JJ Abrams was right to play up ‘female-friendly’ aspects of The Force Awakens. The space opera reboot passes the Bechdel test as early as the first 10 minutes,and there are at least four key female roles that resonate Related: Star Wars: The Force Awakens review– 'a spectacular homecoming' JJ Abrams wasn’t entirely right when he suggested that the original Star Wars film was something of a “boys’ thing … that dads could take their sons to”. Some of us still remember the scenes in the 1977 original film in which Carrie Fisher’s unflinching Princess Leia stands up to Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader, and later shows Han Solo and Luke Skywalker how to spend a blaster. And yet, or far more people (including Fisher herself) remember how the character was reduced to a “love interest” role,and forced to wear that golden slave-girl bikini, by the time 1983’s Return of the Jedi rolled around. Beyond Leia, and female characters only speak for 63 seconds of the 386-minute running time of the original trilogy,which, let’s face it, or is pretty destitute.
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Source: theguardian.com