Re: David Prowse Almost Ruined TESB!

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, pcg wrote:
> I think I've lived with the films for so long, and they're so embedded 
> in the cultural consciousness, that I sometimes take for granted how 
> stunning it was for the writers to have taken one of the screen's most 
> ruthless and iconic villains, and not only made him sympathetic at the 
> last minute, but even completely redeemed him. It was a pretty neat 
> trick.

To a point, yeah.  Though they kind of cheated by making him so toothless 
in the third film, i.e. the film in which the redemption reaches its 
climax.  He's not really the same character in the third film that he was 
in the first two films.

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