Hi everyone,
I’m glad to post here The Empire Strikes Back 1993 audio commentaries from The Definitive Collection LDs :
- subtitles : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b5jGmy-VxTtoJhOAtDyzZ-HV_v9XFNbN/view?usp=drive_link
- original audio commentary analog track (so without the dialogs between the commentaries) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlVq8nKAx8CaAAcu-ETBs78uuk1wWORE/view?usp=drive_link
As before, as there are quite a few moments when I don’t really understand what is said, please feel free to tell me when you can correct what I have written !!!
Here below are the different parts I think that are incorrect :
- 1st commentary starting @ [00:00:19] :
–…Far beyond, I thought that we didn’t want to be done in Star Wars…
–…have a lot of people in the shots where it was in Star Wars… - 2nd commentary :
–…So every frame at a time so that we could…
–…all the camera shakes from the helicopter…
–…not going to be shot at Tauntaun… - 3rd commentary :
–…ships are going so fast that they are transparent… - 4th commentary :
–…based on what the background plates were doing… - 5th commentary :
–…I don’t think everyone would have moved (them) very well…
–…on that snow that you see is baking powder… - 7th commentary :
–…they looked like hovercraft…
–…injured or had something give it a shot…
–…So we went to baking soda…
–…Mark runs away from his snowspeeder or nothing was in the shot…
–…and then mat that over it…
–…basically all cartoon animation…
–…behind a hill as it gets close to an object cast a shadow on it… - 8th commentary :
–…Leading to dig above the ship…
–…to make the painted blue sections on R2 D2 read his blue… - 9th commentary :
–…and luckily it got by George and (?), …
–…you might see a potato flying by (the ?) camera…
–…I think they’re the point of view “looking out through the cockpit” pass on, and everybody, as they’re staring straight ahead, some of those asteroids or potatoes…
–…its rocket passes…
–…it does this barrel roll…
–…as it comes by camera…
–…you can’t see any of the garbage mats…
–…like lights and century stands…
–…some of the backgrounds of the asteroids had a large “asteroid box”… - 10th commentary :
–…into these blue pylons mounted into it (???) against a blue screen…
–…we hung some little miniature goblety-gook like swamp vines …
–…this model and matted (???) in Luke … - 11th commentary :
–…I actually gave both the assignment…
–…make him tall…
–…I think we have bringing versions… (green ?) - 12th commentary :
–…bodies and any (???) proportion of what you grow up (???)…
–…a very odd look that wouldn’t be put off-ish… - 13th commentary :
–…and Gary Kurtz (???), producer, the “price drags back” (???) I believe… - 15th commentary :
–…espousing philosophy at one point in the end, …
–…I don’t know if that’s the found (???),…
-16th commentary :
–…usually it was in the slate or before the slate …
–…we were on the night ship … - 17th commentary :
–…that Frank do it, talk to Frank…
–…with it in a very fastened sort of way… - 18th commentary :
–…since I’m baggabond…
–…I thought it looked ??? on me in the film…
–…which lay them in very white pale… - 19th commentary :
–…I’m not trying to get to it because I’m going to get to it. - 21st commentary :
–…that Brian Johnson shot sunset cloud pieces …
–…Just joined by these strange…
–…to shoot multiple passes even on our color light passes …
–…And it was just a chore …
–…made out of plywood …
–…have a fork lift …
–…And John Van Blee …
Regards