apparently the Star Wars writer confirm Lando's sexual fluidity in solo a Star
Wars story! hmm let's check that out shall we? hey what's up everybody
today I'm here to talk about an article that I found on HuffPost it's actually
everywhere, this was posted like an hour ago this article
specifically was written by Bill Bradley, the article titled: Star Wars writer
confirms Lando's sexual fluidity in Solo. This has been a heated argument for a
while but this is the first time that I'm addressing this because I I was
literally didn't know what to make of this when I was reading this article.
so the article saying a solo writer opened up about lando calrissian
sexuality and his desire for a more explicitly LGBT character, so
right off the bat before I even start reading the article I would like to say
like this, Disney you know, Lucasfilm they're just not being
very smart on their decisions and this has nothing to do with bringing in LGBT
characters or bringing more women it's not about that okay it's mostly about
messing with established characters, in order to preach their own agenda!
okay like I have no problem with them bringing an LGBT character but in my
opinion they should introduce this character as a new fresh character,
establish a character that way, but if you were actually doing that with a
character that ... I don't know, what do you think?
when I first saw Lando Calrissian I never interpret him as a gender-fluid
character you know he seemed very smooth towards Leia, in fact I really love that
scene where he's like you know smooth and then Han Solo intervenes and grabs
Leia's Hand and pretty much is saying just get away
from my woman and I really did not get that vibe you know that he's a
gender-fluid character and now if I know I haven't seen solo yet , there will be a
screening of Tuesday press screening over here that I'm trying to get into
but I think I'm late for the party, anyways if not I still next
week by Thursday perhaps or for Friday I can get the review out there so now I'm
even more interesting to see what are they doing if they really portraying this
character in the movie as a gender-fluid but anyways let's get into this article
and see exactly what are they talking about here, so it begins like this: since
the beginning of Star Wars saga we've wondered whether LGBT characters exist
in George Lucas galaxy far far away and - up until 2018 there had been little to
no queer representation in his decade old franchise and then solo a star wars
happened. the film centers on a young Han Solo Alden EL... I don't know, I
still need to learn how to pronounce his last name, and he's associate Chewbacca
and Lando Calrissian playing by Donald Glover. Solo gives fans the Millennium
Falcon backstory they have been painting for with planned new defining
characters details one of the more notable ones Lando appears to be
pansexual . Lando sexual preferences possibly including men women and droids,
and droids? are you kidding me? for crying out this is just too weird!
okay are the subject of more than a few lines of dialogue in solo for example,
the banter between Lando and Han Solo has been interpreted as flirting by some
critics, flirting ... that's a dude talking to a dude okay
I don't think that's flirting at all I mean maybe in this movie, I have to watch
it because obviously this is mostly talking about this specific movie but
not referring to the old ones, I don't know so obviously I have to
watch the movie to find out if that's really there, but by the
trailer you know I believe that I interpret this more like he's just being
like kind of being sarcastic the way that Lando is you know but some critics
thought that he was flirting with Han and who have seen the
film before it's May 25th release okay whatever!
even Lando's droid, I think I'm gonna hate this droid, I already
think she's annoying, she right? because now the droids apparently have
gender, I don't know it might change I don't know it might surprise me,
makes a joke about Calrissian teasing dynamic with Han in the film ah geez
see I just, what do you guys think about this? I mean I really think, this is why
didn't like not Disney but Lucasfilm okay obviously Disney is the corporation but
this is under Lucasfilm like guys this is not the way to go about it, okay I
think like it's not that people are not going to accept LGBT
characters it's not about that okay it's really about you messing with characters
that are already established okay you can't just go and change the backstory
of a character because of this you want to be more inclusive, ugh this is
just so wrong you know like it's just so wrong I I
completely disagree with it you know like I have no problem then bringing in
an LGBT character but why not introduce a new character? okay
Lando might let's continue reading here Lando might have romantic feelings for
his droid - oh it's come on ! for the record L-3
would not reciprocate those hypothetical feelings but as the but as she tells
Q'ira it would work physically speaking what?
oh my gosh this is too weird you know call me old-fashioned but like now he
has feelings for his, I know emotional feelings and like
attachment to something that you really liked but like the way that being portrayed
here is romantic feelings that's just crazy!
okay this is just crazy oh let's continue
of course these fanatic interpretations are based on on subtext okay so so it is
subtext is not really explicit Lando Billy Dee Williams in Episode five and
six has been loaded with sex appeal ever since he brazenly told Leia she
looked absolutely beautiful, in the Empire Strikes Back but there's never
been explicit classification on of his sexuality in the movies so given the
opportunity to speak with father and son and solo co-writers Lawrence and
Jonathan kasdan I asked them about Lando's possible sexual fluidity: is he
pansexual? - I would say yes - Jonathan Kasdan empathically said so.
Jonathan is Lawrence's son so it's not Lawrence that said that Lawrence is
the original writer, he wrote The Empire Strikes Back, return of the Jedi, the force
awakens I believe and now solo, so the son said I would say yes
okay I beg to differ okay, I did not get that vibe at all,
let's continue and then he says this is the son okay there's a fluidity to
Donald and Billy Dee's portrayal of Lando's sexuality, I don't agree I'm
sorry, I did not see that in those movies Kasdan continued I mean I would have
loved to have gotten a more explicit explicitly LGBT character into this
movie I think it's time circling for that and I love the fluidity sort of
expect from of sexuality Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of,
this is just weird okay Jonathan I'm sorry, I just think that's
just that's weird I think just don't do it okay don't do it you want an LGBT
character that's fine is the same with bringing more women that's fine just
give us good characters okay and introduce new characters don't do it
with character they're already well established you know when a time where
the last jedi I came out and I've just seen so many rant reviews and I was
watching many many many people talking about their
feelings and one fan in particular I don't really remember exactly his words
but he was a gay, he said I'm gay and I don't need a gay character to feel
myself represented in Star Wars words and I thought that I was very very
interesting and I believe what he mentions, it's because Star Wars is
about a human story and I I absolutely agree because that's how all of us you
know identified with with Star Wars to begin is because of this family struggle
because of these human stories and I think Lucasfilm is really missing the
point you know I for instance I'm a woman and
I loved Luke Skywalker he was my child hero because of his struggles
and the way that he dealt with situations and the way that he overcame
situations so he was a guy for me to look up to, it's about this
human story it's not it's kind of...
it's like they're doing this on purpose okay
and then when they create this kind of controversy they also bash the
fans because they are not accepting this, it's not because the fans are gonna be
mad with the whole LGBT that's not about that but it's about you trying to change
a character that was already pre established because you want to preach
your agenda that's just wrong okay introduces a new... you want to do that
that's fine, but why not introduce this as a new character this kind of makes me
mad man! it just it makes me look I don't know if I laugh or cry about this you
know it's uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah let's continue what else did they say
here so okay the son is the one that is mostly talking about the LGBT
character but then the father said this cuz the article continues his father was
more cryptic about the intentions. so the father was not really
explicit on his his idea about that okay so when I mentioned the moment in the
movie well L3 three jokes about Lando's flirty attitude toward Han
Han I'm calling him Hen because it's definitely not HAN, Lawrence
Kasdan said: - that is her personality maybe it means something, maybe doesn't.
so he's just being very neutral there okay so let's just continue Lawrence
Kasdan ambiguity is more reflected of the broader Star Wars
universe, a realm filled with every type of alien
being imaginable yet the rarest of all all its life-forms seem to be LGBT
characters for the most part these characters storylines have happened only
off-screen take vice admiral hodo in star wars The LAst Jedi who was
revealed to be queer in the tie-in novel layer princess of Alderan hmm
I didn't even know that because I have no no interest in reading anything about
the last Jedi to be honest during a conversation between Holdo and Leia
and then there's the conversation there, I'm gonna post the
article below so you guys can read it, I just don't want to make this video super
super long but anyways and then the article also touches on the whole thing
people shipping Poel and Fin, this is kind of a
teenager thing, you know when I was a teenager I used to like ship characters
or pretend I was dating this certain character, but this to me is a
teenager thing like grown people doing this it's just, people have a problem I
guess one thing is to root for characters to be together but I don't
know, I don't know, did you guys get a vibe
that Poe and Finn had a thing? I just thought it was a dude and dude the
relationship you know I actually thought that Finn was more interesting in Rey so I
don't see any of that in there perhaps I'm wrong I don't know
now the way that they are doing this stuff right it it's just it it's just I
don't know I just sometimes I feel that they are trying to create all these kind
of controversies on purpose, they're not really thinking this thing's
through , for instance let's think about, when I read this I thought
about this: remember the original Ghostbusters right ? if you
remember the movie the original villain is a guy not a guy, it's a
gender-fluid being called Gozer, it's Gozer i believe and
that's a character that is already introduced as gender-fluid , why isn't
there controversy about that? because the character was introduced
that way so that way you're accepting, you already know about it okay so he's a
gender-fluid character and there was no problem there okay, and then
why can't they do the same thing with Star Wars?
one thing is you introducing us a character that is already established to
be that way, the other thing is for you to mess with characters
that are already pre-established and that's I think it's what is wrong they
just don't ....don't do this Lucasfilm don't do this, this
is the wrong way to go about it, I don't know I'm really
curious to see what am I gonna think about the film you know, if you guys have
been seeing the the early reviews that came out from critics obviously
I don't care about the critics review because you know they thought
that last Jedi was incredible and I didn't like it so I'm interesting to
see what the fans are gonna think about the film, but anyways the early
reviews, they are not so great it was started off as 75 and now it's down to
70 or even lower I don't know, to be honest I'm not really keeping track
okay so let's just continue on this article here. overall the solo writers
said that they were conscious of representation when shaping the movie
as Jonathan Kasdan pointed out a moment early in the film in which they
deliberately chose to make the audience question the norms of attraction in our
world okay Jonathan okay
there's a line there, John Farrell characters Rio, there's a line there
where he's asking Han about the girl that he left behind and he says:
does she have big teeth? implying that such a feature would be appealing, it's a
joke in a movie but we did want to hit on this idea that people's ideas of what
they are attracted to all over the galaxy are very very different and not
exactly as set as ours are. - he said , with so many new Star Wars projects on the
way in the coming years there's hope for a more obvious LGBT character in the
future until then at least we have Lando and Lando, pronouncing everything wrong today!
I just, anyways Glover and Williams weren't available to comment but
Calrissian says in Solo: everything you heard about me is true.
the article ends with that meme so I don't know guys, I just I really want to
hear your opinions about this you know this is this is why these New Directions
it's really creating so many controversies. that's why a lot of
people want to boycott the film and because this is the problem
they want to do new and innovating things and I'm not against
that but I am against sacrificing the story to bring a certain agenda okay so
apparently by by my idea when I read this it seems that the article could
like the title it's a little bit misleading because I don't, it
doesn't seem like he confirms he just says yes: - I would say yes, but it's not
explicit in a movie apparently. So I think that they threw the
idea out there , but they didn't really specified Lando as a gender-fluid
character, anyways guys let me know what is your opinion on Lando's
sexual fluidity I would love to hear what you think about it, did you get the
vibe that Lando was sexually fluid in the Empire Strikes Back and Return to Jedi?
and how about in the new solo trailer, did you think that he was flirting with
Han I thought that was a dude dude relationship but I don't know I'd love
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