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i still do not understand what possessed so many well-respected actors to do the spy kids movies like
did they pay really well? did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a blemish on your career forever?? why
 antonio banderas did so many high-profile movies then in spy kids he looked like this
tony shalhoub has won multiple emmys but he did spy kids and
even fucking george clooney wtf
steve buscemi is pretty goofy but still
salma hayek’s pigtails in this wow 
elijah wood was the lead in a movie that’s tied for the largest number of oscars of all time and he played a character creatively named “THE GUY”
sylvester stallone is like a cultural icon and he played not one but FOUR ridiculously dressed weirdos
alan cumming is the only one i can understand 
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mrfatcakes
Are you saying spy kids wasn’t a masterpiece my fellow blogger???? Source?????

luciferfucker

i will not tolerate this slander

edwardsscissorpants

“When I was doing ‘Spy Kids,’ the Weinsteins asked me […] ’Why are you making the characters Hispanic? It doesn’t make any sense, isn’t this supposed to be for everybody?’ ‘Well, it’s based on my family.’
[…]
People have come up to me for a lot of years since and said ‘You changed my kids’ whole life. They see little kids who are Hispanic that are spies and they saw your name as the writer and director and you changed their idea of what their future could be.’ The ripple effects of that one movie were enormous.”
- Robert Rodriguez (x)

critical-quit

Also maybe sometimes actors like to play roles that are silly and fun? I can’t imagine any of these actors didn’t know exactly what they were getting into and, based on their performance, didn’t have a good time

bizarrodf

CRITICAL INFORMATION: The entire concept of Spy Kids came from Robert Rodriguez’s desire to make an action film he could watch with his kids. With intentions like that, it’s pretty easy to understand why so many famous actors with kids of their own would be interested in it.

agooddaytowhy

Let us not forget the Machete cross over…
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siderealscion

this one gets its own post

  • ok i just sort of assumed that kylo had been sitting on a bench at the begginning of the interrogation scene with rey but he’S NOT. HE’S FUCKING SQUATTING IN THE CORNER OF THE ROOM. WHAT THE FUCK KYLO. HOW LONG WAS HE WAITING FOR HER TO WAKE UP THAT HE WAS LIKE “man my legs are tired from standing but its not very intimidating for me to sit on the floor- wait i know, i’ll just fucking crouch in the corner of the room like a fucking weirdo” WHAT THE FUCK I’M LAUGHING SO HARD
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madlori

My take on the “Who is Rey” question.

Okay, so. I have Thoughts.

I’d been totally on board with the “Rey is a Skywalker” theory until…like, tonight. Star Wars is in many ways the Skywalker family saga, and for her to be anything else didn’t seem to have enough oomph to it. It seemed the obvious answer.

Perhaps too obvious.

She’d have to be Luke’s daughter, because otherwise…well, she can’t be Han and Leia’s daughter, they’d never have left her on Jakku, it just…doesn’t make sense. 

But her being Luke’s daughter presents some narrative…difficulties. If she is, that naturally leads to the question of who her mother is. Where did he meet her? What was their relationship like? What happened to her? These are a lot of questions, and they can’t be easily waved off because he is THE MAIN CHARACTER of the original trilogy and it’s not trivial to give him this kind of a backstory and then have to spend precious story time explaining it. You kinda can’t just say “Rey, I am your father” and then leave it at that.

And the whole “Rey and Kylo have to be related to give that conflict weight” thing…doesn’t really work for me. It works if they’re siblings, which I don’t think they can possibly be. But cousins? That’s not a super emotionally fraught familial relationship, usually.  If I were writing this, I think I’d decide that if they can’t be siblings, it’s better to have them unrelated, but with a different, significant ancestral connection.

Which brings me to the other major theory, which is that Rey is a Kenobi. That seemed to lack punch. Until I read the following tonight (paraphrased, apologies to the original poster whose post I can’t find found it):

“Rey is a Kenobi - one who will finally succeed in pulling someone back from the Dark Side.”

Whoa.

Okay. THAT has some narrative heft to it. 

Consider. After three viewings of TFA, I think two major parallel character arcs are being set up:

  1. Rey’s hero’s journey and evolution into a Jedi, AND
  2. The redemption/salvation of Ben Solo 

These two arcs are in many ways complementary and interconnected. Each will drive the other. That is good dramatic structure. Light and dark, evolution and reinvention.

Obi-Wan’s failure with Anakin is one of the great unresolved emotional arcs of all time and I don’t think he ever got over it. He did spend the rest of his life marooned on a desert hellhole (hey that sounds familiar). If Rey were his descendant, and she had the chance to do what he could not do, with Anakin’s descendant - who is NAMED AFTER OBI-WAN - that’s downright Shakespearean. 

Also consider that while the original trilogy was very much a Skywalker story, the prequel trilogy was just as much Obi-Wan’s story as Anakin’s (one could argue more so). And if rumors about a Kenobi spinoff starring Ewan McGregor are true, Star Wars taken as a whole may less be the Skywalker family saga and more the Skywalker/Kenobi family saga. Two bloodlines interconnected and always finding each other. And there’s a pleasing symmetry in the idea that Obi-Wan and Anakin continue their battle for the Skywalker soul through their respective grandchildren.

If that is the case, it makes total sense for Rey to be a Kenobi - the Skywalker portion of the saga continues through Ben, the Kenobi portion through Rey.

The issue of whose child she is is still there, but it’s less pressing because Obi-Wan is no longer a part of the story the way Luke is. And might it be that the Kenobi spinoff could be meant to fill this gap, and explain Rey’s parentage?

And I keep wondering if it’s an accident that Rey has a British accent. All the Skywalkers have American accents, but Obi-Wan always had a British one. Yes, that’s Daisy Ridley’s native accent, but they had John Boyega do American, so there has to be a reason she speaks in that accent. They’re not just having everyone speak the way they normally speak, they’re being specific about which accents people are using.

I think I just talked myself into thinking this even MORE.

My only concern here is that I would not want Rey’s function in this trilogy to come down to saving Ben’s soul. She has her own journey to make and it also has to be HERS. But part of that journey may involve resolving her (possible) grandfather’s greatest failure.

Anyway, that’s my theory.

What she says: I'm fine
What she means: That part when Han Solo approaches Ben and yells out to him is the moment my heart starts breaking and it goes downhill real fast and then you realize that's the first time Han has seen his grown sons face and then Ben doesn't even correct him when Han says that Snoke is using him and you can just see how much Han loves Ben and Ben is crying and oh god and then Chewie shoots Ben which is gut wrenching because you know that Ben grew up with Chewie but he has to shoot him and he shoots his best friends son and it's all terrible and oh my god Leia I cannot even begin to oh my gosh Leia I am so sorry how do I deal