An 80 minute video on fuckin C3PO. This is why I love Rob Ager.

George Lucas to Anthony Daniels: you are going to play a funny robot

Collative Learning:

The dirty look of the first Star Wars film is so refreshing when everything in the new atrocities looks perfect beyond reality, like watching a video game.

After majoring in Classics in college, I started to realize that the droids, and 3PO in particular, are successors to the stock slave characters from comedic plays from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. These characters tended either to be either clever or idiots, and their actions were usually in support of the young handsome sons of their owners, often in farcical romantic schemes. 3PO's role as an effete translator seems to mark him as something like the educated Greek slaves who were often caricatured in Roman art and literature.

Me: sandcrawler
You: sandcrawler
Everyone: sandcrawler
Collective learning: J A W A T R U C K

C3PO saying "Will this never end?"
No, C3PO. Nearly 50 years later and no sign of slowing down. What a curiously prophetic line

The thing I loved about C-3PO and R2D2's relationship they were like an old married couple always bickering with one another but still having a great fondness for one another too!

My man really just made an hour and a half analysis on C - 3PO. Mad respect.

C3PO is kind of an everyman so to speak, very human in his decisions and responses. Wants to avoid danger and improve his own circumstances but is still wanting to help out if the risk is low. He is involved not by choice but by circumstances more or less and just wants to make it out alive.

Anthony Daniels:  Finally, my day has come.

This isn't just analysis of C3PO, it's an exploration of the entire droid mythos of Star Wars, how they work.

The Hidden Fortress is directly referenced in the first film!
The haughty imperial officer before he is choked by Vader snarls ‘...nor given you clairvoyance to find the rebel’s HIDDEN FORT...’
And that’s as far as he gets before Vader strangles him.

I always thought 3p0's line about not being a good storyteller wasn't a deliberate lie but used later in the scene with the ewoks to show how much he has grown and changed during the adventure.  That he was now more confident and self possessed,  a true completion of his story arch.

"The bedside lamp is making an escape." LOL

I always loved C-3PO because he genuinely cares about people safety and just wants to do the right thing. Sometimes you need a fraidy-cat in the bunch in order to remain focused on the dangers ahead.

"I suggest a new strategy, Artoo : let the Wookie win"  - C3PO

This'll pass the next hour and twenty two minutes very nicely.

"I do believe they think I am some sort of god."

I always thought it frustrating and sad that Threepio, a slave, is constantly belittled and even switched off by our heroes and yet when reactivated after being shot his first thought is to warn them.

C-3po has always been gold; his design is drawn heavily from the 1927 film metropolis