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Jar Jar Binksactor Ahmed Best wantedStar Warscreator George Lucas to give his character some form of closure by killing him off . alternatively of allowing Jar Jar to go out with a hell of glory , Lucas shamble him to the background , leave it to others to imagine a proper portion for theStar Warsuniverse ’s singlemost - divisive physical body . Far from ostracize his legacy as the homo behind one of pop culture ’s most ill-famed characters , Best has encompass being Jar Jar and is actually writing a book about his connection to the character .
First appearing inStar warfare : The Phantom Menace , the comically bumbling all - CGI Jar Jar for a raft of mass came to embody everything wrong with the prequels : that they were too silly , too purport at small fry and too reliant on computer wizardry . Some even charge Lucas with employing antiblack stereotypes in conceiving Jar Jar , whose fluttering ears give him a semi - Rastafarian look and who spoke in " hilarious " broken English . After the repercussion over Jar Jar , Lucas slash the theatrical role ’s cover - time forAttack of the ClonesandRevenge of the Sith , though Jar Jar did still work a major role inStar Warslore by helping to enable Palpatine ’s rise to the Emperor ’s pot .
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Speaking onJamie Stangroom ’s podcast , Jar Jar worker Ahmed Best say he always wanted a more concrete closing to Jar Jar ’s spark , and prevailed upon George Lucas to pop the role off in some spectacular way :
“ I always complained to George when I realized that Sith was jolly much not go to have Jar Jar in it and they were incite very very far from me , I always complained to George that I did n’t get a undecomposed death ! I desire to really be just hack to patch in some kind of way of life … and George would n’t do it . I always said that Jar Jar ’s lot was too open ended , I would have loved to have close it in some way . I think everybody wants some form of Jar Jar settlement to happen , including me . "
Chuck Wendig’sStar Warscanon novelAftermath : Empire ’s Enddid offer up some kind ofresolution for Jar Jar : after the outcome of the prequel trilogy , the shunned Gungan return to Naboo where he becomes a street performing artist , befriending a marred refugee son and teaching him how to be a goof . Best allege he enjoyed Jar Jar ’s repurchase arc in the novel , calling it a " very somber , very dark eventuality " for the grapheme . Best was not quite as high on J.J. Abrams ' joke about ditch Jar Jar ’s pearl somewhere in the desert of Jakku inStar Wars : The Force Awakens , aver this would only have opened up yet another can of worms . good believe there ’s almost a Jar Jar fixation when it comes toStar Warsfans :
" I ’ve been trying to let him go for so long ! But there is something out there in the zeitgeist of the Star Wars universe , they just want to keep him around ! They want to forget about him , they desire to hate him but they just want to keep him around , i do n’t know why ! "
Best also addressed the openhanded Jar Jar theory out there , the so called " Darth Jar Jar " scenario , where the Gungan was in reality a powerful Sith lord who only pretended to be a buffoonish yutz in parliamentary procedure to throw off his enemies . good has support the theory in the past , hint that some variation of " Darth Jar Jar " was actually in Lucas ' plans before devotee repercussion squeeze him to scrap the fictitious character .
One baseless outgrowth of the " Darth Jar Jar " theory harbor that Supreme Leader Snoke , the Sith lord introduced inThe Force Awakensand due to appear again inThe Last Jedi , actuallyis Jar Jaror was somehow created by Jar Jar . Best seems to think there ’s something to this idea as well , saying it would be nerveless if Snoke were in reality a shape - shifter who transformed himself into Jar Jar , Mace Windu and other significant characters throughout the saga . In Best ’s purview of things ( he does have a book coming out after all ) , it ’s possible this entireStar Warsdeal all boil down to Jar Jar Binks .
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Source : Jamie Stangroom
