Right? Like holy crap, you described it so well! She commands presence when she walked into the room and the interview was...whoa. She is like a Morgan Freeman, I can listen to her speak all day I reckon
Indeed... I love how the PHASMA novel explained how (and why) she's not really loyal to the First Order... she's only loyal to herself, a survivor. It adds depth to a mysterious (but nuanced) character.
"courtesy of our friends at IMAX, everyone in our audience, you're going to get tickets to see it" The RU-vid audience, also counts as a part of the audience. Do we get tickets too? :D I don't see any disclaimers around! - I see 273k subs, potentially 273k free tickets based on the audience.
God her feministic agenda can clearly be seen behind that articulate vocab of hers. Can we just talk about star wars without discussing some social issue? It's just a scifi film. Please don't make it anymore than it needs to be.
Jaqen H'ghar all sci-fi, in fact, all forms of art have a message and an agenda. Was the foundation series by Isaac Asimov just some meaningless speculative writing about what the future might be? Was star trek about a bunch of people in pajamas hoping around the alpha quadrant just trying to get laid, or, on the same note, was the time machine about the same thing but moving through time instead of space? Every piece of fiction has something to say and relates itself to society at large. Art, good art, is either a mirror or a lamp, reflecting society, who is the audience, back on to itself or illuminating something about it. You may not completely understand why you like certain works like star wars or whatever you enjoy, but, it largely has to do with how you relate to it and it's message. And please, pick up some good science fiction or even read an article on the importance of sci-fi.
Yeah, I'm probably wrong to discredit the sci-fi genre as a whole by saying it is all one-dimensional schlock but honestly, I wouldn't call star wars (especially the new trilogy) a masterpiece in writing and story. I enjoy star wars because simply, I enjoy the lightsabers, space battles and explosions. While commenting on societies flaws is necessary to create change, and this can be achieved through cinema, I'm just sick of corporations shoving this woman empowering shit down my throat. Look I'm fine with women being powerful characters in films, which I believe was done incredibly well in the OT (with Carie Fischer), but if this causes the characters to be mary sues then I think we have a problem.
Most undervalued, underutilized character in movie history. **Spoilers Ahead**** She should have been that persistent, minor villain throughout the entire trilogy, but they kill her off with too much fanfare for someone who got almost no screen time...it just YELLED GoT fan service. She could have been the imperial version of Leia. She got type-cast as hell...she should have been so much more developed and she had SO MUCH potential as a unique character. Disney done fucked it up.
I Love her so much but they wasted the great woman's time cause in both Star Wars films she is in she is only in it for 6 minutes. Bullshit ya'll. She better be in the third so help me.
I think I’ve seen too many of these interviews/promo videos. As soon as she came on the screen I said, “This was the same days as her Bazaar video where she had to guess if a look was ‘off the runway or from a galaxy far far away’ based on a zoomed in photo”
Wish actual fans of the movies would do these interviews instead of these fake smiling bafoons who ask the stupidest questions. Gwendoline is giving such great enthusiasm and all these guys can do us go "wow" or "yay" and you can tell they have no idea what she's talking about
Gwendolyn has a great personality and it's very well-spoken I can sit and listen to her all day very lively speaker and passionate about what she believes and what she speaks about.
Except all the diversity you can have can't help a badly written script. That's why so many of these mainstream movies are flops. Hollywood's more concerned about politics than good story structure.
Fucking idiotic comment. 'The Force Awakens' did 2 billion. A host of major studio pictures with diverse leads making bank in the past three years especially. Gwendoline is right on the money.
'Not good from a critical standpoint'? Who's? Yours? It wasn't perfect by any means - fine - but it was decent overall. It had some excellent set-pieces, great character moments. There was a lot to accomplish - to achieve. Close but no cigar. 'A New Hope' 2.0? Yeah. Whatever. But in the wider context of 'diversity' and its translation/acceptance/validation to/with a global audience, it was a phenomenal success. They took a huge risk and in that regard, it worked fucking beautifully. And that's huge credit to the actors - especially Boyega.
Olivier Wakefield I really get annoyed by this. People that say it copies a new hope must not know what fucking story structure and a heroes journey is. It's one of the most basic stories. How it's told is what actually matters.
She might be a good actress, but the fact that there is a woman in that cool silver storm trooper costume just doesn't make the character threatening enough to me......I don't care what she did with her hair.
MartyMonster really? I found the character plenty threatening. She may not have brute strength, but the character has this sly snake-like attitude that keeps you really cautious of her
