Here (for those who have yet to see it) is Dave's video mockup of the Fett subplot, doing what he does best, getting paid twice for the same job and not getting killed.
I too wish I had a TARDIS so I could strap a HD camera to the BBC cameras and have lovely high quality footage of all the Doctor Who episodes the BBC wiped (and erase Michael Grade from history).
But this isn't the Doctor Who Revisited thread.
Watching the chappy building the model brought back memories of building the MPC kit which my dad suprised me with when I was a sickly little boy.
I must be a related to the Skywalkers because I have very little patience and you really need it to do model kits.
I almost set the house on fire burning little blast marks into the thing.
It looked good when it was finished though.
I was too young to make a joke about the boastful sticker on the box :
EyeShotFirst said:vaderios said:You remind me the utopic captain nemo who had luxury in Nautilus...
ITs a submarine damn it haha.
So the death star should have that metal look.
It works with the viewer's minds too.
-Angel
It matches the rest of the death star to. I think that they are kind of stupid keeping him in a high rise tower. It wouldnt take much to take that thing down.
My mockup a few pages back was a bit Vernesque maybe I should add some candle sconces and a pipe organ ;-)
The Golden Idol said:HotRod said:rcb said:me three.
P O
What's P O? Piss off?
or Post Office (the Black Hole that model space craft dissapear into).
Only joking three P O (Threepio) geddit?
BarBar Jinkx said:I still say an uncampifying filter needs to be used on his over the top lines in RotS
Certainly getting rid of the "No, no, no" and the "Gooooood" bits would save some of this scene I would prefer a sudden morph suggesting that he has had to call on the full strength of his powers to defeat Windu which screws him up instead of the lightning.
There are some very nice photos here :
There's a very nice double arch in there which would be fun to work on.
With a bit of recolouring these would make nice Geonosian landscapes too.
Type "Mesa arch" into the search engine of your choice and you will get some nice images to work from in a variety of light conditions.
It was never designed as a throne room it's just a control tower he's taken over for the duration of his stay but you think they would have rolled out the red carpet and tarted the place up a bit (maybe moving some of his art collection over from Coruscant) it's more gold/copper Jules Vernesque here would love to see someone else have a go at this sort of look.
I don't suppose your paypal account is linked to a credit card account?
Because if it is it's also a credit card transaction and would be covered by card insurance, you might even be able to retract the payment if that was the case.
Ripplin said:Oh come now, no facepalms were necessary with those comments. ;) Just don't show Bingo's comment to Anthony Daniels.
Seriously, about Anthony Daniels, in the "Bring Back...Star Wars" special, he really seems to come off as a guy who thinks he's a great actor. (and bigger than those old Star Wars films) I cannot say if he is or not, not having seen him in anything else. Has anyone here seen him in other things? Is he any good with drama and such? Can he play a bad guy convincingly?
He has played a variety of roles on British television rather well but he is always undeniably Anthony Daniels.
Don't try using it on Anthony Daniels though as it will drain all the energy out of the universe attempting the impossible.
I quite like the idea of the Sith doing this dance of death with each other (it's one of the few prequel ideas I liked).
The apprentice always seeking a chance to overthrow his master with the aid of a young apprentice and the master always trying to hold onto power via the same mechanism makes for a very delicately balanced relationship which could go one for a very long time.
It would have been very easy for Lucas to have just match thousands of Jedi against thousands of Sith but he (un-characteristically) pulled back from that, and a lot of fan expectations to give us something more subtle and diplomatically elegant.
That and using a fake war working from both sides to weaken the Republic and give rise to the Empire were far too intelligent to be in the movies we actually got.
And the good thing about Ady's reworked dialogue is that it doesn't beat the audience over the head with that subtle concept.
The DVD version is like a comedian working out the most clever joke in the world only to spend several minutes explaining the punchline and destroying the impact.
ben_danger said:sounds daft, but i always assumed (before ROTS) that the emperor was just old and ugly in ROTJ, not alien, not facially corrupted by evil, just OLD. i mean he has to be in his 60s in ROTS, so mid to late 80s in ROTJ right?
Sure that would account for some of his look, but not all of it, the eyes, the skin and the strange forehead are not a sign of him just being old.
The Dark Side eating away at him would account for the rest much better than the Force lightning thing which never effected anyone else that bad (Luke gets several full blasts, Palpatine gets no more than he does and it's reflected so presumably weakened. Why then isn't Luke all saggy?).
Back in the day I thought he might be very, very old (200 or something) which now doesn't chime with the prequels as we see them (unless there is a Dorian Gray aspect to his use of the Force which was somehow broken in his conflict with Mace).
It's very rough (I haven't traced around all the the elements and corrected the lighting and colour balance perfectly and one is still more purple than than red) but going by these rough mockups it might be doable (it makes the duel like the classic preview poster too) hopefully someone can do a more convincing attempt:
If that's the case then perhaps he could go part the way there during his battle with Mace (because he is having to divert his strength to the battle) and the rest could be revealed with a more subtle morph effect to create a more of a Mr Hyde transformation than stupid effect we saw in ROTS.
If it's a mask it would be better to see it slip off incrementally than all at once.
oh_riginal said:Bingowings said:Perhaps someone should do a casting search for a Mark Hamill look-a-like for additional shots.
While we are on the subject of Lynchian Star Wars :
"One chance out between two worlds, lightning walk with me" :
Seriously though a deep red throne room might look more interesting (it would match his guards) anyone want to give it a try?
Looks a bit talk show-ish to me...
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH EMPEROR PALPATINE!
Shouldn't that be "ENITAPLAP ROREPME HTIW WOHS THGINOT EHT!" ?
Forget the background features for a minute though and look at how that vibrant red really brings out the hideousness of those features. It could work (though Vader's blade might get a little lost in there).
I wish there was a way to show the Palpatine transformation in a more subtle way (he has almost two decades of evil to turn into the pale prune face we see in ROTJ).
It would be more acceptable to me if the lightning accident doesn't happen at all but he slowing becomes consumed by the dark forces he is using.
Perhaps someone should do a casting search for a Mark Hamill look-a-like for additional shots.
While we are on the subject of Lynchian Star Wars :
"One chance out between two worlds, lightning walk with me" :
Seriously though a deep red throne room might look more interesting (it would match his guards) anyone want to give it a try?
It would be the Skywalker saga if we were allowed to see what happened to Luke and Leia (and her children) after ROTJ but Lucas in insisting that is the final episode has made it into the Anakin Saga (or as Lucas put it with Vader dead "There's no more story to tell").
When watching ANH back in the day it felt like there was a much bigger story extending way back into the past, way back into the future and with more going on in the present than we were seeing on screen (just like the real world).
I've allowed myself to wander way off topic so sorry about that.
Perhaps someone should start a sequel trilogy project thread.
G E Predator said:Bingowings said:Don't forget the relationship between droid and non-droid in the Star Wars universe is one of slavery.
Threepio and Artoo are well liked (one the whole) by their owner/masters but they are not considered much more than property.
Unless someone writes a droid Spartacus storyline into Episodes VII through to IX they (and the Clonetroopers) are slaves and would never be given medals (even by the so called good guys).
Oh, I remember that all too well. In my eyes, though, R2-D2 and C-3PO have proven themselves to be more equals with people than any other droid has. True, they needed masters to care for them in order to continue to function. But their masters needed them just as much, especially in ROTJ when 3PO used his translation abilities to communicate with the Ewoks and convinced to aid the Rebels.
Sure that's how we are meant to see them but the fact that our heroes don't paints them in a slightly less than glossy white than some people believe.
I wish we did get a sequel trilogy which explored what happens to the Rebels once they win.
Ben looks back at the Old Republic as a golden age but when we see it in TPM we find that the rot had already set in before Palpatine starts working the system.
Project ROTJ into the future and will the good guys still be the good guys if they allow slavery (droid and non-droid) to continue and what do you do with Death Star technology once someone had built a couple of them, what do you do with the Stormtroopers (I know that the EU tells us they stopped being clones but as far as the films go they are slaves too)?
Will Luke's Jedi be as hamstrung by dogma as the Jedi in his father's day?
Will Leia go as bad as her dad?
There is plenty of ground to cover in a sequel trilogy, Lucas is possibly not the guy to do it though.
He's rejigged the story so it's all about Anakin.
He might as well stop calling it Star Wars and just call it The Anakin Saga.
Ebay can go very, very wrong sometimes.
I had one guy who refused to post an item because I lived a £7 train journey away from his brother, who he said could just hand the item over (the postage costs were about £1).
Another guy claimed the item was posted and then that it was lost in the post and then that he was his sister and he had died suddenly and when he sold the item on again, left sarcastic comments (back from the dead) about me when I gave him negative feedback.
fishmanlee said:could he use the force and manipulate it to go like boomerang like in super star wars return of the jedi?
One of the problems with TPM is it's action sequences already resemble a computer game.
The duel particularly so with all those pointless platforms and shield gates, it's a real shame that there was no dialogue in there either, surely the Jedi would want to know more about this mysterious attacker.
If Maul used the Force to throw his sabre around what's stopping the Jedi from using the Force to snatch it off him?
There are two of them and one of him.
Some weird forest plants like these my give Endor a more fantastic feel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdpFN4O4B0&feature=related
Further to my comments about Jabba's Palace, I'm not sure if it sits well with the idea of the Hutts being gangster's if he literally has a palace in a Royal sense.
It turns Jabba into a government within a government (Tatooine may not have been part of the Republic but by ANH it's clearly part of the Empire).
What if it's his lair and general residence but slightly undercover as a legitimate business, more like Caesar's Palace in Vegas than Caesar's Palace in ancient Rome.
It could have casinos, brothels, and bars.
The Rancor and Sarlacc pits could be entertainments and more vehicles (small like swoop bikes and medium sized schooners could afford his guests a better view) when they take their trip out to the Dune Sea.
It would tie into a culture that has pod racing too.
It could open up the Jabba scenes more and bring Tatooine back to the sort of world we saw in ANH.
Luke, Owen and Biggs were more concerned with the Empire than any ruling Hutt clans so it makes more sense if the Hutts are reduced to operating on the fringes of Tatooine society.
vaderios said:Thx Impfighter you reminded me an idea i had.
As i see in Ady's video he added a camera shake when the SDs are colliding..
But!
It supposed to be shaking in the bridge not the outside.
So with a bit work can keep the SD in the outside intact.
I ve made this test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ujxT0bnSe8
Dont judge the shaking, i just put it to show my idea ;)
-Angel
The idea makes sense (if it is done with more subtlety but you know that already).
fishmanlee said:in the phantom menace could a scene be incoporated of maul throwing his saber at obi or qui-gon?
It could be done but I'm not sure if a Sith Lord would chuck his weapon around in a battle with two Jedi in their prime.
When Vader threw his sabre at Luke it was two Sith against one inexperienced Jedi, with the tables turned there would be a bit of a risk of Maul not getting his rattle back.
Then he would have to resort to spikey headbutts.
