What sets them off is the fact that characters like Luke and Han were heroes in a great many young imaginations 35 years ago. Probably even in their own. The thought of young white kids of today having such a prominent hero played by a black guy or god forbid pretending to be the black guy when they're mock saber fighting with friends in the back yard, that's just more than they can bear.
I'll admit that I was initially very offput by the casting (I'm a young 30's white male). I wasn't upset with the casting so much as what I perceived to be the politics of it. Everywhere you look you'll see examples of SJWs successfully co-opting the culture and forcing shit down our throats in an attempt to assuage their feelings of personal guilt.
Ford was literally building sets for American Graffiti as a carpenter when he got his break.
Yeah, this was my feeling too. I was annoyed mainly because the SJW harpies on twitter had harassed the movie before it even began casting about a female/PoC lead, and I was just mad because it felt like a capitulation. I also had just got done arguing with an idiot who was outraged that only 10% of speaking parks were for black which showed racism! Of course, obviously discounting the racial population domestically where the movie is cast if it uses the Hollywood guild is 88% non-black. All other things being equal, only about 10% of the characters you see on screen should be black, if you see more than that, there is a bias.
Neither did I and I still don't care about anything beyond how good any of them are in their roles. Though this has made me thankful that I haven't let the SJW's crawl so far up under my skin that when I see a black or female lead in a non-traditional role I immediately begin parsing whether or not they were cast to advance someone's social agenda.
Boyega was in a film called Attack the Block which I didn't much care for but he was good in it.
Yea, Ford had two kids and wife, and he was getting shit parts, so he became a carpenter and built stuff around LA. For Star Wars he was just a guy reading lines for the actors that were auditioning for parts. He was hired as casting help, not "be Solo dude", but Lucas liked his performance so he offered the role of Solo to him.
Just like black Johnny Storm, the FF have been a comic family for over 50 years, and white. To suddenly make one of em black just feels like Affirmative Action or Pandering to SJWs. Then ppl got past that, b/c the movie just sucked so much ass (i haven't seen it, b/c i won't pay for a ticket to give FOX money), but from reviews it seems like black Johnny Storm was a rare highlight, so theres that.
If you aint bothered with swedish subtitles
I can see a lot of that... curious to where you received your spoiler?
