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dragonlady7) wrote2016-12-04 08:27 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2016-12-04 08:27 pm
Here’s the kind of media fan I am: I
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Here’s the kind of media fan I am: I hadn’t watched any of the trailers for the upcoming Rogue One except the first trailer, which I saw in the movie theater while I was seeing the only other movie I saw this year besides Ep VII. The reason for this is solely that I don’t like to watch videos; gifsets are about the best thing to ever happen to me.
But I did watch the trailers, this morning, and for one reason and one reason alone:
Diego Luna’s accent, or lack thereof.
I hadn’t watched any interviews with him either, nor had I seen any movies he was in (I’ve mentioned this elsewhere: I watch like, three movies a year, and have been like that my whole life, so, it’s not hard for me to miss entire genres etc) but one gifset of an interview with Luna was subtitled in such a way that made it clear that he was speaking non-totally-fluent English. So I watched an interview and, sure enough, Diego Luna speaks excellent but not perfect English, with a strong accent.
So I watched the trailers. And, indeed, Cassian Andor speaks with Diego Luna’s approximate accent. (I’m sure he’s been dialect-coached; nothing in a movie of that budget is going to be laziness or coincidence or left to chance, but they clearly didn’t try to get rid of his accent entirely. From that standpoint, I imagine they cast him on purpose for that reason. The actor’s accent was a feature, not a defect, in the impression they wanted to convey.) And what’s more, he is not the only character to have a noticeable accent.
What does this mean?
Well, it means a lot for Space Latinos. It means a lot. It means they’re implying the existence of cultures speaking other languages in-universe. It means they’re overtly claiming multiculturalism for the side of the Rebellion. Which, of course, if you look at the rest of the cast, most of whose names I don’t even know yet because I’m not that kind of fan, but– clearly, that’s an aesthetic they’re deliberately shooting for. And that’s really something exciting on its own. Let’s hope we can get more than a just superficial, cosmetic idea of “diversity” from this– I want deeper worldbuilding, there, of what it means that these people are so visibly and audibly differentiated.
(What I wouldn’t have given for a woman of color, or shit, more than one woman period, but we’ll wait and see I guess.)
So. In general, I’m excited to see the movie, but in specific, I want to know what this means for Space Latinos, and opportunities for me to expand the Lost Kings-verse into that canon.
It’s almost scary, because if they world-build something that doesn’t fit with what I’ve done, I’ll be pretty bummed– but I can’t see how they would.
At any rate– Lost Kings is sort of on hiatus until then, but it’s a natural stopping point anyway, and I am only a little bit cautious in my optimism that I’ll be able to fold it into something really cool with what we get from the source material.
Here’s the kind of media fan I am: I hadn’t watched any of the trailers for the upcoming Rogue One except the first trailer, which I saw in the movie theater while I was seeing the only other movie I saw this year besides Ep VII. The reason for this is solely that I don’t like to watch videos; gifsets are about the best thing to ever happen to me.
But I did watch the trailers, this morning, and for one reason and one reason alone:
Diego Luna’s accent, or lack thereof.
I hadn’t watched any interviews with him either, nor had I seen any movies he was in (I’ve mentioned this elsewhere: I watch like, three movies a year, and have been like that my whole life, so, it’s not hard for me to miss entire genres etc) but one gifset of an interview with Luna was subtitled in such a way that made it clear that he was speaking non-totally-fluent English. So I watched an interview and, sure enough, Diego Luna speaks excellent but not perfect English, with a strong accent.
So I watched the trailers. And, indeed, Cassian Andor speaks with Diego Luna’s approximate accent. (I’m sure he’s been dialect-coached; nothing in a movie of that budget is going to be laziness or coincidence or left to chance, but they clearly didn’t try to get rid of his accent entirely. From that standpoint, I imagine they cast him on purpose for that reason. The actor’s accent was a feature, not a defect, in the impression they wanted to convey.) And what’s more, he is not the only character to have a noticeable accent.
What does this mean?
Well, it means a lot for Space Latinos. It means a lot. It means they’re implying the existence of cultures speaking other languages in-universe. It means they’re overtly claiming multiculturalism for the side of the Rebellion. Which, of course, if you look at the rest of the cast, most of whose names I don’t even know yet because I’m not that kind of fan, but– clearly, that’s an aesthetic they’re deliberately shooting for. And that’s really something exciting on its own. Let’s hope we can get more than a just superficial, cosmetic idea of “diversity” from this– I want deeper worldbuilding, there, of what it means that these people are so visibly and audibly differentiated.
(What I wouldn’t have given for a woman of color, or shit, more than one woman period, but we’ll wait and see I guess.)
So. In general, I’m excited to see the movie, but in specific, I want to know what this means for Space Latinos, and opportunities for me to expand the Lost Kings-verse into that canon.
It’s almost scary, because if they world-build something that doesn’t fit with what I’ve done, I’ll be pretty bummed– but I can’t see how they would.
At any rate– Lost Kings is sort of on hiatus until then, but it’s a natural stopping point anyway, and I am only a little bit cautious in my optimism that I’ll be able to fold it into something really cool with what we get from the source material.