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.
Way to go Mark! Real classy character you got there! Too bad you can't get a good job with it. I'd fire you in a NY minute no matter what the job was. Well, I take that back, maybe Scott Presler could straighten out your sorry-*ss self.
Well, this vanity is certainly news.
Because vanities are news. Yeah baby.
They go a bit far when they say he has little talent and has coasted on Star Wars. He has had a successful career as a voice actor and is considered by many to be the definitive Joker. But, that doesn’t erase the fact that he’s a grade A a-hole and has been for as long as I can remember. He was spouting his leftist crap back in the ‘90s.
LOL. Didn’t realize you were the author.
Reading your vile and bitter posts are worse than the vanities.
Anything for another 15 minute fame fix. So sad.
Mark Hamill? Was he married to Dorothy?
*BA-DUM-DUM*
Ripping off trash from the internet makes one an author?
And then posting the stolen trash as "news" makes it news?
Special.
May the farce be with you, Luke.
Mark still gets mad when he thinks of how famous Harrison Ford became over the years. Sorry Mark. Some folks have appeal and others just wish they did.
Mark Hamill has shown he’s the typical hate-filled Hollywood Democrat.
They can’t help themselves.
Don't read 'em then.
Bonehead.
WHO is Mark Hamill? Is he the D-List has-been from the 70’s-80’s. #NOREALCAREER
There were plenty of voice actors that could best him, seriously. Having to fall back on voice gigs tells you where he was in the HW pecking order.
His voice gigs were not cast because of superior talent, they were because he was a SAG member with a known name. Other better talented voice actors were passed over.
Damn it, and he’s such a good voice actor for Joker too.
Remember when this bum tried to pressure his son’s girlfriend to get an abortion?
He got a break when he, a 3rd-rate actor coming off stints like playing a druggie teen on The Streets of San Francisco, somehow lucked into being cast in a (relatively) low-budget flick that turned into a blockbuster. He apparently signed on for 0.25% of the gross, which turned into a hell of a lot of $$$, though nowhere near Alec Guinness’ 2.25%. Poor James Earl Jones unwisely rejected points in favor of the princely sum of $7,000.
That’s my advice to you w/r to your crusade to harass posters.... stop reading the content you don’t like. Try it yourself.
Well said.
Not a surprise, Commies are what commies are, despicable lil vermin through and through..they have so much hate in their black souls they cant see how truly disgusting they are
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