![]() ![]() ![]() Putting him in the hands of a classically trained British thesp who could quote Shakespeare at 'will' was assuredly building on rock. George Lucas had, of course, been boning up on his archetypes, and here was a classic mentor figure cut from the Merlin/Gandalf cloth - the givers of wisdom. For all the special effects, space cowboys, arch villains and comedy droids, it was Kenobi who gave Star Wars conviction. Out of the mouth of Ben 'Obi-Wan' Kenobi, in the silver-haired guise of Alec Guinness (whose voice could varnish wood), it sounded like holy liturgy. It binds the galaxy together." On paper, that reads pretty silly. It's an energy field created by all living things. "The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. ![]()
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