Personally, I’ve always thought that Luke was strickley a Disney level badass. His entire ‘plan’ for the Jabba mission boils down to an idiot ball wrapped in plot armor.
Now, to be fair, I haven’t read any of the books, so if someone else wrote a story with a better plan that we didn’t see on screen, I don’t count it.
I think there is amble evidence that Luke does not really think through things. He just does whatever seems good at the time, or whatever his hallucination of Obi Wan Kenobi tells him to do, and even if you buy into the idea that all of that isn’t just a bad acid trip it is pretty clear that Kenobi is at best an unreliable source of information and suspect wisdom. In fact, I would lay strong odds on the Wookie actually having the highest intelligence scores of the bunch, but of course we don’t know because we can only infer his statements from others responses. I bet the all-Wookie conversation in The Star Wars Holiday Special was actually a deep metaphysical debate over the meaning of existence that would make Heidigger weep in jealousy.
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The Jabba Escape Plan really only makes sense if you assume Luke was able to use the Force to see the future.
Well, Luke Skywalker is essential Off-Brand Paul Atreides.
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Well Yoda said the future is hard to read because it’s always in motion, and Paul Atreides said there were too many swiftly compressed decisions in a fight for a clear path to show itself.
Ridiculous! What’s next? Ewoks are off-brand Fuzzies? Harry Potter is off-brand Earthsea?
It’s almost as if Luke spends the films always looking away - to the future, to the horizon. His mind never seems to be on where he was or what he was doing.
But he’s ready for anything/sarcasm voice.
Don’t give the anti-vaxxers ideas!
That is what I envied about those who control The Force. Ah, if life was always only that easy…
This made me laugh out loud.
Even Bob Falfa! Can’t drive a car without crashing.
Everybody knows that Ewoks are just Wookies who permanently shrunk in the wash.
Unbeknownst to all but the most dedicated cinophile, Harrison Ford and Chevy Chase have had a long if uncelebrated combination for film roles due to their similar build and acting styles. Chase beat out Ford for Oh Heavenly Dog after being trounced for the role of Han Solo for Star Wars (where the accidental fumble-shooting of Greedo was quickly rewritten as Solo ‘shooting first’), but Ford returned by clinching the lead in Raiders of the Lost Ark even though he was a third string favorite after Chase and then Tom Selleck.
The competition continued Deal of the Century with Ford tied up in scheduling conflicts with both Return of the Jedi and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and then Chase lost out on Witness (originally a National Lampoon property before Peter Weir took over and stripped out all of the wacky humor) and instead got stuck with European Vacation. The competition over Three Amigos was intense until Ford bowed out to make his passion project of the adaptation of Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast (originally a Vacation-franchise sequel).
Coming into the ‘Nineties, there were numerous vigorous challenges including Nothing But Trouble, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Cops and Robbersons, and Man of the House, the roles for which Chase won handily while it appeared that Ford’s star was on the decline, but clutching the eponymous role of the surprisingly successful The Fugitive propelled Ford back into the limelight, even though it was retooled from an obscure SNL skit that parodied the ‘Sixties television show to a more-or-less straight adaptation of the premise.
Since then, it has been difficult to distinguish between the two in terms of the roles or successes of their films, to the extent that Ford once stepped in as a body double for a few episodes of Community where Chase was off in Eastern Africa doing charitable works, and Chase served as Ford’s CGI stand-in for many scenes in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Cowboys & Aliens, and The Call of the Wild. At this point, they are basically one and the same actor.
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Not to mention switching effortlessly back and forth between a British accent and an American one.
The ending of Rogue One actually makes Leia in ANH even more badass. It’s been maybe half an hour since the Battle of Scarif and Vader has personally chased her from there to Tattooine, and when he captures her she has the absolute chutzpah to stare him down and say “Tapes? What tapes? We’re on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan!”
The first Star Wars movie had a huge impact on my kids (ok, on me too). To the point where if one of them complained about something, the others (myself included) could whine about going into Tahhh-sheeee STAAAAY-tionnn…
And the whining would usually stop.