Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
Originally posted by: twister111So mabye the reason he uses all this green screen stuff and, tries to make the actors go "faster and, more intense". Is because he's shy and, wants to not have to direct the actors for long periods of time.
Yes, there is a good amount of truth to this as far as Lucas' statements from interviews and making-of documentaries are concerned. His dream is to have some sort of "magic wand" that just lets him turn his story ideas into a film he can frankenstein on until he deems it finished - without the need of money, actors and all the other things usually required to make a film these days (i.e. getting rid of all the parts of the filmmaking process that gave him a headache during the production of the classic trilogy). I have a quote I keep in my sig at another star wars board"
"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it." -Mark Hamill
I believe every word of it.
Has anyone seen Drew Carrey's "Green Screen Show"? Now that is some funny stuff!! I die laughing every time I see it, and the acting is 100 times better than what the cast did for the PT. Those guys are acting against nothing too, but they are hilarious! The people in the PT are funny too, but they are not supposed to be...
You an tell when they use props and when they use CGI too and it DRIVES ME NUTS!! Like in AOTC. You see Obi-Wan landing on the rainy platform on Camino. His ship lands, it's all CGI. Next frame, he's getting out of his ship and now it's a real prop!! You can tell by the way the water runs off the ship and the way the lights reflect of the wet windshield. It looks real because it is real. You look at the wet and rainy CGI and you and tell it's just graphics. And I hate it.