To me there are only three "Star Wars" movies.
I know it was supposed to be a "trilogy of trilogies," but they just took too long to get the second three (or is it the first three...) completed, so anyway, there are just the first three but they're known as four, five, and six. Confusing enough? See? I'm angry already.
Anyway, I read where Bob Anderson, Olympic fencer and sword master has died at age 89. According to the paper, he worked with everyone from Errol Flynn to Antonio Banderas in his Hollywood career.
Anderson did the light saber fights with Luke Skywalker in the second and third (or fifth and sixth, if you insist). He didn't even get any credit until 1983 when Mark Hamill made an issue of getting Anderson's name before the public.
Darth Vader. Voiced by James Earl Jones, played by David Prowse and portrayed in battle scenes by Bob Anderson. No wonder he was so mixed up!
Anderson also did sword work on another cult classic, "The Princess Bride," as well as the Zorro movies and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (made 1,2,3, real quickly and you could follow it-if you like that kind of stuff)
But, I'm not through with "Star Wars" yet.
In the original third movie ("Return of the Jedi") at the end Ray Milland played the unmasked Darth Vader.
To my horror, in the revisionist version I viewed he was replaced in the scene by whoever it was (I don't care because it was not the "real" DV) that played Vader in those "other three" movies.
That was a dishonor to Ray Milland, a great actor who might only be known to today's generation for that role-but too late now!
In the words of Yoda..."off pissed I am" about the whole thing!
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