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Jar Jar Binks actor 'considered suicide' after Star Wars prequel backlash

8 points by laurex 8y ago

matthewmacleod 8y ago
People are genuinely absolute idiots. Jar Jar was a badly written, unnecessary, even somewhat racist, nonsense character. That’s not the fault of the voice actor, nobody’s childhood was “destroyed”, and the thought of anybody sending an actor a death threat because they voiced a shitty character is so completely nonsensical to me that I’m struggling to imagine the sort of person who would do it. Maybe humanity is doomed after all.
- cududa 8y ago
  Did you ever read up on the kid that played Annakin? People started stalking out an EIGHT YEAR OLD’s house to yell at him about ruining Star Wars and telling him to kill himself. For some reason the Star Wars fan base is one of the most rabidly awful. I can’t understand how you’d wish death on a child
- Viliam1234 8y ago
  Humans are diverse. Choose randomly a few thousands of them -- you will find geniuses, retards, saints, and psychopaths in your sample. If you do something that a few thousand people will notice and care about... it's probably going to be nasty. Somewhere in that sample will be an mentally unstable person who just got an idea that you ruined their life and therefore deserve a "punishment". Do something impactful and insufficiently obscure, and you will meet some of the worst humanity has to offer. Not sure what could be a solution. Perfect anonymity (or work-related pseudonymity; imagine everyone being Hannah Montana) and elimination of all crazy people seem both impossible. But without both of them, being famous inevitably means being noticed by crazy people. The proper way to react to a death threat is to report it to the police. And by "police" I mean neither Twitter nor newspapers. (Now, a tangential but potentially interesting thought: If it is true that pretty much all famous actors get death threats and other nasty stuff -- or let's say half of them do -- what makes media decide which of these case will be reported, and which will be ignored? What is the larger narrative these stories need to fit into? For example, if a mainstream journalist gets an opportunity to suggest that an audience of a famous movie is quite insane, would they rather choose Star Wars or e.g. Sex and the City as the example? What rule of thumb would they follow?)
mesozoic 8y ago
We love you Jar Jar!
badrabbit 8y ago
Please don't downvote me but I liked Jar Jar. Not because the character was great but because I felt like the annoyance was there to add a "light hearted" and slightly annoying touch to the plot. It felt like eating spicy food with a bit too much of one particular spice. Has no one ever met a person that annoys like Jar Jar? This feels similar to how people get annoyed when they hate the ending. The writer is trying to tell a story,are all stories without an annoying character or do they end in a satisfactory manner? But then again people who watch a blockbuster movies don't care about an interesting or thought provoking story. They just want to watch something that makes them feel good,and this is why hollywood keeps making remakes and comic book stories. That is what audiences who pay for movie tickets want,they don't care if fast and furious 10 has the same generic plot as every other movie in the series because it still makes them feel good. (I think I put too much thought into this comment,please take it as my humble opinion as opposed to a rant)

8 points by laurex 8y ago

People are genuinely absolute idiots. Jar Jar was a badly written, unnecessary, even somewhat racist, nonsense character. That’s not the fault of the voice actor, nobody’s childhood was “destroyed”, and the thought of anybody sending an actor a death threat because they voiced a shitty character is so completely nonsensical to me that I’m struggling to imagine the sort of person who would do it. Maybe humanity is doomed after all.

cududa 8y ago
Did you ever read up on the kid that played Annakin? People started stalking out an EIGHT YEAR OLD’s house to yell at him about ruining Star Wars and telling him to kill himself. For some reason the Star Wars fan base is one of the most rabidly awful. I can’t understand how you’d wish death on a child
Viliam1234 8y ago
Humans are diverse. Choose randomly a few thousands of them -- you will find geniuses, retards, saints, and psychopaths in your sample. If you do something that a few thousand people will notice and care about... it's probably going to be nasty. Somewhere in that sample will be an mentally unstable person who just got an idea that you ruined their life and therefore deserve a "punishment". Do something impactful and insufficiently obscure, and you will meet some of the worst humanity has to offer. Not sure what could be a solution. Perfect anonymity (or work-related pseudonymity; imagine everyone being Hannah Montana) and elimination of all crazy people seem both impossible. But without both of them, being famous inevitably means being noticed by crazy people. The proper way to react to a death threat is to report it to the police. And by "police" I mean neither Twitter nor newspapers. (Now, a tangential but potentially interesting thought: If it is true that pretty much all famous actors get death threats and other nasty stuff -- or let's say half of them do -- what makes media decide which of these case will be reported, and which will be ignored? What is the larger narrative these stories need to fit into? For example, if a mainstream journalist gets an opportunity to suggest that an audience of a famous movie is quite insane, would they rather choose Star Wars or e.g. Sex and the City as the example? What rule of thumb would they follow?)

mesozoic 8y ago

We love you Jar Jar!

badrabbit 8y ago

Please don't downvote me but I liked Jar Jar. Not because the character was great but because I felt like the annoyance was there to add a "light hearted" and slightly annoying touch to the plot. It felt like eating spicy food with a bit too much of one particular spice. Has no one ever met a person that annoys like Jar Jar? This feels similar to how people get annoyed when they hate the ending. The writer is trying to tell a story,are all stories without an annoying character or do they end in a satisfactory manner? But then again people who watch a blockbuster movies don't care about an interesting or thought provoking story. They just want to watch something that makes them feel good,and this is why hollywood keeps making remakes and comic book stories. That is what audiences who pay for movie tickets want,they don't care if fast and furious 10 has the same generic plot as every other movie in the series because it still makes them feel good. (I think I put too much thought into this comment,please take it as my humble opinion as opposed to a rant)