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I think he annoying as hell too i just started really liking Star Wars after espisode one.Great movie at that but he made no sense why he was in it .Acourse i have watch the first three Star Wars movie and got who was the comic in those.Jar-Jar just stuipd and has nothing to do with the movie.

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Originally posted by wassup

I think people, especially the old SW fans who loved the classic trilogy, hated Jar-Jar because they felt his character was aimed at a younger, less mature audience. The older fans felt betrayed by Lucas by including such a poor character and decided to let their rants out.

 

I was 9 when I saw it. I did not laugh. I was tramtized for life......

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Originally posted by Admiral Vostok

Well anyone who hates Jar Jar just isn't a true Star Wars fan as far as I'm concerned. I love him, he's one of my favourite characters.

 

But there is a reason he is in Star Wars other than for plot purposes. I think of myself as a Star Wars Scholar, so I'll enlighten the rest of you.

 

Star Wars is and always has been a movie about movies. It is an amalgam of genres, and that is precisely what George Lucas set out to do. Apart from the obvious ones like Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance and Adventure, Lucas has inserted little bit of genre-mixing in other parts - the start of A New Hope is straight out of a Western, the extended musical seen in Jabba's Palace in ROTJ:SE was finally as lavish as the Musicals Lucas wanted to acknowledge, the detective story and lighting techniques of Attack of the Clones are conventional Film Noir, and every Episode is shot intentionally in a documentary-like format (no place names at the bottom of the screen, no inner-monologues, etc). Jar Jar is just another part of this - he is a homage to the classic Saturday morning cartoon characters we know and love. If it didn't look out of place we'd probably see Jar Jar opening a miniature umbrella to protect himself from a falling anvil. He falls over, he talks funny, his eyes pop out, let's face it he is a pure cartoon. So that is the real reason Jar Jar is in Star Wars - it is part of George Lucas' attempt to fit at least a passing reference to every film genre there has been into Star Wars, his movie about movies.

 

:eek: Nerd Alert Nerd Alert :eek: (j/k hehe :D)

 

Good, insightful analogy.

 

Originally posted by ZBomber

I was 9 when I saw it. I did not laugh. I was tramtized for life......

 

Well I tend to consider LFers abnormally mature...er...i mean...more mature. :D

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I can see why people hate him, but personally I never minded him, I had a stronger disliking for Jake Lloyd than for Jar Jar lol.

 

But anyway, sure he is a clumsy person who doesn't seem fully aware of what's going on all the time. But he did manage to unite the Naboo and the Gungans, although by accident, for a clumsy fellow he has alot of luck.

And about the downfall of the republic thanks to Jar-Jar, like others said, he just mentioned the idea, it was up to the other senators to agree or disagree, but they practically unanymously agreed.

 

For the same matter it might have been Padme who was asked/forced to suggest it if she didn't run away. Let's see the Portman fans bash her if that were the case XD

 

And as a final point in defense of all the Gungans, and as a pointer to those who hate comic relief characters, not all Gungans are like Jar-Jar, if we look at Captain Tarpals he seemed like a cunning warrior.

But ofcourse most of us define an entire Star Wars species by the examples we get, for example we saw Chewie as the first Wookiee, and from there on we thought that all Wookiees were tough and cool like he was. But for the same matter there might be a pacifist Wookiee somewhere on Kashyyyk hehe.

Anyways

[/end rant]

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I tried to sell the idea of a bonk the Jar Jar on the head with a sledge hammer game to GL, but for some reason it didn't fly ... something about angry Star Wars fans breaking the heads off and using them as their own personal soccer balls or something along those lines ...

 

Actually to tell the truth, if I were playing the game and heard him say -

 

"HAHA! YOUSA MISSDA MEESA!"

 

- I would probably start using my fists instead of the foam hammer. Die Jar Jar. May Vader make your death a painful one in E3, even if it's not supposed to happen.

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I've noticed that the in the newer Star Wars films, the REALLY REALLY stupid, greedy, clumsy, and selfish characters all have some sort of accent that originates elsewhere besides england. The viceroy of the trade federation, a kniving (sp?), selfish, and gutless character has a non-english accent. The cruel and heartless slavedriver Watto also has a non-english accent. The insanely dumb leader of the Gunguns (again with the sp?) has a non-english accent. AND TO TOP IT OFF, the stupidest most annoying prick in the entire star wars genre has an overly done Jamaican accent. George decided to make all the idiots and evil-doers in his movies seem as if to come from other races, and that makes me mad. Because of that, the character known as Jar Jar Binks is very insulting to me.

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Originally posted by quickbeam

I've noticed that the in the newer Star Wars films, the REALLY REALLY stupid, greedy, clumsy, and selfish characters all have some sort of accent that originates elsewhere besides england. The viceroy of the trade federation, a kniving (sp?), selfish, and gutless character has a non-english accent. The cruel and heartless slavedriver Watto also has a non-english accent. The insanely dumb leader of the Gunguns (again with the sp?) has a non-english accent. AND TO TOP IT OFF, the stupidest most annoying prick in the entire star wars genre has an overly done Jamaican accent. George decided to make all the idiots and evil-doers in his movies seem as if to come from other races, and that makes me mad. Because of that, the character known as Jar Jar Binks is very insulting to me.

 

hahahaha. I don't even need to tell you how stupid that is. Its a movie. Not meant to be racist. duh.:rolleyes:

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Here we go with the racist thing again :rolleyes:

 

Don't you think if Jar Jar was a racist stereotype that Ahmed Best would have refused to play him? The same thing was said about Darth Vader, being an evil black guy. But surely James Earl Jones would not have voiced Vader if he thought there were wider racial connotations to the character.

 

If you see something racist in Star Wars, chances are you're a racist yourself.

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