Ok, it would seem that all this about Leonardo DiCaprio becoming the next and final Anakin Skywalker has once again resurfaced, and this time it is coming from sources more closely associated with Lucasfilm and is being hinted at with greater conviction. Well, let me just say...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a punk pretty-boy who needs an entire series of savage beatings from every chapter of the book "Advanced Savage Beatings" to wipe that contemptable smug smile right off his ugly face and make him realize that he is less than a worm. He got lucky...ONCE...with What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and now thinks he's bigger than Jesus because he was unwittingly made a drone for Jim Cameron, the only person who's ego is larger, and his perversion of a film "Titanic". So without further ado is my small list of reasons why DiCaprio would make probably the worst Anakin Skywalker imaginable, to be written in intervals, so I don't get too angry and launch on a pointless tirade.

Today's installment:

He would bring waaaayyyyy too much star power to Star Wars. The original trilogy hired complete unknowns, with the exception of Alec Guiness and a bunch of other accomplished British stage actors. TPM hired far more well-known, established actors, but none of whom have ever been featured in what could truly be called a blockbuster - the closest any of them ever got was Liam Neeson with Schindler's List, and that was such a morbid movie and he was so unrecognizable that it certainly can't be placed in the "blockbuster" column. Not even Sam Jackson has really experienced the immense surge of popularity and demand that accompanies a blockbuster. This type of casting has always been, in my view, both extremely beneficial and somewhat intentional. Having a relatively low-key cast has ensured a greater focus on the story and on the whole scope of the movie, instead of on individual performances, resulting in a better all-around feel for the movie-for example, Ewan MacGregor is a fantastic actor, yet his Obi-Wan role in TPM was not what would be considered demanding at all. Having Leo in the remaining two films would divert every iota of attention away from the story (which may prove to be Lucas's best) and focus everything, especially the media and all those thousands of wretched teeny-bopper girls, on Leo Leo Leo. Can't you just hear Entertainment Tonight now? "Leo, you're clearly Jesus Christ come again! Why won't you admit it now that you've conquered the Star Wars galaxy! Why!?" Ugh. Episode II may very well be the greatest Star Wars of them all...my point is, it may NOT be if Leo is allowed into this film. I'm not even going to mention how totally wrong it would be by having him in the starring role in two of the biggest films in history...too much power. Sigh.

Well, I guess that's it for now. Man, I hate that guy.

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John Paige
1.29.2000

Dairy Farmers For Quebec's Independence