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#285025
Topic
Don Imus and the race issue thread.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/285025/action/topic#285025
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The media has spoken with their silence. It's okay for black people to be clearly racist; it's not even okay for white people to say something that can be construed as racist.

For example, whatever else you think of Rush Limbaugh, his Donovan McNabb remarks were crticical of sports media; yet they were said to be racist and Limbaugh was put through a verbal ringer on TV and the Web.

And yet you have people like that moron in MontCalm's post, or Ward Churchill, who can aparently say whatever they want with impunity from their bosses or contemporaries. The rules are made up as we go, it seems. Is it good Don Imus is gone? Maybe. But why do we crucify him for one remark when people like Rosie O. Donnel can spew hatred for Jews, Christians, Lions, Tigers, Bears, and everything else under the sun on "The View" and not get fired?

Simple. She didn't say anything racist against black people or bigoted towards homosexuals, which seem to be the only unforgivable sins in media.




Hmm....about Darth Chaltab's avatar...did you ever notice...?

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j22/sdevore1138/Chaltab.gif



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#284713
Topic
Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284713/action/topic#284713
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Well, this is where I'll have to agree with you. The media DOES sensationalize things like this in order to create fear. And it does start to erode the infrastructure of our country.

Between the emphasis by the media of cops shooting unarmed blacks in urban neighborhoods for petty crimes, and hateful rap lyrics promoting cop killing...it's tough. It pits the people against the cops and cops against the people. That's never a good thing.

It makes officers more wary and perhaps more suspicious or aggressive toward the general public. After all, most cops are just trying to make it home alive every night. They have a right to be on the offensive, their life depends on it.

But to blindly say that every cop in every city in America is Officer Friendly and never has a corrupt thought, or wouldn't ever think of abusing their power, I think that's an equally unfair representation. If officers have broken the law it should be reported, we shouldn't bury it or withhold that information from the public.
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#284707
Topic
Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284707/action/topic#284707
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Who's believing Hollywood? I take it you didn't read the NEWS ARTICLE I posted.

And some of my best friends are cops. I'm not demonizing cops. I'm not even saying this is something that happens constantly, but let's not deny the fact that it DOES happen at times. So that fact alone lends credence to the plot of Crash. That's the point I'm making.

If what you said is true than that must be some piss awful tasing candy coating, and one dark and sickening fantasy.


I do think in this case that you don't know what the heck you're talking about, C3PX. Read more than one sentence of a person's post before responding. Also, keep in mind that Ferris lives in Texas, not Los Angeles. Racial tensions are higher in L.A. than almost anywhere else in the country. The L.A.P.D. has a long history of alleged racism and corruption, not the least of which was brought to light during the O.J. Simpson trial, which is the entire reason he was found not guilty.
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#284694
Topic
Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284694/action/topic#284694
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Originally posted by: ferris209
do you really think a cop could even think about feeling up a woman on duty and actually get away with it?


Never said it was the rule, Chaltab. Nor did I say ALL cops do things like this.

What I was illustrating by posting a link to that article is simply this: For Ferris to say that the plot of Crash is not credible because nothing that like that EVER happens or has ever happened (especially in L.A.), and that an officer would "never even THINK of doing something like that" is obviously, according to this report, not only untrue but a naively flawed way of thinking.

I'd like you to explain how that's "twisted logic", Chaltab. I really would. I'd also like you to explain to me how that "twisted logic" contributes to the racism Black people face.

Yeah...your post makes absolutely no sense.


--ID



Post
#284653
Topic
Most Liberal and Conservative movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284653/action/topic#284653
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Movies are Rorschachs, as all (good) art is a mirror.

I see 300 as an all-too-obvious propaganda film geared toward glorifying democracy, de-Humanizing and demonizing Middle Easterners in general, and drumming up volunteer military enlistment.

I see the 3 X-Men films as an allegory on how Homosexuals are treated in America.

I see Crash as a beautifully crafted comment on our racist nature.

I see Superman Returns as a re-telling of the Christ myth. So was Chronicles of Narnia to a degree.

I see Kingdom of Heaven as a vehicle to stir up more vitriolic hatred between Christians and Muslims.

I think The Green Mile had a decidedly liberal intent. As did Born On the Fourth of July and Babel.



And "E.T." was undoubtedly intended as an apologist glorification of the illegal immigration issue... We just didn't know it 'til now.



--ID
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#284170
Topic
Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284170/action/topic#284170
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I agree, C3PX. And Tiptup, if you re-read our posts, you'll see that you misunderstood what we're trying to say.

Evil deeds are committed by people every day, but I don't believe Human Beings are capable of being wholly or genuinely evil, regardless of how their obituary is written.

And to tie it into Star Wars...the whole lesson of the saga is to suggest that good can be found in even the most seemingly evil person. That suggestion that someone as evil as Darth Vader could be redeemed and that underneath it all he was a father who cared about and loved his children speaks to the Humanity...that kernel of absolute, indestructible Good...inherent in all of us. And if there wasn't some measure of collective truth to that lesson, then we would've walked out of the theater in 1983 laughing at the mere audacity of it.

--ID
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#284136
Topic
Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/284136/action/topic#284136
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Putting political concepts in the context of Good vs Evil, as conservatives always do, strips away all notions of humanity from the so-called "evil" party. By doing this, it's easy to rally the ignorant, naive and narrow-minded to any cause.

Unfortunately, (or perhaps fortunately) the real world itself, in the natural sense, doesn't work like that.

--ID
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#283921
Topic
Virginia Tech shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283921/action/topic#283921
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I wrote this originally for a thread at FE.com, but I figure I'll post it here too to add to the discussion:

I hate seeing things like this happen. I'm really sickened this past week by the media, who in their traditional style, are once again focusing everyone's attention on all the wrong issues in this case. The portrait they've painted of Seung-Hui Cho is that of a deranged, apathetic monster.

They focus on the fact that he's an immigrant.

They focus on the fact that he was "weird", he didn't act the same way that all the other "normal" (White) kids.

They focus on the gun-control issue.

They focus on violent video games.

They hypothesize that he was on drugs at the time of the shooting.

They call him a crazed psycho.

I'm still waiting for them to blame Marilyn Manson music.

But none of them have tuned in to the real reason behind this seemingly senseless act of violence.

They don't want to talk about the fact that all the "normal" kids had made his life a Living Hell day in and day out all throughout his childhood and young adult life.

They only mention in passing how in elementary school his teacher made him read in front of the class and as he began struggling through the words of a language that was foreign to him at the time, the other kids busted out laughing and mercilessly mocked him, saying "Go back to China!" Nevermind the fact that he was Korean.

They mention his "crazed, incoherent monologue" heard in his videos and written in his letters, but they gain no insight into his reasons for the attacks. They don't want to listen to his stories about how the "rich kids", with their cars and and new clothes and gold chains, still felt the need to boost their own ego by beating up, tormenting, spitting on a defenseless Asian kid who just wanted to be left alone.

They don't want to talk about the teachers who gave him F's on his violent writings and poetry because creative writing was "not an appropriate outlet" for feelings that dark, instead of encouraging an atmosphere where negative feelings could be vented, or recognizing a call for help when they saw one.

Not allowed to express the rage boiling inside him and with no one around to validate it, what was he to do but swallow it?

So, yeah, I can see why he never talked to anyone, why his roommates described him as a silent, unfriendly loner, having no interest in anyone. If everyone laughed every time you tried to speak, you'd be silent too. And you'd harbor a rage...and over time, gone unexpressed, it would build within you...with every sleight and snub and joke at your expense, not to mention the physical harms inflicted on you...it would quickly harden your heart...and I guess I can sympathize with that in some way.

That's not the way anyone would want their life to turn out. No one wants to be treated that way. Unable to accept or escape from the reality the "normal" kids had created for him, he created his own reality...he ignored them. He refused to acknowledge they existed. For years.

And finally, when that didn't work...and they continued to snicker at him when he didn't answer their questions or look at them in the eye, he adopted a persona which would inspire fear in others and show them once and for all that he was powerful after all and that he could and would enact that power over his enemies. He planned it, and then he carried out his bitter revenge.

Now, let me be clear, the fact that I pity this person does not mean I condone what he did. What he did was surely not the answer to his problems. But I'm saddened by the fact that no one cares to look at this person as a Human Being. They just want to write him off as some mindless monster. What he did was horrible, yes. But Cho was still a person like you and me, a person who at one time had hopes and dreams.

There is a poem by W.H. Auden entitled “September 1st, 1939”. In it, he says “I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn. Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.”

The media focuses on Cho’s pathology, but won't even acknowledge the same pathology or sadistic acts of the so-called "normal" (Good) kids and how their actions contributed to this.

And I'm not talking about the 32 innocent people who were shot on the campus that day. I'm talking about the murderers of the first casualty of this incident...Cho's own innocence. Who weeps for the boy who died on some nameless recess field long ago? Who weeps for the man he might’ve become or the life he could’ve lived?

On the larger scale, I'm talking about American society as a whole, the responsibility we all share as members of that society. I'm talking about the kids who cruelly torture countless numbers of the defenseless in schools across the country every day. Modern Frankensteins fashioning demons out of children, who will some day, with enough ill-will slung in their direction, grow into devils.

The problem is, people want to see everything as Good vs Evil. And that's fine for the movies but the real world doesn't work like that. We all have within us the equal potential to create good or evil in our lives and in the lives of others. There's way more gray area there than we like to recognize.

We owe it to our society to honor the victims by analyzing the REAL cause of this tragedy, not some political hot-button topic conjured up to win elections. Only then can we work to make absolutely certain that this kind of shameful and wasteful deed is never repeated.

--ID
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#283505
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/283505/action/topic#283505
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Yeah. I think that's probably it. Haha... You guys are sooo resourceful.

I don't remember what the quality is (since it's like, the second clip I ever edited), and I'm not sure how it's really relevant to Adywan's project, but it would be interesting to see it again. I guess just to compare where we chose to add the music. I remember I edited the duel a slightly different way too. I flipped a few shots and I think I tried to make it a little faster paced to go with the music. Again, I don't remember how successful the result was, but I think I remember being pleased with it. Haha....I've learned a LOT since then.

--ID
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#282863
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282863/action/topic#282863
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Originally posted by: Master Qui-Gon
InfoDroid,

would you be so kind and reupload your edit of the ANH lightsaber fight????



Unfortunately, it's no longer on my hard drive. It's something I made 2 years ago....when I was still using Womble. Haha...

I checked the link in the Ranch thread and it's dead. Sorry.

--ID

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#282632
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282632/action/topic#282632
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Speaking of Threepio, here's some interesting info regarding that whole "Anakin builds Threepio" back story.

Link

It's interesting because it plays into the whole Anakin being obsessed with fixing things and resurrecting people from the dead, immortality and all that stuff that comes out in ROTS. Just knowing that little snippet of information, for me, suddenly makes Threepio way more relevant and a lot less cheezy.

Too bad it was never included in the story.
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#282611
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/282611/action/topic#282611
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Originally posted by: InvaderTim
A while ago (it might have been in this thread, i'm just too lazy to check) someone posted a clip of the battle between Darth and Obi-Wan with the Battle of Heroes music, and thought it was great, and still think that.


That was me.

I still think it could work.

--ID

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#275050
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/275050/action/topic#275050
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To the person who thinks it's a good idea to ask for permission from Lucasfilm:

It's not a situation where you're asking artist-to-artist for permission and they're going to understand your lack of funds and admire your creative tenacity. These are lawyers. They're not nice guys. It's an entire office of legal eagles called the "antipiracy" division, and it's their job to uphold the law to the letter when it comes to these things because that's how they a) generate revenue, and b) legitimize their department's existence.

Lucasfilm is more benevolently tolerant than other studios when it comes to these matters. But that doesn't mean we have license to do whatever we want. That's why they send Cease & Desist letters, to give a fan who wasn't aware that it's illegal to do this sort of thing a chance to make it right before they get slapped with a lawsuit.

The other thing is, if you go to them and say, I've ripped the movies to my harddrive by bypassing the copy protection Lucasfilm embedded into the DVD, and now I intend to create a "fan edit" by altering the original, then distributing to as many people as possible for free, you've already admitted to committing a crime.

It's quite possible that they went to my MySpace page and just saw all the images and sent me the letter outright, without delving too deeply into what the site was for. There's a chance they might not've even noticed the fan edit stuff. If I write them back and ask for permission, I'm calling even more attention and risking even more legal action.

So, I just think my biggest mistake was setting up the MySpace page. There are so many people on there and you can't control who sees what. I don't think anyone on this site is in danger except for maybe the ones with MySpace pages like MagFan or Jambe Davdar.

And come May, if I send a few copies of Reborn out to a few of my friends on this site, and one of those copies just happens to show up on some torrent site somewhere or a PIF chain, then...oh well...what can I do?

I don't think you have anything to worry about Trooperman, as long as you stick to this site.

--InfoDroid
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#274467
Topic
Star Wars: REBORN - The Complete Saga (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/274467/action/topic#274467
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Well, I've remained quiet on here because I really needed to take a little time to gather my thoughts on this and decide whether or not we should proceed. What makes me livid is that there are millions of MySpace pages out there with Star Wars crap slathered all over it, copyrighted material out the yin-yang.... Why pick on ours?

While it appears that they're only focusing on the copyrighted material on the site, I think it's more of a warning that they're monitoring what TJ and I are doing. Unauthorized use of copyrighted materials is what they can get us on right now, and if we do end up releasing this thing, we might just get slapped with a lawsuit then and there for piracy or something worse.

I'm just a common working man who can't afford to get sued by a giant corporation like Lucasfilm, so I won't be taking any chances.

I think I made the mistake of venturing too far outside the fan community with this. I originally started the MySpace page for you guys, so you'd have a fun way to keep track of the progress of the edit. But as more and more people saw the trailers on YouTube, they were going to the site, and pretty soon the whole thing mushroomed. I had authors contacting me, sci-fi websites wanting to do interviews, I even had an editor who worked for Hardball with Chris Matthews at MSNBC contact me, saying the entire MSNBC newsroom in New York City was excited about the potential of the edit...

So, it's a real shame. And you guys can understand why I'm a little spooked. This isn't the most legal of hobbies we're engaging in, whether George Lucas says it's okay or not. His company's lawyers seem to have a different opinion.

I think the best thing for TJ and I to do is just lay low for a while, and at some point down the road it may find itself on a torrent site or something...

--InfoDroid