And a brief Alec Guinness/Star Wars quote
Last night we watched a 1949 movie, Kind Hearts and Coronets (amusing dark comedy), in which Alec Guinness plays about eight different roles, and is brilliant at them all. Anyway, in the "Alec Guinness biography" pages in the DVD extras, it says he had a hand in convincing George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan's character fairly early in the Star Wars series--not just because Obi is more poignantly effective as a ghost, but because, in Alec's words:
“I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo.”
This may have been a mean and snarky thing for him to say, but I have to admit both I and the husband fell over on the couch in a fit of laughter. Hey, when you're that good an actor, you get to be a little snarky. Especially when there's good reason.
Good thing he didn't live long enough to read the scripts for the prequels, though. Oof. No, I'M so in love with YOU. Nuh uh, I love YOU more. (Compared to that, "You like me because I'm a scoundrel" is practically eloquent.)
“I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo.”
This may have been a mean and snarky thing for him to say, but I have to admit both I and the husband fell over on the couch in a fit of laughter. Hey, when you're that good an actor, you get to be a little snarky. Especially when there's good reason.
Good thing he didn't live long enough to read the scripts for the prequels, though. Oof. No, I'M so in love with YOU. Nuh uh, I love YOU more. (Compared to that, "You like me because I'm a scoundrel" is practically eloquent.)