Comments | mollyringwraith: And a brief Alec Guinness/Star Wars quote

mollyringwraith

And a brief Alec Guinness/Star Wars quote

Dec 31, 2005 08:50

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 ( Read more... )

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sopdetly December 31 2005, 18:16:46 UTC

I love you like I'm blind! XD

I miss iharthdarth...

mollyringwraith January 1 2006, 20:16:47 UTC

Hehehe. I've fallen for you like a blind roofer!

Aye, same here... *sigh*

genarti December 31 2005, 19:38:01 UTC

...Oh, that is brilliant.

*snickering lots and lots*

Man, I love the intelligent snark.

abrynne December 31 2005, 21:49:36 UTC

I knew about him suggesting killing of Obi-Wan, heh. It is amusing to know his actual reasoning behind it.

jigglykat January 1 2006, 03:39:55 UTC

I've also read somewhere that Guiness asked Lucas if Yoda could say a couple of Obi-Wan's lines simply because he didn't want to.

alashiya January 1 2006, 15:04:58 UTC

I read that too.

My favorite "Anakin moment" is when he says "That's outrageous!" in the same tone of voice most people would use for "Pass the salt, please."

Why in the WORLD did George Lucas hire that guy? Even good actors have trouble with Lucas's awful dialogue. Christensen didn't stand a chance.

mollyringwraith January 1 2006, 20:20:09 UTC

I haven't seen Christensen in anything else, so I'll try to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was attempting to be emotionally cold/stifled, as would befit a young Darth Vader. Then again, why give him such sappy lines if they wanted that? It's a mystery.

I think the worst choice in the Anakin lines was when, fresh in his Vader suit, he learned Padme was dead, and instead of some tragically subdued reaction, or touch of eloquent bitterness, he just leans back and howls like a Wookie, "Nooooo!" I mean, did the writers just give up around then or something? So much more could have been done with a moment like that. Oh well.