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Spoilers:
Avengers: Infinity War; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; pretty much every Star Wars movie; Dog Day Afternoon; The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
Part 2 of a 2 part (so far) series on how daddies and authority are represented in film.
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Thanks to MA Moreno for pointing out that "immaculately conceived" was the wrong term in the Episode I section.
Six months ago I wrote an article on Medium about Rey’s parentage, which elaborates on why I really related to her character in The Last Jedi, and relates to some of the themes in this video: https://medium.com/@maggiemaefish/you-dont-belong-here-b2d5d6166598
During the course of writing and editing this video, we saw a few cool twitter threads/posts which speak to similar points. Here are a few to check out:
Visual match between Luke in RotJ and TLJ from @ZacFertig: https://twitter.com/ZacFertig/status/1014920282648215555
Meme about Luke’s non-violence from @AutoShermatic: https://twitter.com/AutoShermatic/status/1007791570207281157
Movies and TV shows referenced:
Let’s Make Love, dir George Cukor, 1960
Avengers: Infinity War, dir Anthony & Joe Russo, 2018
Man of Steel, dir Zack Snyder, 2013
Star Trek Into Darkness, dir JJ Abrams, 2013
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, dir Nicholas Meyer, 1983
Star Trek, “Space Seed,” dir Marc Daniels, 1967
Moby Dck, dir John Huston, 1956
King Lear, dir Richard Eyre, 1998
Bonnie and Clyde, dir Arthur Penn, 1967
The Wild Bunch, dir Sam Pekinpah, 1969
Carnal Knowledge, dir Mike Nichols, 1971
Easy Rider, dir Dennis Hopper, 1969
Dog Day Afternoon, dir Sidney Lumet, 1975
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, “Josh Brolin Reads Trump Tweets As Thanos,” CBS, 2018
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, dir Richard Marquand, 1983
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, dir Irvin Kershner, 1980
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, dir George Lucas, 1977
Planet of the Apes, dir Franklin J Schaffner, 1968
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, dir George Lucas, 1999
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, dir Rian Johnson, 2017
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, dir Gareth Edwards, 2016
Wonder Woman, dir Patty Jenkins, 2017
Black Panther, dir Ryan Coogler, 2018
Deth Wish, dir Eli Roth, 2018
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, dir Chris Columbus, 2001
Guardians of the Galaxy, dir James Gunn, 2014
Captain America: Civil War, dir Joe & Anthony Russo, 2016
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, dir Peter Jackson, 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, dir Peter Jackson, 2002
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, dir Peter Jackson, 2003
Images & Other References
“Make America Great Again hat in support of Donald Trump at a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona.” by Gage Skidmore, 2016
Illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Gustave Doré, 1866
Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code
“We, The Fans of Star Wars” image via: https://twitter.com/AzulaAr/status/1003351288111759361
12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson, Penguin, 2018
Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg, 17 September 1787
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, promotional image, ABC, 2005