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#235640
Topic
The "Random Thoughts" Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235640/action/topic#235640
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
Southerners can never do a convincing NY accent, the same is true for the reverse.


That's not necessarily true. I'm, for the most part, a southerner, and I can (sometimes) do a convincing NY accent. And a lot of my friends can do very convincing ones. But, um, we're actors, and that's what we spend our class time doing.

Sigh, I hate dialects. I have a hard time picking them up.
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#235639
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favorite songs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235639/action/topic#235639
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Yeah, the White Album has some kickass stuff. However, I'm a fan of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. I love it. I love pretty much all of Paul's work on The Beatles.

And Nanner Split, the easiest way to get a CD that has Hey, Jude on it is to get Beatles 1. It's very much commercially available, and it's a great CD. I'm a little ashamed to say it was my introduction to The Beatles, but it has a ton of great stuff (twice as much as a real Beatles album), in fact, some of their best stuff.
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#235531
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The definitive list: changes you can and can't stand...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235531/action/topic#235531
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I just remember something I hate, and it's rarely brought up because it's almost not noticeable (I know I didn't see it until I came here and it was pointed out to me), but the censoring of the laser blasts to Imperial officers in the first movie. I mean, I just think about that, and it pisses me off. I mean, that and the Greedo scene cement that the SEs have nothing to do with "original visions" and more to do with sanatizing and censoring for the "sake of the kids." Yeah, yeah. I doubt any kid had nightmares about seeing some dude get hit by a laser blast.
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#235479
Topic
Your Greatest Star Wars Day.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235479/action/topic#235479
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I suppose my greatest Star Wars day was the first, and that was December 25, 1995, the day I got the trilogy and seven action figures. Until then, my only exposure to Star Wars had been the clips and parodies on shows like Muppet Babies, so while I had barely known the characters all my life, it was still all pretty new. And, of course, the more action figures and vehicles I got, the easier it was to act out the movies while watching them. It became a very organized affair.

And along with the driving story, I do the same thing sometimes while listening to the Trench Run on my soundtrack and to the battle scene on the Serenity soundtrack. I don't almost wipe out, though. I've been driving for four years. I'm far too mature to do that. ^_~ But when I was a kid, I used to ride my bike around the apartment complex and pretend I was piloting an X-Wing. And I'd imagine a few other squadrons flying with me, who would get picked off one by one until I was the only pilot left to save the day!
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#235402
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George Lucas and Ed Wood OR The Alignment of the Stars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235402/action/topic#235402
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So what was Ed Wood's problem, then? Do you think he was simply a "bad" director? Or was it the fact that he had little experience, almost no budget, and felt compelled to add roles simply for star appeal? I mean, obviously Bela Lugosi belonged in Glen or Glenda and Vampira in Plan 9. Or did people simply not get what he was trying to do? In the last post, zombie84 mentioned timing was essential to George Lucas's success. Do you think the same could have been true for Ed Wood?
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#235395
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THE ALL NEW PSYCHO REVIEW HAS MOVED
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235395/action/topic#235395
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Yeah, but it'll probably be censored too, so no one will be able to find it.

But as I've heard before, nothing arouses the people's curiosity more than not being able to see something, so this censoring is a counter-productive measure, the way I see it.

And I agree. I don't want the boards to become divisive over this. I personally have no opinion on who was right in this fight. I'm not involved. Despite having read all these posts, it's still one man's word versus another, and that's not enough for me to go on. The only thing I can truly speak out against is the censorship.
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#235389
Topic
The definitive list: changes you can and can't stand...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235389/action/topic#235389
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Originally posted by: Ozkeeper
Just a side quest..not meaning to derail anything, but

Was Biggs and Tank always mentioned by name by Luke when he was sitting at the table with this aunt and uncle ?


Yes, they were. Since I was already familiar with the storybook, which did keep the Biggs scenes in, I figured this mention of Biggs, as well as the earlier, "Biggs is right..." line were the remnants of that character, so that maybe careful viewers would figure out he was reunited with his friend.
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#235276
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George Lucas and Ed Wood OR The Alignment of the Stars
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235276/action/topic#235276
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Alright. Trying to inspire debate and conversation here, and it hopefully won't lead to Lucas bashing, since we've apparently had an overabundance of that lately. You see, tonight I started thinking about something, and for those of you who know what I'm talking about, it might seem weird, misguided, or even blasphemous. But I just can't help seeing a great deal of similarities between filmmakers Ed Wood and George Lucas. For those of you who don't know, Ed Wood is considered by many to be the worst filmmaker of all time. But stay with me here because I'm not trying to bash by comparing Lucas to him.

Specifically, I'm comparing the movies that are considered to be what these men are best known for. For Wood, it's Plan 9 From Outer Space, and for Lucas, obviously, it's Star Wars. Both are low-budget sci-fi films that nobody originally wanted anything to do with. Both are the authorial and directorial brainchildren of the men who made them. And later on, for Lucas, he started funding his own projects like Wood did his entire career. Admittedly by this point Lucas had much more clout and money than Wood ever did.

So Plan 9 is, um, well, something of a disaster. Star Wars becomes one of the greatest and most beloved films of all time. But I think that it would have been very easy for Star Wars to have become another Plan 9, but it seems that all the stars were in alignment for George Lucas. Lucas managed to get backing from a major motion picture studio. Most of that support came from one man, Alan Ladd, Jr. Had he not been there, well, maybe George could have gotten backing based on the success of American Graffiti, but, after all the complications during shooting, it most likely would have been pulled entirely if not for Ladd. Lucas managed to find all the right people who managed to make the special effects extremely believable. Maybe with a different effects crew, the effects would have turned out little better than the stuff from Plan 9. I could go on, but I think (and hope) that you get the point.

Obviously, I didn't mention Wood's lacking skills in the directorial department, like continuity, lack of reshoots, equipment in frame, and lack of believability in sets. But while George hasn't had problems as bad as those, I'm sure most people here would question, to a degree, the man's competence in directing.

So, please, feel free to drop your opinions or simply tell me how crazy I am for suggesting such hideous comparisons.
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#235268
Topic
POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235268/action/topic#235268
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Originally posted by: MagnoliaFan
If you've seen on set, behind the scenes, yes, there was bad direction given.
He would literally tell them to slow their words and ennunciate everything (which no one in real life does to that degree).
Plus, giving some actors their lines the day they arrive on set, with no context, and sometimes, not even the costar to play off of, like the famous Terrance Stamp story, "I gave Natalie the day off." Holds up a stick with her face on it. "Just talk to the stick." "What's my character like?" "Umm... You're Bill Clinton... Action!"
Stamp attributes it to the worst, most degrading experience he's ever had working on a film.


Wow. What else can I say but wow. I'd heard pretty vague horror stories, but that certainly takes the cake. "Just talk to the stick"?! Yeesh. I bet he was glad his character didn't come back for the next two prequels. Because he wouldn't get a chance to tell George off when he was invited back to reprise his role.
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#235195
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235195/action/topic#235195
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
man dont you think its a big deal, for years jay prided the site on the fact that it didnt need a mod, that he didnt want a mod, that he wanted to havea forum where people sorted out ther own problems themselves. thats a pretyt unique thing, and it was something many of us prominant forum members prided the site on, prided ourselves on. then one day jay decides to make a modw. hen at so many points he had denied us one or said he didnt want one. i do find i very suspect that he anounced this only in the presevation folder, when declaring a mod is an important anouncement, and it wasnt posted in the important anouncement folder. whats the point of having that folder if you dont use it. and it matter because of the principal of it. look how mad jay is about this site and how it went behind is back, same sorta think only to a lesser degree.


I just want to add that I thought it was really cool that this site didn't have mods. Aside from a few instances, I still don't think they're really necessary here. And that's not a dig to either of the mods we currently have. I just think it was an awesome concept to let us work out our own troubles. True it wouldn't work on other boards, but I thought it was doing pretty well here, only needing the very occasional intervention by Jay.
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#235190
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POLL: WORST ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN THE PT?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235190/action/topic#235190
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"In the story, Ahmed Best, the actor who was a place-marker for Jar Jar during filming, says he asked "Menace" producer Rick McCallum for the dorky rubber head he had to wear. McCallum told him he couldn't have it -- the costume might be in the Smithsonian some day.

Sure it will. Right next to Howard the Duck."

Where it will then be beaten up by Fonzie's leather jacket! Awesome article.
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#235182
Topic
The definitive list: changes you can and can't stand...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/235182/action/topic#235182
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I'd still prefer my Star Wars without the Biggs scene, and I agree with the reasons Obi Jeewhyen doesn't think it fits. While I think it's one of the better additions, I definitely understand why it originally ended on the cutting room floor.

And, damn, I'd forgotten about that stupid scream. Glad that's gone. Just sounded retarded and nothing like Luke (gee, I wonder why... it seems only two types of screams exist in the Galaxy Far Far Away, and that's the Emperor and Good Old Wilhelm. Everyone else is just a carbon copy of them.)