āand itās a costume event!ā
how do I just KNOW someoneās going to take this stupid, racist places?
Wish theyād given us a dubbed trailer ā¦ Iād love a sample.
Trying to think of what Star Wars character cosplay would be inherently racistā¦
Two words: Jar Jar.
Jar Jar is the Tonto of the Star Wars universe.
but weāre talking the original star wars, here - not any of the prequels. i canāt think of any characters in the original one that could be considered racist.
Iām also thinking about New Hope specifically. Second, I cannot agree that anything with a JarJar in it can actually be considered Star Wars.
The jedi are extinct; their fire has gone out of the universe.
Just a plug: thatās an awesome museum. If youāre in DC, make time for it. Go early to the cafe, though. I was there closer to closing, and most of the āregionsā were shut down already.
Luke Windtalker ?
This is the closest I have found to a trailer. Itās actually a short video about why this is an important event but there are clips in it and some interviews with the voice actors.
I donāt think there are any that are INHERENTLY racist (Well, OK, Jar-Jar and the Nemoidans kinda skirt the line, to put it nicely, but theyāre not in Episode IV), but you know some assholeās gonna try and make a ānativeā Stormtrooper or Darth Vader by taking the armor and gluing feathers and stuff to it.
Itād be really cool. But even better would be horror movie in Navaho. Even a clip.
My roommate in college was Navaho. Heād have bad dreams and talk in his sleep. Waking up in the dark to an agitated stream of Navaho can be really, uh, disconcerting. Makes latin sound down right pedestrian. The same phrase in in Navaho would sound like truly taping into something ancient and fundamental.
Youāve not experienced Star Wars until youāve seen it in the original Navajo.
Sniff. Iāll wait for the Navajo-subtitled version to come out, thank you.
You mean dressing up like Jar Jar Binks?
Never cross the streams!
I think itās interesting that there was no way to express āTo be, or not to be,ā in Klingon, until Christopher Plummer insisted that translating it to āto die, or not to die,ā was unacceptable. Klingons donāt seem to suffer from existential crises, though.
I honestly never thought of Jar Jar being a racist stereotype until a gibbering racist pointed it out to me.
And I figure if George Takei can play a Neimoidian, I donāt have a right to criticize.
This guy gets it. No, no characters in New Hope are inherently racist (I donāt know where anyone got this; I never said this), but people hear ānativeā and ācostumeā and stupidity ensues.
