I love Star Wars, but my favorite thing about it will always be how much Harrison Ford fuckin' hates Star Wars
That and how Lucas tried making anti imperialist art and when it was ravenously devoured by the status quo he just hammed it the fuck up and merchandised it to shit. Gotta respect the king of grift
Yeah, Lucas loves to change his mind every few years and say off the wall WTF shit about what Star Wars was "originally intended to be". He'll never own to the fact the prequels were terrible and he's 100% responsible for all the shitty writing in those movies.
anti imperialist art
Americans fighting space nazis is a sublimated narrative, in reality outside of those Hollywood delusions, America used WMDs
I think the rebels were meant to be VietCong making the empire the americans. This of course was retconned in the sequels making the empire explicitly nazis
But Vietnamese fighting Americans isn't really. Before Star Wars, he made THX 1138 which was also very anti capitalist. There's a reason he's always complaining about American censors.
Same here. Ford has wanted out of Star Wars since after ESB. The original scripts to ROTJ were going to give him his wish with Han dying a hero sacrificing himself. Lucas changed that (along with taking the Wookies out and going with Ewoks) cause selling toys was more important.
Always funny when nerds think these guys actually care about the lore. It’s just their job lmao.
He is. A lot of anime is a bunch of guys recycling the same plots and girls (with different hair) in order to sell merchandise because the anime market is broken. But there are also gems, obviously.
Boyega's cool yeah. I was more so talking about the creative forces behind the Books and Tv shows.
Fair enough. In that case I don’t mind Filoni’s stuff either for the most part, but I definitely cringe a bit when they cram some EU reference as a “hey, remember this?!?” bit, and this is coming from an old school legends fan. Smells a bit too much like marketing
I like the clone wars but The Mandalorian lost me with it's second season. Too much legacy characters and nerd lore instead of interesting characters and their evolution.
Of course, the nerds love it even though every character is the least fun person you've ever heard of.
He hand delivered Polanski's oscar, fuck Harrison Ford. Probably a pedo.
What did Polanski even accomplish to have such reverence in Hollywood? I've seen two of his movies. The Romeo and Juliet we were forced to watch in High School. Then The Ninth Gate, which I do actually like. But it's very cheesy and nowhere near some kind of Oscar-worthy art film. So what movies did he do that people still stick up for him? The Pianist? Chinatown? I might could understand a Mel Gibson and RDJ situation where he helped one or two actors despite being trash. But to demand such respect for decades after being convicted is nuts.
Chinatown is legitimately one of the greats and it's probably the movie that come closest to depicting how power looks and acts in this world. Might be the best film in the noir genre too.
Carry Fisher and Ford had a relationship while filming Star Wars, he was 35 and she was 19-20. Granted Fisher always maintained it was a healthy consensual relationship, but between the age gap and the fact she was out of her mind on coke at the time I still call it sus at best.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski#Legal_history
also: wtf I didn't know this:
A turning point in his life took place in 1969, when his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and four friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family.
I thought that was common knowledge but yeah, Sharon Tate was pregnant with Polanski's kid. And it was his house. He had a film shoot or something going on so he wasn't there, otherwise he probably would have died that night too.
this reminds me when my friend would always tell me how Alec Guinness, who played Obi Wan in the original New Hope, would always get pissed off and refuse to sign autographs when approached by Star Wars nerds, even if it was a little kid lol
