A fan-made recut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, designed to remove women from the film, has been mocked on social media by the movie’s stars.
The film writer and critic Priscilla Page posted a link to a news report about the recut, adding a long, drawn-out laugh to her tweet.
ahhaahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahahhahhhhhaaaahahahha pic.twitter.com/Uz2JfF8Snf
— priscilla page (@BBW_BFF) January 16, 2018
This was picked up by Rian Johnson, the film’s writer and director, who responded in a similar fashion.
Priscilla hits all the major points here but I’ll just add hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha https://t.co/f0bKJ9NeUe
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 16, 2018
Mark Hamill, who starred in the original trilogy as Luke Skywalker and plays an older version of the character in the latest outing for the franchise, agreed with a series of “crying with laughter” emojis.
Agreed. But let me add
— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) January 16, 2018
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John Boyega, who played Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as in The Last Jedi, joined in.
Great points. Hope it’s okay to make a final point...
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) January 16, 2018
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The film critic Siddhant Adlakha summed it up, saying: “No instance of fandom petulance has ever been dunked on this hard by creators.”
The recut of the film, posted to the file-sharing site the Pirate Bay, is titled The Last Jedi: De-Feminized Fanedit (aka the Chauvinist Cut) and comes in at 46 minutes long, compared to the original’s running time of two hours and 35 minutes.
The description accompanying the edit promises that the female characters and their parts in the plot have been removed.
Princess Leia – who in The Empire Strikes Back famously describes Han Solo as a “stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder” – has had her role edited so she no longer “scolds, questions nor demotes” the rebel fighter pilot Poe Dameron.
Other changes include a swifter death for Captain Phasma, played by Gwendoline Christie, because, according to the accompanying notes to the recut, “women are naturally weaker than men, she isn’t force-sensitive, and we know nothing about any exoskeleton in her suit”.
Laura Dern’s Vice-Admiral Holdo is excised completely. Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran, is not mentioned by name in the description of the changes, and is referred to as the “Asian chick” instead.
The person who posted the new cut regretfully notes that their version features “plot holes and continuity errors”.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi had the second-biggest opening weekend of all time in the US when it was released in December, earning $450m in just three days. It had the highest opening weekend of any film in 2017 in the UK.
