Goodbyes | 7

Inside Star Wars

Wondery

Documentary, Film History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Alec Guinness tells a child to stop watching Star Wars and drives him to tears. Kenny Baker - the man inside R2D2 - dies, but not before meeting the son he never knew. After great emotional struggle, George Lucas sells Star Wars to Disney. After a lifetime of total control, now he has to say “goodbye.” Carrie Fisher boards a plane at Heathrow Airport in London in 2016 and stops breathing before reaching Los Angeles. The world says goodbye to Princess Leia. Lucas acknowledges the fact that Star Wars used to be his, and now it’s ours. He used to live only for movies - and then he had children. Finally, a wide-eyed return to a movie theater in 1977 and the first time anyone ever saw Star Wars.

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0:07.2	The following may contain mature content.
0:19.0	From Wundrey, I'm Mark Ramsey, and this is Inside Star Wars part 7 the final chapter
0:32.4	1996 San Francisco. Sir Alec Guinness is 82. He's one of the living legends of film and theater.
0:42.0	Up to Mr. Guinness.
0:44.0	He had been playing Shakespeare since the 1930s.
0:47.0	He had starred in Lawrence of Arabia.
0:49.0	He had won an Oscar for the Bridge on the River Quay.
0:52.0	Excuse me, Mr. Guinness.
0:54.0	But to contemporary audiences,
0:56.0	all of that was a long time ago in a galaxy very far away.
1:01.0	Mr. Guinness, I just want you to meet my son. He's a huge fan of yours. The boy was 12.
1:07.0	A sweet face and a heart full of good intentions.
1:11.0	Mr. Guinness, he has seen Star Wars well over a hundred times.
1:16.6	The boy looked up at Alec Guinness with Wonder. Here before him was the legendary Ben
1:22.3	Canobe.
1:24.4	Guinness glared at the boy.
1:26.6	Peering into his eyes, he detected little star shells of madness beginning to form.
1:33.7	He knew one day they would explode.
1:37.0	Young man, I'd love for you to do something for me.
1:40.0	He would do anything, anything for you, Mr. Guinness.
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