(January 18, 2016 at 10:39 pm)Aractus Wrote:(January 18, 2016 at 4:12 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: First off, what does sameul jacksons skin color really have to do with anything? Also, darth vaders skin color has nothing to do with his alignment, its because he has 2 pasty white kids. Black parent != White kids, not how gentetics work. Also that particular moment to which you refer hardly makes mace windu morally ambigious because he knew that to put the emperor on trial would mean the death of the republic.
Okay, I'm just going to answer the Darth Vader question. In the first two movies he's evil, and he's black, and voiced by a black man. In Return of the Jedi he's still evil, and still black, and still voiced by a black guy. But when he is redeemed and comes back to the light side, his son removes his mask to reveal a white face. When he was on the dark side everything about him was black, when came back to the light side suddenly he's white. And for the first, and only time, in the original trilogy, he's also voiced by a white guy instead of a black guy. Given that this colour theme runs out throughout the entire trilogy - even in terms of the spaceship interior colours (black & battleship grey for bad, white for good), I conclude this was an intentional doing by George Lucas.
This leads us nicely back to Samuel L Jackson - he's the black speck in the white section (the Yang) of the Yin and Yang. And so, for that matter, is Lando. He is the black speck of Yin in the white Yang.
Actually Vader's actually skin color is pretty obvious from the start. Again luke is pasty white. Black people don't birth pasty white kids. Simple as that. Also look at the rest of the bad guys in star wars. The emperor, crusty old white dude, tarkin, crusty old white dude. So Vader being a white guy is perfectly in keeping with the theme that the bad guys are all crusty old white dudes. Also the guys portraying Vader in the suit was the same white dude the whole time and the movie never once makes any illusion to James Earl Jones race in any way. However I think that you associate the age old cultural meme of white=good, black= bad speaks a lot about your character. This js a ancient cultural thing that appears fucking everywhere. Its because in ancient agrarian societies night, which is black, ment hard times and death because you can not grow crops in the dark. The sun, which looks white from the ground, ment life because you can grow food in the sun. Anthropological we no race has fuck all to do with it because it appears in all races.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
