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Some of that stuff has already been explained on bonus DVDs etc., but it's nice than Mr. Ford is opening up! The last paragraph probably explains why he doesn't see Star Wars as a big deal: I think he just sees it as a fluke hit. | |
Cool I don't understand why him talking is such a big deal What could he possibly say beyond "Yes, I was in it, and things happened" | |
Interesting... I just watched the mentioned snow scene five minutes ago and was wondering where they filmed it. | |
Han Solo is such a cool character. Harrison Ford is such a cool guy. I wanna be Han Solo. | |
I always wondered how chewbacca sat down 8)it was all for a good cause | |
Interesting (as several people have said already). It's nice that Harrison Ford is talking for charity, that's really great. Harrison Ford is such a great actor and Han Solo has to be my favourite Star Wars charecter (even if Mr Ford wanted to kill him off for the sake of emotional depth). | |
We came this close to having Kurt Russell play the part. That could have gone either way really. | |
Han Solo and the actor are in fact just Demi-Godz if you ask me. Stellar presentation. Nice to know secrets are revealed! | |
Yeah, again, we didn't really learn much new here except the whole Chewbacca thing. Still, it's nice to know that not everyone involved in Star Wars thinks it was the greatest thing ever, even if it was. | |
Empire was in any event. | |
Hm...I wonder if he answered the question "Who shot first?", because I know someone there must have asked it. Wonder how he feels about that? | |
Do you mean the bar scene? | |
But of course :-) | |
He's right. John Williams writes damn good music. | |
Well it's nice to see them been a little more open with things. Some intresting facts though | |
Harrison Ford is an awesome actor but he has the most awkward interviews I've ever seen. I saw him on Letterman a few monthes ago, I thought he had altzimers or something. | |
Yeah I was a little annoyed at the fact none of it was really new considering the pranks and stuff he's meant to get up to on sets. | |
But who shot first?!?! Dammit Harrison, I want an answer! | |
A fluke that struck three times in a row. | |
George Lucas himself was seen wearing a "Han Shot First" T-shirt at one point. | |
Jesus christ 7"3'?! That chewbacca belongs in the NBA not on star wars. | |
Six actually, plus massive merchandising. For all of the panning the Prequels received they apparently made quite a bit of money, especially when you consider the tie ins. If someone did a sequel trilogy, or did remakes, almost guaranteed even if there was massive fan hatred they would sell like hotcakes. That said, I can sort of see Harrison Ford's perspective. Star Wars is one of those things that if you look at it piece by piece should be absolutly terrible, yet somehow as a whole it manages to work, and has captured the imagination of generations. To be honest, when it comes to sci-fi and fantasy, a lot of the guys involved in the classic works seemed to have the same basic response, that they couldn't believe it got that big. I think Harrison Ford more or less was being careful to try and avoid some of the slip ups that William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy got involved in over the years. Given the rest of his career I think he also did a good job keeping the fans at arms length, without alienating them. That's a tightrope many people couldn't walk, especially given that Harrison Ford had no real interest in being typecast, or living off of his role in Star Wars. At any rate, it's great to hear he spoke on the subject for charity. :) | |
Kinda feel sorry for the guy who played Chewbacca. | |
hes a sex symble, women want to be him and men want to have sex with him | |
No, no, I believe that's accurate. | |
There. Now it is correct. Han Solo was always my main favorite in Star Wars. I cried at the end of Empire. | |
The first was a fluke. The other two were marketing. | |
Well if you've seen any other movie he's in he's usually pretty bad, so that could explain it. | |
I'd heard that they were originally going for Christopher Walken. | |
But.. I knew all of this. This isn't news. :C | |
Well, the reason I think it-like Star Trek, The A-Team and such programs- was that it had that ability to bring people outside of their humdrum lives and off to somewhere far off, where they could be whatever they wished to be. They were greatly immersive, and gave people something to dream about. | |
Nope, it's correct. i think han solo is a pretty cool guy, eh killz the greedos and doesn't afraid of anything | |
30 years late Harrison, but I forgive you. You are Han Solo and Indiana Jones and yet I can't mistake any detail of both characters. Only a great actor can make us forget the connection. | |
Harrison Ford, one of the few Star Wars actors who actually had a career after the end of the movies I hear. Still a great actor, regardless of his advanced age :) | |
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Harrison Ford Gives Insight Into Star Wars at Last
Charity has finally inspired the soloist known as Han to give a talk on the secrets of the Star Wars universe.
Harrison Ford is apparently known for having been tight lipped on most Star Wars topics since he filmed the first movie in the mid-1970s, but recently pried those lips open for a charity event. Ford gave a 30 minute talk on the franchise after a screening of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back to both celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film's release and to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, during which he divulged a few interesting tidbits.
While it may have seemed like the scenes on planet Hoth were filmed in the middle of Antarctica, in reality they were filmed in Norway just outside of a hotel during a blizzard. He said: "The conditions were so severe that they put the camera in the back door of the hotel we were staying at and shot out the door. So we were 12 feet from the hotel, out in the blizzard." The weather also changed Empire's shooting schedule so that Ford was unexpectedly forced to film there, even though his costume was meant only for the stage and not the depths of winter. "The one part I remember that was a little uncomfortable was Norway where we shot the snow scenes. I hadn't been expected to work there, so the costume that I had was built for the stage ... the only way to get to the set in the midst of a blizzard was on a snowplow train, which had a giant auger on the front of it and pushed through the snow and delivered me to the set. We immediately went to work."
Did you also think that Chewbacca must have hurt his backside by sitting in the chair of the Millennium Falcon for days at a time? It turns out, he never was able to sit in the chair at all due to actor Peter Mayhew's height of 7 feet 3 inches at the time. "It was impossible for Peter, built of the scale that he is, to get in the seat. So every time you see Peter in the seat, he's been edited into it." I never thought of Wookie height reducing their employment opportunities, but it's a real problem.
On the issue of Ford's desire to kill of Han Solo at the end of the original trilogy, he said : "I just thought that it would supply some emotional bottom, a grounding. George didn't agree, and so that did not happen." Further, he talked about how Star Wars accidentally saved him from the life of a carpenter after he'd given up acting. While working on a portico for Francis Ford Coppola, the casting director for Star Wars asked Ford to read with prospective actors. "After I read with probably 300 actors, they asked me if I would want to play the part, and I said sure," he said.
The charity event raised $40,000 for St. Jude's. Ford related that he's not sure he understands even now why people would spend the $100-$175 ticket cost to hear him speak on Star Wars, but gives all the credit to John Williams' music and "some psychic vein" that he believes George Lucas tapped in to.
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
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