Diverse casts are great! But it’s not enough if the narrative and motifs are still drawing on orientalist or terrorist stereotypes.
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Also check out Jackie Reem Salloum's remix “Planet of the Arabs” about Hollywood's depiction of the Middle East:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC3hwKtv_OU …
#RogueOne has two rebel factions. The “good” rebel alliance we all know about and then Saw's “extremist” rebels who are all wearing turbans.
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not to 100% disagree, but it IS pretty key to narrative that the "good" Rebellion is losing b/c they rejected the "extremists"
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Seems to me they were pretty "extreme" too (ordering murders etc) but weren't framed as monsters for it like Saw's faction.
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Also none of Saw's faction were included in the Rogue One team.
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No, but their tacit allies are and he gives it the (literal) blessing. Structurally, he's Jyn's Obi-Wan analog...
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...just more explicitly coded as a political insurgent without the "hermit monk" gloss.
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I'm a Star Wars fan and I picked up on this too. Made me very uneasy
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Interesting. R1 portrays a fractured Rebellion. Like conflating 'ordinary' Muslims with Jihadist extremists?
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haven’t watched it so far, but these tropes are fucking dangerous. esp since it contributes to the perception that… 1/
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white folks can’t be terrorists for their political ideologies. terror = using violence for political agenda vs civilians
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