No she does, she talks with Leia at the end... About Luke, and what they'll do without him... Yeah the film really does fail the Bechdel Test. The few times she does talk about something other then the men in her life is her talking TO said men and how they can help her figure out her place in this story. And as soon as she's not relievent to the story of said men she's basically out of the rest of the film.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:20 amClearspira said she failed the Bechdel test because she only talks about men, but the test is talking to another woman about something other than a man. If I remember correctly she doesn't talk to another woman in that movie at all.Winter wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 8:28 amHuh?hammerofglass wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 7:37 am Wait, when does Rey talk to another woman about ANYTHING in TLJ?
No seriously in the last half hour of the film she has a grand total of 5 minutes of screen time, 3 or 4 lines of dialogue and is only REALLY made out to be important once she's relevant to Kylo and Luke's conflict... Does Rey do ANYTHING for herself in this Trilogy?
She stays on Tatooine to wait for her parents, which is then followed by her getting taken off world more or less against her will. Then she's taken to Maz who tells her to take Luke's Lightsaber, then she's take by Kylo because she has something he wants. Then she goes to look for Luke to help with new found powers, then she sits around talking about Luke and Kylo without barely talking about herself. Then she goes from action scene to action scene in ROS because she was asked to stop Palpatine.
Rey's really a Pinball Protagonist in her a Trilogy that's suppose to be about her but where she goes and what she does is often dictated for her. We learn almost nothing about her and when we start to the films seem to almost get bored and switch over to anything else.
To use She-Ra yet again we learn a LOT about Adora and her choosing to stand with the Rebellion over the Horde was ultimately her own choice. Sure she was kinda swept up into events at the start but she took control of said events rather quickly and that's kinda the whole point of her arc that her future is her own.
Rey... is just kinda along for the ride. She's not so much a Mary Sue as she is a nothing. She gains powers and starts to master them in a short period of time... because the films don't want to deal with that part of her. It's ironic, her stated motive is her wanting to know what her place is in this story yet she doesn't really seem to have one. She's just a plot device for the writers to use and discard at the first opportunity.
Again, this is shown best during the 4th act of TLJ. She learns that her parents traded her for drinking money and left her and that she comes from nothing. This should break her but then she's out of the film and doesn't seem to be having any problem. She's happy, she's smiling, she's blowing up tie fighters and there's nothing wrong.
Why don't these films care about her. GOLDIE LOCKS has more depth and development in one movie then Rey does in her own Trilogy. What went wrong here?
