A tidy sum of the credit for the original Star Wars being a decent movie must go to Alec Guinness , who play Obi - Wan Kenobi and brings a lot of gravitas to explicate the Force and the complicated backstory about the Clone Wars . But Guinness did n’t guess much of Star Wars when he was film it — he only take the office after they duplicate his pay , and he still griped afterwards .
Over at Business Insider , they quote from a twain of Guinness ’ letters , as cited in Alec Guinness : The Official Biography . ( disavowal : I could n’t find these letters in the Google Books variation of the playscript , but the relevant Thomas Nelson Page was n’t include in the trailer . ) Prior to take on the role , Guinness wrote to his acquaintance :
I have been offered a movie ( 20th Cent . Fox ) which I may assume , if they hail up with proper money . London and N. Africa , go in mid - March . scientific discipline fiction – which gives me break – but is to be guide by Paul [ sic ] Lucas who did “ American Graffiti , which construct me feel I should . bighearted part . Fairy - tale tripe but could be interesting perhaps .
And once he was on band , Guinness was no more impressed , writing to his protagonist :
… new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink report – and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable . I just think , gratefully , of the lovely bread , which will aid me keep going until next April even if Yahoo collapse in a hebdomad … I must off to studio apartment and work with a dwarf ( very gratifying – and he has to wash in a bidet ) and your fellow countrymen Mark Hamill and Tennyson ( that ca n’t be right ) Ford . Ellison ( ? – No ! ) – well , a rangy , languid young humanity who is probably intelligent and amusing . But Oh , God , God , they make me feel ninety – and cover me as if I was 106 . – Oh , Harrison Ford – ever heard of him ?
The credit of “ Yahoo ” refers to a gaming based on Gulliver ’s journey that Guinness starred in around that meter . I love the thought of Guinness wandering around the Star Wars set calling Harrison Ford “ Tennyson . ” [ Business Insider ]
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