guys, can we please talk about those star wars character posters?
i’m not sure if anyone’s mentioned these before, but the character posters disney released months ago are very…. interesting, particularly in their color palette (& content) choices.
finn gets purple hues that fade to black
poe gets a nice little fading green-blue
but rey? rey gets RED. red to black.
please. just guess who else has the exact same color palette.
you guessed it. everyone’s favorite pissbaby!
though, to temper your excitement, phasma also has the same palette:
but it makes sense because kylo and phasma are both coded as villainous. but rey… is our protagonist. so why the red and black? i personally am subscribing to the theory that it just serves to underline the parallels and similarities between rey, kylo, and their character arcs. (possibly to hint at rey’s ability to harness the dark side! in the forest scene maybe, maybe in the later films!)
what images are inside each character also accentuate that. finn’s image has a picture of both him and rey ( :) ), poe’s has a tie fighter, phasma has her with two troopers flanking her on either side, but both rey and kylo’s predominantly feature them only. isolated in their respective backgrounds: kylo within the first order’s ranks and rey against the lonely backdrop of jakku.
this is just added to the general marketing strategy of poising kylo and rey as parallels, two sides of the same coin at least. like with Google’s whole “Awaken the Force Within” campaign.
episode 8 isn’t even out yet, but even with the promotional material for FORCE AWAKENS, you can see how deliberate the imagery is with these two. there’s a deep, fundamental kinship there, and it’ll only be further illustrated in the upcoming two films.
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