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i don't know why i'm thinking of this today.
There's a moment in Episode 1 (that'd be Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, for any sub-rock-dwelling laymen who may have wandered in this afternoon) where the two Jedi are following Jar-Jar Binks into this lake to get to the Gungan city underneath. Just as they're wading into the water, before he puts his goggles (or whatever they made the breath-y device prop from) into his mouth, Liam Neeson glances back over his shoulder, with a look that I've never really thought belonged to Qui-Gon Jinn. Instead of anything relevant to the plot, I've always thought that look says "Goddammit, I made Schindler's List. I was nominated for an Academy Award."
Possibly Mr. Neeson is looking over his shoulder at the ghost of Sir Alec Guinness, who was no doubt replying, "Please. I was nominated four times. I even won the damn thing. They even gave me an honorary Oscar for advancing the art of screen acting through a host of distinguished performances. Do you know when? Two years after I fecking made the first Star Wars movie. Have a nice swim."
[eta: (Of course, now that I think about it, during the actual filming of Episode 1, the ghost of Sir Alec would probably have been wondering what the hell it was doing there, since Sir Alec himself was still alive at the time. And now, damn it all, I'll have to get rid of the mental sound-bite of Alec Guinness saying "I'm not dead yet! I'm feeling a lot better! I think I'll go for a walk!")]
Possibly Mr. Neeson is looking over his shoulder at the ghost of Sir Alec Guinness, who was no doubt replying, "Please. I was nominated four times. I even won the damn thing. They even gave me an honorary Oscar for advancing the art of screen acting through a host of distinguished performances. Do you know when? Two years after I fecking made the first Star Wars movie. Have a nice swim."
[eta: (Of course, now that I think about it, during the actual filming of Episode 1, the ghost of Sir Alec would probably have been wondering what the hell it was doing there, since Sir Alec himself was still alive at the time. And now, damn it all, I'll have to get rid of the mental sound-bite of Alec Guinness saying "I'm not dead yet! I'm feeling a lot better! I think I'll go for a walk!")]
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