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Originally Posted by that old guy  Huey and Dewey from Silent Running |
And Louie. Glad to see a mention of them. A good few years before R2D2, these little guys made one heck of an impression, without any intelligible dialogue or humanoid appearance, the Drones from Silent Running nonetheless were deeply realized characters on their own... and a heck of a lot more complex emotionally. You could drive an entire fleet of trucks through the logical flaws in that film, but somehow it still remains a wonderful film, due in no small part to those who played these little drones....
(Here's to Steve Brown, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks, and Larry Whisenhunt!)