Sherry Chandler » 2005 » May » 19
After years and years of making fun of Mark Hamil as Luke Skywalker, here is my comeuppance! I am a bleeding heart liberal to my very core.
But at least Lance Mannion has an explanation for why he couldn’t act!
Where Lucas’ tin or cloth ear does the most harm is in his dialogue. He’s notoriously bad at giving his actors lines they can work with. In fact, his dialogue is so bad that it turns good actors into bad ones. They have to struggle so hard to make a speech sound like it makes sense that they have to forget about infusing it with anything like emotion or character.
The rest of the post is a disquisition on Lucas and Tolkien as linguists and mythographers, written in response to Anthony Lane’s review in The New Yorker. It’s all too intellectual for the things themselves but what fun in life if you can’t over-intellectualize pop culture? What point blogging for that matter?
If you take this particular quiz, you will get sick of the continuous looping of the theme – or maybe that’s just my own particular punishment for having raised two sons and thus having sat through countless replays.
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