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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."
*Swoon*
Erik Schmoll : he made a 2 second appearance as the toilet paper delivery boy in Lethal Weapon III
Raymond Swzarznik : the much acclaimed actor how played the back of the 56th passenger in Airplane II: the Sequel.
Eugene Smith : the driver of the first Chevrolet passed by Drew Barrimore in Charlie's Angels.
Joseph Sixpack : the 6th left buttock from the right in "Anal orgy IV"
Good work guys, it's about time your talent and the talent of the approx. 500.000.000.000 people like you are recognized !
Obi Wan and Luke are walking through Mos Eisley, right after they leave the cantina, and they're talking about selling off the speeder. For a brief second, a long, thin pair of legs, stilt-like, walk across the foreground. No picture of the body or the feet. No second pair of legs, as though half a camel just walked through the shot.
The genius is how the rest of the alien's appearance is left up to the imagination. I mean, what fluke of gravity was that creature?
More importantly, how does Lucas's creative insight go from that to Jar Jar? He used to have a pretty keen eye for subtle details. Now it's like getting an ice pick through the brain.
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
Droid gone bad.
And a freakin' cool action figure too!
"Stay on target...Stay on target!" Porkins
"I've got the death sentence on 12 systems!" scumbag in cantina
"flubbablorgafthstuknirmblaaaa.." Greedo in cantina
Why are the most memorable characters from the first movie or two (or IV and V, depending on your viewpoint)?
Good thing we have these gems to counteract the Jar Jar/Nsync crap.
Trolling is a art,
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.
:)
-schussat
The hour of noon has passed. Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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?"
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.
I never really thought about it until now, but Luke had nothing to do with the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of the Empire in ROTJ!!! Han, Leia, and the rebel detachment took out the Shield protecting the Death Star and Lando (with Numb) and the other rebel pilots took out the Death Star. The emperor would have died anyway when the Death Star was destroyed! A depressing thought since Luke was the main hero. At least he turned Vader (who would have died with the Death Star as well). Guess he did do something after all...
...I caught my dog with a leg up on my Episode I DVD.
I let him keep it, he seems to have more fun with the thing than I ever did.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Nien Nunb spoke swahili, and when the movies were shown in africa, audiences were know to standup and chear when that scene came on.
How pathetic is this? Star Wars was a set of MOVIES. These people were EXTRAS. Yes, they did have interesting costumes, but that's it. Perhaps this article would be better entitled "Extras from star wars about whom the coolest fan fiction has been written", because that's all the various stories written after the trilogy are.
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.
Expanded Universe doesn't count.
John Ratzenberger is listed as "Major Derlin" in the credits on IMDB.
zrk,
I've seen every episode of Babylon 5 (in widescreen on Sci-Fi), but I don't quite understand your allusion. Maybe my brain's just fried from too much coding, but could you give me a hint?Alex Bischoff
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Actually, it was more about Anakin; it shows that he's rash, impulsive, and likes to settle things with his fists every once in a while. And when Qui-Gon pulls him off of Greedo, Ani gives Q-G and EEEEEVIL glare.
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