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Actress Carrie Fisher, whose grit and wit made "Star Wars'" Princess Leia an iconic and beloved figure to millions of moviegoers, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. She was 60.Iconic is an apt description of Carrie Fisher's Princess Leia. Star Wars was a cultural phenomenon, and Fisher was at the heart of the main trio of characters: Leia, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), and Han Solo (Harrison Ford).
But the importance of Leia cannot be understated. I was 12 when Star Wars was released, and she was the first strong female lead I can recall seeing. Certainly, she wasn't the first in film history, but she was the first to many in my generation.
Her first major scene in Star Wars shows why Leia became iconic. Even Darth Vader didn't intimidate her:
Leia was a character of great inner strength, which stands in juxtaposition to Fisher herself, who was about to fall into an abyss of drug addiction as she tried dealing with her bipolar condition.
While Fisher did recover from her drug problem, it took its toll on her. Even at the age of 60, she looked and acted older, although no less feisty than she ever was. However, Princess Leia's return in The Force Awakens revealed a character who had mellowed with age, and was even somewhat sentimental, especially in her scenes with Han Solo. Perhaps Fisher had mellowed with age too?
Even with her death, we haven't seen the last of Carrie Fisher or Princess Leia. With her CGI appearance in the recent Rogue One, plus her upcoming appearance in Episode VIII (she had finished filming it before her death), expect more to come. Fisher may be physically dead, but Leia lives. Isn't that the true immortality we all seek? That some part of us continues to live even after we have passed?
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