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Originally Posted by Red Brooklyn
I'll disagree with your final paragraph. What happened, what continues to happen is actually the reverse. I love that he's speaking out against these idiots and standing up for his cast and crew. We need more people like him doing the same. He isn't attacking "people who don't like his movies" he's attacking people who are attacking him, the actors, other fans, and behaving reprehencibly. The people he's talking to are shitty people.
And obviously, there is a political motivation to it. Just look at this thread alone. It's rampant. The bullshit political bend that the opposition is insistent upon is a large part of why we're even having this conversation.
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Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson admitted THEY had political agendas. Inserting politics in any Star Wars movie is a bad idea. The original trilogy came 3 years after Watergate, 2 years after the fall of Vietnam, and feminists were pushing ERA. It was a VERY divided time. And NO ONE came out of the original trilogy talking about contemporary politics.
If anything, Star Wars was a unifying force because its underlying mythos was about restoring the Republic against an evil authoritarian Empire. Gosh, sort of like the same underlying reason behind the foundation of our country mixed up with our then current cold war adversary.
The fembot was clearly spouting feminist rhetoric and thus associated droid oppression with current rhetoric about female oppression. Whether the politics are right or wrong, stirring it up is simply bad business.
If racism and misogyny were so rampant in the sci/fi geek fanbase, why are many of the same people packing theaters to see Wonder Woman and Black Panther? Star Trek and Star Wars enjoy a huge crossover audience. And, diversity has been built into Star Trek for more than 50 years. Why weren't people complaining then, if they were so toxic?
Star Trek's interracial kiss didn't seem like a race lecture, it made perfect sense to the story. Uhura being black was simply incidental to a sound story. Obviously bolted on political service comes across like lecturing, especially since it's a fanbase that wasn't bigoted to begin with.