Episode I: The Ridiculous Menace (FULL MOVIE IS AVAILABLE TO STREAM, SEE FIRST POST) — Page 28

Great stuff, as usual.

I have two more suggestions:

- Bleep out every mention of "Sith". Childish, yes. Funny, maybe.

- Have Yoda speak correctly. This is something that always bothered me in the prequels. When Yoda gets serious in ESB and stops playing around, the backwards talk goes away (for the most part, I'm still working on some statistics to back this up), which made me think that Yoda didn't really talk like that, but slipped into doing it after playing the part of "crazy swamp creature" for 20 years. Then we see that 20 years before that, nearly everything that came out of his mouth sounded like a crazy swamp creature. I'd love to see if even serious edits could work on Yoda's backwards speech, because way too many moments that could have been dramatic in the prequels were ruined by Yoda not being able to make a coherent sentence.

It could be argued that maybe Yoda's non-"English" native language has some weird sentence structure, but consider that when he gets serious, the speech instantly corrects itself. This is definitely a topic for another thread once I have my statistics down, but I'd be interested in hearing what could be done with the prequel dialog either way.

doubleofive said:

Great stuff, as usual.

I have two more suggestions:

- Bleep out every mention of "Sith". Childish, yes. Funny, maybe.

- Have Yoda speak correctly. This is something that always bothered me in the prequels. When Yoda gets serious in ESB and stops playing around, the backwards talk goes away (for the most part, I'm still working on some statistics to back this up), which made me think that Yoda didn't really talk like that, but slipped into doing it after playing the part of "crazy swamp creature" for 20 years. Then we see that 20 years before that, nearly everything that came out of his mouth sounded like a crazy swamp creature. I'd love to see if even serious edits could work on Yoda's backwards speech, because way too many moments that could have been dramatic in the prequels were ruined by Yoda not being able to make a coherent sentence.

It could be argued that maybe Yoda's non-"English" native language has some weird sentence structure, but consider that when he gets serious, the speech instantly corrects itself. This is definitely a topic for another thread once I have my statistics down, but I'd be interested in hearing what could be done with the prequel dialog either way.

I can't say I've ever noticed Yoda talking 'normal' when serious.  But that's a good point.  Yoda, in theory, is smart enough to speak properly.  It'd be nice to see a prequel edit that has Yoda's speech corrected and he only goes all Yoda-speak when he's excited or serious (which if what you says is true would involve mixing up normal to Yoda-speak on these occasions).

It's not uncommon for non-native speakers of a language to slip into an accent they had lost or their native language when excited.  It makes more sense that Yoda speech pattern develope from living alone in a swamp for so long.

As for THIS edit, it'd be funnier if Yoda was just made more crazy (like the MTV movie awards clip). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LKDRb-lK9s

maybe this kinda pattern:

crazy, fixed, crazy, crazy, fixed, stutter stutter stutter* crazy

*you know, max headroom style

How about making Yoda's speech even weirder? So he ends up making no sense at all.

Like...

Yoda:  you how feel?

Anakin: Cold, sir.

Yoda: Afraid are you?

Anakin: No, sir.

Yoda: Through can see you we .

Mace Windu: Be mindful of your feelings.

Loving these recent clips Frink... special mention goes to the "tiny gungan living inside my chest" and "Obi-Wan is short on time" :)

That Yoda clip wasn't half bad, even for a serious edit. Interesting.

Great video :)

-Angel

A bit too choppy for my taste.

I definitely enjoy what you're doing with the Gungans, lol.

One thought that crossed my mind was more Admiral Ackbar. Whenever the heroes are headed into a trap, he can pop in to declare "it's a trap!" Perhaps a bridge too far but had to throw it out there.

Put Captain Solo in the Cargo Hold said:

What about having a character being dubbed by Lucas himself?

You clever Fink.

I wonder who that was...

TV's Frink said:

Someone on FE.org just said they weren't a fan of using "irregardless."

:-)