(A warlord, whose face we never see under his visored helmet, is played by David Prowse-a physical and vocal double for James Earl Jones.) The acting is the School of Buster Crabbe, except for Alec Guinness who mumbles through on the way to his salary check.
In fact the dialogue itself can hardly be said: it sticks in the actors’ mouths like peanut butter. Lucas’ script has Good Guys, Bad Guys, a princess, intergalactic imperialist war, staunch defenders of human and humanoid rights, secrets that will not be surrendered to the warlords-a whole spectrum of simplified earthly problems projected onto cardboard and illuminated with interminable ray-gun flashes and lastminute huge explosions.Ībout the dialogue there’s nothing to be said. There’s a glitzy attempt at profundity in the opening title which tells us that the story took place on a galaxy far away “a long time ago.” It really takes place in the science-fiction future, a place which is as fixed and fictitious for bad sci-fi writers as the Old West is for bad Western writers. This is Lucas’ tribute to Flash Gordon, and is now enthralling all those who feel that Flash Gordon needs a two-hour, eight-million-dollar tribute. Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels who played the robot C3P0, Carrie Fisher,and Peter Mayhew who played Chewbacca, in 1978.
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