Im excited about the next Star Wars films, especially since George Lucas wont be writing or directing them. The new cast was announced the other day, and I dont know many of the actors in it -besides the original cast members- but well all know by next winter if theyre as good as the director thought theyd be in casting them. But heres a writer at Vanity Fair whos dismayed by the casting- for reasons that please his leftist bosses- in a piece called The Star Wars Cast Should Be Better: The casting news for J.J. Abrams’s new Star Wars film gives us a lot to be excited about. Interesting actors like Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, and John Boyega have been tapped to star along our old favorites, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill. This hopefully tells us that Abrams is trying to make something smart and idiosyncratic, without cheaply relying on big-name movie stars to fill in gaps in quality. But looking at the new list, it’s hard not to notice something dismaying: Only one woman, newcomer Daisy Ridley, is in the new lineup. By our count, that’s eleven principals who are men and only two who are women. And there are only two non-white people, both men, on the list. Couldn’t they have done better? Couldnt Vanity Fair have done better than hire this hack? No. He represents Vanity Fair, he represents those who feel a deep *personal* need to make the unimportant seem important.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 05:01:06 +0000
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