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Post #1569800

Author
Corellian Sailor
Parent topic
Preservation Project: "Bilder aus Amerika" - The Making of Return of the Jedi (1983) (Released)
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Date created
16-Dec-2023, 5:11 PM

Thanks for your appreciation! If you guys like what we did, then we obviously did a good job.

Yes, some comments in the show may seem quite strange to Star Wars fans - even to me as a German SW fan.

But you have to take into account that the two journalists who hosted the show and their team were sent to the US to report on all sorts of political and cultural issues. And I figure none of them were really familiar with the SW franchise at the time. They just got popped in the middle of the Star Wars hype. So I guess you can’t blame them for not being SW experts back then. In the end they didn’t really know what this was all about. And so they produced some really wonderful fails.

My favorite fail in the voice-overs is confusing the AT-ATs with the Tauntauns and calling the AT-ATs “snow lizards”. Brilliant 😃 And Yoda being the son of E.T.? Wrong, but even more brilliant, bearing in mind that Yoda showed up on the silver screen two years before E.T. 😃 Hail the 80s!

If you want to watch the video (including the Bernstein interview) in English without the German voice-over, use the VLC media player, click on Audio/640kbpsIsotaled, and you’ll get the English version without the German voice-over track.