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Post #283238

Author
Murch
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Info: The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (Michel Parbot)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283238/action/topic#283238
Date created
19-Apr-2007, 3:21 PM
Man, there's always somebody who turns a huge positive into a negative situation. As some one else here said, no one would have known as much as we do now about this doc if Darth Neo hadn't come forward. He's already shared about 15- 20 min of it! But I guess some people feel "entitled" to other people's property simply because they're a fan.

Do you realize how much time and effort goes into building a site of that scale? All for FREE for everyone's benefit! All for a love of the films and a desire to share that love with other fans. Are Star Wars fans as a whole paying for his time and server/internet fees etc? Obviously not, so give him a break! He doesn't HAVE to share anything with anybody. Just cause you can't download it doesn't mean it wasn't great that you got the chance to see it in the first place. If you want to see it again, go to the site. In fact, he's created something really wonderful as an exhaustive reference point for star wars photos. Nothing else there really exists in this format. There are sites that have a multitude of images, but most of those pics are of the standard variety.

I've corresponded personally with Darth Neo over the past few weeks (some of my photos are on his site) and I will attest that he's done all of this work for Star Wars fans just because he wants to share his passion for the films, and their making of. He's a great fellow fan and his generousity is limitless.

If you're jealous that he has something you don't, well you just have to learn that lesson in life. Everybody on this board is interested in sharing as much material with each other as possible, but at some point you have to draw the line. Darth Neo made a promise not to re-distribute the making of. But he did come on this site, signed up, gave as much info as he could and gave us footage from it. I own original photo material from the films. Since I'm a member on this site, does that entitle everyone here to high res copies of those photos, especially when I'm the one who invested the money in aquiring them in the first place? But I did feel as a fan it would be great to show them in a format and size that doesn't diminish the rarity of my originals, and that's why they're on his site in a lower res and non-downloadable. As for his making of doc, I think he's stretched his promise about as far as it can go in our favor, don't you?

Being from the netherlands, Darth Neo can bring a lot of international material to us that most North American's would have trouble finding. He's a great fan and I know the majority here appreciate what he's doing. He shouldn't have to defend himself in the least, especially since a week ago, 99 percent of us hadn't seen a lot of the images now displayed for free on his site.