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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8714122" data-attributes="member: 59082">Thanks, I appreciate this. And I hear you - there are definitely those who seem to get upset with greater representation and diversity for rather nefarious reasons.In a lot of—or at least some—cases, though, critiques of the Latest Thing are less malign than they seem. Take, for instance, the hypothetical idea of “Jane Bond.” I dislike the idea mainly because it is creatively lazy. And furthermore, because in a way it subtly exacerbates a problem (say, sexism) that it seemingly wants to address. So rather than simply take an old classic franchise and subvert it, why not start a new one, with a unique female super-spy that isn’t based on a male one? The real reason—most of the time and in my opinion—is not for feminist reasons, but economic ones. I personally don’t want to see female Bond — I want to see a film about that Cuban agent.That was kind of my point with my comment about Oscar Isaac - but also Daisy Ridley and John Boyega. Rather than say, “Let’s make new, unique characters for the Star Wars universe that draw from your own personalities and abilities” they seemingly tried and more derivative and/or “ciphering” approach, sometimes even tokenism. In the end, it does the actors an injustice.That’s my impression, at least. As I said, I do think Ridley in particular did a pretty good job, but that all of them could have been so much more. I think Boyega in particular was given the short stick.</blockquote>

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