Despite its record-breaking performance stateside, the consensus within the industry is that "The Force Awakens" under-performed abroad.
Still, if you thought the "Star Wars" films couldn't stand to make more money you're mistaken. Today, "The Force Awakens" ranks at the all-time highest grossing film in America (not adjusted for inflation) with a nearly $200 million lead on the next closet film. The film's box office performance was unparalleled. "hether it were a white man, a black woman or Al Jolson himself beneath the mask, what would still make all the clowning so particularly insulting is the fact that Jar Jar’s speech is a weird pidgin mush of West African, Caribbean and African-American linguistic styles,” Williams said.ĭespite some backlash from fringe elements on the Internet, the pairing was well-received by critics and audiences. Despite the amphibian get-up, his relentless, panicky, manchild-like idiocy is imported directly from the days of ‘Amos ‘N’ Andy’," The Nation’s Patricia Williams wrote about the character in 1999 following the release of "The Phantom Menace." “Whether intentionally or not, Jar Jar’s pratfalls and high jinks borrow heavily from the genre of minstrelsy. The polarizing prequel films, which came more than a decade later, were eviscerated by some critics for their perceived cultural insensitivity, when computer-animated characters like Jar Jar Binks, were widely viewed as trafficking in uncomfortable, old-fashioned racial stereotypes. Related: 'Star Wars' Production Company Pleads Guilty Over Harrison Ford's Set Injury
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