"Ben Kenobi" vs. "Master Obi-Wan"

Now it's long been one of those bizarre questions... what the heck did George cast Ewan McGregor as the young Alec Guinness for...?!

A possible answer struck me when I saw a quote from Sir Alec's official biographer, to the effect that he was "a bad man trying to be good". Ewan's Kenobi isn't just a hideously miscast Ewan McGregor... he's playing a hideously miscast Ewan McGregor...

"I'm going to get a drink"

That wasn't the first time Kenobi had been in a bar... and he seemed to know what he was doing in Mos Eisley as well. "Wretched hive of scum and villainy"? Ben Kenobi loved the place.

What? You thought he hid in that hut for twenty years?

Nahh.

What's that you say? Not very Jedi? Sure, he'd have to sneak out like a naughty schoolboy... but the man behind the mask, I suspect, is very different from the man who Anakin thinks he is...

Then there's the Clone Wars. I've not seen the comics yet, but I'll wager that it was the most fun he'd ever had. Not that he could admit it, of course, least of all to Anakin... but have there been any hints to this end in the comics yet? Or is General Kenobi just looking dour all the time?

Then there's the genuinely wild stuff...

They say that kids tend to get their mother's father's hair... hmm. Take a good long look at Ben Skywalker. And ask just why Mara Jade inherited Siri Tachi's taste for leather catsuits...

- The Imperial Ewok


This looks like a Star Wars Sage forum or Star Wars community forum topic to me.

 

Maybe it's just the fact that I'm REALLY sick with a cold right now... but in reading your thread, I seriously didn't understand a thing you said.
No offense or anything.

 

A key point to realize about the choice for Ewan Mcgreggor as a previous person to Sir Alec Guiness is that we are to realize Ben Kenobi, FAILED jedi master did not spring from the younglings full of wisdom.

This is not Gandalf and an evil Aragorn the saga of Obi Wan and Anakin

It is the saga of a man whose understanding of the world is built on having started out as a rude, arrogant, reckless young man whom gained every bit of his insight from unfortunately being exposed to the worst men had to offer

 

wow, an interesting perspective to be sure!

Can't blame a man for wanting to hang about in a bar when times get tough, even if it wasn't very old jedish of him.

maybe, since he trained luke, he is kinda the first of the new jedi order? (where drinking, fraternising, marriage and all that is allowed?)

 

For give me thrawn if my repsonse has nothing to do with your post but I found your post somewhat confusing...

Personally I think Ewan was perfect for a young Kenobi. But I agree with you Thrawn about Bens "lifestyle" does seem a bit fitting for his character as a "Bad man trying to be good". But yet it is odd for a Jedi.

But ObiWan is awsome! as proved in the last 2 episodes of the cloneWars cartoon.

Jabba

 

Syntax, I think McEwok is drunk.

More than usual.

 

Syntax,Blithe, Trias: I was stone-cold sober, it was just very late and I couldn't sleep even though I was knackered...

Charlemagne19: It is the saga of a man whose understanding of the world is built on having started out as a rude, arrogant, reckless young man whom gained every bit of his insight from unfortunately being exposed to the worst men had to offer

That's a deeply cynical way of looking at it, I think. Anakin was always a thrill-seeking prig... however endearing that may seem in a nine-year-old... becoming Vader was good for him as a person...

Nil-Spaar: maybe, since he trained luke, he is kinda the first of the new jedi order? (where drinking, fraternising, marriage and all that is allowed?)

I like that thought...

- The Imperial Ewok