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...this movie didn't feel any different to me from doing any other movie. The process is the same. It was regular acting." Unlike some more timid actors, Ford is willing to take chances and experiment with a character. "He is constantly looking for the authentic moment," says Irvin Kershner, director of The Empire Strikes Back. "You can try anything...
Still, Director Irvin Kershner allows the film to run on too long and too predictably. And, much too quickly, Screen writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. sets aside all considerations of the toll that age may have taken on its hero. It would have been funny (and perhaps even touching) to see him run out of breath in the midst of a chase. Or, when 007 hit the sack, have him reach for a good book instead of a bad blond...
...Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner for Empire and Richard Marquand for Jedi...
...Search for the Nile), campaigned for the job and guarded Lucas' creation zealously. Says he: "It is as if Lucas were a famous composer who said to me, 'Here's a 120-piece orchestra. Here's my music. I'd like you to conduct.' " In this maestro's view, Kershner had carelessly strayed from the true faith. Marquand was disturbed to detect that in Empire Artoo-Detoo was occasionally painted with black squares instead of his customary blue, and that Darth Vader sometimes wielded his light-saber with only one hand, like an oldtime Texas sheriff. "Everyone knows that...
...there is a difference, Connery says, it is in their approach to character: "I start with the serious and then try to inject as much humor as I can, to get a balance of the ingredients. Roger comes in the humor door, and I go out it." Director Irvin Kershner, whose last film, The Empire Strikes Back, mixed romance and rue, sees Never Say Never as "an entertainment, but with real people and human values. As far as I'm concerned, there's never been a Bond picture before...