• hakase@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Man, fuck Harrison Ford. I have no idea why he has such contempt for the two roles that put him on the map, especially when they’re two of the most beloved characters in cinematic history.

    It’s also clear from his interviews that he just completely misunderstands the character of Han Solo.

    Edit: Apparently he doesn’t hate Indy like he does Han. That only makes me feel marginally less indignant though.

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      10 hours ago

      Agreed. Fine if you hate the franchise that made you shitloads of money but at least have the common decency to shut the fuck up about it

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      He’s a grumpy-ass dick, straight up. I mean let him be himself and all that, I am not requiring him to be lovable for my sake, but I will definitely change the channel if an interview with him is on.

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      9 hours ago

      You’d be mad too if nobody bothered to ask you what it was like on the set of Working Girl.

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        9 hours ago

        Maybe not. It’s possible that he has enough contempt for Han to cover for both, and I just assumed.

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          He definitely likes Indiana Jones. He negotiated a new movie as part of his return to Star Wars. He’s the big deal in IJ but only one of the main characters in SW

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    10 hours ago

    Does he genuinely hate it or is this just half serious joking, or maybe it was serious long ago and now its a joke to himself because he likes the money and other people seem to like laughing at this half serious joke and so he keeps doing it.

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        I don’t know if it’s a general hatred of the character per se, but he was quite adamant that Han should have died in RotJ. He was willing to reprise the role later as long as they killed him.

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            The way I think Ford sees it is in the OT, his death in Empire or Jedi would have been a fitting end to his character. He is introduced to the series as a self interested scoundrel, who is only concerned with getting paid. Then he comes back heroically to blow up the death star, selflessly risks his life to save Luke on Hoth, and sacrifices himself so Leia and Chewie are spared. After he’s unfrozen, there’s not a whole lot of character development in Jedi so he just becomes a side character. It seemed like he cared for the character until Han became a side character and that’s why he wanted Han to be killed off.

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            I mean what is Han supposed to be in Star Wars now? It was probably pitched to him as a bad ass gun slinger that doesn’t care for the rules/laws and gets the girl anyways. Immediately the world and story grows well beyond the possibilities of a gun slinger having real impact.

            He’s a side character, who can’t really effect the universe he is surrounded by and falls into a grumpy father figure role. He was just in the new movies for nostalgia.

            Luke can defeat entire armies, Leia secretly a force user that effects entire governments, he uh, smuggles some items sometimes. Could be replaced by near any other normal human out there, as every new character near immediately learns how to fly a ship, shoot down other ships or has a droid that can do it for them.

            “But he can understand what a wookie is saying” Wait, suddenly everyone else that is around the wookie for 2 days can as well.