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Post #166344

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ADigitalMan
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I wish Anakin and Padme had been played by......
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29-Dec-2005, 8:02 PM
I think that's very true. Liam, Ewan, Ian McD, Christopher Lee ... they all did quite well in spite of Lucas. Natalie, Jake and Hayden were all horribly wooden.

Thing is, Harrison Ford had the balls to say "You can type this, George, but you can't say it." So he improvised lines and worked some of the wordy crap down to what ultimately sold on screen. As I understand it, the "I Love You/I Know" from ESB was whittled down by Harrison and Carrie from a page and a half of typical Lucas dialogue. But in the Prequels, none of the actors said "You know, I think I'll use a contraction here where it doesn't have one so it'll roll of the tongue better." The result: "You are studying to be a Jedi, I am a Senator. If you follow your thoughts to conclusion they will take us to a place that we cannot go."

Find the damned apostrophe on a typewriter, George.