Bingowings

G&G-Fan said:

Bingowings said:

The rich blue sky looks better, though I understand the reasoning behind having a slightly greenish sky’s on a planet of yellow and orange sand but it’s not a science fiction film so aesthetics are a higher priority.

I’ve never seen a version with a greenish sky. The official blu-ray looks grey and Ady’s looks blue.

I’m seeing a pale greenish tint to the sky in the Blu-ray version which might be justified as particulates in the atmosphere but doesn’t look anywhere near as good as Adywan’s rich blue. And as I say Star Wars isn’t Science Fiction.

The rich blue sky looks better, though I understand the reasoning behind having a slightly greenish sky’s on a planet of yellow and orange sand but it’s not a science fiction film so aesthetics are a higher priority. Loved how you have reflipped and reframed Threepio. I noticed this from the original ANH:R but just adding the blue eye light to Artoo makes him more Artoo. Everything looks sharper. The Battle droid cameo is as subtle as it originally was. Hopefully you will manage to sneak at least one Rogue One style Imperial battledroid onto the Death Star.

Yesterday I saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (another film I’m a very tiny blurry cog in). It’s not 100% faithfull to the book but it is still mesmerising. On set the creature design didn’t look like much but earlier in the film the creature has no hair and he looks like a beautiful classical statue shattered and reconstructed by a museum. The film has the appropriate emotional weight. Even if some of my favourite aspects of the book are missing. Well worth a watch.

She also had a guest appearance in Babylon 5 but didn’t have scenes with Bill Mummy who played Will in Lost in Space.

The last movie I saw was I Swear(2025) I have to declare an interest or two here. First of all I was a supporting artist on this one. Though my contribution is probably trimmed to a couple of nanoseconds. The other is I have Tourettes myself so there was the strange situation where lead actor Robert Aramayo was doing a fine job of playing a man from Glasgow with a tic disorder and do a great job making the tics look authentic, in the same room as myself playing a a man from Glasgow without a tic disorder and hopefully doing a great job repressing my urge to tic.

The film is a slightly reordered and condensed telling of local hero John Davidson. Starting with his childhood, the onset of his illness and the events of his life with a still much misunderstood neurological condition. If it’s playing near you it’s well worth a watch.

The John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith of poster artists Drew Struzan he famously didn’t do the first Raiders poster btw…his was better in my opinion.

John Grant held my hand last week. He held other people’s hands too but that was him covering his obvious shyness.

Looks like this time it’s happening. https://kotaku.com/star-wars-original-theatrical-cut-4k-restoration-leaks-screenshot-disney-2027-2000638887

Use really bad digital face replacement and CGI models to make all force users in the original and sequel trilogies as boingy as the ones in the prequels. Have Luke triple somersault up the stairs to confront Vader at Bespin. Have Yoda bounce around like a ping pong ball training Luke on Dagobah. Have Ben swipe at Vader while upside down in a mid air bounce. Have Kylo Renn engage Snoke’s red card in a glow stick disco dance. To emphasize these changes add boing noises to all nine episodes and the spin offs and television shows.BOING!!!

Replace Lapti Nek with footage from Captain EO so that Michael Jackson can be in a Star Wars movie.

Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California, United States

Dargo off Farscape.

Replace all the characters played by puppets with actors in suits and all the actors with CGI and all the CGI with puppets.

Any thoughts on how to make the battle droids less silly or better still actually sinister? They look skeletal maybe having them scream machine code like the skeleton warriors in Jason and the Argonauts as they charge into battle would be unnerving. Or maybe have their eyes change as they go into attack mode.

LeviathanTDS said:

Bingowings said:

Found it https://youtu.be/OYaz85FrSz4?si=YFk0qu9PIa1rcF4_

Surprisingly great compared to the one back in 70’s behind the scenes. If they used this, I’d have no objection. Though I still don’t understand the link between this and “Darth Farmer”. It SORT OF, I express the words SORT OF reminds me of either the Emperor or the Horned King or a character you’d hear from The Lord of the Rings.

As I said, in British English a West Country (not Scottish 😁) accent is associated with agriculture, much like a Southern US accent might. That’s how the nickname stuck.

Robert Redford 89 https://www.theguardian.com/film/robertredford

Found it https://youtu.be/OYaz85FrSz4?si=YFk0qu9PIa1rcF4_

Darth Farmer is the mocking nickname given to Prowse based on the on set recordings. So called because his Bristol accent is more associated with agricultural archetypes, at least in the 70s it was.

JoyOfEditing said:

Here’s a brand new RECUT: https://youtu.be/MswuP8RLR7Q

I’ll be back to doing Editing breakdowns soon, as long as work doesn’t get too busy.

Enjoy the Edit!

-JoE

Sanded that the new down a bit.

LeviathanTDS said:

Bingowings said:

I grow weary of people taking the piss out of David Prowse’s on set delivery. He was wearing a mask so he had to yell for the other actors to catch their cues. He knew the voice would be recorded in post production but was led to believe he would be doing it. He was an actor. If given the task he wouldn’t have performed it in his own Bristol accent. Would it be as good as JEJ, doubtful, but it wouldn’t have been the same voice he used on set. Anthony Daniels also knew his lines would be rerecorded so he too used his natural voice. Lucas intended Threepio to sound like a used car salesman but when he heard Daniels on set voice he called him back to exaggerate that performance and Threepio became a fussy butler instead. Despite the crappy way Lucas treated Prowse (and the other Darth, Peter Serafinowicz) Prowse and JEJ both praised eachother and he did a lot of charity work before his death. But yeah it would be funny. Artoo was originally going to speak English too.

You could call me out directly, no need to beat around the bush. I thought this post was just for comedy reasons. If you feel I’ve gone too far then, I’m sorry. Hope there is no bad blood between us

Nah bad blood. I am just annoyed by the prevalence of the Darth Farmer thing. Someone made a video where fans in the biz took Prowse to a sound booth and recorded him giving an actual Vader performance and did all the post production filtering and it was good. As iconic as JEJ…? probably not. If it had been there in 1977 we wouldnt know that though. I wish I could find that video

https://youtu.be/PHMUkABUiq8

I grow weary of people taking the piss out of David Prowse’s on set delivery. He was wearing a mask so he had to yell for the other actors to catch their cues. He knew the voice would be recorded in post production but was led to believe he would be doing it. He was an actor. If given the task he wouldn’t have performed it in his own Bristol accent. Would it be as good as JEJ, doubtful, but it wouldn’t have been the same voice he used on set. Anthony Daniels also knew his lines would be rerecorded so he too used his natural voice. Lucas intended Threepio to sound like a used car salesman but when he heard Daniels on set voice he called him back to exaggerate that performance and Threepio became a fussy butler instead. Despite the crappy way Lucas treated Prowse (and the other Darth, Peter Serafinowicz) Prowse and JEJ both praised eachother and he did a lot of charity work before his death. But yeah it would be funny. Artoo was originally going to speak English too.

Ady used a memorable snippet.

Personally I would prefer to see Luke assemble the saber on Dagobah using the Force. It made no sense to me that Luke would walk straight into Jabba’s palace with no extra training after getting his ass handed to him. He promised to return to Yoda. I’d shift the Yoda scenes to the beginning of the film, implication being that he has been training for ages before Yoda finally dies (not mid sentence after waiting for Luke to come back). Having Luke have to use the Force to assemble the saber makes Vader’s later comments about Luke’s complete skills make more sense. It’s his skills with the Force the Emperor is interested in not his skills with a screwdriver.

The air swim? Is that a Force move too?