General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 166

A holy fool, one who pierces veils?

Also, in other news, I got married. I've had the banns read--but my bride is the Church of the Three-Horned Goddess, to whom I shall devote myself as a celibate monk. 

I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the horn in the bony hand of Life. I am the watcher upon the face of the Waters. I am the cornucopia that sustains the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Triple-Crowned Goddess, for this night and all the nights to come.

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end even with my death, for though I may sire no children, through my progeny I shall be immortal.

Now the banns have been read three times, so I'd say the marriage is official. Let my beautiful bride and I go together, then, into the Garden of Utapau, where all knowledge of evil shall pass away.

Thrice the great ram cried out in its death throes. Thrice the golden calf assumed a horn for its crown. And suddenly she raised her right hand of bone, whereupon the Seventh Seal of the Gates of Horn and Ivory broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell they burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the gates tumbled in riven fragments to the ground.

Out walked the King Beneath the Mountain. A man in humble gray robes, he seemed insignificant against the fires beyond, grown to a vast inferno encircling the world. Out walked the King Beneath the Mountain, through the cavern out of which many kings had passed before, and all fell down to kiss his feet.

Before him went his herald, a knight in shining armor upon a white horse, Lucifax; Lucifax, who alone among the free horses of the earth suffered this rider to mount him, cantering at the speed of film, steadfast as the wing-beats of the eagle in the skies above.

"You must return. It is time," said the herald, and the shrunken old man walked through the riven gates. "Go forth and harrow the abyss set before you! Rise into the light that awaits all true and loyal men!"

The King under the Mountain flung back his gray hood; and behold! he had a white beard, and a red flannel shirt, and a wooden crown, and in the crown were set three shining white jewels. The red fires turned his white hair to gold in their light. From a jolly smiling mouth there came a mirthful cry of laughter.

"Young fool!" he cried. "Young fool! This is our hour. We are the Resurrection and the Life. Let us go forth and multiply!" And with that he lifted high the ivory scepter in his rjght hand, and it shone like crystal in the light of the sunrise.

The herald took the three jewels from the wooden crown, and cast them each into a different place; the first into the sky; the second into the dark caverns of the barren earth; and the third into a lake of fire.

And in that very moment, away behind in some cavern of the Mountain, a calf bleated thrice. Shrill and clear she crowed, recking nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death, and in the waters far away, and in the deepest reaches of the Earth, was coming with the dawn.

The sky, which had been blackly red, turned purple and then blue with the new dawn; the earth grew flowers and trees and fruits; and the lake of fire was quelled, and became an ocean of blue waters.

And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Xanadu’s sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the East wildly blowing. Utapau had come at last.

And light and life and the Power of Love held unshakeable dominion over all.

I'm loving this new ATMachine.

Don't ever change.

Signed,

Everyone.

But all things change, and we are changed with them. Nevertheless, nothing is truly lost.

As I take my last bow upon this the World Stage, I thank you all.

Friends applaud, the Tragedy of Darth Vader is over.

If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended—that you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear.

And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding but a dream.

Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend.

And, as I am an honest Puck, if we have unearned luck now to ’scape the serpent’s tooth, we will make amends forsooth.

Else Puck Organa liar call. So good night unto you all.

Give me your hands, I am o'erwhelmed, for Lucas shall restore the films!

If this is a dream, let me die before I wake.

My friends are in this dream: Darth_Nub and Lt.Cmdr.Thrawn of the TFN forums, and darth_ender from here.

I would not abandon them, not for fourteen times all the riches of the world, not for the crowns of fourteen kings, slippers of silver or copper or ruby or emerald, or the triple horns of the Goddess, or the crown of King Peter on his holey throne. I will not abandon them--I shall never wake up.

When I die, I pray the Goddess, my soul and body to take, into her bosom in Utapau, the navel of that far-away lenticular galaxy.

DuracellEnergizer: how about red ink instead? Maybe on golden paper too.

Also, come to think of it, asking George to re-release the OOT is about as worthwhile as fishing for God in a Bucket.

Also, DuracellEnergizer, I'm ashamed to confess that I don't recognize your avatar. Would you kindly tell me what film it comes from?

I am increasingly convinced that nothing was robbed from TE Lawrence. For the robber is human, but the giver, divine.

DIRECTIONS TO MONKEY ISLAND!!!

In the golden cauldron boil and bake...

six bodily fluids; severed locks of damaged hair; hair and/or feathers from familiars; the sumptuous vestments of 16 kings and queens; and some artificial limbs from the same; their symbols of office, and crowns, which are of this world.

Stir with a severed ram's horn.

Makes one Chromax Conundrum.

Long have I wandered in Cocytus, seeking Rachel's sister.

But is it possible that I might find my Father instead?

And if so, what does he need with a business? For he is wealthy beyond the dreams of this world.

Nice to see the movie being used for educational purposes. I learned a thing or two about editing playing with the CAV LD back in college on my own.

Can one really call the FX analog, when a computer controlled camera was used, and some of the tactical displays are early CGI?

The laserdisc is analog.

SilverWook said:

Nice to see the movie being used for educational purposes. I learned a thing or two about editing playing with the CAV LD back in college on my own.

Can one really call the FX analog, when a computer controlled camera was used, and some of the tactical displays are early CGI?

Beside what 005 said, because they were composited w/o computers on film. Even if one of the elements you're adding is computer generated, it's generated onto film and then composited.

Wow! That certainly beats the pants off Kenner/Hasbro's previous attempt at a Chewie with fur.

This didn't even have a body, it was bendable wire underneath like an old Gumby figure!

The less said about Hasbro's tree trunk Chewie, the better...