NullGrey writes
"Salon.com has a hilarious article that is supposedly a letter to George Lucas by a young actor who would like to play Anakin in SW2. " This is one of the funniest things I've read in a long time (or maybe its just because my fever broke and I'm in a great mood)
Catch22 (Score:1)
Give it to him! (Score:1)
from an onion author (Score:2)
anything's better than jake lloyd (Score:1)
Anakin wannabe! (Score:2)
But seriously, I hope Mr. Lucas picks the best actor possible, EP1 was a dissapointment to me, I hope EP2 won't be
-Dextius Alphaeus
My Video... (Score:5)
As soon as Jar Jar steps out for his first scene and starts uttering "Meesa Jar Jar...", a meteorite comes crashing down on his bloated, snot-green head. From that point on, his presence and voice will be completely edited and brushed away. Yeah, it will be a little weird when anakin or someone utters, "That Jar Jar, he sure is a rascal" while staring off into empty space... but hey, it is the memory right!?
I then ditribute this copy without ever getting caught. Who wants one?
Tough luck... (Score:3)
Nevermind that we'd never really sell liking Jar Jar, or that we'd push for some more explicit love scenes with Miss Portman... (Not to mention giggling irresistibly at the sight of Segfault's favourite part of Portman's anatomy...) We would, like Ewan McGregor before us, make whooshing sounds when wielding our lightsabres, and actually carry the cardboard prop like it were a dangerous weapon.
The thing that would probably outcast us the very moment we step on set is the drool, and the muttering of repetitive 'I am Darth Vader. Hot damn! I am Darth Vader.'
So, forget it. Whoever they'll pick, he'll come out of some dark cave in Siberia, and won't even know who Darth Vader is until he reads the script for Ep. 3 and demands that Lucas rewrites the part where he falls for the Dark Side.
Life is full of cruelties.
"The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays."
Re:I must be from another planet but... (Score:1)
Dissenting Views (Score:2)
I with you on this, Infojack. These prequels are over-hyped and over-commercialised. I'd rather see Lucas exercise his considerable talents on something truly creative (like The Matrix) rather than warming over this old pot-boiler. Yet again.
(BTW, Infojack, I am *genuinely* impressed by your Karma of -29! That's some going. Do you post at -1 by default? Has anyone a more negative Karma?)
Regards, Ralph.
This guy read my mind. (Score:4)
1. I have seen all four Star Wars movies. (Took me a while to get around to Empire)
2. I am easily swayed to the dark side. It happens all the time.
3. I can choke people with my mind. Ok, not really, but I can tickle their throats . . . did you feel that? I bet you did.
Trust me, George, the Force is strong in this one. Where do I sign up?
Re:My Video... (Score:2)
http://www.hecklers.com/jarjartorture/index.htm
I promise it will not dissapoint you.
Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get 'im! (Score:4)
Why does every would-be satirist from Salon think he's got a fresh spin on ridiculing George Lucas' marketing? Ever since the Phantom Menace hype, critics and fans alike seem to have flushed their collective IQs down the toilet in the mad rush to rediscover their own friggin' childhoods. This just in! Star Wars still just a kid's movie! Kids like Burger King meals! Kids like action figures! Kids probably even like those freaky-assed Jar Jar lollipops with the tongue that shoots out, but I'd wager they like it for entirely different reasons than adults do, if you get my drift.
I sometimes wonder if half the Phantom Menace backlash wasn't just from disillusioned twenty-somethings hoping to get fellated by the Messiah during Phantom Menace, but instead from weary, sleep-deprived parents who just couldn't take any more "Mom mom mom Darth Maul mom!"
What I'll never understand is the utter resentment people have for George Lucas marketing his own movie. He doesn't work through a studio! That's his own cash he's putting up for the flick! (Well, okay, technically it's probably yours, but he made the movie, you bought the ticket. You've only got yourself to blame.) Maybe you'd rather he went to Paramount and used their dough? Then they could have focus groups! That'd make a better movie! Look what it did for Armageddon!
But, really, how dare George Lucas make a profit. He should make Star Wars for charity! After all, the warm, forgiving, loving praise he receives from the fans should be reward enough for any filmmaker... yeah, right. When you have a few million to throw around, you can make the movie the way you want, too. Not the way the comic-shop employee down the street thinks you should make it.
And yeah, no one likes Jar Jar Binks, either, it hardly takes William Safire to point that out. Jar Jar Binks jokes are kind of like "Talk to the Hand" -- of note only for their outdated-ness. Speaking of which -- what's with the Andy Dick joke slapped on the end? Someone late for a deadline?
Blah. Phantom Menace didn't knock my socks off, either, but this article was god-awful stupid.
ME ME ME ME(Shameless self-promoting plug) (Score:1)
There is NO OTHER PERSON ON THE PLANET who is more prepared to do this than I am.
LK
Re:My Video... (Score:2)
ie all you see is:
RE: First Post!!!
Get a life, loser!
There's an idea - mabye we can add moderation to the digital version and we can moderate JarJar below our threshold!
Meesa JarJar Binks! (Score: -5 Unfunny, Offtopic, Pointless, Offensive, SPAM)
=tkk
Have you meta-moderated Lucas today?
Humm... (Score:1)
Heh (Score:1)
Please E-Mail me that article (Score:1)
My company firewall stops me from viewing that page
The perfect candidate (Score:5)
We're in the middle of doing it again, it seems. Microsoft is being pulled down. Linux is in a good position to change it, but who knows how it'll fall out, specifically? IBM turns into General Electric, Microsoft crashes like IBM, and Red Hat turns into Redmond Hat? Could be, could be.
So let's take a look. We need someone emblematic of that sort of Brave New World to play 19-year-old Anakin. He's got to be youthful, presentable, dynamic, fiercely intelligent, someone people will sit up and pay attention to.
I nominate Linus Torvalds.
Here are his qualifications:
1) He's well-spoken. Sure, he has a slight accent. But Anakin's mother had an accent. The actress was very worried about this but Lucas told her not to worry: "You're from the European part of the planet."
2) He's from Finland. Anybody seen Finland? He qualifies for work on the ice planet Hoth better than anybody else I can think of.
3) He could fix R2D2.
4) He could out-talk C3PO.
5) If anybody's been tempted by circumstance to go Darth Vader, it's him. ""
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:2)
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/1999/06
http://www.kithrup.com/brin/starwars.html
Re:I must be from another planet but... (Score:1)
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:2)
one thing wrong (Score:2)
Re:Anakin wannabe! (Score:1)
How ya doin' buddy?
-Kevin
Re:My Video... (Score:1)
Boy, for a moment there, I thought you'd gotten a sneak peek at the Episode II screenplay. Given the Tex Avery antics of Episode I, a scene like this would not entirely surprise me (unfortunately).
Re:one thing wrong (Score:2)
Re:Give it to him! (Score:1)
>funny- too bad he is dead
Rent "Spaceballs" sometime. Not a flame, just a friendly suggestion.
-- G
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
He has no contract which would force him to do this, and he's not dishonest for doing what he did, but it wasn't very considerate of his fans.
He could have made a similar movie to the one he did without 'selling out' by writing a standalone movie and making it clear that it wasn't part of the SW universe that the fans have, by now, via feedback to authors of novels, etc, helped shape almost as much as Lucas himself.
I don't see him as a great evil or anything. But, if I ever was a SW fan, I wouldn't be now.
Re:This guy read my mind. (Score:1)
Yes, and you've been doing that to me all weekend. I am not amused. Enough's enough! Stop it!
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:2)
Contrast this to Star Wars which basically says everything is hopeless and the only chance for salvation is through nobility and dictatorship of one form or another. Outcomes are determined by chance, luck, or fate, but not due to any qualities of humanity.
As long as it's not Leo... (Score:2)
By the way, the cover version of "My Heart Will Go On" by "Good Enough" is much better, IMHO.
I'd be in favor of giving the Onion guy the part, but I don't want him going off on some diatribe halfway through the movie about how young podracers didn't make enough cash to make ends meet and how he'd have to sell his body for food if he didn't get more sex scenes with Natalie Portman.
This is a bit off-kilter too, but since we're talking about sequels, how about Tron2K. The MCP will be the Y2K Bug, and Bill Gates will play Bill Gates. If there are any Hollywood execs out there, I got a script!
Ahhh! (Score:1)
You bastards!
Make me laugh ya buggers (Score:1)
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
Lucas, however, is the one using his own money, sticking to principles, and telling both Hollyweird and the politicians to put it where the sun don't shine. Preachy? Perhaps. These days the sheeple could use a little preachy, IMNSHO, and I can think of about two people who have the talent to do it right.
The other dude's name is Straczinsky.... but that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
We are Grey. We stand between the Candle, and the Star.
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
Nyet. A creator owes you nothing after you've seen the movie, regardless of the creator's motive.
If you bought the plastic crap, or went to see, you made a conscious choice to do so, and you did so without expecting to be treated like royalty.
And let's be honest. No fan base ever deserves to be treated like royalty, regardless of what they're fans of. The price of admission is what you pay, and the value of the entertainment/product is all that you are owed.
Deal with it.
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
You could say the exact same thing about the Indiana Jones series, another franchise of Lucas' (and Spielberg's). Indiana Jones, when you get right down to it, is a pretty seedy character. In the course of the movies, he punches out a cigarette girl, sticks a club singer with a pair of tongs, shoots a sword-wielding Sherpa from a couple yards away, etc. Not exactly the most noble hero on the planet. And, yes, fate, luck, and chance play a huge part in Indiana Jones' sucess... much as they do in any "pulp adventure" story, which Star Wars certainly is.
To grouse about whether such admittely preposterous pulp-adventure constructs as The Swashbuckling Archaeologist or the Jedi Knight "make sense" or "send the wrong message" suffers from too close an analysis of a very simple, adolescent genre that neither deserves nor merits such an intellectual dissection. I found Brin's article to be pointless and vaguely insulting for just this reason.
It's just space opera. It's just pulp adventure. Analyzing kid's movies for grim and sublimated notions of tyranny on the part of the filmmaker not only wastes time, but (to me at least) represents a certain intellectual cowardice for not analyzing movies that might truly stand up to such a critique (though such films get harder to come by these days). Star Wars, as far as I'm concerned, does not. It's just not that complicated a movie.
young anakin (Score:2)
i'd ruin my whole life and career and be in geo. lucas' movie for a chance to be in the same room with queen amidala. mmmmmm.
the coast guard has my ass on monday. woohoo.
DVD and hillarity. (Score:1)
If he was so great and not a Hollywood sellout, then why the near billion dollar campaigns by Lucas-Pepsi-KFC-Pizza Hut (the last three are all the same company).
If his movies and his companies are so great, then WHY THE FRIGGING HECK is Lucasfilm dragging its feet on DVD? I have yet to see a Lucas movie on DVD anywhere. If you say copy protection, a faint possibility, but he released on Laserdisc, a medium with absolutely zero copy protection to VHS. The VHS copy protection that he and the rest of the free world uses was easier to defeat than CSS.
FYI (Score:2)
--
"Some people say that I proved if you get a C average, you can end up being successful in life."
Funny, But too close to home.. (Score:1)
Is it just me or does the part of Akin sound more like Hell then a future. Forever living in the shadow of Star Wars.
Living my life as a 19 year old failure that doesn't do anything more with his life then sit at a computer screen and type up posts on Slashdot would be better then being Akin for the rest of my life.
Instant stardom has it pitfalls. That's why famous stuff should be left to people who are famous like Leonrado DiCaprio. Really we all know that he would be best for the part. His life is already ruined.
But...
I could possibly overcome the shadow of starwars. Later in life be able to do something with my life other then being Akin. Ok George. Here's my web page: http://www.netexpress.net/~sxni/. I would be perfect for the role. It would be awesome, the wonderful power of saying I was Akin. Forever being placed in the societies mind.
So George just give me a call whenever.
Thanks the completely wrong mentality (Score:1)
So, go ahead... remind him that he can't write or direct. Laugh your butt off when he starts pontificating about "the power of myth." Write long articles in magazines describing him as the hack that he is. You would not be doing your job as a consumer if you didn't.
(and, to you guys who feel the need to quote from David Brin, Gene Roddenberry was hung up on juvenilistic utopian views of the future where technology would solve all of our problems as long as we went along with The Party... uh, I mean "Federation")
-Dean
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
His fan base supported him when he didn't do anything, based on the quality of his old work. If he had made a movie for them, they'd have stayed loyal, still buying the novels, collectible plastic crap, etc. But he went for the fast buck. He didn't try to make an intelligent movie with a deep plot, as well as the action adventure. He just threw in a bunch of stuff based on how well it would look in an injection mold, or painted on a plastic cup.
Deal with it.
You know, you're a jerk. You're taking out your frustrations on other people for no reason. Life isn't an Ayn Rand novel and there is no need to step all over people and act like a prick to get ahead.
Me me me... (Score:3)
I want to be in Episode 2, but near as I can figure, Anakin is the only opening...
Hmm... Well, I *am* female, but maybe this isn't a Bad Thing... Just think of all the extra times guys will come to see Episode 2 for the lesbian action. I even have short hair. And I can fence. Hey, this is looking better all the time. I mean, I'm not a lesbian right now, but that could be negotiable if that's what it'll take to be in Star Wars.
Come on. THINK of the possibilities. And for those parents that might complain, you can write my being female off as a kindof Mary Martin as Peter Pan [imdb.com] kindof deal. If that's not wholesome family entertainment, I don't know what is...
Just think about it... That's all I'm asking.
Even the continents drift - George F. Will
Re:Funny, But too close to home.. (Score:1)
You're inability to properly name the character for which you are vying might slightly detract from your plea for the position. Better luck next time. *grin*
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
Contrast this to Star Wars which basically says everything is hopeless and the only chance for salvation is through nobility and dictatorship of one form or another. Outcomes are determined by chance, luck, or fate, but not due to any qualities of humanity.
You're just jealous of Jar Jar's long tongue :) Your racial pedudice prevents you from recognizing his qualities of Gunganity. The way he sticks with the Jedi, his concern that the Naboo people might really die.... Oh, and I'm sure, deep down inside, you'd really like to be a general too.
Just get over it :)
sklein
I heard Leonardo Dicaprio was in SW 2 (Score:1)
Re:one thing wrong (Score:2)
Or, they could have just moved to a different state - I seem to recall the lowest age of consent in the US is 14, but I can't remember what state that is. I'm pretty sure that it is 16 in Michigan (I think you might have to be within 5 years of age as well).
Re:Catch22 (Score:1)
I'm an actor (I did the national/mexico tour of tommy '95-'96 and the brasil tour '96 with big league theatricals, I also did several ovaltine radio commercials and I was going to be in a movie, but I couldn't because of the tour...) and made callbacks (for those of you not in the theatre business, it means you're being pretty seriously considered for the part - less than 20 or so people out of hundreds who audition usually make callbacks) There's a chance I would've been Anakin, but no, he had to put it off for a few years - by the time he was auditioning people again, I was too old!
But then again, after seeing Jar-jar binks, I think I might've not enjoyed being in SW1 as much as I would sans Jar-jar. (In other words, I thought he sucked ;-)
Re:Funny, But too close to home.. (Score:1)
Extravaganza (Score:1)
Re:one thing wrong (Score:1)
Would a hard-core fan really want to play Anakin? (Score:1)
Get on with it (Score:1)
I love star wars as much as the next guy. I bought a darth mual saber first chance I got. I saw the movie opening day (with a real girl too).
I tired of hearing about who the next vader player is. I say wait a year and the just let lucus leek it out to the world.
For all we know Vader well be played by Tommy Lee. (Think of the light saber jokes!)
Re:ME ME ME ME(Shameless self-promoting plug) (Score:1)
(Yes, I'm being an a**hole, but I'm in a bitter mood at the moment...so sue me)
If no-one sent you the article... (Score:1)
Who am I?
Why am here?
Where is the chocolate?
Re:ME ME ME ME(Shameless self-promoting plug) (Score:2)
I'm the BEST prepared actor for the part.
LK
Re:Funny, But too close to home.. (Score:1)
That may have cost you the part as well, since a 19-year-old Anakin will presumably have been taught proper English, which we all know is the official language of the Galaxy. Except the Trade Federation, which is Japanese.
Meta-correction!! Woo hoo!
_____
Thoughtcrime! Thoughtcrime! (Score:1)
So sue me - I was sexually attracted to her long before that.
From reading the above, anyone would think that it would be thoughtcrime to harbour attraction towards anyone under the age of eighteen. Oh, wait a minute, it is....
Re:Me me me... (Score:1)
Well, I *am* female...I even have short hair. And I can fence...I'm not a lesbian right now...
So, how many proposals have you had from regular slashdotters after the above post?Re:I must be from another planet but... (Score:1)
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:1)
On a side note, I actually give taco bell points for the dog, it's amazing how it's grown from just one "Yo quiero taco bell" commercial. We have only the public to blame for the fact that it's now used way too much..
Re:Extravaganza (Score:1)
www.ageofconsent.com (Score:1)
Yes, I am embarassed to know that this site actually exists.
Re:Thoughtcrime! Thoughtcrime! (Score:1)
Re:Dissenting Views (Score:1)
Re:one thing wrong (Score:1)
I believe the state you're refering to is Georgia. In fact, I think the AOC used to be 13. Can anyone from Georgia confirm this?
I'm sorry. What I meant to say was 'please excuse me.'
what came out of my mouth was 'Move or I'll kill you!'
This Isn't News (Score:1)
careful now..... (Score:1)
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Oh (to) be one. (Score:1)
I even got greying beard....dammit!
Re:Me me me... (Score:1)
Female: automatically raises interest
She fences: Nothing sexier than a woman and steel
She is persuasive on the lesbian part: while lesbianism is bad, most my friends would love to be with two girls
-1: offtopic
The real reason *ANYONE* wants to be Anakin. (Score:1)
That's the whole reason. Soon as I have the money I'm planning on airing a 30 second commercial on the superbowl asking her to go out to coffee with me.
Most other guys just take the easy way and get casted in one of the most hyped movies in history.. slackers
Re:Dissenting Views (Score:1)
Well, I was making a comparison with Star Wars (which is basically The Hobbit plus flashing lights). I'm more a fan of Science Fiction than Science Fantasy so I prefer my "metaphysics" to be fairly "straightforward".
For example, if I ever found myself in a Universe where I meet a guy in a tank who can bend space with his mind to enable faster-than-light transport (as in Dune) then I think I am more likely to believe myself in a computer generated virtual reality (as in The Matrix) where such things could be made to appear possible. Occam's razor isn't it?
Regards, Ralph.
Re:The perfect candidate (Score:1)
"Sorry Obi-Wan, but my plans for world domination are more important than this jedi crap."
And if you listen closely to Vaders breathing you will also hear secret messages about the new class of star destroyers coming soon.
Re:Me me me... (Score:1)
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:2)
Re:Hey world! George Lucas uses advertising! Get ' (Score:2)
"Analyzing kid's movies..."
I don't think Star Wars was ever a kids movie. The Phantom Menace was marketed to kids only because they knew they could make a humongous profit on the merchandise and appeal. TPM, I think is a lot more directed at kids than the others ever were. Anyway, Lucas does have his own beliefs (one of which, from his own mouth, is apparently that democracy doesn't, and shouldn't work) and philosophies and he does inject these into the Star Wars saga. I can handle just watching them as pulp kiddie movies, but they still leave an unsettling aftertaste/thought.