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Post #275044

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zombie84
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What is a big fat ass dinosaur doing in my ANH?
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Date created
3-Mar-2007, 3:04 PM
I don't mind the principle of it. Originally it was an astromech droid that did a foreground cross but Lucas replaced with something he felt more lively an interesting, a giant Ronto creature--because the scale of the creature is so much bigger than a droid, the timing of the foreground cross was destroyed and the creature blocks the screen for about a second and a half. This, however, i kind of like--it gives the shot a documentary-like realism, as if some beast just happened to be walking by as the shot was going on and obscures the action. For me, its really the bad CGI quality that bugs me--the ronto's generally held up in wideshot as they are seen in every other instance, populating the background, but in extreme foreground closeup, the texture and resolution just dont look real. As for dinasaurs--dewbacks were always there from the beginning, so dinasour-like beasts were always a background part of the alien universe. Its really with the SE and PT that Lucas made them more visible, and i am thinking that it is only because there technologically was no way to portray them as such in 1977.

Interestingly, the Ronto's are indeed evolved from dinasaurs--ILM took the brontosaurus CG model from Jurassic Park and turned it into the ronto, and then the gallimimus became the "scurriers" seen in the opening entrance shot.