You Know You've Watched Star Wars Too Many Times When...

[athersgeo]

...you hear Alec Guinness giving a speech as Marcus Aurelius*, he reaches the line "These are not the frontiers that Rome wants" and you think, "These are not the frontiers you're looking for; he can go about his business"

*And interestingly, Firefox's spellchecker has just corrected my mangling of Aurelius. WTH does Firefox's spellchecker feature long dead Roman emperors?

Comments

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I was watching Miss Marple a few weeks ago and Tom Baker appeared on it. I think this is a problem when actors have such a distinctive voice...

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Yeah - well, distinctive voice combined with iconic role(s).

Though in my case, it doesn't help that I can quote, almost word perfect, most of the script of Star Wars. *sigh* There's a wonderful story about Alec Guinness telling someone "Promise me you will never watch it again" when that someone had boasted about watching Star Wars more than 100 times. I suspect, were he around today, he'd say much the same thing to me!