Didn’t see the name until the Kenner figure came along. I doubt Kenner would make one up, so it must come from Lucasfilm? Maybe someone was a Ramones fan. 😉
What connotation does the name Jar Jar have on it’s own?
He’s named for the 19th century King Jaja of Nigeria. Some seriously deliberate racism there.
I hope they’ve made Rosh less whiny this time.
Oh wait, were you talking about the books?
I still say nothing beats Darth Maul’s brother Supreme Emo, er, Savage Opress.
^ Good choice. I also like white lightsabers tho.
Oh, and yellow. Mustn’t forget yellow.
My main problem with the SW Ring theory is it doesn’t have enough Nibelungs.
SW generally hasn’t had captions to introduce planets - it would kind of clash with Lucas’ preferred cinema verité aesthetic used in the OT.
The Leigh Brackett draft of ESB introduced the Imperial capital world with a caption, though. Maybe that’s one reason why it feels rather tonally different than the SW we know.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that information. 😃
That certainly puts a new spin on Star Trek IV.
IMHO the film that would best enrich ANH is Star Wars (1977).
Han Solo’s pants are invisible to people who don’t believe in them.
1997 versions. At least I have fun memories of seeing those in the theater.
Really? I only remember being utterly aghast, appalled and mortified.
If anything, those versions have the most negative emotions attached for me.
Which I guess makes sense since I never watched any other versions. Or even the '97 RotJ…Like many people, I never expected them to completely replace the originals the way they did.
The last OOT VHS release before the '97 SE did warn us: “Own the original trilogy… one last time.”
Which, unfortunately, turned out to be not mere advertising copy, but (aside from the GOUT) literal truth as far as GL was concerned.
And even the GOUT was simply copied from early '90s laserdisc releases. Because LFL had to make sure that 1997 was the “last time” anyone saw the OOT film stock, apparently.
^ I’ve never liked the idea that believing in the Force isn’t enough, that you need some sort of magic blood or special genes to draw on the power of the Force. Abilities like that being limited by heredity is a disturbingly eugenicist idea and one of the uglier parts of classic SF.
Someone being Force-skilled but untutored is a much more reasonable idea IMO.
Of course SW itself was highly revolutionary for the 70s in not having opening credits. So much so that the controversy eventually led GL to abandon the Director’s Guild after it fined Kershner over doing this in ESB!
The first instance I can recall of another film aping SW in this regard is the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. I could be wrong though. Still, that’s a nearly 25-year gap, which itself suggests how unusual SW’s opening once was.
I do like the presence of some sort of film-opening title or logo (aside from the production company logo, of course). It’s like the rising of a curtain as a play begins, or the opening shot of a storybook in a classic Disney film: it gets you in the proper mood for watching a movie unfold on screen.
IIRC almost all the SW video games from the LucasArts days have had an opening crawl of some sort. (Well, except Yoda Stories…)
I do like the idea of dispensing with the crawl in order to differentiate the anthology films from the “regular” installments though.
I’ve always wondered who at LFL decided the ESB logo should read “Star The Empire Strikes Back Wars”.
Who’s to blame for the questionable Sister Leia plot twist in ROTJ? Richard Wagner, apparently.
Even counting TFA, there are not enough ladies wielding lightsabers in the canon SW 'verse.
The PT era has plenty of Jedi ladies of various species.
Who appear on screen for less than five seconds each and have no lines and no personality to speak of.
And are you honestly recommending me to watch the prequels? On this forum?
If nothing happens to change the present state of affairs, that will indeed be the judgment of history. Sad.
That’s an assumption, not an answer. And with a man as slippery as George Lucas - who makes “experimental films” in private that have so far never been publicly seen - it’s a fair question.
George Lucas and his family are still bitter at Disney for making a better version of Ep. VII
Better than what?
It’s probably the most mainstream massively popular movies it’s happened to. It is important.
There is a lot of important films that this has happened to for different reasons.
And it’s not a good thing that it happens at all. But if we all succumbed to the same fatalism, we wouldn’t have things like the mostly-complete print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, or the long-missing second reel of the Spanish Dracula.
Fortunately, we have film historians who fight against the ravages of time by unearthing such treasures. And in our own case, people like Harmy and even Team Negative1 have preserved history by recreating the OOT, in the teeth of George Lucas’ attempt to squelch his own creation using the might of copyright law.
Ten years? That’s just since LFL gave the world GOUT. It’s been 20 years since there was an official home-video release of the OOT at the quality levels expected of contemporary home video technology.
And “others do it” is not a valid excuse for chucking the OOT off a cliff.
That’s an abstract problem, and one that isn’t nearly as relevant given the sale of LFL to Disney. The continued unavailability of a proper release of the OOT is a continuing concrete problem, one that Disney so far has been content to acquiesce in.
^ Yes! Exactly!
Maybe Kanan’s testosterone finally kicked in?
