Zoraptor Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Anakin did get both his legs amputated after overestimating his power and trying something he really shouldn't have, so direct height comparisons between the actors are a bit moot. The Emperor could make Darth Vader as tall or as short (Dark Helmet canonical when, Disney?) as he wanted, because his legs were mechanical. That does make me wonder how many actors they could have picked to play Anakin that would match Prowse height wise. Not many, I'd think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 The downside of doing your first (casting) job too well? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I'm pretty sure the height difference is from the retractable roller skates in Darth Vader's boots: Not sure if an obituary thread is appropirate for the funny, but anyway... No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 10 hours ago, Gorth said: It always felt a bit a odd that he would cast Christian Hayden as Anakin. [ ... ]Hayden would stare at Prowse's chest if they were put next to each other. Isn't Natalie Portman like, 5 foot three or something like that? Maybe any taller than 6 foot male lead would make it too difficult/PITA to get her and him in easy scene-framing and shoulder-resting/kissin' distance. They probably had her standing on a box occasionally (or at least platform heels out-of-frame) as it was. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 It also probably worked in part because they wanted to cast someone who could be both the teenage version and the young twenty-something Anakin. I seem to recall Hayden mentioning that when they did the final scene with him actually being dressed as Vader, his boots did have lifts in them.. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 17 hours ago, LadyCrimson said: Anyway ... RIP to the man behind the mask. Sebastian Shaw? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 11 minutes ago, Malcador said: Sebastian Shaw? Died in 1994, at the age of 89. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 12 minutes ago, Amentep said: Died in 1994, at the age of 89. Well RIP still applies. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Hugh Keays-Byrne. You shall ride eternal. Shiny and Chrome! Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Squiggy 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Chuck Yeager 3 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Lord of the Rings' Viggo Mortensen Says His Horses are Dead (gizmodo.com) "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Raithe said: Lord of the Rings' Viggo Mortensen Says His Horses are Dead (gizmodo.com) Well that was a shock, for a moment there I thought Lucifer has died. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 Artist Richard Corben. Possibly best known in pop culture for DEN which was adapted into one of the segments for the HEAVY METAL movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 "Tiny" Lister 2 RFK Jr 2024 "War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay." - General Smedley D. Butler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 13 hours ago, Amentep said: Artist Richard Corben. Possibly best known in pop culture for DEN which was adapted into one of the segments for the HEAVY METAL movie. 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 3 hours ago, Keyrock said: "Tiny" Lister RIP. One of those actors who seemed to pop up in all sorts of movies, a lot of times in small roles, but occasionally larger ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 7 hours ago, Keyrock said: "Tiny" Lister Very sad, he was only 62. This is likely another covid-related death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 Charlie Pride 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 12 hours ago, Amentep said: Charlie Pride Aw no. He was great: "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 John le Carré Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 anne reinking. "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 (edited) On 12/13/2020 at 11:10 PM, Amentep said: John le Carré I'll always remember an anecdote Hugh Laurie told a few years ago. He was invited to John le Carre's birthday celebration at a fancy restaurant in London. During the meal, one of the waiters pulled him aside to make a request... Apparently the restaurant had a tradition of surprising any birthday celebrations with a cake, and since they knew Hugh was a piano player, they asked if he wanted to play "Happy Birthday" when it was about to come out. Of course, they didn't actually tell anyone there that part of the trick was that shortly after the music started they'd switch the lights out briefly as the cake with candles emerged from the kitchens. What had slipped the restaurants mind, was that a large portion of the guests attending happened to be senior members of assorted Embassies - French, German, USA, even Russian (*cough* Intelligence Agencies *cough*) and all their bodyguards. Armed bodyguards. Hugh starts playing. He can see the door to the kitchen open, the cake appears, the lights go off... Lots of startled sounds. When the lights switch back on, a portion of the guests are under the tables and another portion are standing there with pistols in hand and some rather surprised waitstaff are holding a trolley with the cake. Edited December 15, 2020 by Raithe 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Jeremy Bulloch, actor for Boba Fett 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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