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Ushgarak
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
David Prowse is ill...
Poor old David Prowse, who of course played Darth Vader and educated a generation of British schoolkids in road safety (quite why they never combined those two ideas.... Vader sure as heck would have made sure I took things careful on the road), appears to be worsening. The strange paralysis that has affected him appears to have worsened.
Let's all hope he gets well soon and doesn't join Alec Guiness in the Force before his time.
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May 10th, 2001 10:31 PM |
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phinney6
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Who was alec guiness
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May 11th, 2001 12:53 AM |
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JediOasis
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I hope your not serious!  He is the original Obi-Wan Kenobi, old Ben. He died sometime last year. 
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May 11th, 2001 02:05 AM |
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phinney6
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I don't like reading the credits! That is who I thought it was anyway.
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May 11th, 2001 02:12 AM |
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Ushgarak
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
Alec Guiness is one of the finest British actors of all time. Amazingly, GL managed to get him to play the role of the original Obi-Wan (not Alec's normal role at ALL), and in doing so Alec won himself an Oscar, and a great deal of money. He sadly died last year.
Far fewer people know of David Prowse, sadly. Poor sod was being dummied all the way though the making of Star War- amasingly enough, he did not know that Luke was Vader's son until he actually watched ESB at the cinema. He was guven dummy lines to say (JEJ did the voice-over later, of course) and he couldn't hear a thing anyone was saying to him in that helmet.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 11th, 2001 02:28 AM |
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Gundark
Mayhem
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Poor man. That seems so unfair.
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May 11th, 2001 03:02 AM |
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Ushgarak
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Still, he was great. Now if only they can work out what is wrong with him...
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 11th, 2001 03:05 AM |
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queeq
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Yes, the disease is strange.
I never liked his claims that he WAS Darth Vader. I mean, Vader is an actor, a suit and a voice: three different elements. He always made it seem as if his part was irreplacable. That never seemed right to me.
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May 11th, 2001 12:37 PM |
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Ushgarak
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He waas a tad bitter of course. Like I say, he got the raw end of the deal.
In an ODD way now, it'd be great if he could play Vader again at the tail end of Episode III...
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"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 11th, 2001 10:18 PM |
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queeq
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I kinda like to see a suited Vader but much more agile than the one we know from the OT. doubt if he could pull that off.
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May 14th, 2001 11:32 PM |
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Ushgarak
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Of course. I meant a post-crippled Vader.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 14th, 2001 11:42 PM |
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queeq
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Why do you feel he got the raw end of the deal? He played Vader a couple of times, he doesn't need to know everything about the script or the story. His job is to walk around in the suit, he got payed for that and that's what he did.
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May 14th, 2001 11:56 PM |
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Ushgarak
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Don't you think he got a tad TOO forgotten?
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"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 14th, 2001 11:58 PM |
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queeq
Chaos
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No. His job was pretty clear, why would he be forgotten. Harrison Ford didn't know about the plot, neither did Carrie Fisher. Only a few people did. What else should he have done. Not the right voice, not the right face for old Anakin. What? He just had to walk in a suit.... and he did that.
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May 15th, 2001 12:19 AM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
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Yeah... but even so... he played Vader!
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 15th, 2001 12:25 AM |
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queeq
Chaos
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Well, HALF of Vader at the most.
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May 15th, 2001 12:45 AM |
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Ushgarak
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True... and everyone loves JEJ... ok, so the Jonesmeister probably contributed more, and Prowsey boy desevred more, i feel.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 15th, 2001 12:50 AM |
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Gundark
Mayhem
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I don't think they should have given him dummy lines. They didn't give Mark dummy lines.
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May 15th, 2001 01:24 AM |
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Ushgarak
Paladin
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Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK Co-Admin |
That's security for you.
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"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
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May 15th, 2001 01:30 AM |
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queeq
Chaos
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I see absolutely no problem in the dummy lines. Vader being Luke's father was like THE big revelation of ESB. And Prowse is no the author of either SW or Vader, GL has every right do make him say dummy lines. Heck, actors don't always need to know every detail or how a scene works. Especially when you want to keep things secret about the film.
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