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Star Wars was relentlessly changed by George Lucas - for the worse in my opinion. Star Wars should have been changed to give James Earl Jones starring billing, instead of no credit at all.
That was his choice out of respect for Prowse.
I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…
R.I.P. Mr Abbott.
I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…
Star Wars was relentlessly changed by George Lucas - for the worse in my opinion. Star Wars should have been changed to give James Earl Jones starring billing, instead of no credit at all.
That was his choice out of respect for Prowse.
"Luke, Oi am yer faaarther".
A slightly less cliche fact about James Earl Jones: his film debut was Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove , where he plays the bombardier on the B-52[1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSbPqin3L6E
The famous B52 cockpit - From wikipedia: > Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52 and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state-of-the-art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off-limits…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, it's Sandlot . Relatively small part, but it was impactful for me as a kid.
We finished watching Sandlot yesterday with my kids for the first time. And then to hear this today.
I know everyone is talking about how he voiced Vader, but when I think of him, I think of Strangelove and Hunt for Red October. I didn't spend a lot of time in the fleet, but what I did was rather boring and/or annoying; the idea that something exciting would happen in the CIC is probably why I often think of the line "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I wa…