Wuher the Bartender
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Wuher the Bartender
“Werr-her”. I’m guessing that’s how you pronounce the bartender’s name, Wuher. I’ve never heard it spoken aloud by any official source. Anyway, I thought it would be funny if a dead patron’s body was as big of an urgency as any typical table cleaning at such a seedy dive as the cantina. I know… we here at Blue Milk Special are weird.
Some interesting notes. Wuher was a British actor with a very brutish, English accent. He was re-dubbed, as with many British speaking extras in the film with an American voice actor. This was done for Dr. Evazan (the ugly-faced guy who harasses Luke at the bar), Commander Willard (the senior Rebel officer who greets Leia at the Massassi Templer), Chewbacca (with a growl… poor Peter Mayhew) and most famously with David Prowse’s Darth Vader being voiced by the inimitable James Earl Jones. Another interesting note is that Greedo has a lot of lookalikes. Of course, they could be any of his green-skinned Rodian race, but the Expanded Universe (which we often to jibe well with here at BMS) has made all sorts of speculative connections with their being his extended family.
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You were very kind to that actor you know. One of the striking things – and this was good casting – was his dour looking facial expression accentuated by that terrific nose! (“Hey! why the long face?”)
I always thought he looked familiar, and now I see that it might be because, as you say, he’s an English actor.
Trust me… his acting was no where near as effective as it was with the American voice actor dubbed over. You can see the whole Cantina scene including Han making out with “Jenny” in a black and white cut available at http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/swcs/ Look under “Episode IV” and then select “Lost Cut”. The direct link to the AVI file is http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/swcs/clips/Cantina.avi Enjoy. It’s amazing.
Didn’t know about all those English extras being dubbed, knew about poor David Prowse and Peter Mayhew.
BMS educational and fun!
Just saw the deleted scene, who knew that Wuher’s cantina was in the East End of London, I guess that explains why Kenobi describes it as being rough!
That’s some good stuff there. Leaves ya wondering what they ended up doing with ol’ Greedo’s body!
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I belive they cut off his head and made the rest into a drink for jabba
Lime flavored, of course! 😉
This is the guy that got killed by the guy that saved the life of the guy that blew up the death star. That’s the most famous thing we’ve ever had in here! This guys going up on the wall!