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SPECULATION Is Luke Rey's Father? - The Evidence For and Against

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' started by master_shaitan, Feb 17, 2016.

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Is Rey the daughter of Luke Skywalker

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    Those Kaminoans must love their brunettes. :p
     
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    personally, i think the accent angle serves as a pretty weak foundation for an arguement. i suppose it has its in-universe meaning and all that, but i don't feel like there's a divide or hard rule where bad guys = English and good guys = American, or English = inner worlds and American = outter worlds.

    i mean, look at Corellia: an inner world that produced Han Solo.
     
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    FWIW, Pablo Hidalgo had disputed the idea of using accent as a clue to character origin in several tweets.



     
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    No one is saying that accents are inherited. We're just saying that it would be an odd play (film wise) for Rey to have an inner-world accent when both her parents don't. It'd be confusing and would require explanation. Especially for a younger audience. No need to get hot under the collar about it though - it simply means that if she is ReySky then her mother spoke with that accent. Or if she is Rey Solo then she abducted from birth and her abductors spoke in this accent. So don't panic, you can still cling on to your paper thin theories regardless of how she speaks. :p
     
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    I'm English and to me the odd thing about Rey's voice was that she is so well-spoken. It certainly doesn't sound like you'd expect a scavenger to sound. Of course that might just be to make it easier for an international audience to understand...
     
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    I think these facets of Rey's character link back to her origins - her power, her accent, her connection to the legacy saber. It's all telling us that there is more to her than has been revealed. My money is on her coming from Imperial decent - a Dark Side child born of parents who served Palpatine and were part of his contingency. The reason: to create a child capable of destroying the Skywalker family.
     
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    I agree as there must have been a deliberate choice made to ask John Boyega (who is also British) to adopt an American accent and Daisy Ridley not to. That said, it's a bit unclear what it means as Finn was brought up by the Empire and Rey seemingly by Unkar Plutt...
     
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    I think the FO were different from the Empire in that they stole babies and youngsters from all over the place and weren't as core world centric as the Empire obviously was. With Finn it was probably just because the American accent sounded better for the role!
     
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    Good point that it's FO not empire, my mistake!

    It might just be that they want Finn to be more fun and Rey to be more serious. That said, I think you're right that Rey will have a dark side origin to contrast with Kylo Ren's light side origin...
     
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    Please provide your source. The Daisy being coached thing has been mentioned and sourced here on a couple of occasions. The fact you've heard the opposite would be valuable information.
    This was filmed in the US towards the end of production. It was such a microscopic part the accent was probably an afterthought. As I mentioned, her dialogue to too small to really analyze her accent.
    This is a great point. Wedge is also from that planet and doesn't have an English accent. Maybe it's a Corellia thing.

    I don't think anyone is arguing that here.
    The producers of the film deliberately coached Daisey to use an accent that's typically associated with the Empire. Make of it what you will.
    This thread is becoming more and more hostile towards anything that doesn't revolved around a Skywalker heritage. I'm getting negative ratings for simply discussion accents. This isn't even a topic about who Rey's parents are... relax people.
     
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    It's odd if DR needed coaching for a well-spoken English accent. All British actors need to be able to do that as half the jobs they get are in historical dramas!

    I can't see Rey having a Skywalker heritage, but I bet she's taken that surname by the end of IX....
     
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    Yes, I believe it's true, I just find it a bit odd. I mean her normal voice is pretty well-spoken anyway. I wonder if they just needed to make her speak a little more clearly for an international film.

    Her Wikipedia entry says her mum's family are landed gentry and she went to a performing arts school so it does seem weird for her to need coaching in RP...
     
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    I agree. To me Daisy sounds like Rey anyway. But I guess the point is that they maintained this accent (unlike John) and perhaps put greater emphasis on speakin' a little but more posh, like?

    Sorry, I realised that was what you were saying but just thought it might be helpful to post the link. ;)
     
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    It was helpful! Thanks!
    The voice must mean something. It's the opposite to what you would expect of a scavenger...
     
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    Or, perhaps, it just means she developed her accent from the same source she received her entire education from; the salvaged computer which likely spoke in RP.
     
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    These things need to be explained on screen. And when I say explained I really mean shown. A lengthy dialogue about how Rey's accent didn't come from her parents but from a computer back on Jakku just isn't going to work. Meeting Rey's parents and one or both speaking in said accent will be instant. And like I say, it's just another mysterious element to her character that obviously hides a story.
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    I think it's interesting that as more bits of info leak out, the vote has closed to a gap of 0.4% in favour of ReySky. At one stage there was a 20% margin.
     
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    I don't think her accent needs to be explained. She was abandoned on Jakku at 5yrs old. She was too young to have gotten her accent from her parents. Therefore, there has to be an on planet source for it i.e. the salvaged computer.
     
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    That won't translate on screen. If Rey meets both her parents and they're American it will confuse people, especially kids. People aren't going to know she learned language from a computer. And if they did once read about it, they aren't going to remember it by the time TLJ comes along. Still, Luke's so called wife could've had the same accent so no need to throw in the towel yet old friend. ;)
     
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    I disagree. The adults will know she wasn't old enough to get her accent from her parents and the children won't care about her accent at all.
     
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