Alby_da_Wolf said:
JWeinCom said:
I gotta say, I would HATE to watch movies directed by the people in these comments. They seem to think ANY detail not essential to the plot should be taken out entirely.
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I could go on for literally days and days. The point is that movies have TONS AND TONS of unessential details that nobody complains about. Because that's how you fucking develop a character. If you stipped down a story to only the details that are absolutely essential to the plot, you'd have a boring as shit story with flat characters that would last like ten minutes. Those little details are what brings characters to life, opens up a story for interpretation, and makes it interesting. Is Romeo's crush on Rosalind necessary to the plot? No. But it does call into question how legit his feelings for Juliet are.
So why is it that we don't mind when we find out other details about characters? Why can't being gay just be one of those details that helps flesh out a character? Why don't we get upset when characters don't like white chocolate, or when characters play Galaga? Why is this the only unnessential detail we get bent out of shape about?
Cause you don't like gay characters. Real talk.
P.S. Please don't go through the list trying to pick out individual examples. They were off the top of my head, and may not all be perfect.
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I won't pick up individual examples, and I actually agree that adding details in many cases helps developing realistic characters and that having a gay character can be part of this, but Star Wars is a poor example, Lucas added so many unessential details to the prequel trilogy that he not only made it a bit boring, but then he felt forced to obsessively-compulsively and, what's worse, pedantically rewrite the original trilogy to make it match with the prequels, pissing off a large part of the old fans: Lucas, old geezer, who cares about your pedantic trimming, you should have just left enough things untold in the prequels to avoid having to ruin the old trilogy with that nonsense!
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Of course you can go overboard, but I don't really think that was the problem with the prequels. The prequels were boring because it had flat shitty characters. Anakin seems as though he's simply waiting for his cue to turn evil, Natalie Portman only seems to like Anakin because the script demanded it, and the Jedi can't see the evil Sith Lord standing two inches from their face.
I actually think some more details to flesh out these characters would have been a good thing, assuming those details were chosen properly.
