that when Jyn Erso was taking off her Imperial garb late in the movie to get at the normal clothes hidden underneath that she would continue to disrobe culminating in a striptease for her comrade, the imperials, and the audience?
shareoh man. they made sure that her butt was more present during the second half of the film.
shareThere is no sex in Star Wars.
There is no nudity in Star Wars.
There is only tight clothing, and a romantic kiss about once every four films.
Princess Leia’s braless boobs jiggled a lot in her slightly transparent White robes in A New Hope. In Return of the Jedi, she wore that super skimpy gold bikini. I won’t even go into Padme/Amidala.
No, there is no nudity In Star Wars. But Star Wars is still guilty of catering to the male gaze.
My point WAS, that even though so many people in Star Wars are good-looking and have great bodies... they never actually have sex.
IMHO that explains a lot about some of the fans, don't get me started.
This is true, but that's probably also why it has had such staying power. There's no barrier to showing it to your nine year old. Then your nine year old wants a light saber. Then they want another lightsaber. Then they want to be a stormtrooper for Halloween (X5 Halloweens in succession). Then they want to make a lightsaber using someone else's design off the internet. You buy pipe and duct tape and an electric powersaw and you print off an electronics design for lighting up your made-from-scratch lightsaber that some guy from Utah posted on the internet. You trip over their homemade lightsaber twice a week for three years. Then they save up their pocket and birthday and Christmas money for three years to buy a $200 collectible light saber, which you are not allowed to touch. You get yelled at if you dare to dust it. Then they want to go to ComicCon.
Before you know it, they are married, have their own nine-year-old, and the whole cycle starts all over again.
There are a billion G and PG rated films you can show to your grade schooler over and over again... but none has the staying power of Star Wars!
Well, maybe the Disney films, some of which have been shown to generation after generation for nearly a hundred years now... but they don't have nearly as much appeal to adults. Well, to sane adults.
Yeah, absolutely, there are lots of other movies. But I think what makes Star Wars so persistent is that its individual magic can be activated very young :)
shareWell, that may be *one* of the things that makes Star Wars so special, but I'm old enough to remember the start of the whole thing, I stood in line in 1977 along with everyone else.
The fandom started with people of all ages who saw the film at whatever age they were when it came out, or when it was shown on TV, which means that yes. Some people caught the bug when they were kids, some as adults, some as teenagers like me. Subsequent generations of fans may have been introduced to the magic when their parents used the VCR or DVD player to shut them up for a bit, and maybe that's more common than an adult introduction now. But that isn't my experience of the fandom, and that's probably true for most of the older fans.
No, there is no nudity In Star Wars. But Star Wars is still guilty of catering to the male gaze.