Her facial mobility reacting to Han wishing Lando good luck looked exceptionally «astounding» (if not indifferent). Now as for the third image, according to the script «Leia, startled, looks up at Han, surprise changing to admiration». Is this how she could bore «suprise changing to admiration»? She thought of ROTJ as of the weakest installment. Ok, but had you personally done all that was humanly possible not to make it look in your eyes as «the weakest»? What was that? Had you just doped that moment? Who was to blame - Richard Marquand or you?
Concidering Harrison, he’s been my fav since SW and I saw nearly all of his movies but the more I learn about his attitude to SW the more I feel really disappointed about him as a person: it shows up him being too arrogant and getting ill with superiority complex. There’s so much said on the subject that I feel no need to go through it, however strange that he called Han Solo «a thin character» while (1) he showed such a passion about him when filming Empire (2) he didn’t call Indy the same and, frankly, taking into account adventurous nature of both and as well as resemblance between them what was so shockingly «profound» about Indiana Jones? I guess it was the fact that Ford was the single main star in Indiana and Blade Runner. He desperately wanted Han Solo to die but he didn’t expressed the same wish about Indy. He complained about how Lucas was predisposed to happy endings, but has he ever been concerned about too happy endings of Indiana films? And as far as I know the majority of his movies do have happy endings (with a few exceptions). That’s what happens with human psychology: when he/she is being praised excessively, he/she looses some basic human virtues such as simplicity, open-heartedness etc hence why Harrison «didn’t take» at Richard because, you know, «he’s a star» (sarcasm intended) and Richard was closer to him on an age scale unlike Kersh plus less acknowledged.
I read and heared whimper so many times that Jedi «sucks» because «Ford is on autopilot», «weak line of Han and Leia». Now, to be clear, I disagree with that completely. Even if Ford indeed was «on autopilot» that in no way hurt my perception of the movie. I like how Han/Leia stuff was treated: I think the climax of their story had already been placed in Empire and after the Kiss it became obvious that their intense feuds was over and their relations getting warmer and warmer (more mature to put it in other words). So all that could be needed to tell us about them was told in ESB. Some comments and reviews I’ve come across call their part in ROTJ «passive» but in my opinion it was perfect for two reasons: (1) the focus of the SW trilogy was and had to be on Luke’s story and even more so it had to be in the final installment (2) to have them behaving in ROTJ exactly like in the previous two along the established stereotype a la «Rhett Butler - Scarlett O’Hara» would look inconsistent with the emotional experience they had gone through before: characters should evolve not to stick to the same sort of thing. Carrie herself got tired of «a space bitch image» and asked for more feminine elements. So, regardless of Harrison’s tired mood the streamline from «love/hate» to «loving couple» was proceeded wonderfully going a long way from this through this
to this
. Besides, the novelization of Jedi reads that lodging in carbon had consequences to his state of mind: it forced him to rethink his priorities and reject his mercenary instincts after he realized that other people were ready to die for him. And the Han Solo of Jedi didn’t look like «nincompoop» for me, several scenes like those when they meet the ewoks, and his «conversation» with Threepio after «the bedtime story» as well as his actions during the battle still showed his roguishness but that of other sort. And Han Solo-the leader of Alliance Commandos - isn’t it cool? What I noticed, however, about Ford’s delivery of his «thin» character that stroked me, was he looked like an idiot trying to express his dumfound reaction the moment they were captured by the Ewoks and the one after the Imperials ran out from the bunker. Who told him to utilize such a mimic? I thought a lot and all of sudden I had a hunch! INDIANA JONES?! Please, confirm or deny this, since I warched Indy original trilogy 10 years ago but did he used this kind of facial expression there? If yes then he introduced some Indy features to the character of Solo and merged them into one. Not that wise. Now, speaking of responsibility of Lucas and Kasdan (not speaking of Marquand) them diminishing Harrison’s character how about this: «Harrison used to say, ‘Give me as few lines as possible; I don’t want any lines’. He was never the one to say, ‘I want my part to be bigger’»(Lucas)? This answers it all. Well, now our Mister Big Star got bothered with the whole franchise. Perhaps, because of «thin» Han Solo and «thick» Indiana Jones. And look, I understand you were finished but could you at least prove your professional qualification by getting rid of such creepy mimic? Also thank you, Harrison and Alec, for calling my childhood piece of shit, being filled with a handful of «childish banalities» etc.