RE: If you believe in the God of the Bible, why try to prove it logically?
July 19, 2013 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2013 at 2:44 pm by Cyberman.)
(July 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Actually, what happened was that Obie Won told Luke a pack of lies about Anakin, and as a result, Anakin cut off Luke's hand right before telling him the truth. And I understand that with James Earl Jones' infamous stutter, it took two weeks to film that one scene. But then, George only paid Jones $7,000 for his voice overs, so he couldn't really complain.
Interestingly, the original intention was that Kenobi had killed Luke's father. With that in mind, watch that scene in A New Hope in which he tells Luke about Darth Vader; note how uncomfortable Alec Guinness looks. In fact, that was the idea almost right up to that famous "I am your father" scene in Empire, by which time someone had come up with the twist reveal we all know and love. Though unseen, Dave Prowse still had to deliver the lines from behind the mask, in his wonderful West Country brogue, and the exchange as scripted went something like (for best results, imagine Vader's lines in a farmer-type voice):
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."
"He told me enough! He told me you killed him!"
"No; Obi-Wan killed your father!"
At that point Mark Hamill was directed to dramatically his reaction, to accomodate James Earl Jones' true line.
Add to all that the fact that Boba Fett originally started his career as a cartoon character in the, erm, stunning Holiday Special - yes, I have a copy on my pc somewhere - and the oft-heard claim that Lucas had some grand story arc underpinning the trilogy gets increasingly more hollow.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
