Grimes Pens Love Letter to Star Wars

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Grimes has penned a love letter to the Star Wars film franchise in the new issue of LOVE magazine. In the text (reproduced by NME), Claire Boucher praises the series' visual innovations ("they smeared peanut butter on lenses to make the cars look like they were floating"), costuming ("Chewie definitely seems like an actor in a suit, which I find less jarring than a CGI character"), casting ("Gwendolyn Christie and Lupita Nyong’o are two of my favourite actresses, and neither made her name doing something overtly feminine or sexualised"), and droid characters: "C-3PO has always been a personal favourite of mine. I really relate to his fear of death."

Of the droids, she adds:

Rewatching the movies as an adult, C-3PO’s stuttering humanity is a great foil for the violence and intensity of the films. Almost any scary or violent scene is mitigated by a worried awkward robot complaining about safety. And, as with Artoo, you are never really sure of C-3PO is male or female – and with programming he or she could really be any age. There’s a lot of room for the audience to project onto either droid, which is probably another reason why the films have such broad appeal.

Head to NME for the full text, and order a copy of LOVE magazine here.

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