Heart of the City by Steenz for November 20, 2012

Yesterday, I thought it was Alec Guinness (1914-2000).

Which is my parent (Disney) bought you.

Doesn’t Johnny Depp work for Disney?

With $4B of Disney money in his pocket, he can show up as anything he wants.

Well, yes: you can make a case that George Lucas cut his own creative throat when he came up with Jar Jar Binks. Of course, he did the same thing earlier when he did the two Ewok movies that shall not be named, the original Ewok dance ending of Empire, and put his fingerprints on the fourth Indiana Jones movie. George is like a man who, after winning the Olympic target shooting event, then goes and takes potshots at his own feet and then acts bewildered – and angry – when people question his actions.

if Jar Jar was so bad, why did they steal him for “John Carter?” I guess the other five people who saw that one didn’t care.

“I looked up who jar jar is.. What so bad about him?”

If you had to look him up, you’ll never fully understand why he’s so divisive, but he was perceived by much of the original “Star Wars” audience as being cartoonish and lightweight, as well as possibly racially insensitive (there’s a similarity to the old “Steppin Fetchit” stereotype of gangly-limbed, mushmouthed Negroes from old movies). Lucas had worked some comic relief into the movies from the outset, but first with the Ewoks and then with Jar Jar Binks, there was a perception that Lucas was turning the franchise into “children’s movies.” Of course, that presupposes that they WEREN’T “children’s movies” from the beginning, which was reportedly how Alec Guinness (for one) thought of them.

Jar Jar was like Fonzi jumping the shark?

I like Jar Jar…

“The first comic relief Lucas used was R2D2 and CP3O in the first (episode IV) movie.”

I acknowledged that there had been comic relief since the beginning. But LUC Rambler asked why Jar Jar is divisive, so I answered him to the best of my ability, trying to keep my own opinions out of it (“he is perceived…” etc.).

But since you mention it, I don’t like Jar Jar, but there are a number of reasons I don’t like Episodes I-III. And I think the ideal audience for “Star Wars” is 12-16, and the fact that I was 12 when “Star Wars” came out in 1977 and 16 when I saw “The Empire Strikes Back” has nothing to do with it. :-)

Neither could I Dean.

Nothing, I like Jar Jar. :D

It’s amazing how, in retrospect, you realize how many things were completely played out. Now I hope Jar Jar gets his own series as revenge for all the complaining people did about him, me included, long past the expiration date.