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>A refurbished Star Wars is on somewhere or everywhere. I have no intention of revisiting any galaxy. I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned. Twenty years ago, when the film was first shown, it had a freshness, also a sense of moral good and fun. Then I began to be uneasy at the influence it might be having. The bad penny first dropped in San Francisco when a sweet-faced boy of twelve told me proudly that he had seen Star Wars over a hundred times. His elegant mother nodded with approval. Looking into the boy’s eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode.
>“I would love you to do something for me,” I said.
>“Anything! Anything!” the boy said rapturously.
>“You won’t like what I’m going to ask you to do,” I said.
>“Anything, sir, anything!”
>“Well,” I said, “do you think you could promise never to see Star Wars again?”
>He burst into tears. 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.
What did he mean by this?
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he means that he was trying to apply modernism to a postmodern world
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>>79039275
>tfw you can enjoy the fun of Star Wars while ignoring the spergs who take their love or hate of a space magic adventure too seriously
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>>79039275
Means Alec Guinness was an asshole. Could've said any number of things to push the kid to a more productive path since he idolized him.
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>>79039275
He was on the opposite spectrum of star wars man children. Maybe just as bad
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>>79039275
He was a wise guy irl tooand a good friend
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>>79039275
Bless you, Alec.
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>does stuff only for money
>acts like he has any integrity
it's not the kid's fault that he never starred in any other memorable movie
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>>79039791
>it's not the kid's fault that he never starred in any other memorable movie
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>>79039275
He's only mad because he knows that its the only role he will ever be known for, and most actors hate being known for just one role
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>implying you can't enjoy something and have a passion for it while also still living in the real world and having a life
Then again Alec was an old man.
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>>79039275
>Looking into the boy’s eyes I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form and I guessed that one day they would explode.
No joke, I think he sums up obsessive fandom perfectly here.
That shit's not healthy.
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>>79040508
He's a fucking child. Shit, I watched Lion King like 200 goddamn times as a kid, doesn't mean I'm obsessed with the Lion King or think its real life. Shit its just a movie.
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>>79040384
Literally what
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>>79039275
who was in the wrong here?
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>>79039791
>does stuff only for money
Everyone needs to earn a living; it's not like he's doing something really sleazy like out dealing smack or sucking cock.
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>>79039275
Daily reminder that the story about the kid crying was an exaggeration by guiness.
>Now here is the moment where we differ.
>Sir Alec says I then cried and my mother got haughty and dragged me away. Presumably without my coveted autograph.
>But that's not what happened at all.
>I said "Yes sir, I can." And then he got a pen, leaned his head down, (he was shorter than me and I can actually still see his freckles on his little bald head) and he wrote "To Danny, Remember you promised never to see Star Wars again. Love, Alec Guinness."
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