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This is a Hot Toys head sculpt of Alden Ehrenreich from Solo- A Star Wars Story! The movie didn't do as well as other Star Wars movies but I actually liked it quite a bit! I loved this head sculpt even though I don't think it looks like the actor! Maybe in a superficial way! In any case, I'm sure no one is surprised that I wanted to place him on a TBLeague M35 body!
Everyone in the Star Wars fandom is always bringing up really creative interesting ideas for stories they want to see set in the Star Wars galaxy. Deep, contemplative content like Andor, that challenges what Star Wars is and can be.
And I want that too, but I also want a story set right after Kylo goes all angsty darksidery. When Han and Leia’s relationship is on the rocks where Leia and Qi’ra go on an early 2000s movie style road trip, where they bond over shit talking their ex and then once that well runs dry just trauma dump and get drunk and have the best time. They don’t bring up Han after the first day, after getting that out of the way. And just have their best Eurotrip style hijinks all across the galaxy. Spreading chaos as only two women in their full blown 3/4 life crisis can.
Star Wars meets Bridesmaids that is either genius or I’m overtired and can’t fall asleep at 2 Am. You decide.
I woke up today and chose violence so to piss off the Star Wars dude bros I present you with female characters who could beat up Han Solo:
Would Obliterate Him in Seconds:
1: Any female Jedi
2: Any female Sith
3: Any female Mandalorian
4: Any female Inquisitor
5: Any Force Witch from any coven (Nightsisters, Brendok etc…)
6: Leia
7: Sy Snootles
Would Obliterate Him in Minutes:
1: Aura Sing
2: Cara Dune
3: Fennec Shand
4: Captain Phasma
5: Sugi
Wouldn’t Break a Sweat:
1: Any of Padme’s handmaidens
2: Any female Togruta
3: Jyn Erso
4: Homestly most female Star Wars characters this is just who I could think of off the top of my head.
A Close Fight:
1: Cinta Kaz
2: Paige Tico
3: Eleni Syndulla
4: Hera Syndulla (maybe not beat him in a straight fight, but absolutely outfly him.)
5: Dr. Aphra
6: Maarva Andor
7: Kadara Calrissian
8: Rafa Martez
Let me know about the badass women I missed in the comments, maybe I’ll add them.
(Some may be included in a general category like Asajj Ventress would destroy him, but is included in the Force Witch category. Also feel free to suggest Legends and video game characters, I’m just less familiar with those so I didn’t include characters from them.)
We all must do our part to bully the toxic Star Wars bros, together.
Also let me know if you disagree with the ranking of any of the characters, they aren’t ranked in any order besides general category.
I’m testing something…
Fair Play (2023) - Just some thoughts.
DISCLAIMER - I want to give a disclaimer as this film does deal with SA and I will be discussing it, so please feel free to skip this one if this topic isn't for you, but I will give a warning if you would still like to read.
So, a couple of days ago I watched this film which was on my ‘to watch’ list for AGES, Fair Play which was directed and written by Chloe Domont (we LOVE a female writer/director), and it was so captivating the whole way through. The way this film got me invested in a hedge fund is mind-blowing because it became so much less about what the job was and more about the character dynamics – this could’ve truly been in any setting, and I would’ve watched this. I will be discussing spoilers so if you haven’t already, PLEASE go and watch the film, if you love films that discuss a complex dynamic between men and women, I think you’ll enjoy this one.
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I truly appreciated how the film depicted women in power, particularly within a relationship, the movie starts with a very happy couple that have become recently engaged (Emily and Luke), and they work for the same hedge fund company where they keep their relationship a secret. Something we’re shown very early on is men and their reaction toward their failures – when their manager gets fired at the beginning, we see the man destroy his office in a fit of rage, yelling that the company needs him and that it is their fault and not his. We see this foreshadowed in Luke further into the film, but we’ll discuss that later.
After their ex-manager’s explosion, there are rumours around the office that Luke got the promotion in which we see Emily’s face as she hears this, and through the audience we see how she reacts positively to this information, you know as any NORMAL human would (I’m looking at you Luke…). Emily tells Luke without a hint of malice or jealousy; she is simply happy for her significant other in this moment.
However, when Emily gets called in to drink with a colleague, she’s surprised to find her boss gives her the promotion instead of Luke. We smash cut to Emily in the car and she tells Luke that she got the promotion instead, whom facilitates a VERY different reaction to the news and is stooped but eventually congratulates her. Not without asking if their boss had touched her, of course, because obviously women just can’t get a promotion because she’s good.
It’s from then we see this couple spiral out of love and become vastly different people than they started. Emily starts to earn a lot more than Luke does, she offers to take him out to dinner, she ends up coming home late, even goes to a strip club which fully blurs the line of gender dynamics and the idea of ‘masculinity’. Her success at work is shown through Luke’s myopic view of what a man should be like, and even challenges our view of what a successful woman looks like – when success is relegated by a male perspective, can it hinder our view of a successful woman?
When another PM is fired, we see Luke beg for the job only for the position to be filled within an instant by someone else (I thought this was hilarious by the way) and Emily tells him that instead of promoting him, their boss was considering firing him. Which speaks a lot to the fact that he was doing so terribly that his boss was going to fire him, and yet he was just so sure that he deserved that promotion (typical am I right?). It’s then where Luke goes missing, only to return to do the one thing he can think of to make Emily feel as he does – embarrassed. So, he reveals their relationship in the hopes that it gets her fired (which it does not) and publicly shames her in front of important clients.
Okay so I’m going to talk about the scene in which Emily is R-worded by Luke so please skip this paragraph if need be. This scene arrives when Luke has well and truly fired from their firm, and unbeknownst to Emily’s parents they put on an engagement party not aware of the tensions between the two. In this scene, we feel Emily’s rage and her nervousness to see Luke, he has completely transformed over the film, mind you in a very realistic manner. When Emily confronts Luke, we see his true feelings towards their situation, when he argues that she offered sexual favours to their boss, and in response she smashes a bottle over his head (rightly so). It’s then that she runs away to the bathroom where he follows, and they continue to argue before they start to engage in… acts – which parallels when we first meet them in the scene at his brother’s wedding party (in that scene they face each other, however in this scene Luke controls Emily). However, Luke starts to get rough with Emily, and she tells him to stop but he doesn’t and slams her down into the sink, leaving a massive bruise on her face.
Now, I’ve never liked it when films contain an R-word scene, particularly as it feels incredibly obtrusive, and while it gives the desired reaction (discomfort), it is also viewed through a male gaze most of the time where we focus on the brutality the MAN is giving rather than how the WOMAN feels in this matter. And in this scene, it’s a shame that it doesn’t seem like the latter; I just think I’m of the majority of people who feel that these types of scenes aren’t needed and it could’ve been portrayed a lot better – I also find it interesting that people reviewing the film tend to leave out this scene, instead calling it a ‘sexy’ or ‘erotic’ thriller, which just feels very pedantic in a way.
The next scene shows Emily covering her bruise and telling her boss at the hedge fund that Luke was a crazy stalker, whom she did date but became out of control. We see then the boss doesn’t care, because Emily is worth keeping there. When she returns to her apartment, Luke is there who appears nonchalant about what happened and tells Emily that he’s staying at his brother’s. Emily, enraged by this, demands he apologises for assaulting her and attacking him until he cries and begs for forgiveness for him (she is also in this scene towering over him and he is sprawled on the floor and I guess you could argue mimics her assault in some way). As his blood is spilled on the floor, the film ends with her telling him to clean it up.
I remember watching this film and thinking that it was really odd that it showed Emily getting her period a few times, particularly at the beginning, but after seeing the whole thing, it made more sense. The idea of a period is something quite powerful, when we think of blood spilling, I think we most associate that with violence and domination, which also coincides with a period cycle. The idea that people who deal with periods, spill blood monthly but it is not deemed as powerful. So when at the climactic end of the film when Emily slashes Luke and spills his blood (and makes him clean it up, what a queen); Domont had created this connection of a woman being innately powerful.
So overall, this film was really something, I ended up enjoying a lot more than I thought I would, and while it does have some faults, it brings a very interesting topic through a very sleek and stylish manner. I would love to see what Domont does next.
Loved these two Especially the actor for Lando, perfection!!
Han Solo And Lando Calrissian “Solo - A Star Wars Story”
The “A Star Wars Story” concept is the best thing that got stiffed in Disney Star Wars. Everyone collectively agrees that Rogue One is a phenomenal movie but I think that Solo deserves the same kind of love.
Solo is not nearly as good as Rogue One but really I didn’t expect it to be and I think it is an incredibly entertaining and enjoyable movie that adds to the Han Solo character without vastly changing things about him.
People point to Alden Erenreich as not the best choice to play Han Solo but when I’m 10 minutes into his performance and he’s being exactly the stuck up, over confident, douche he is in the beginning of A New Hope I had no question on the casting choice
Solo ranked fairly low at the box office and that seems to be the reason Disney hasn’t made a Star Wars Story movie again. I think exploring these smaller stories that don’t really have to impact the whole galaxy like the main ones do is such an interesting and exciting concept that just got canned.
I wish they’d bring it back but I can sit and enjoy my two Star Wars Story movies without a need for more.
Made this meme🥲
Will we ever see Maul and Qi’ra working closer together? Will Ezra ever be brought back home??
Just gimme the Ahsoka series and Kenobi series already😩
Imperial deserters✨
The Bad Batch: Sergeant Hunter, Corporal Echo, Clone Trooper Tech, and Clone Trooper Wrecker
Captain Rex, Captain Gregor, and Commander Wolffe
Corporal Han Solo
Sharpshooter Migs Mayfeld
Cadets: Sabine Wren, Wedge Antilles, and ‘Hobbie’ Kilvian
ISB Agent Alexsandr Kallus
Imperial Super Commando Tristan Wren
Ensign Bodhi Rook
Storm troopers: ‘Finn’ FN-2187 and ‘Jannah’ TZ-1719
My beloveds✨
Things I don’t really see people talking about from Solo:
-They had Lando pronounce Han “Hān”
-and made it REALLY SUPER clear that parsecs were a unit of distance (but made doing the Kessel run in 12 parsecs still really impressive)
-just to cover some relatively minor plot holes from the original trilogy
-and I absolutely loved it.