J.J. Abrams: "I'd Welcome Gay Characters In STAR WARS"

[Jon-Erich]

Torillian said:

Jon-Erich said:

In my opinion, none of this matters. I think unless you're making a documentary or something based on historic fact, the movie makers should not have an obligation to represent anybody, especially when the movie is set in a fictitious universe where Earth's statistics and population figures have no relevance.

That being said, if they want to put gay characters in Star Wars, fine. But they shouldn't do it in a way where the character has to spell out that they're gay, especially when it is not vital to the plot. I hate it when movies and TV shows do that. This is why in 50 years, all the shows an movies that we see as classics right noware still going to hold up while the new shit we have today will be seen as dumb and unintelligent. 

Btw, has anyone else noticed that? The ONLY time we've seen any on-screen romance in the Star Wars movies was when it was essential to the plot? Gay or not gay, they should keep it that way.

Movie makers don't have any obligations to represent realistic diversity, but the post I was replying to seemed to state that minorities were being overrepresented in media which I wanted to look at from a math point of view since I was curious.  Any given single movie does not require a gay character but overall the trend seems to be that LGBT community if underrepresented and not overrepresented in movies.  

I understand that they feel underrepresented but that's also a problem. See, when future generations will look at movies that came out around the time the original Star Wars came out, they'll a classic timeless movie that appeals to everybody. When they a movie from 2016, they won't get it. They aren't going to see something timeless. They're going to see something from 2016. They're going to ask themselves why gay people are being thrown onto the screen like that. Because the problem with Hoolywood and writers is that they haven't yet learned to write stories and scripts for gay people yet. I'll use black people as an example. When you see a black person in a tv show or a movie, do you think to yourself "oh, that's a black guy"? No. You just see him the same way you would see any other character. This is because unless the character is supposed to be a stereotype of some kind, the character wasn't written to "represent" anyone. Until they learn to write gays and other minorities into shows and movies in the same way, the gay person in a movie will continue to be nothing more than the token gay person.

That's why I feel that if a writer can't write gays, then they shouldn't and if the LGBT community has a problem, then the writer should just say that.