Posted on 10/01/2019 1:37:35 PM PDT by Hostage
Mark Hamill was awfully lucky to be cast in the 1970s as Luke Skywalker. He never really had great acting talent. He was not well-liked nor was he disliked. Why he was chosen is really about youthful boyish looks and low budget bookings, as well as his blond hair, and a tenor voice that could read lines with the right inflection. But there were many others that could do the same but the film industry was in the crap house and there weren't many choices on the meager budget for the first Starwars episode.
Lucas was not established when he did his first Starwars film. He was barely funded, and most of the scene in Hollywood studio lots was of chain link fences closing off access as the industry was taking a dive.
Lucas and Spielberg went to film school together at USC and they were regarded as long haired oddballs with sci-fi ideas. Studio executives looked at them as B-rated film producers begging for anything they could get their hands on.
So Lucas's casting director chose Hamill and Hamill was made famous because the Starwars brand came just at the right time with the reruns of the late 1960s cancelled Startrek TV series brought back with never seen before popularity. After the amazing Moon landings, the country was ripe for escape with sagas of exploring the universe.
Lucas and Hamill just happened to be in right genre at the right time.
Since his success with Starwars, Hamill has fallen flat because as he aged he had no real acting talent to fall back on and his name would only be considered for roles based on nostalgia, not on marketability, not on being the right fit.
So he drifted and has evolved into a first class Hollywood punk.
Kids across the country still are swept up with the original Starwars magic and its stories. The sci-fi fairytale has universal staying power like the 1934 Wizard of Oz. The original Starwars trilogy will always be popular with kids and young people until augmented reality producers recapture it with the latest and greatest technology.
So it's not surprising to see a child don a stormtrooper costume and stomp around proclaiming "The Force be with you!".
But when it's Ivanka Trump's 3-year old on display in the Twitterverse enjoying the fantasy of Starwars, it draws out today's bile of frustrated Hollywood wannabes and has-beens as an opportunity to flush out the constipated brown matter taking up space between their ears.
Gentle corrections:
1. Both “Star Wars” and “Star Trek” are two words, not one.
2. The Star Trek movie actually disappointed at the box office. That was why Star Trek II changed the uniforms and pacing, and was much more like a long version of the TV series, which is what people really wanted. It also went for a PG rating, while “Star Trek: The Movie” was rated G (despite some adult thematic content). Word was the Star Wars might have been rated G, but Lucas wanted a PG so it wouldn’t be branded as a “kiddie” movie. Until Star Trek the Movie, it wasn’t altogether clear that “G” implied “kiddie movie”.
3. “The Wizard of Oz is 1939”, not 1934.
4. There’s no shortage of untalented actors getting leading roles. Hamill’s career was hurt when he got in a serious car accident that rearranged his face. They barely got him put back together again in time for Empire Strikes back, but other than one movie “Corvette Summer”, he sort of missed his opportunity in part because of the accident.
Would I come out of (what at least seems like) retirement to make such an idiotic attack on a family and their three year old kid? Ah... no.
The Left has no class, no brains, and no ability to think for themselves. They accuse us of all listening to Rush Limbaugh to get our marching orders. Most of us may listen to him once a week, once a month, once a quarter... hardly ever.
We do think for ourselves. No, this little three year old wasn’t making a political statement, unless you’re a washed up has-been, trying to read something into an innocent Star Wars themed light hearted comment, chasing a shot at a trending home run.
FAIL
Luke, I am not your father. Shut the _ up anyway.
Presumably it’s the only way the could get noticed, otherwise, they can’t even get a job at Walmart.
Of the original stars of SW Mark seemed to be the most enthusiastic about it. He wasn’t far from being a teenager at the time and that was the target audience for the Star Wars saga. Carrie and Harrison looked upon the creation with a more jaundiced eye. It has been noted that SW has a leftist slant but its not heavy handed. The Empire has two earthly references...Nazis through the use of the term Stormtroopers and ancient Rome with a senate/emperor/and the former old republic.
The fact is it was a Hollywood production and for the most part a leftist creation and Lucas, Carrie, Harrison and Mark are or were left wing nutjobs. One could have hoped Mark would have become a classy type like Alec Guinness but alas he has simply become a worse and worse leftwing turd. Carrie is dead. Harrison keeps crashing his planes and Lucas is counting his billions. I on the other hand won’t be going to see the next one of Kathleen Kennedy’s SJW SWs.
This is what it must have been like living in Salem Massachusetts when the witch trials were going hot & heavy.
“Corvette Summer.”
Need I say more?
For he walks the internet wastelands, searching for things he deems to be misdirected blog posts . . .
USC had the Annenberg school as an informal school open to the unenrolled. I seem to remember Lucas and Spielberg meeting there and studying film together.
Spielberg had a hit with jaws before he scored the big sci-fi success with ET.
But there is no question film studios were in shutdown mode when Lucas was trying to get backing for Starwars.
Jones probably could have gotten 5%.
I see Starwars spelled both ways. Thanks for the other cirrections. I don’t think the point was lost in the 1934 v 1939 mistake.
Goood. Let the hate flow through you, boy. Your journey to the dark side is complete.
What he did to Indiana Jones in "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is pretty unforgivable.
Ah, a quest to end the scourge of the walking blog dead. Unfortunately, they are deaf, dumb and immune. We the living absorb the fall out.
Corvette Summer had one ugly corvette.
[“Corvette Summer.”]
I’ve never seen it. Just what they did to that poor Corvette made no sense to me.
Someday I’ll have to try to sit through it. Maybe.
I remember seeing it on a movie of the week as a yute.
It’s not awful but it ain’t great either. Just so so and mostly forgettable. It also starred Annie Potts before Designing Women so there is that I guess. In looking over the cast I see Danny Bonaduce had some bit part in it too but I’ve forgotten most of it since I saw it probably on tv some time in the 1980s. If you’re stuck on some desert island and its the only movie available then sure but otherwise pass.
Hamill should know never go off about a kid like that. It only hurts you and your reputation.
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