Originally posted by: corellian77
As for my original question, is the PT "technically" different from the OT? For example, is it just my imagination, or are there more medium and close-up shots in the OT? If so, would this have a subconscious effect on the viewer by making them feel more/less intimate with the on-screen characters?
As for my original question, is the PT "technically" different from the OT? For example, is it just my imagination, or are there more medium and close-up shots in the OT? If so, would this have a subconscious effect on the viewer by making them feel more/less intimate with the on-screen characters?
There are definitely more landing platform shots in the PT, and I not saying this in a joking way. Just watch the PT movies again, Lucas puts a ship on a landing platform in almost every scene, compared with the OT where the viewer kinda gets that they land on the planet, and doesn't need to be shown EVERY time! The only time Lucas uses landing platforms in the OT, minus the SE additions, is when there is something that will affect the plot. Luke crashing his x-wing into dagobah, which then results in Yoda lifting it out to show Luke the power of the force. The millenium falcon landing on the deathstar and every Stormtrooper plus Darth Vader surround it and you wonder, "How are they going to get out of this one?" Then fastforward to ROTJ and when they land on Endor, you never actually see it except them flying into Endor to show the viewer they have arrived, mainly because it doesn't nothing to drive the plot, so there is no need to show them landing. Now think of the PT, Anakin/Padme in AOTC land on a platform on Tatooine, The crew land on a platform on Coruscant in TPM, ObiWans lands on a platform on the planet he fought Grevious in ROTS. Why does Lucas show us this? Cause it looks cool!!!