r/StarWars • u/Tanis8998 Jedi • Oct 31 '24

Well, that’s interesting. Movies

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u/lordcheeto Oct 31 '24 edited Oct 31 '24

"I think my uncle knows him. He said he was dead."

"Oh he's not dead. Not yet."

"You know him?"

"Well of course I know him, he's me."

R2-D2 bleep bloops

"I haven't gone by the name of Obi-Wan since, oh, before you were born."

https://youtu.be/oTV2tS4nRPE?t=189

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u/GroguIsMyBrogu Oct 31 '24

I sometimes have to remind myself that not everyone knows this entire movie by heart

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u/democracy_lover66 Oct 31 '24

Alec Guinness really nails the role, and this line is no exception

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u/SiberianBattleOtters Oct 31 '24

To the point, you can almost see him having the flashbacks about Anakin, without them wven have being written at the time. One of the all time greats.

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u/TLiones Oct 31 '24

The “flashbacks” were how’d he end up in this movie and if he were going to get paid

I’m joking but I think I recall that he didn’t initially like Star Wars

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u/Silent-G Chewbacca Oct 31 '24

Even if he didn't like it, he took the role seriously. If you consider he served in the Royal Naval Reserve during WW2, he's playing a character who is reminiscing about someone he was close to during the clone wars, he doesn't need to know much about the universe to know how an old war veteran would react when telling the stories. Human emotion is still the same regardless of fighting with bullets or lasers.

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u/CardboardStarship Oct 31 '24

To my knowledge he didn’t. I seem to remember reading a story about a kid asking him for an autograph and he made the kid cry by telling him he would sign something if the kid never watched Star Wars again. Dunno how true it is though.

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u/FedGoat13 Nov 01 '24

This is apocryphal

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u/Vesemir96 Nov 01 '24

I’m pretty sure it was that he enjoyed the film and enjoyed working on it, it was only later that he disliked the huge hype of it worldwide..

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u/ConflictAdvanced Nov 01 '24

Remove "initially" from your comment and it's accurate 😅

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u/Shrodax Nov 01 '24

Obi-Wan has PTSD: https://youtu.be/T9j7kLG7VK8

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u/SiberianBattleOtters Nov 01 '24

Honestly, this is the edit I was thinking of when I say he naiiiled it.