This is a theme Disney seems to like a great deal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
I can't believe Bob Iger approved the spec script for Solo solely because he believed the name thing was the coolest and most insightful thing he'd ever seen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Now I'm wondering what weirdly impressionable executive somewhere totally had their mind blown by the Martha thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The thing about Martha is that it's a solid beat in principle - Batman dehumanizes Superman, but then sees his humanity by connecting him to his own loss. But you have to earn it, and BvS didn't. Superman randomly calling his mother by her first name makes no sense.
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Whereas "Solo" is just dumb. I mean, it would have worked as a throwaway line, like if Han was telling one of his buddies about it as a joke. But as a huge, ponderous moment like they tried to make it to be in the movie, it's absurd.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect
It also is sort of an awkward attempt to dodge the fact that "Han Solo" was obviously made up to sound like an Asian name of some sort without talking to any Asian people and without any intention of casting an Asian actor
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail
I mean I guess "Solo" is a real surname, like Hope Solo and Ksenia Solo (it's Italian for "alone", which is where we get its English meaning, but it's also corruption of the Hebrew/Yiddish name Shlomo) And "Han" is Dutch for "Hans" (which is German for "John")
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(I am a native Dutch speaker and have never heard of anyone called "Han". "Hans" is a common Dutch name. Translating "John" to "Hans" is not exactly correct either, "Jan" would be the german/dutch for "John".)
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I'm just passing along what the Internet tells mehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(given_name) …
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Han Nolan. That's an interesting woman's name
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I think she's just a Hannah with an idiosyncratic nickname that may be an intentionally androgynous pen name to avoid the "women's fiction ghetto" (same reason Andrea Norton became Andre Norton when she became an SFF writer)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
The random thing where Lando insistently says "Han" like "Hannah" and not "Hans" is, of course, also tiresomely made into a big thing in Solo
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I dunno, I loved the way Glover played that. Then again, that probably says a lot more about how charming Glover was than it does about the script.
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