You know how Finn is so heartbroken by the death of the other Stormtrooper, the one who somehow finds bare fingers and blood to smear across his helmet? The one who’s death starts Finn’s break from his programming? The one he CLEARLY cared about?
The plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens as a moviemoji.
My one regret is using the same symbol for “Member of the Resistance” and “Daniel Craig secretly playing a stormtrooper” – but maybe that’s an AU waiting to happen?
WILLIAM WEASLEY!! HOW DARE YOU BLOW UP THOSE PLANETS!! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED!!YOUR FATHER’S NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK AND IT’S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE’LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME! oh and kylo ren dear please go home your parents miss you very much
that’s all i could think of every time general hux came on screen lol
However, Star Wars does not have a Christmas! Or any kind of holiday season, I gather. That did not stop me from writing this spoiler-laden, slightly Clone Wars-borrowing-from take on A Christmas Carol. Luke is about to be visited by three spirits! Ooh yes.
[I wasn’t kidding when I said ‘spoiler-laden’! This will ruin the movie for you if you haven’t seen it!]
I am still not OVER the fact that Poe GAVE FINN his NAME because do you know how important the act of naming is??? in stories?? in real life?? in EVERYTHING?
Finn literally wasn’t Finn until he met Poe Dameron, and I have more to say about this at some other point but!!! NAMES!!!! SPACE HEROES IN LOVE!!! AWESOME THINGS!!!!
No, you weren’t hearing things: Those were the voices of Ewan MacGregor, Frank Oz and Alec Guinness that we heard during Rey’s vision in The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.
Ewan McGregor came in to record his part (after cartoon counterpart James Arnold Taylor took a shot at it,) as did Frank Oz. Guinness’ “Rey” was isolated from existing audio:
As they worked on editing the dream sequence, Bryan Burk, a longtime Bad Robot collaborator and one of the producers of the film, surprised Abrams one day with the gift of a single word: Obi-Wan Kenobi’s voice saying the name “Rey …”
“I said, ‘That’s cool, is that the thing from Ewan McGregor?’” Abrams recalled. “He said ‘No, we took a line from Alec Guinness saying ‘Afraid.’”
Not only that, but the lilt in his voice from that truncated word happened to fit exactly what Abrams had in mind. “They cut it, and you hear the performance – he’s saying it the way I would have begged Alec Guinness to have said it. It is so crazy perfect,” Abrams says. “So when you hear Obi-Wan talk to Rey it is both Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor doing the voice.”
Taylor and several other familiar voices can still be heard in various parts around the film – but I’ll leave the specific IDing to those more well-versed in the cartoons than I.
