Category: *Seriously
Alec Guinness famously disliked Star Wars script. I don’t blame him but George is at number 16 on the best screenwriters list and I am not surprised. After all I am a full grown adult living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities
The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time – and George is at number 16.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/100-greatest-screenwriters-of-all-time-ranked.html
and a lot of people complain about George and maybe his story had the wrong words but its heart was in the right place. Just like words in real life – sometimes we are awkward, and wrong.
sorry stole the below story from here
http://www.pajiba.com/seriously_random_lists/7-actors-who-hated-their-actually-pretty-good-movies.php
Alec Guinness
Guinness’ hatred of Star Wars is legendary. In a letter written to a friend before he accepted the role, he noted that he might say yes if the money was right, though he also called it “fairy-tale rubbish” that “could be interesting perhaps.” In another letter written during production, he expressed dismay over the script (“new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper”) and complisulted Harrison Ford, whom he called “a rangy, languid young man who is probably intelligent and amusing. But Oh God, God, they [Ford and Mark Hamill] make me feel ninety—and treat me as if I was 106.” In a diary entry from 1976, he says that “apart from the money, which would get me comfortably through the year, I regret having embarked on the film. I like them all well enough, but it’s not an acting job, the dialogue, which is lamentable, keeps being changed and only slightly improved, and I find myself old and out of touch with the young.”
In his memoir A Positively Final Appearance, he said he “shrivel[ls] inside each time [Star Wars] is mentioned.” He also told the story of how he made a 12-year-old fan cry when he asked whether, in exchange for an autograph, he would promise to never watch Star Wars again. Guinness recalls: “His mother drew himself up to an immense height. ‘What a dreadful thing to say to a child!’ she barked, and dragged the poor kid away. Maybe she was right but I just hope the lad, now in his thirties, is not living in a fantasy world of secondhand, childish banalities.”
If you are curious about the letter from the set – read below.
The letter etc:
Smile Machine, or Face Machine or Electroface
Starry Night
