TR Otto's comic presence reminds of C3PO from Star Wars
Humberto Torofuerte
strongbool at gmail.com
Tue May 10 17:01:50 CDT 2011
In other words...the robot version of Peter Lorre? To Harrison Ford's Bogart?
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> edmoorester wrote:
>> TR Otto's comic presence reminds of C3PO from Star Wars
>> C3PO himself is an imitation human affecting an
>> (in my opinion) accent that really pissed people off throughout
>> the movies (a comic foil I suppose)
>
> cowardice versus bravery,
> self-aggrandizement versus heroic stoic
> loguacious and weak versus strong and quiet
> deferent versus commanding
> going by a vast yet conflcting set of rules and expectations versus
> doing the existentially right thing
>
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