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- #1030337
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- Rogue One * <em>Spoilers</em> * Thread
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I would disagree that Tarkin shows any anger in ANH. Unlike Vader, who is pretty much calm throughout OT, Tarkin does raise his vice here and there. However, I would not call it anger. He seems to be on top of things all the time. He does seem to be annoyed sometimes though, e.g. “she lied to us!”.
Yes, I agree, it’s more annoyment than anger; however, I find a big difference between the range of emotions his human self expresses in ANH and what they have him be in RO.
What I was trying to emphasize is that this being a problem that has to do with the way the lines sound/are delivered as well, it can’t be charged on the CGI but on the very way the character is written, or acted, or directed.
EDIT: There is only one moment I remember from RO when he does something more natural, which is a gesture with his face while saying “rebellion” (if I remember right), a sort of “that will do” assertion.
If you look at the behind-the-scenes footage of Henry as Tarkin, he appears very… dead-eyed. And aloof. And, weirdly, in that one transition shot from the real Henry to Tarkin, it looked like the animators injected the character with more emotion (in this case, anger) than what Henry was providing. (This seems to be a bad habit of Henry’s; he gave an even-more sedated and dead-eyed performance as Pius Thicknesse in “Harry Potter”.)
Incidentally, Yavin could’ve used a bit of General Willard, seeing as he’s nowhere to be found in what we see – and, frankly, the old subordinate who informs Tarkin that Krennic is on Scarif would’ve been much better-suited as Willard, given a tan, hairpiece, and the proper vocal dub. He’d have been a dead ringer – an even-closer match than the rather poor Alex McCrindle substitute as Dodonna.
The fellow we briefly see aboard Leia’s ship as Captain Antilles thankfully looked a sight more like Peter Geddis than Rohan Nichol did back in 2005…