TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN Y

COMUNICACIÓN

INGLES IV

Alumno: Daniel Moyao Ríos

Docente:
Montemorelos, N, L 07/09/2017
 The Secret History Of Star Wars
Exposed! The truth behind the most famous myths of Star Wars - with testimony
from those who were there.
Dianne Crittenden (casting director): George's feeling was that it was the
technology and the story that people were going to see. They were the stars of the
film, rather than the actors. So we saw everybody. We literally went through
something like 3,500 people. Anyone even vaguely in the right age-group came in
to see us. I always said that anyone who had an agent and didn't come in to see us
should get a new agent.
William Katt (auditioned for Luke and Han): I don't know why, but I caught
somebody's attention. I think maybe it was my hair at the time. It was so big and
blond and fluffy. I had no idea what I was going in to audition for. Brian De Palma
was holding auditions for Carrie at the same time so I read for that too [Katt
eventually won the role of Tommy].
Terri Nunn (Leia): At the time I was doing really well and I got some better scripts
than most people. I remember George was really low-key. I don't know if he knew
what he wanted. I remember reading with Harrison Ford and him looking
completely bored. I don't think he was into me at all.
Nunn: Nobody understood what George was doing. We just showed up in this
warehouse, sat down in folding chairs and started to read these lines that were
like, “R2-D2, grab the phaser! The Force is coming! It will destroy us all!” I was like,
“What the fuck am I saying?” You can't say that shit!
Katt: I was just thrilled to be in the same room as Kurt Russell, who I read with for
both Han and Luke. Actually, I've seen the audition, for the first time in 30 years,
and I thought it was not bad. What I had a problem with was the Han Solo role. I
found it very difficult to get a handle on that and bring the particular attitude they
were after.
Nunn: I didn't have the vision for that kind of thing. I'd never been into comic books
or fantasy at all. So I didn't think it would fly. I thought George was a really nice
guy, but I didn't think that this was really going to do anything.
Crittenden: There were some people I really liked who didn't get roles. I liked Nick
Nolte for Luke and I remember in particular Dennis Dugan, who is now a director
(Big Daddy, National Security), had the quintessential farmer look that George was
talking about. I don't remember much of Mark Hamill. I don't want to say it in a way
that's unflattering, but there was something that was maybe a little bleaker about
Mark that George felt would make him more the farmer who was in over his head.
He just didn't want anyone who he felt was a real survivor and would figure it all
out, so that Han Solo could come in and be the hero. For me, Amy Irving was
absolutely the right person for Leia, but it was Carrie Fisher that I fell in love with
because she's so quirky in her way.
Much mythology has grown over the years concerning a rough cut screening of
Star Wars that Lucas showed to a few filmmaking friends. Exclusively for Empire,
here is the truth from someone who was there – one Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg: “I was in on the very first rough cut of Star Wars with De Palma,
Jay Cocks, Willard and Gloria Huyck, Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins. When
we went out to dinner afterwards, Brian began yelling at George: ‘I DON'T
UNDERSTAND YOUR STORY! THERE'S NO CONTEXT! WHAT IS THIS SPACE
STUFF? WHO CARES? I'M LOST!’ And George began yelling at Brian, saying,
‘You never made a commercial movie in your entire life! What are you talking
about?’ And Brian said, ‘This won't be commercial. Nobody will get it. It's just a void
with stars and some silly.

Greedo AKA Jabba’s henchman.

“I asked George, ‘How do you want me to play this alien?’” recalls Paul Blake. “‘I
play Shakespeare. I've done bits of Chekov. I'm a serious actor here.’ And he
replied, ‘Play it like they play it in the movies.’ That was the best bit of advice that a
director has ever given me.” Learning of the role from his friend Anthony Daniels
while working on Jackanory, Blake applied his serious thesp training to the green-
skinned assassin in order to nail the character: “Greedo was quite reptilian-looking,
so I thought about how alligators and crocodiles moved.”
Blake was only one of the actors lucky enough to inhabit Greedo, after Lucas
decided that he wanted a more expressive villain and reshot the scene in L.A., with
Maria de Aragon playing the part in an articulated mask. However, he did shoot the
all-important death scene (“The crew sprayed the suit with acid to keep it smoking,
I nearly suffocated”)