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
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I miss iharthdarth...
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Aye, same here... *sigh*
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*snickering lots and lots*
Man, I love the intelligent snark.
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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.
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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.
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