And to be fair and crediting Hamill, the guy's entire life post teenage years has been Luke Skywalker. He has heard more from every fan who has ever met him than any director or producer. I think Hamill bases a lot of his thought process on how people would want to see him as well as mixing those of his own personal feelings on what he feels about Luke. He's the embodiment of Luke Skywalker and he probably has many inner conversations trying to make sense of a non-existent 30 years coming back in trying to understand just what he was up to for that long.Those ABC interviews were really good. Mark mentions he thought his last min. reveal in TFA would fall flat and admits he was never so happy to be so wrong. That's consistent with all of his orevious comments on TFA, he was skeptical but once he saw the film realized what a powerful moment it was. I think it's exciting that he felt challenged by Rian'schoices for his character, at least initially. Again, I think this film is going to challenge not only the actors but the audience as well.
I know how to use it just fine, thanks.
any interview links?
mark hamil is USUALLY a very positive person. it doesn't sound like him that he would diss a movie he's currently working on.
Maybe he said that about episode 7 though.
At celebration, didn't he say he was unsure of 8, then Rian came to his house, talked to him about it and he was totally on board with everything?
I think the most interesting thing said was by Daisy when asked if she could reveal anything at all about Rey. She replied with something along the lines of.. "Well, you know the saying. Don't meet your heros." in reference I assume to Luke.
Maybe he has indeed gone a little off the deep end in his self imposed banishment.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen a post calling that out as of yet, or perhaps I missed it in the post trailer flood.
Nah I think Luke just realized the Jedi as they were the last few centuries or so were basically just pompous butt ramblers who were more worried about there own internal political dealings than actually doing any real good in the universe . that some of there rules like detachment of feelings are complete B.S. and work against the light rather than for it. Probably found some pre Jedi lessons at the temple and realised the Jedi had corrupted the teaching to suit there own needs . you know like every organized religion ever !
Also training and galaxy saving is HARD and he still has to swing by toshy station to get those dang power converter's !!!
You know what? As much as we want to geek out on the details of what Luke would be doing, we have to look at the broader cinematic impact of all of this.
When I look at the cinematic importance of Luke's story in Star wars, it parallels only Dorothy Gale from the wizard of Oz.
Luke is as important to fantasy as sleeping beauty and Peter pan. And those are legends, a hundred(s) years old. This is not hyperbole.
When anyone talks about the hero's journey, Luke Skywalker is the finest example.
And because of that, Disney needs to tread VERY carefully. Frankly, I don't trust them to see the bigger picture. More than likely they see this as a franchise for geeks who like to spend money and the general public
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I think the most interesting thing said was by Daisy when asked if she could reveal anything at all about Rey. She replied with something along the lines of.. "Well, you know the saying. Don't meet your heros." in reference I assume to Luke.
Maybe he has indeed gone a little off the deep end in his self imposed banishment.
what heroes?
she's only thought of him as legend and probably never gave him a moments passing thouht until han brought it up.
i agree with astro boy. just like many older properties before it, star wars is in the hands of people who see it as a simple cash grab opportunity.
they get one last chance to impress me with episode 8. otherwise, i wait for the dvd on 9. something i never thought i'd say...
I don't think it's a cash grab at all. I just think they had a, so far, really uninspired story. I really do hope it gets better in TLJ though. If they do get rid of the Jedi, other than in the sense that they start over and not follow the old Jedi ways, I won't be watching the next movie.