Respekt for ham - han er meget ligefrem omkring sit engagement i Battlefield: Earth, men især er det underholdende at læse om hans kreativitet:
Citat:
"- What was the best set piece/prop you ever macgyvered on set?
- In STAR WARS, the first one, there's a thing called "the comlink." And that's the little communicator that the Stormtroopers use, and C-3PO uses in one shot. So I was in the production designer's office, showing him some plumbing units that he could design into a set.
And a call came from the floor, from George, and he says "I need a comlink NOW! I need a communicator now!"
So as the call came through, and George was saying he needed a comlink NOW, I undid a pipe, and out fell a filter.
And I looked at it and thought that it had a little grid on the end, with little indented circles around it on one end, and I went OH MY GOD! and I ran to my room, stuck one little ring around it, ran to the floor, and put it into George's hand, and he said "PERFECT!"
And there was only one ever made."
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Citat:
"And the most iconic thing was the laser sword - now we call it the lightsaber.
Well, when I read the script, I knew that that would be the iconic image of this world.
And I was making everything out of junk - I was using real guns, and adapting them for the film, and I would stick with superglue - I got through BOXES of superglue, sticking things on the barrel, sticking on sights to give them a different look - and it was getting near to the time when everything had to be shipped to Tunisia for the start of the shoot at the end of March.
And I still had not found a lightsaber.
And I couldn't make them. We didn't have the money. And I knew it wouldn't look right. I was trying to find an object to make one out of.
And I made Luke's binoculars myself, in my office, out of an old sixteen mill camera. And I stuck on another piece for the viewing screen. And I needed 2 lenses for the front, so I went to a photography shop, in London, where we used to rent all of our equipment from, for movies.
And I found two lenses. And we bought those. And then I just said to the owner - "Do you have anything interesting in boxes, anything you don't use, that I could take a look at?"
And he said "Oh, under that shelf there, that stuff hasn't been looked at it in 10 years, have a look at it."
So the first box I pulled out - I took the lid off - and there was tissue paper inside - and as I pulled off the tissue paper - now, you have to go in slow-motion, and the music is rising...
And there were these flash-handles.
From an old press camera called a Graflex.
And I pulled one out, and just said "Oh my goodness, this is it."
And I bought the lot, raced back to the studios - and my set decorating room was FILLED with shelves of any bit of junk I found that was interesting, it was like a magpie's nest, and I had some rubber draft-excluder that was in T-shape, which I stuck on the Sterling sub-machine guns for the Stormtrooper weapons, and I stuck that to make it into a handle - I stuck seven of them around the end of it.
And I had an old calculator that I'd broken down, and I found a little strip of bubbles, like lenses, and those I stuck into the old grip of this flash-handle.
And I called George.
And I said "You'd better come to my office."
And he walked in, and I just handed him this lightsaber, and it was quite heavy - because it had batteries inside, and it had a red button, and he just held it and smiled.
He knew I got it.
And then he just asked me to add a little ring on the end - because for Tunisia, it didn't fire up, but we needed to hang it on Luke's belt, and that went out to Tunisia - I made two of them. And that's the one that Obi-Wan Kenobi brings from the trunk, the one that he gives to Luke and says "That was your father's". That's the one I made for eight pounds - about twelve dollars."
Man kommer bare længst med lidt kreativitet
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"I can't make out whether you're
bloody bad-mannered, or just
half-witted."
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