It’s not a trap!
It’s as though Star Wars fans have been waiting for a Han Solo film for eons, but after many conspiracy theories and countless annoying fan-made trailers on YouTube, Disney has pushed out a trailer, signalling ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ is, indeed, for real and riding solo (I’m sorry for the pun, I could not help myself).
In 1 minute and 43 seconds, the Internet had apoplectic attacks, dissecting the trailer for Easter Eggs such as the Death Star, and hints as to where Disney is headed with this stand-alone feature film.
As the trailer comes to a dramatic close, Solo concludes, “I’m going to be a pilot; the best in the galaxy.”
More than anything, fans wanted to know what Mark Hamill thinks of the upcoming release. When he’s not issuing one-word tweet replies to fans on Twitter, Luke Skywalker retweeted the trailer, which, in Netizenian, translates to a nod.
The film — starring Alden Ehrenreich as a young Han Solo, Emilia Clarke as Qi’ra, Donald Glover as Lando, Woody Harrelson as Beckett and Thandie Newton as Val — is slated to release later this year, and is directed by... Ron Howard? Well, leave it to Disney to surprise in any which way.
D is for ‘deepfakes’
Speaking of Netizenian, the language of all things webby, looks like a new word has been ushered into the digital pages of its dictionary: deepfakes, which delineates the superimposition of a face onto pre-existing footage. I mean, come on, wasn’t face swap already annoying enough?
And what’s the internet if they don’t pervert the idea of ‘deepfakes?’ Let’s not even get into that; I’m sure the power of Google will get you there.
Some of the non-pornographic examples are Nicolas Cage — resident butt of many Internet jokes — happening across the Ark of the Covenant, and Donald Trump’s face melded on to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic National Convention.
Deepfakes aren’t just a hilarious Internet trend, they’re also indicative of the singular-faced hypocrisy we see in our massively-consumed content.
Rants and ramblings from excursions in cyberspace
