Rewatching Star Wars.
Wedge Antilles is the only BY GOD fighter pilot in the whole damn Rebellion.
Denis Lawson did an excellent job with the role, I am convinced he's got a pilot or two as a close relative or friend of the family.
If you watch his performance and compare it to footage taken from pilots during training you'll see what I am talking about.
Additionally the FX people did a great job setting up the fangs-out mode.
When he takes care of the TIE padlocked on Luke he makes a HEAD ON guns attack right past Luke's fighter. Effectively he's using Luke as a mask to make his own attack. Grab your favorite combat flight sim and try it! Shit ain't easy. It's a lot easier to merge into the turns your wingman is making and then get behind the baddy.
It starts at about 1:49:00 on the DVD I have. Mr Lawson sells the performance. He's LOOKING at both Luke and the TIE and working the angles to set up the shot. Well what's in front of him isn't a space battle, it's a sound stage and a camera crew. I'll bet his ship ends about a foot in front of what we can see in the shot.
Hat's off, Mr Lawson! The only character and actor other than the main cast to be in all three original films.
PS: He's also the only pilot in that trench who goes, "who came up with the tactic of flying in a straight line between the lead and the enemy and why am I still doing this stupid shit?"
Wedge Antilles is the only BY GOD fighter pilot in the whole damn Rebellion.
Denis Lawson did an excellent job with the role, I am convinced he's got a pilot or two as a close relative or friend of the family.
If you watch his performance and compare it to footage taken from pilots during training you'll see what I am talking about.
Additionally the FX people did a great job setting up the fangs-out mode.
When he takes care of the TIE padlocked on Luke he makes a HEAD ON guns attack right past Luke's fighter. Effectively he's using Luke as a mask to make his own attack. Grab your favorite combat flight sim and try it! Shit ain't easy. It's a lot easier to merge into the turns your wingman is making and then get behind the baddy.
It starts at about 1:49:00 on the DVD I have. Mr Lawson sells the performance. He's LOOKING at both Luke and the TIE and working the angles to set up the shot. Well what's in front of him isn't a space battle, it's a sound stage and a camera crew. I'll bet his ship ends about a foot in front of what we can see in the shot.
Hat's off, Mr Lawson! The only character and actor other than the main cast to be in all three original films.
PS: He's also the only pilot in that trench who goes, "who came up with the tactic of flying in a straight line between the lead and the enemy and why am I still doing this stupid shit?"