There was a prominent and charismatic figure in the Empire whom resembled the style of our world’s Adolf Hitler. When General Hux delivers his impassioned speech on Starkiller Base, he is imitating him.
What’s the context for that?
I have watched the movie every year since either 2010 or 2011, and plan to indefinitely. It’s my grounding meditation for the year (pun intended).
If I do this the rest of my life, 0.0192% of it will be spent rewatching the movie.
If you’ve been to therapy, what was that like? Helpful, unhelpful, a little of both?
What’s your experience with therapy been like? What would you like for it to be like? Anything you wish could be different about it?
A thread for all things therapy. (I’m thinking like psychotherapy, but I guess whatever form of therapy like physical therapy or whatever is cool too.)
I copied a picture of some pasta but I won’t paste it here.
What… is different about that clip?
And I’m open to doing a V3 if there’s enough that can be done for one. The biggest thing I remember wishing was better was an explanation for the Star Destroyer fleet explicitly being stashed away (and I guess modified) old imperial leftovers Palpatine had as a contingency.
Or even something to suggest the navigation tower allowed them to be piloted automatically, or that he needed First Order personnel to occupy the fleet and use them. Anything to remove the silly plot aspect that his followers we see a roomful of on a hidden, barren world smuggled pocketfuls of random crap over thirty years to build scale replicas to the T of old school Destroyers on a scale the galaxy had never seen.
Thanks for saying that, and I’m glad you enjoyed it. The subtle “Find me” was a reference to poppasketti’s edit, as it works well whether you just finished watching that one or not.
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Ben Kenobi was doing hard drugs while on Tatooine.
The protagonist is the most annoying character in each trilogy.
Seeing kids use a hand gesture of holding a cell phone with their whole hand to mime talking on the phone instead of the thumb-pinky thing you’d think of or do.
Also, today I pivoted away from my own car as I got close to it with the thought, “That can’t be my car; it’s got a carseat in the back.”
The jetpack trooper who explodes dramatically in TROS has his screaming and wailing replaced with a long, digitally extended Wilhelm scream.
Adywan: “Let me just… there we go.”
I can’t tell you how detrimental this movie was to my childhood
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Oh, certainly. Again, this is the sort of minutia that makes this a diversion from normal life.
My thought on this is the finished film presents a planet in the viewscreen, after an exterior establishing shot of “hey look we made it to that planet mentioned last time you saw us.” So having Tarkin with a blank starfield wouldn’t feel right unless you removed it from the exterior shot too. Which could work, but would be a level of divergence I don’t want to bring to bear on “Star Wars (1977)”. (See prior pushback to me considering deleting the line about Ben never owning a droid!)
This is the sort of minutia I come here for. However, it’s an academic point as I wouldn’t want to modify ANH in that way. Making the shot look better would be welcome, but not erasing the planet.
I could believe it may not have been in mind when writing the scene, but Ady’s certainly right that it was meant to be there at least by the time it was filmed. I never did notice how odd it makes things, though, for Leia standing there.
Good point. Not sure I’d want to remove it but good observation.
Not to speak for him but probably something along the lines of, “Because 1080p is really nice, I can’t perpetually update these things every seven years, and it’s a high upgrade from the DVD quality the project started as.”
Thanks, and I’ll give that a shot. I’ll see what source material I end up with by the time this goes out.
Yes I will, I only hadn’t already because I knew I was going to revise ANH.
And TMWNN, that sounds wonderful!
Hmm… I can’t imagine why that’d be the case. But I’ll keep it mind if anyone else corroborates.
How so?