Here's an object-performance thought of the day. Han and Lando are in both love with the Millennium Falcon, and I do mean in love. It’s a genuine triangle, and an interesting plot point. I was talking with some students about this today – one of them said to me they were disturbed by the way the two men just handed “her” off in a card game in Solo, a Star Wars Story because… as they put it “I mean, it’s a PERSON now.” The M. Falcon had always been a “she” that Han adored in the original trilogy, but when the writers of Solo put the mind of a Lando’s amorous female droid into the ship’s brains, it got a bit ethically shaky… or did it? Was it a fusion of machine and machine, that made L-3 immortal? Or is she now permanently enslaved? Uncertain, I am!
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Colette SearlsNotes as I write my book, A Galaxy of Things: the Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond (forthcoming Routledge Press, 2022). ArchivesCategories |