from one reoccurring annoyance - darkness! No not darkness in tone, I mean in lighting. For the most part it pays off or is at least tolerable. But this time around it was hit and miss and you could see some of the 'funny' moments being forcibly injected into the proceedings. Personally I really liked Chewbacca, but I had mixed feelings about the robot 元, why? Well it's obvious to see, that the production saw the popularity of Rogue One's humorous robot with an attitude (K2S0) and decided to feature another. Other performances in the main cast are wholly competent too, though Thandie Newton is wasted and Woody Harrelson proves he can be anyone, from any time, in any universe.
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Alden makes this his own, with the necessary character distinctions that we can see belong to Solo, not Harrison Ford. You will not see an actor give a bad performance of trying to be Harrison Ford, playing Han Solo. And so I am happy to report that Alden is pretty much the perfect casting for the role of Han and manages to give us a glimpse of who Han Solo will become, but also forges his own portrayal to let us know who Han is now. I first saw actor Alden Ehrenreich in Beautiful Creatures (2013) and even then he had a charisma.