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!
FragilE^ said: 2 things. 1. We have NO IDEA what sexuality 99% of the people in Starwars have. They could all be gay. Why are you assuming they're straight just because they're not over the top gay stereotypes? 2. Star Wars is actually... fictional... I know, this is totally crazy, but hear me out. Star Wars isn't real. It doesn't have to represent anything. There are a plethora of crazy alien species who, for all we know, fucks rocks or whatever. Who cares. They can do whatever they want, and include or decide not to include anything. |
They could be more than we suspect at first! See below.
haxxiy said:
But we already have a lovely couple of them in the movie.

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