Princess Leia

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Princess Leia
Star Wars character
Princess Leia's characteristic hairstyle.jpg
Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia  [lower-alpha 1]
First appearance Star Wars (1977)
Created by George Lucas
Portrayed by
Voiced byVarious  [lower-alpha 2]
In-universe information
Full nameLeia Organa
Occupation
  • Princess of Alderaan
  • Imperial Senator
  • General of the Resistance
Affiliation
Family
Spouse Han Solo
Children
Homeworld

Princess Leia is a character in the Star Wars franchise. Raised on the planet Alderaan, she later becomes a leader in the Rebel Alliance. While waging war against the Galactic Empire, she falls in love with Han Solo and discovers that Luke Skywalker is her twin brother. Her union with Han produces a son, Ben Solo, who becomes the Supreme Leader of the oppressive First Order. Before her death, Leia leads the Resistance and attempts to bring Ben back from the dark side of the Force. Leia is portrayed by Carrie Fisher in the original film trilogy and the sequel trilogy, and by Vivien Lyra Blair in the television series Obi-Wan Kenobi .

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Leia has been called a 1980s icon, [1] a sex icon, [1] and a feminist hero. [2] Her hairstyle from the original Star Wars film (1977) [lower-alpha 4] and her metal bikini from Return of the Jedi (1983) have become iconic cultural symbols. [3] [2] In addition to films, Leia also appears in comics, novels and video games.

Biography

Leia was the daughter of Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker, and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker. Her mother died in childbirth, and her father turned to the dark side of the Force and became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. The birth of the twins was kept secret from Vader, for their protection. Leia was adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and his wife, while Luke was raised by adoptive parents on Tatooine. Leia and Luke grew up with no knowledge of each other, and with very little knowledge of their biological parents. [4] [5]

Leia was raised as a princess in the Royal House of Alderaan. At the age of ten, she was kidnapped by Imperial Inquisitors. Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Jedi Knight who arranged her adoption, rescued her and brought her safely home. [6] Several years later, Leia's father entrusted her with a mission to aid the Rebellion's struggle against the Empire. Working with Kanan Jarrus and Ezra Bridger, she secretly delivered three spacecraft to the Rebels. [5]

Leia eventually became a leader in the Rebel Alliance. When Rebel agents stole architectural plans for the Empire's Death Star space station, they were put into Leia's custody. Seeking to recover the plans, Darth Vader boarded her ship and searched for the schematics. Leia, however, had hidden them inside the droid R2-D2 and sent him to Tatooine in an escape pod. Vader—still unaware that Leia was his daughter—took the princess captive and interrogated her aboard the Death Star. When Leia refused to reveal the location of the Rebel base, her captors threatened to destroy Alderaan with the space station's colossal laser. Faced with losing her homeworld, she told them the base was on the planet Dantooine. Grand Moff Tarkin, the commander of the Death Star, was pleased with her confession, but he obliterated the planet anyway. After gathering intelligence from Dantooine, Vader and Tarkin realized that Leia had lied, and the location of the base was still a secret. [5] [7]

On Tatooine, R2-D2 was discovered by Leia's brother Luke. He found a message from her inside the droid and managed to deliver it to Obi-Wan. The two of them arrived on the Death Star with Han Solo and Chewbacca, and managed to liberate Leia from her cell. Obi-Wan helped the others escape, but was slain by Vader. The group then delivered the Death Star schematics to the Rebels, who were hiding on Yavin 4. With help from Leia, Luke, Han and Chewbacca, the Rebels destroyed the Death Star. [5] [7]

Leia continued to fight the Empire after the destruction of the Death Star. She, Han and Chewbacca fled the new Rebel base on Hoth when the Empire attacked, and sought refuge with Han's friend Lando Calrissian in Cloud City. Upon arrival, Lando betrayed them to the Empire but claimed they forced his hand. Vader froze Han in carbonite and gave him to the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Before Han went into hibernation, Leia proclaimed her love for him. As Leia, Lando and Chewbacca escaped in Han's ship, Leia felt Luke reach out to her through the Force. He had battled Vader in Cloud City, and was now injured and needing help. Chewbacca turned the ship around and they rescued Luke. [5] [8]

After Boba Fett sold Han to the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, Leia and her friends infiltrated Jabba's palace to rescue Han. Leia managed to bring Han out of carbonite hibernation, but was caught by Jabba. The crime lord decreed that the entire group—Leia, Han, Chewbacca, Lando and Luke—would be fed to a Sarlacc, a desert-dwelling beast. Before they could be executed, however, Luke outwitted Jabba and threw his forces into disarray. Leia killed Jabba with the chain he had used to enslave her, and the friends made their escape. [5] [9]

The Empire had now built a second Death Star, and the next step in the Rebellion was to destroy it. Leia and her companions landed on the forest moon of Endor, planning to disable a shield generator that was protecting the space station. They encountered a tribe of Ewoks, and after some conflict managed to enlist their aid. During their stay in the Ewok village, Luke revealed to Leia that they were siblings. After he told her, she realized she had always known it. While Luke departed to confront Vader—their father—Leia and the others successfully deactivated the generator. Rebel ships were able to destroy the now-vulnerable Death Star, and Leia and her friends celebrated the end of the Empire. Luke cremated the body of Vader, who had finally turned away from the dark side. He had destroyed the Emperor at the cost of his own life. [5] [9]

After the fall of the Empire, Leia married Han and began Jedi training. [10] On her final day of training, she had a vision of the death of her future son, and this led her to abandon the Jedi path. [11] Concerned about vestiges of the Empire, she founded the Resistance, which closely monitored the growing First Order. Ben Solo, the son of Leia and Han, had become a leader in this oppressive organization. When Han tried to bring him home, he was killed by his son. The first victory of the Resistance against the First Order came when pilots destroyed Starkiller Base, a weapon that had obliterated multiple planets. [12] Leia came close to death when her ship was assaulted, but she used the Force to save herself. On Crait, Leia and her Resistance companions were besieged by the First Order until Luke sacrificed himself to help them escape. [13] Leia later trained Rey, a Resistance fighter who was already strong with the Force. When Ben was dueling with Rey, Leia connected with him through the Force and urged him to abandon the dark side. This act used all her energy, and she died among her companions on Ajan Kloss. Soon after, Ben rejected the dark side and saved Rey's life. [5] [11]

Creation

The character Princess Leia went through various changes as George Lucas wrote and refined the Star Wars screenplay. In one early draft, she is the spoiled teenage daughter of King Kayos and Queen Breha of Aquilae. [14] In a later version, she is Luke's cousin and the daughter of Owen Lars and his wife Beru. [15] A subsequent story synopsis establishes her as "Leia Antilles", the child of Bail Antilles from the peaceful world of Organa Major. In the fourth draft she is "Leia Organa" of Alderaan. [16]

In Star Wars, Leia's hair is arranged in two large buns, one on each side of her head. [17] When asked in a 2002 interview about the origins of Leia's hairstyle, Lucas said he was aiming for "a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look" from "turn-of-the-century Mexico." [18] An exhibit at the Denver Museum of Art credited a particular revolutionary—later identified as Clara de la Rocha—as the inspiration for the coiffure. [19] The museum stated that Leia's hair arrangement was also influenced by a hairstyle worn by indigenous Hopi women of North America. [19] Empire magazine claims that Leia's hairdo was based on that of Queen Fria, a character from the 1939 Flash Gordon comic "The Ice Kingdom Of Mongo". [20] The hairstyle has been called iconic. [3]

Portrayals and appearances

Carrie Fisher portrays Leia in all the films of the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy. She was cast over Karen Allen, Amy Irving, Terri Nunn, Cindy Williams, and Linda Purl. [21] [22] Jodie Foster was offered the role, but turned it down because she was under contract with Disney. [23] Fisher died in December 2016, after completing filming for The Last Jedi . [24] In July 2018, it was announced that she would appear as Leia in The Rise of Skywalker , using unseen footage from The Force Awakens . [lower-alpha 5] [26] Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd, who portrayed Lieutenant Connix in all three sequel trilogy films, also stepped in as Leia for a brief flashback in which her face was digitally replaced by Fisher's likeness, using imagery from Return of the Jedi. [27]

Aidan Barton plays Leia as an infant in Revenge of the Sith (2005), while Vivien Lyra Blair portrays her as a ten-year-old child in the television series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). [28] [29] Ingvild Deila performed the character via motion-capture technology for Rogue One (2016). [30] Leia also appears in radio dramas, animated series, animated specials and video games. Many different performers have voiced the character in these various productions. [lower-alpha 2]

Leia is a recurring character in novels and comics, some of which are part of the official Star Wars story canon, and some of which are part of the separate Star Wars Legends narrative universe. [33] [34] [lower-alpha 6]

Cultural impact

After the 2012 acquisition of LucasFilm by the Walt Disney Company, the Disney Store stated in May 2014 that the company had "no plans for Leia products". After public criticism, Disney told Time in June 2014 that it would be releasing several Leia products. [52]

Feminist analysis

Leia has been the subject of feminist analysis. Mark Edlitz wrote for The Huffington Post in 2010 that "Leia is an exemplary personification of female empowerment." [53] David Bushman, television curator at the Paley Center for Media, said in 2012, "From the male perspective ... Princess Leia was a very creditable character for her time—not perfect, but certainly defiant, assertive, and strong." [54] Alyssa Rosenberg of The Washington Post wrote in 2015, "Leia wasn't just the first great heroine of science fiction and fantasy to capture my imagination. She was one of the first characters I encountered whose power came from her political conviction and acumen." [55] In her 2007 article "Feminism and the Force: Empowerment and Disillusionment in a Galaxy Far, Far Away", Diana Dominguez cited Leia as a welcome change from the previous portrayals of women in film and TV. [56] She wrote:

Here was a woman who could play like and with the boys, but who didn't have to become one of the boys and who could, if and when she wanted to, show she liked the boys, a woman who is outspoken, unashamed, and, most importantly, unpunished for being so. She isn't a flirty sex-pot, tossing her hair around seductively to distract the enemy ... She doesn't play the role of "Maternal caretaker", although she does display caring and compassion, or "the sweet innocent damsel" who stands passively by while the men do all the work, but does step aside to let them do what they're good at when it is wise to do so ... Leia is a hero without losing her gendered status; she does not have to play the cute, helpless sex kitten or become sexless and androgynous to get what she wants. She can be strong, sassy, outspoken, bossy, and bitchy, and still be respected and seen as feminine. [56] [57]

Rosenberg writes that, though at first Luke is an apolitical innocent in search of adventure and Han is a detached opportunist in search of money, both are "influenced by Leia's passion [and] take their places as full participants in the Rebellion". [55] She notes, "Everyone else eventually comes around to Leia's view of the world." [55] Leia herself, singularly dedicated to her political movement against the Empire, "finds a partner in Han, acknowledging that personal happiness can help her sustain her commitment to building a better galactic order". [55] Rosenberg cites "Leia's willingness to see the best in him, and Han's desire to live up to her belief in him" as a foundation of their relationship, also pointing out his attempts to make her recognize that she has needs like anyone else and should acknowledge that she needs him. [55]

In their 2012 essay "Lightsabers, Political Arenas, and Marriages", Ray Merlock and Kathy Merlock Jackson cite Leia as the successor of earlier science fiction heroines Wilma Deering of Buck Rogers and Dale Arden of Flash Gordon , and the embodiment of "a new stage in the ongoing presentation of the fairy-tale princess in jeopardy". Writing that "after Leia, no longer would princesses be passive and salvaged simply with a kiss," they note the reflection of the character in later Disney Princess animated films and in woman warriors such as Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise and Xena of the adventure TV series Xena: Warrior Princess . [56] A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Leia as "a foremother of Hermione Granger and Katniss Everdeen and of countless latter-day Disney princesses. She also foretold the recent, somewhat belated feminist turn in the Star Wars cycle itself". [58]

Metal bikini

Leia's slave costume when she is held captive by Jabba the Hutt at the beginning of Return of the Jedi—made of brass and dubbed Leia's "Metal Bikini" or "Gold Bikini"—immediately made the character (and Fisher) a "generational sex symbol" celebrated by pin-up posters, [54] [59] and later merchandising and cosplay. [2] [60] [61] The outfit has gained a cult following of its own. [61]

Princess Leia figure at Madame Tussauds London Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leia figure at Madame Tussauds London (33783635862).jpg
Princess Leia figure at Madame Tussauds London

Rosenberg noted that "the costume has become culturally iconic in a way that has slipped loose from the context of the scenes in which Leia wore it and the things she does after she is forced into the outfit." [2] Wired wrote in 2006, "There's no doubt that the sight of Carrie Fisher in the gold sci-fi swimsuit was burned into the sweaty subconscious of a generation of fanboys hitting puberty in the spring of 1983." [62] Acknowledging the opinion of some that the "Slave Leia" iconography tarnishes the character's position as "feminist hero", [2] Rosenberg argues:

Leia may be captive in these scenes, but she's not exactly a compliant fantasy. Instead, she's biding her time for the moment when she can put that fury into action, carrying out a carefully laid plan to rescue her lover. And when that moment comes, the bikini doesn't condemn Leia to passivity. She rises, and uses the very chains that bind her to strangle the creature who tried to take away her power by turning her into a sex object. [2]

Science fiction filmmaker Letia Clouston concurs, saying "Yes, Princess Leia was in a gold bikini, but she was also the one who single-handedly killed Jabba." [54]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Promotional image for Star Wars (1977)
  2. 1 2 In addition to Carrie Fisher, voice actors include Rachel Butera, Heather Doerksen, Julie Dolan, Lisa Fuson, Anna Graves, Carolyn Hennesy, Joyce Kurtz, Misty Lee, Ann Sachs, Catherine Taber, and Shelby Young. [31] [32]
  3. ↑ Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala are Leia's biological parents. Bail Organa and Breha Organa are her adoptive father and mother, respectively.
  4. ↑ Originally titled Star Wars, it was later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope.
  5. ↑ Including deleted scenes of Leia with a character who died on one of the planets destroyed by Starkiller Base [25]
  6. ↑ Canon novels include:
    Canon comics include:Legends novels include:Legends comics include:

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