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What if someone else had played Obi-Wan instead of Alec Guinness? — Page 2

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When did Guinness adjust for inflation? I thought he died before starwars made all the money it made in the nineties.


He's referring to the Guiness Book Of Records, Not Alec Guiness. Anyway, Sir Alec only died in the late nineties or perhaps even 2000. He hasn't been gone that long.


He passed away august 5th, 2000.


Oh, was it really just five and a half years ago? I figured it was in the early nineties.

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Yeah, that would be something to see. Also, I wish I lived in an alternate reality where Lucas didn't have a dispute with the Director's Guild and Spielberg directd ROTJ.


It would have been awesome if David Lynch had done ROTJ, but he did Dune instead. I think he would have been better off doing ROTJ, because it seems to me that everyone who didn't like Dune (the book) or didn't read it, didn't like the movie. Even he didn't like it...
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Yeah, that would be something to see. Also, I wish I lived in an alternate reality where Lucas didn't have a dispute with the Director's Guild and Spielberg directd ROTJ.


It would have been awesome if David Lynch had done ROTJ, but he did Dune instead. I think he would have been better off doing ROTJ, because it seems to me that everyone who didn't like Dune (the book) or didn't read it, didn't like the movie. Even he didn't like it...


If David Lynch had done ROTJ, it would be such a... weird movie. We would have John Hurt as Anakin, badly deformed behind his mask ("no luke am i not an animal, i am your father"). Luke would have weird psychedelic alucinations throughout the movie. It would be in black and white, mostly black, and there would be 10 minutes of dialogue in a 2 hour movie.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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And Yoda would talk backwards about Luke's sister, while holding a burning cat.

I wouldn't like to see the director of Eraserhead messing up with Star Wars... I mean I kinda like his movies, but he wouldn't be able to direct a Star Wars movie.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Actually, I would have welcomed a Lynch-directed ROTJ. When Lynch is a hired gun (as was the case with The Elephant Man and The Straight Story), he shows himself to be a very capable and talented director; the Lynch-isms we know and love him for come largely from his own personal works (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, etc.). I still believe there's a good movie hidden somewhere within Dune.

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And if David Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome, Rabid, 1986-The Fly) had directed, we probably would have heard Vader and Luke having a philosophical debate over "the flesh".

LUKE: "Father, you must re-embrace the flesh!"
VADER: "I have no further need for the flesh."

LUKE: "Father..."
VADER/ANAKIN: "Son... you were right about the flesh."
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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If Kubrick had directed it:

* It would be completed in 1987, if so.
* Most actors would quit in the middle of the shooting, Kubrick asking them to re-shoot the same scenes 100 times.
* Luke would go to the dark side, and kill himself afterwards.
* The death star battle would be very slow paced, with Lando getting out of the milenium falcom in a space suit and disabling the death star manually, in a 15 minute silent scene.
* The emperor would be played by Jack Nicholson.
* Long steadycam shots of paralel walls.
* Jabba talking in Nadsat ("Welly welly welly welly well, if it isn't my droog Luke Skywalker in poison!" - "Come on get one in the yarbles, Jabba!")
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering