Yeah, well, I actually prefer Revill’s Palpatine over McDiarmid’s, so …
Dude has like 3 lines and the delivery sounds like some kind of Japanese saturday morning cartoon overdub.
To me, Revill’s deliver has a nice, rich timbre to it – regal, imposing, yet almost fatherly. A rather fitting perfomance, I have to say, for a galactic emperor with a Sith Lord in his thrall.
Come on. Ian McDiarmid is a world class actor of the stage and his performance carried the best parts of both ROTJ and the prequels. Now granted, McDiarmid in this scene kind of phoned his lines in, so if you’re only talking about that in particular, well, OK, I guess. Still think he’s far better, but whatever. But better than his entire performance? Give me a break.
I never said Revill’s performance is better than McDiarmid’s, I said that I preferred Revill’s over McDiarmid’s. Significant difference.
Your nostalgia goggles are so enormous I can see them from here.
You presume too much.
Just FYI, I, too, used to prefer McDiarmid’s Palpatine, but as with almost all things, my tastes have changed over the years.
I mean can you honestly imagine if McDiarmid had been there from the beginning and then for the Special Edition Lucas replaced him with an old woman in a chimpanzee mask voiced by a completely different guy? It would top Greedo shooting, CGI Jabba, Jedi Rocks, and Hayden ghost as the most ridiculous, bizarre, widely mocked and hated change of all. Let’s not kid ourselves here.
Well, that’s a perfectly ludicrous scenario.
How about this sceario instead: What if McDiarmid had never played Palpatine in ROTJ? What if Revill had been the one and only actor to play the character in the OT? What if Revill was replaced in the SE only after McDiarmid was cast to play Palpatine in the PT? Would you then welcome the revision?
Oh yeah, and Revill is a world class actor too.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720890/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Exactly!