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Tribute to Nien Nunb and other Star Wars Bit Parts
Nien Nunb writes "This Star Wars feature tries to give the little guys a leg up, like the aforementioned Nien Nunb, who only shows up for one action sequence, but he was copilot of the ship that destroyed the second Death Star. Star Wars is full of forgotten faces like his and you can see all their wretchedness here."
Forgotten Characters:
No. 1 - "That Little Kid Who Played Anakin and said 'Yippee' A Lot"
I'd like to forget but I just can't.
:)
My namesake, TK-421.. The ill-fated stormtrooper who gets shot by Han Solo, and ends up with a bad transmitter...
TK-421 Fan Club
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
Am I the only one who thought that the jedi master shown briefly in The Plotless Menace with the 6 foot long neck would be toast in any kind of lightsaber duel?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
The torture of it all.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Takes the cake for me, as far as bit parts go. You can tell the guy always wanted to get into movies, and this was his BIG CHANCE. He crammed as much of his life as possible into those three words. But ya know, three words just doesn't have enough space to pack that much into, especially those three.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
This story was featured nearly a year ago at x-entertainment (see that link for the story without the page-by-page popups).
Aha! I was just thinking this sounded like an XE article. Postings have tapered off there lately, but at one time I was reading that site every day. My favorite is Mr. T and Undertaker Ice Cream: Recipe for Disaster. It had me falling down laughing...at work unfortunately.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
That happened because Lucas based the alien languages in real (obscure) languages, and Mr. Numb's is based in some African dialect that translates to this bizarre elephant statement.