For every planet, there’s a real world place. Yavin 4 is a lush jungle planet, which was represented by Guatemala’s Tikal ruins and the forests the ruins reside in. Tatooine is basically the Sahara Desert, but was actually filmed in Tunisia and America’s Death Valley. Star Wars has a history of being slightly aggressive with coding planets with real world analogs. So key questions to ask here are 1) Why did the film get this aggressive with its coding, 2) How hurtful is it to the average American’s international knowledge, and 3) How can Hollywood wean themselves away from projecting the same stereotypes on foreign places?ġ: Why did the film get this aggressive with its coding? It’s a lovely, normal street in the Middle East. I’ve hung out in Hamra, gone shopping, met friends for drinks. On left is what media wants you to think the Middle East looks like, carefully curated (shot in Israel), on the right is the real Hamra st. GwZfXNj4IFįor reference how Hollywood “codes arab” and “actually Arab” are completely different things. Seriously, are you kidding me? From color palette to sand to cables and chaos, every “savage Arab” stereotype coded right in. Key takeaways:įrom garb to environment to “primitive devout culture”, all of the usual suspects of stereotyping and denigrating arabs are there. I was reminded of my distaste for these films when I saw Twitter user Dina’s thread on the subject.
It had gotten so aggressive on Jedha that I was literally taken out of the movie at points and was like, “Where’d they film this?!” One gripe I forgot to mention in my review was the uber-aggressive Arab world coding they were doing in it. But with the good comes the bad, and I had some gripes with it. Please don't sue us.As you might have read from my Rogue One review, I enjoyed it very much.
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