I say I'm Obi Wan or Han Solo...they frequent the bars...lol...although I was once nicknamed webacca the cookie....cause Im hairy and when messed up love cookies....lol
I must say Han...he was a chestyph man...he hooked up with leia...the hottie in the OT ...so he is cool.....I relate to him I guess!
Originally posted by Alliance
It's not realy built that way. You see the movies form the perspectives of Luke, Leia, Han, Skywalker and Kenobi.That doesn't mean you can't identify with another character.
How can you identify with another character?
You don't identify with Kenobi because he is above the spectrum of the other characters, he is the aged, old Wizard, you can identify him with an old Uncle or family member maybe, but you only look at him through the eyes of Luke.
Han, is almost an antagonist of sorts, he conflicts with the audience, albeit in a fun and humurous way, but he's a rebellious, roguish figure to be admired by Luke and the audience, not identified with.
Leia, out of the passengers upon the Falcon, is the only other person I can reasonably believe someone might identify with; Luke is in admiration of her, the audience is in admiration of her independance and courage, but she is still a princess and therefore something alien to Luke, and yet again, the audience.
To people saying they identify with R2, with Chewie, and god all mighty, with Darth Vader, I think they need to keep check of there reactions more when watching the films. Even if we were supposed to identify with Anakin in the PT, we don't because of the lack of success of the script and the fact that our old father figure, Obi-Wan is competing against him.
Which Star Wars character do you most identify with and why?
That was the question, all I've heard so far is that people identify with characters because either they have a fetish for leather and heavy breathing, are made of metal and spare parts, have lots of hair or have a purple lightsaber.
If the question was more in the line of "Who do you think is the coolest Star Wars character or character attribute", then fine, it's the right debate, but that's nto what I read 🙂
Originally posted by exanda kane
To people saying they identify with R2, with Chewie, and god all mighty, with Darth Vader, I think they need to keep check of there reactions more when watching the films. Even if we were supposed to identify with Anakin in the PT, we don't because of the lack of success of the script and the fact that our old father figure, Obi-Wan is competing against him.
Originally posted by exanda kane
If the question was more in the line of "Who do you think is the coolest Star Wars character or character attribute", then fine, it's the right debate, but that's nto what I read 🙂
I didn't say which character do you most act or look like, but those are forms of identification, albeit on the shallowest levels.
However, you didn't answer the question appropriately either. I didn't ask who the plot followed or who you felt sympathetic with, I asked you you saw yourself in. 🙂
If you know my constant battles vs Ush, you know as an artist I don't necessarily give a sh*t about who you are supposed to identify with. Oftentimes the most powerful characters in a story are those who are not the main protagonist. Art is to be interpreted, not told.
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I most identify with the Clones. Why? Because they are one of the few pervasive major characters in the saga that don't have superpowers. They are men, they have duties, they fight, bleed, and die...used in a power struggle greater than themselves. They're not the upper-class bourgeois of the Jedi, Empire, or rebellion, they're just simple people with real business to go about.
Clones are also abused, they are disrespected by every character in the Saga, save (implicitly) Jango (and maybe Boba). They're treated like trash, even though they're the backbone of the saga. This perception is enhanced by some EU material, but the roots are present in the movie as well. The Clones are like the working-class. They are the army without the democratic overtones that have been integrated into military structure since man discovered organized fights were effective.
The clones show the saga for what it is, a pointless powerstruggle between a two equal and opposite powers with pathetic perceptions of the universe, a lust for power, and a myopic focus on only themselves. That's a powerful tool to rexamine the saga and it attacks some things Lucas tries to pass (and all too unfortunately get people to support) as absolute truths. Ironically that the characters who so readily define the saga can redefine it as well.
I see myself in them, I sympathise with their position. That is identification. In return, they give me a new lens and thats a process worth going through.