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Her evolution from princess to general is part of her life experience, but she’s always going to be Leia.” He says that Carrie Fisher’s Leia, already reported to be a general, has grown up in the intervening years since “ Return Of The Jedi,” saying, “You are who you are naturally, but as you go through life, you harden in some ways, you hopefully become more enlightened in others. Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 35 Films the Director Wants You to SeeĮlsewhere, Abrams did a ‘town hall’ - something we’d assumed only politicians did - last night and spilled various additional beans via EW.

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Steven Spielberg Used an iPhone to Direct His First Music Video Noah Baumbach's 'White Noise' to Open the 2022 New York Film Festival But it is like a thing that’s been happening for a very long time and a culture that has become so youth-focused.įor a deep dive into In the Heights, or to hear our episodes on A Quiet Place Part II taking all the wrong lessons from John Carpenter, Cruella’s Disney-approved punk aspirations, Josie and the Pussycats as an anti-capitalist masterpiece, the animated soul of Star Wars, and the pro-wrestling soul of Mortal Kombat, check out the Galaxy Brains feed, wherever you get your podcasts.As you’ll see from the video below, Abrams says that John Williams had asked not to write the music for the moment in “The Force Awakens,” and after Miranda jokingly suggested he contribute, Abrams says that they teamed up to write together, with the composer/star confirming on Twitter that they “worked on it between 6pm and 7:30 on 2 show days for the past 2 months.” It’s very exciting stuff, and we can only hope it leads to further collaborations between the two.

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It’s like a horror movie for old people where they’re just in this amusement park and it’s too much for them and it kind of escalates from there. Jonah: I know, too, that they just found a lost George Romero movie from the ’70s called The Amusement Park, which is essentially about how elderly people are kind of tossed aside. And I think that’s really unfortunate because, boy, we could use some wisdom in our culture right now. Typically, we see them as a burden as opposed to a fountain of wisdom. Joanna: And then once she dies, the vigil looks like a religious procession.ĭave: We don’t venerate older people in American society. She is the most important person in this community. “I don’t know what I should do about my bodega?” “Should I go to the Dominican Republic?” “Do you want to come with me, Abuela?” “Yeah, why not? I can put my feet in the sand and all that.” She does have, like you said, a demigod sort of vibe. Everybody is trying to get an audience with her all the time. And in the movie, it’s like, OK, but what did she do?ĭave: She’s like The Godfather. Joanna: I think she’s magic because, like, who would want to spend time with a random person? There’s so many people that say, oh my God, I love Abuela. It’s a trope within the Latino culture.ĭave: Would it be fair to say that Abuela is also magic?

So it all links back exactly to this sort of idea of the mothering perfect female that isn’t a Hollywood trope. It’s the Virgin Mary and Latin culture is very Catholic. She’s never had her own kids, but she has all these children. In In the Heights, she is kind of a demigod as well. That grandma is basically a demigod in Moana.

So grandmothers are perceived as people you venerate in the family, the people that need the most respect.

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Joanna: He’s Latino! Latino culture is full of machismo, but it’s also a very matriarchal society.

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Plus Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the music for the ultimate space grandma herself, Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There’s also an important grandmother character in Moana. Here’s an excerpt of our conversation (which has been edited for clarity):ĭave: The death of Abuela Claudia is a huge plot point in the stage play and in this movie version of In the Heights. But as Joanna wisely points out, the reason why anyone might even detect a “Mirandaverse” in the first place may be even more important than it actually existing. In a new episode of Polygon’s Galaxy Brains, Jonah Ray and I are joined by comedian and the host of the Hyphenated podcast, Joanna Hausmann, to untangle the Lin-Manuel Mirandaverse and decide whether or not Abuela can wield magical powers.