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![]() ![]() It is her story, fundamentally: She is the axis around which everything else spins. ![]() ![]() Jyn is a feminist heroine who is uniquely at home within the feminism of 2016.įirst of all, and most obviously: Jyn is the star of this Star Wars story. She is, as Leia-and as, for that matter, the Star Wars denizens Padmé and Rey-have been before her, both a product and a reflection of her times. She is tough, but kind she is hardened, but human. She is a soldier, not just by training and circumstance but also by inclination. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) has been forged in the comic-book mold of the heroes who have been defined by their separation from their parents, and she is a natural leader who is not at all a princess. Much less fraught is the heroine of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Jyn is no damsel even when things get dire, we do not see her in distress. Leia was also, though, the heroine who squirmed in that (in)famous metal bikini and desperately uttered the line, “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” Leia is a great character, undeniably, a model for Katniss and Ripley and Imperator Furiosa as a feminist one, though, she has been decidedly fraught. The original Star Wars was, in its time, progressive Leia, who was not just a princess but also a rebel and fighter and a leader, was smart and feisty and no-nonsense-a Strong Female Lede for the time before that designation would become a category and a cliché. ![]() It’s a good reminder, by way of a bad joke, of how far American culture has come since 1977-and also of the time that the Star Wars saga has spanned, not just in its own (far)faraway galaxies, but also in the one its viewers share. “It is all trite characters and paltry verbiage,” the critic wrote of the much-hyped film, “handled adequately by Harrison Ford as a blockade-running starship pilot, uninspiredly by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker (Luke for George Lucas, the author-director Skywalker for his Icarus complex), and wretchedly by Carrie Fisher, who is not even appealing as Princess Leia Organa (an organic lay).”Īn organic lay. In May of 1977, in New York magazine, John Simon reviewed the new George Lucas film, Star Wars. ![]()
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