What was the point of this character?

To get Forrest Whittaker into the credit roll.

>>81970364
le quirky black man xd

Rebel extremist that exists to progress the plot.

he's the Star Wars version of a Marxist or something, remember Marxism is heroic and good goiiiii

>>81970364
They wanted to use a character from the Clone Wars show.

>>81970406
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>>81970478
What plot did he progress, though? Handing over the Imperial pilot? That could have been handled easier without introducing more characters into an already bloated cast.

>>81970364
>we want the baneposting audience

so he would literally die if he took off the mask


what a waste to get forest whitaker for like 20 lines of dialogeu and 10 minutes of screen time

To basically say "Hey, remember this guy from the Clone Wars series? Well you kids are lucky because now he's in the new movie!"

I actually liked the idea of showing the average person taking the fight to the empire, but yeah he was mostly pointless.

>>81970364
They had a race quota to fill

>>81970364
You already know the answer. Diversity.

>>81970364
>What was the point of this movie?
ftfy

>>81970364
The purpose of the character was to show that the Alliance doesn't consist entirely of "good guys," but Cassian sort of did that earlier in the film, and Saw didn't get enough screen time to accomplish that goal.

>>81970364
>what was the point of this character?
PISSING

>>81970364
They wanted the reddit audience

>>81970364
WE WUZ STORM TROOPERS AND SHEIT

>>81971566
To make money from people who see anything with Star Wars in the name

>>81970364
So there was an excuse for Forrest Whittaker to ham it up to an 11 for a bizarre character? I don't know. He was the worst thing about the movie.

Is there anything Forrest Whitaker is in that doesn't seem like he's trying way too hard?

>>81970364
LIES! DECEPTION!

>>81971560
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>>81970487
back to /pol/, kids

>>81970631
i've been saying this since day 1 anon but no one in this shithole gets it

>>81971843
No.

>>81970364
To show Rebel are literally sandnigger terrorist.

>>81970631

The progress for the entire saga, not just this one movie. He was the last of the old Rebel warriors (non-Jedi).
C'mon guys! Don't you know your Star Wars at all?!

>>81970364
Diversity
Action figures

>>81971843
The Shield

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>>81970364
What was the point of any character in the film? What was the point of the film? It told a story already told, in a single sentence. Where were all the Bothans? Was Forrest Whittaker a Bothan?

>>81970406
Totally worth it, he was good.

>>81975657
At doing what?

>>81975581
Bothans took the plans for the second death star you fucking retard

He was to show how hopeless the rebellion was which was the main theme of the movie

>>81970406
>token OT3

>>81975691
At getting his name into the credit roll

>>81975728
There were no second death star plans you fucking retard

>>81970488
This.

He was added to help connect the Clone Wars cartoon, Rebels cartoon, and Rogue One all together.

>>81970364
He had a bigger role but was ultimately reduced to that due to reshoots. Watch the old trailers.

>>81979152
This absolutely correct.

The entire tone shifting from reshoots is so blatant. How does anyone miss this?

>>81970364
He was intended to be a Rebel equivalent of Darth Vader. They cut and reshot a lot of his scenes so they didn't really get to explore that idea much.

>>81970364
I think it was larger point about how the Rebellion is stagnant and is not willing to do what it takes to destroy the Empire, so they don't like that he engaged in "extreme" acts or whatever. I'm guessing his dudes attacking the Empire was supposed to be contrasted with the beta dudes in the Rebellion who didn't want to attack.

Really, though, he was quite pointless, and was completely shoehorned into the middle with the part about how someone his guys got a hold of the pilot. They could have not had him in the movie at all, and it would not have mattered aside from needing someone else to rescue Ira Belle when she was a kid.

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>built up in the beginning as a rebel extremist who goes beyond the conventional methods we've seen
>could have easily helped the crew with fighting the empire
>does nothing and just dies in his cave for no fucking reason
Was it that hard for them to pay Forrest Whitaker for some more screentime?

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>>81970364
Since the film's protagonist is a strong white woman it is necessary for her to have a black daddy to even things out.

Such is the way of the force.

>>81970364
you will have to watch supplementary material to find out

>>81977099
>>81975728

They died trying to bring the data as to the location of the second Death Star. Had nothing to do with the plans of the Death Star. The scene in question happened in RoTJ and Mon Mothma wasn't in ANH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z--2nZl1_zM

I'm tired of seeing the same misinformation posted all the damn time.

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>>81980403
Remember goys Jyn's sperm donor went over to the Empire (where disgusting wh*te men belong) so she had to be raised by Saw Gerrera.

Gerrera was exactly the strong masculine presence Jyn needed during her formative years and she never forgot the imprint he made on her. That's why when she became a woman she knew she'd do anything to find him again.

>>81979152
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>>81980250

Any more info on this or is all we have to go on the trailers?

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>>81980782
Speculation suggests that Disney wasn't 100% sold on Gareth's (who wanted more of a war movie) draft and the guy they really wanted wasn't available at that moment so they started production. During summer 2016 the other guy apparently became available who proceeded to rewrite massive chunks of the script most notably the ending. That's why earlier trailers show a much different tone (A more cynical/sarcastic Jyn, Saw played a bigger part, a more menacing Krennic and pic related as examples) which rendered a lots of parts of already made trailers useless (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJZjqmmL-24).

The part we'll never know is if was because it was too dark for Disney or if it genuinely wasn't that solid of a script. I still hope someday we get that original cut.