Vader & Mufasa died

[Kent88]

Goodbye James Earl Jones.

 

[Yesfan]

May the Force be with him................

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[Kent88]

 

[Bramling Cross]

Some time around 1994 I was standing in line at the Alaska check-in counter at San Jose International behind a rather large fella. Someone walked up to him and he turned sideways to speak with her and, wow!, that's James Earl Jones!!! I left him alone, but was impressed at how soft spoken, polite, and jovial he was with everyone. What an absolute gentleman! It was endearing to see him as just another schlub trying to check in and make his flight like the rest of us. He certainly didn't have the primadonna gene and that left an impression on me.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Empire State Building

 

[DBhomebrew]

If y'all haven't listened to the podcast Cine-Files yet, I highly recommend it in general. Specifically, they do excellent remembrances of major film makers. Their recent run of Donald Sutherland for example. I bet they'll do a month's worth for James Earl Jones. Looking forward to it.

 

[Kent88]

Field of Dreams is on Netflix and my headache said no to Empire Strikes Back yesterday.

FoD is a fine movie, but I always feel like I'm missing a point or theme after I've watched it. I remember trying to read the book in highschool and it just didn't hold my interest.

Jones had a good part in that movie.

Rewatching it last night for the first time in years I felt like maybe there isn't much of a point. There are rom coms that come out every year with no point, why not just a movie where we get to know a guy who had a tough relationship with his dad, and at the end of the movie he gets a chance to play catch with his ghost?

 

[DBhomebrew]

It's all about the unhealed wounds, missed opportunities of childhood/youth and gaining the maturity of learning we never will. We just have to learn to accept them.

1) The book is largely auto-biographrical. The main character shares the name of its author.

2) Recall that Jones's character of Terrance Mann is JD Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye. A story stuck in youth if there ever was one. Kinsella has to bring Mann on the journey because it is only Mann who can see the world as a youth does, in wonder.

3) Doc's greatest wish is to play a full game of major league ball, his youthful endeavor. When he gets the chance to do so he willingly, knowingly, gives it up...to save a child.

Is there a point to childhood other than enjoying it while you have it, then learning to move on when it's your time to do so? Don't we all wish we can experience, for a fleeting moment at least, the youths we wish we had? It's this wish that is in conflict with the demands of adulthood; mortgage, crop yields, etc.

I don't think it's his dad's ghost he plays with at the end. It's the ghost of his own childhood.

 

[Sailingeric]

My wife sent this to me today. Very funny

 

[DBhomebrew]

If y'all haven't listened to the podcast Cine-Files yet, I highly recommend it in general. Specifically, they do excellent remembrances of major film makers. Their recent run of Donald Sutherland for example. I bet they'll do a month's worth for James Earl Jones. Looking forward to it.

They're reposting some of their back catalog with new intros. So far, the Star Wars Trilogy and The Hunt for Red October. Field of Dreams and Coming to America upcoming. Plus a live show covering Jones's career.

Star Wars: A New Hope

 

[mac_1103]

It's the ghost of his own childhood.

The loss we are really mourning whenever we mourn any loss.