Fan Bingbing?
Really, someone wanders around planet Earth with the name Fan Bingbing????? What were his/her/its parents thinking? Or is it some odd effect of Equity demanding unique names for members?
Just when we were starting to suspect the next instalment of Star Wars would be a celeb-only affair, two relatively unknown actors were announced as cast members. Star Wars casts relative unknowns Pip Andersen and Crystal Clarke Open auditions for an unnamed film that everyone knew was Star Wars: Episode VII were held across …
Really, someone wanders around planet Earth with the name Fan Bingbing?????
Yes.
What were his/her/its parents thinking?
They probably thought of giving her a "typical and good Chinese girl's name".
Or is it some odd effect of Equity demanding unique names for members?
What...? Do your siblings and parents share the same name with you?
What an ignoramus.
A brief poll with those that I can quickly ask here who can read Chinese (Cantonese) "Bingbing" is the more literal character translation of her name, rather than as it is likely to be pronounced where the first and second components would be pronounced differently. Basically you'd have to ask her, or at worst somebody from the same region and ethnic group exactly how her name is pronounced.
Still, she has a classy, attractive look, almost regal but with a smile that lights everything up and changes her demeanour completely which would fit in nicely with some of the visuals that Episodes I-III featured. A "stuffy princess who is human in more intimate / personal scenes" look?
Maybe he finally started believing in all that Force stuff and found he had some ability with it after all. Leia didn't know how to use it either, they could take remedial Force 101 classes together to take up their time after the whole Galactic War thing was over after Episode III.
He was a pretty good pilot after all, maybe he had the help of the Force all those years as a smuggler and didn't even know it.
"Both Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are slated to return for the movies, but since the grave is no bar to them showing up as shimmery Jedi ghosts, they could theoretically be the parents of orphan Rachel."
Well ... except that Crystal Clarke is black, and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are both white.
Obscurity is a relative sort of thing. When the first batch of names for the new movie was announced, with the exception of the original cast members, I had not heard of a single one of them before. Admittedly I see few movies, but I've never paid attention to who the actors/directors/producers involved with films are.
Before the prequel trilogy, any Star Wars fanboy/girl in this position would have given their eye teeth to be the next Han Solo / Princess Leia / whatever.
Now they're more likely to see it as "Do you want to be the next Jake Lloyd (*) in a humourless, woodenly-scripted, effects-reliant film that everyone is going to hate for ruining their memories of the original?"
Anyway, good luck to those people- whoever they are- but it shows you what a difference in perception the existence of the prequels made.
(*) Who is apparently less than happy with the experience. Can't say I thought "Episode I" was *that* bad myself, but then I'm not a Star Wars fanboy and already had my expectations lowered. Saw some of "Episode II" and couldn't be arsed watching it properly... as others have pointed out, *that* had accepted-good actors in it, and was still a crap film.
Um, I'm going out on a limb here and leaking the entire plot for the entire planned series of movies:
Cameos!
Fan Service!
Plot twists!
Unexpected romances!
Jedi battles!
Epic space battles with space ships acting like fighter planes!
Light Sabers!
All *NEW* and exciting special effects attributed to 'The Force'
Epic Land battles with light sabers, Weird aliens, droids, fantastical and extremely unlikely war machines, ray blasts, and...
EXPLOSIONS EXPLOSIONS EXPLOSIONS!!!
arblegarblegarble <foams at mouth and head explodes>*
*Yes, that was actually in the transcript.
You left off:
Dancing aliens in bars with space jazz playing and funny colored drinks!
Retro screen transitions!
Plot holes!
Inside jokes referring to movies that have nothing to do with Star Wars!
and Droids (running KitKat)!
Kind of spoils everything for everyone when you think that the whole ethos about space travel is getting a monster off the deck and spending most of the rest of the beeeeeeelions involved in planning how to make a very small part of whatever is left of it drift through gravitational attraction until wherever it is going gets in the way.
And then converting all that into a machine with the up close and fancy antics of a piston engined monoplane from the early 1940's, -complete with sound effects.
Not saying it is impossible, mind... just saying.