The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a rather good book that is told from the perspective of someone with high-functioning autism.
Those were the days!
Some of us have had success using these sites:
http://cinematreasures.org/
http://americanclassicimages.com/
I was able to find photos of where I saw Star Wars, among other cinematic memories. It helps to know what state you were living in at the time. šI know city and state. (Rocky Hill, CT.) Reading about the rollout (http://www.in70mm.com/news/2003/star_wars/) I may even have it narrowed down to a handful of weeks. I know we saw it the second time around July 15th. And it didnāt start playing in most of the country until the beginning of June.
What I may do is start looking at newspapers from the area and time. May the Force be with me!
āThatās not how the Force works!ā
Hereās an idea I might try to put togetherā¦ tell me what ya think.
Dinner scene with Luke and auntie and uncle. Luke gets up to leaveā¦
-Luke: Looks like Iām going nowhere. Iām gonna finish cleaning those droids
he walks off, then, off screen we hearā¦
-Luke: Biggs?!
-Biggs: Luke!
-Luke: When did you get back?
-Biggs: Just now!
-Beru: Lukes just not a farmer Owenā¦ Heās got to much blahblah
-Owen: Thatās what Iām ablahblah.
Then we cut to the cut scene of Biggs and Luke drinking and talking. Maybe add some vaporators (or whatever they are) in the background to make it look more like they are at the Lars farm. Biggs gives Luke his news and leaves. We then cut to the sunset scene (the Biggs scene would be adjusted to look more like itās nearing sunset).
This is linked in Rayās sig so I thought Iād respond.
This idea is really good, but playing the entire scene in its entirety wouldnāt make much sense from a continuity standpoint, since Luke has just met two droids that know about the Rebellion. As Biggs is now on the farm, and has expressed interest in defecting to the Rebellion, Luke really should clue him in on the latest developments.
I donāt think itās possible to keep Biggsā defection speech if the scene is this far into the film for the reason above, so if that is cut as well as the āattackā speculation, it might work.
Directly after the dinner scene, Luke goes to Toche station and meets Biggs. They reminisce, with the cut point here:
Luke: "Things havenāt been the same without you, Biggs. Itās been so quiet.
ā¦
Biggs: āYouāll get your chance to get off this rock.ā
This removes all of the defection dialogue. After Luke returns to the farm, the sunset scene could be edited to show Luke walking across the sand rather than out of the hut, as if he has just gotten off his speeder.
The only remaining problem would be Lukeās line at the start of the garage scene, āBiggs is right, Iām never gonna get out of here!ā But itās not too egregious.
The videos donāt show up on Vimeo for me. Thereās just a blank page after I enter the password.
JEDIT: The second video now works on Firefox, but the first one only works on Chrome. Very curious.
Anyway, the second scene is perfect now š. The first still needs a sound of C-3PO walking away and the BB8 sounds, as you said. I wish there was a way to fix the music so that it didnāt repeat, but itās mostly seamless already. Nice to see this coming together.
Excellent.
After showing the first scene to a few people, Iāve decided to lengthen the final shot by 1 second to allow more time to identify whatās going on.
Also, now BB8ās antenna wobbles as it should. š
https://mega.nz/#!Pd0kRRbY!yD_UJjKmaPJKX8oLfa-BoETK7xY5ucPwQMgr9W3jqNA
And the sound:
https://mega.nz/#!6ZliXLyY!NyyD8wq6yn9RZW4ZpCjO8_OVqFbDAFuvSzZETV1nSKw
Here are the completed R2 scenes, in terms of visual effects:
Absolutely wonderful idea and execution. Iāll await final audio!
Thanks! If anyone has a 5.1 setup and would like to tackle the audio, I would be most grateful.
Dek has made his avatar the color of the background. Full points for originality, or should I say, Originaltrilogy?
Here are the completed R2 scenes, in terms of visual effects:
https://mega.nz/#!rA9WDLjQ!i1aY0t-68yiD4ChTIsFQ92nUGL0MS-XSFviMahk1Hm0
https://mega.nz/#!7cVi1KaK!0rmqh2VDN1BY5Up89ymeQ8vhqzccdaDHi3NlMV7V0KA
And here are the sound effects only stereo tracks:
https://mega.nz/#!LUtHDbiC!RwJU5u4EcLS0m196H-eYsBW9vJCe0A2HmwsuJAx1lm4
https://mega.nz/#!DY82yboL!vuaIgnxFM7nnpmf9dj0ILHJcvrHJlOefmFxElLCKEYM
A final sound mix would need to include the sound of C-3PO walking away and BB8 sound effects, in addition to the soundtrack finessing.
This edit is shaping up to be the best one yet. SirRidley, youāve done some great work! I know this edit is only to restructure the SKB shots. But I would love to see a version of this edit where Kylo wasnāt blatantly called out as Hanās son so early in the film. I feel itās more powerful to be left at the end, just before the SKB fires.
Also, not to rock the boat, but I have to disagree with the comment made about āthose beastsā I love it and am glad you are keeping it in.
Mostly agree with both points. I wouldnāt be sad if the Snoke lines about Han got cut, simply because I canāt imagine such a powerful entity caring about Han enough to learn his name. It just seems a littleā¦beneath him, if that makes sense. However, I think itās absolutely necessary that we know that Kylo is Hanās son at least by the interrogation scene.
But who here truly deserves the title of Poster Child of Posting Posters?
You couldnāt make it until December to make it a full decade necrobump?
Got this on my wall right now:
Also, Iām amazed that there donāt seem to be many broken image links here after 10 years.
Beautiful.
JEDIT: Hereās a faded 70ās version I made in Photoshop:
Immortality was the subject of the very first epic, so the fascination has been with us a long time.
My thoughts on the subject are that nobody could physically live forever because of the heat death of the universe, and in a larger sense, if someone began living, they would naturally need to end. But nobody really begins to live, since we are all part of the environment, animated bits of matter if you will. If we are things, then things can only live until the thing in question breaks down. But I donāt think we are things. These bodies give our lives meaning, a meaning that is only available through experience, but they are not who we really are. We are nothing. We came from nothing, we will return to nothing, no thing will survive. And this is good. Nothingness is existence, the self, that which is, life itself. All else is false, an illusion we experience to know what it means to die, and to know how such death is ultimately false.
This is all Abramsā fault.
I believe you meant to say āObi-wanā.
Itās Obi-wanās fault.
Itās always Obi-wanās fault.
Heās holding you back.
On a related note, this has been bumping around in my mind for a while now, and I just donāt like it. Trump is our first atheist President. Yeah, I know, he passes for Presbyterianāa lot of us have to pass for something for various reasons, and most of us are way more convincing than he is. But leaving that aside for a moment, what ābad reputationā do atheists have in the larger culture? Letās see: amoral, untrustworthy sociopaths who think theyāre inherently superior to everyone else. Uh-oh. Oh yeah, and at least during the Cold War they were also Russian agents. Igh.
So Iām really, really hoping, in spite of his ongoing collapse in popular support, that when Trump eventually slouches off stage left, that whatever mysterious hypnotic āIām one of youā hold he has on white Christians remains firmly in place. Because otherwise theyāll say: āThatās what happens when you put an atheist in charge,ā and weāre back to the days of debating if atheists can actually be Americans. Thatās all assuming that the evangelical support isnāt due to some speed-the-apocalypse-by-supporting-the-antichrist theory, but Iāve been assured by people who actually travel in evangelical circles that this is not the case. And I checked with multiple people, because I didnāt believe their assurances the first few times š
Iām with you there, except youāre forgetting Obama.
Wikipedia (yes, I know, thank you) says this:
Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life.[77] He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he āwas not raised in a religious householdā. He described his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as being detached from religion, yet āin many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.ā He described his father as a āconfirmed atheistā by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as āa man who saw religion as not particularly useful.ā Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand āthe power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.ā[78]
In January 2008, Obama told Christianity Today: āI am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.ā[79] On September 27, 2010, Obama released a statement commenting on his religious views saying āIām a Christian by choice. My family didnāt ā frankly, they werenāt folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didnāt raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead ā being my brothersā and sistersā keeper, treating others as they would treat me.ā[80][81]
Obama met Trinity United Church of Christ pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright in October 1987, and became a member of Trinity in 1992.[82] He resigned from Trinity in May 2008 during his first presidential campaign after some of Wrightās statements were criticized.[83] The Obama family has attended several Protestant churches since moving to Washington, D.C., in 2009, including Shiloh Baptist Church and St. Johnās Episcopal Church, as well as Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, but are not habitual church-goers.[84][85][86]
And hereās Trump:
Religion
The Trump family were originally Lutherans in Germany,[52] and his motherās upbringing was Presbyterian in Scotland.[53] His parents married in a Manhattan Presbyterian church in 1936.[54] As a child, he attended Sunday School at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, and had his confirmation there.[55][55] In the 1970s, his family joined the Marble Collegiate Church (a New York City affiliate of the Reformed Church in America) in Manhattan.[56] The pastor at that church, Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and The Art of Living, ministered to Trumpās family and mentored him until Pealeās death in 1993.[57][56] Trump, who is Presbyterian,[58][59] has cited Peale and his works during interviews when asked about the role of religion in his personal life.[56]
After marrying his first wife Ivana in 1977 at Marble Collegiate Church, he attended that church until 2013.[60][55] In 2016, Trump visited Bethesda-by-the-Sea, an Episcopal church, for Christmas services.[61] Trump has said that he participates in Holy Communion. Beyond that, he has not asked God for forgiveness, stating: āI think if I do something wrong, I just try and make it right. I donāt bring God into that picture.ā[62]
Trump refers to his ghostwritten book The Art of the Deal, a bestseller following publication in 1987, as āmy second favorite book of all time, after the Bible. Nothing beats the Bible.ā[63][64] In a 2016 speech to Liberty University, he referred to āTwo Corinthiansā instead of āSecond Corinthiansā, eliciting chuckles from the audience.[65] Despite this, The New York Times reported that Evangelical Christians nationwide thought āthat his heart was in the right place, that his intentions for the country were pureā.[66]
Outside of his church affiliations, Trump has relationships with a number of Christian spiritual leaders, including Florida pastor Paula White, who has been described as his āclosest spiritual confidantā.[67] In 2015, he asked for and received a blessing from Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Lemelson[68] and, in 2016, released a list of his religious advisers, including James Dobson, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ralph Reed and others.[69] Referring to his daughter Ivankaās conversion to Judaism before her marriage to Jared Kushner, Trump said in 2015: āI have a Jewish daughter; and I am very honored by that [ā¦] it wasnāt in the plan but I am very glad it happened.ā[70]
Now do I think that Obama is probably more on the agnostic side of the coin? Yes. But he definitively states that he is a Christian, and has explicitly said āI believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.ā Although Obama is good at weaseling his way around a question and exaggerating when necessary, I do not doubt that he values the truth and wouldnāt simply lie.
Obviously Obama seems like He who is without sin himself next to Trump. Thereās no doubt he values the truth. But I also donāt doubt the very good chance heās lying about this I wouldnāt consider it weaseling either (this isnāt a lie heās just made up in interviews, itās a planned and consistent one). And I donāt blame him. If he didnāt self identify as a Christian (and make it sound like he really meant it), he would never have been president. I donāt think itād be very hard for him to pretend (Iāve done it myself with certain members of my family), not all atheists are militant about their beliefs. I think he probably just tries to appreciate the good will towards man and community aspect, and doesnāt think too much about the whole God part.
Could I be wrong? Sure. But Iām probably not.
Like I said, heās probably more agnostic than heād ever admit. Itās terrible that in the US, you have to lie about your religion if youāre anything other than Christian or a branch of it. But Trump is the exception, isnāt he? Perhaps if the āhorrible because heās an atheistā thing doesnāt stick, future presidents will have an easier time of it.
On a related note, this has been bumping around in my mind for a while now, and I just donāt like it. Trump is our first atheist President. Yeah, I know, he passes for Presbyterianāa lot of us have to pass for something for various reasons, and most of us are way more convincing than he is. But leaving that aside for a moment, what ābad reputationā do atheists have in the larger culture? Letās see: amoral, untrustworthy sociopaths who think theyāre inherently superior to everyone else. Uh-oh. Oh yeah, and at least during the Cold War they were also Russian agents. Igh.
So Iām really, really hoping, in spite of his ongoing collapse in popular support, that when Trump eventually slouches off stage left, that whatever mysterious hypnotic āIām one of youā hold he has on white Christians remains firmly in place. Because otherwise theyāll say: āThatās what happens when you put an atheist in charge,ā and weāre back to the days of debating if atheists can actually be Americans. Thatās all assuming that the evangelical support isnāt due to some speed-the-apocalypse-by-supporting-the-antichrist theory, but Iāve been assured by people who actually travel in evangelical circles that this is not the case. And I checked with multiple people, because I didnāt believe their assurances the first few times š
Iām with you there, except youāre forgetting Obama.
Obama is a Muslim.
YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE THIS FORUM GREAT AGAIN!
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE TROLLS, NOT JOIN THEM!
But yes, I hear that Trump has people in Hawaii looking into the āMuslimā thing. Or was that the Birther thing? Ah, whatever.
On a related note, this has been bumping around in my mind for a while now, and I just donāt like it. Trump is our first atheist President. Yeah, I know, he passes for Presbyterianāa lot of us have to pass for something for various reasons, and most of us are way more convincing than he is. But leaving that aside for a moment, what ābad reputationā do atheists have in the larger culture? Letās see: amoral, untrustworthy sociopaths who think theyāre inherently superior to everyone else. Uh-oh. Oh yeah, and at least during the Cold War they were also Russian agents. Igh.
So Iām really, really hoping, in spite of his ongoing collapse in popular support, that when Trump eventually slouches off stage left, that whatever mysterious hypnotic āIām one of youā hold he has on white Christians remains firmly in place. Because otherwise theyāll say: āThatās what happens when you put an atheist in charge,ā and weāre back to the days of debating if atheists can actually be Americans. Thatās all assuming that the evangelical support isnāt due to some speed-the-apocalypse-by-supporting-the-antichrist theory, but Iāve been assured by people who actually travel in evangelical circles that this is not the case. And I checked with multiple people, because I didnāt believe their assurances the first few times š
Iām with you there, except youāre forgetting Obama.
Wikipedia (yes, I know, thank you) says this:
Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life.[77] He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he āwas not raised in a religious householdā. He described his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as being detached from religion, yet āin many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.ā He described his father as a āconfirmed atheistā by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as āa man who saw religion as not particularly useful.ā Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand āthe power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.ā[78]
In January 2008, Obama told Christianity Today: āI am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.ā[79] On September 27, 2010, Obama released a statement commenting on his religious views saying āIām a Christian by choice. My family didnāt ā frankly, they werenāt folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didnāt raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead ā being my brothersā and sistersā keeper, treating others as they would treat me.ā[80][81]
Obama met Trinity United Church of Christ pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright in October 1987, and became a member of Trinity in 1992.[82] He resigned from Trinity in May 2008 during his first presidential campaign after some of Wrightās statements were criticized.[83] The Obama family has attended several Protestant churches since moving to Washington, D.C., in 2009, including Shiloh Baptist Church and St. Johnās Episcopal Church, as well as Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, but are not habitual church-goers.[84][85][86]
And hereās Trump:
Religion
The Trump family were originally Lutherans in Germany,[52] and his motherās upbringing was Presbyterian in Scotland.[53] His parents married in a Manhattan Presbyterian church in 1936.[54] As a child, he attended Sunday School at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, and had his confirmation there.[55][55] In the 1970s, his family joined the Marble Collegiate Church (a New York City affiliate of the Reformed Church in America) in Manhattan.[56] The pastor at that church, Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and The Art of Living, ministered to Trumpās family and mentored him until Pealeās death in 1993.[57][56] Trump, who is Presbyterian,[58][59] has cited Peale and his works during interviews when asked about the role of religion in his personal life.[56]
After marrying his first wife Ivana in 1977 at Marble Collegiate Church, he attended that church until 2013.[60][55] In 2016, Trump visited Bethesda-by-the-Sea, an Episcopal church, for Christmas services.[61] Trump has said that he participates in Holy Communion. Beyond that, he has not asked God for forgiveness, stating: āI think if I do something wrong, I just try and make it right. I donāt bring God into that picture.ā[62]
Trump refers to his ghostwritten book The Art of the Deal, a bestseller following publication in 1987, as āmy second favorite book of all time, after the Bible. Nothing beats the Bible.ā[63][64] In a 2016 speech to Liberty University, he referred to āTwo Corinthiansā instead of āSecond Corinthiansā, eliciting chuckles from the audience.[65] Despite this, The New York Times reported that Evangelical Christians nationwide thought āthat his heart was in the right place, that his intentions for the country were pureā.[66]
Outside of his church affiliations, Trump has relationships with a number of Christian spiritual leaders, including Florida pastor Paula White, who has been described as his āclosest spiritual confidantā.[67] In 2015, he asked for and received a blessing from Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Lemelson[68] and, in 2016, released a list of his religious advisers, including James Dobson, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ralph Reed and others.[69] Referring to his daughter Ivankaās conversion to Judaism before her marriage to Jared Kushner, Trump said in 2015: āI have a Jewish daughter; and I am very honored by that [ā¦] it wasnāt in the plan but I am very glad it happened.ā[70]
yet even when he could lie to protect his political prospects he says that āhe has not asked God for forgivenessā. Itās not exactly possible to be a Christian in that situation.
Why not?
According to Christian dogma, a person is inherently sinful, deserving eternal damnation. In this dogma, accepting the forgiveness of God through Jesus Christ is the only way to avoid this punishment. To become a Christian, a person must acknowledge that they are sinful, and accept that Jesus is the only way to absolve themselves of this sin. A person cannot āmake things rightā as Trump says, because sin is unavoidable and only Jesus led a sinless life. In essence, a person becomes a Christian when they ask God for forgiveness for their sins. The person who hasnāt done that cannot call themselves a Christian, and I say this as someone who was confirmed in the Presbyterian Church (Trumpās church) as a teenager.
I am now quite non-religious (though not atheistic or agnostic, long story), but I know rather more than Iād care to know about this religion.
Sounds interesting. Iāll give it a watch. š
On a related note, this has been bumping around in my mind for a while now, and I just donāt like it. Trump is our first atheist President. Yeah, I know, he passes for Presbyterianāa lot of us have to pass for something for various reasons, and most of us are way more convincing than he is. But leaving that aside for a moment, what ābad reputationā do atheists have in the larger culture? Letās see: amoral, untrustworthy sociopaths who think theyāre inherently superior to everyone else. Uh-oh. Oh yeah, and at least during the Cold War they were also Russian agents. Igh.
So Iām really, really hoping, in spite of his ongoing collapse in popular support, that when Trump eventually slouches off stage left, that whatever mysterious hypnotic āIām one of youā hold he has on white Christians remains firmly in place. Because otherwise theyāll say: āThatās what happens when you put an atheist in charge,ā and weāre back to the days of debating if atheists can actually be Americans. Thatās all assuming that the evangelical support isnāt due to some speed-the-apocalypse-by-supporting-the-antichrist theory, but Iāve been assured by people who actually travel in evangelical circles that this is not the case. And I checked with multiple people, because I didnāt believe their assurances the first few times š
Iām with you there, except youāre forgetting Obama.
Wikipedia (yes, I know, thank you) says this:
Obama is a Protestant Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life.[77] He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that he āwas not raised in a religious householdā. He described his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as being detached from religion, yet āin many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known.ā He described his father as a āconfirmed atheistā by the time his parents met, and his stepfather as āa man who saw religion as not particularly useful.ā Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand āthe power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.ā[78]
In January 2008, Obama told Christianity Today: āI am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.ā[79] On September 27, 2010, Obama released a statement commenting on his religious views saying āIām a Christian by choice. My family didnāt ā frankly, they werenāt folks who went to church every week. And my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didnāt raise me in the church. So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead ā being my brothersā and sistersā keeper, treating others as they would treat me.ā[80][81]
Obama met Trinity United Church of Christ pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright in October 1987, and became a member of Trinity in 1992.[82] He resigned from Trinity in May 2008 during his first presidential campaign after some of Wrightās statements were criticized.[83] The Obama family has attended several Protestant churches since moving to Washington, D.C., in 2009, including Shiloh Baptist Church and St. Johnās Episcopal Church, as well as Evergreen Chapel at Camp David, but are not habitual church-goers.[84][85][86]
And hereās Trump:
Religion
The Trump family were originally Lutherans in Germany,[52] and his motherās upbringing was Presbyterian in Scotland.[53] His parents married in a Manhattan Presbyterian church in 1936.[54] As a child, he attended Sunday School at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, and had his confirmation there.[55][55] In the 1970s, his family joined the Marble Collegiate Church (a New York City affiliate of the Reformed Church in America) in Manhattan.[56] The pastor at that church, Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and The Art of Living, ministered to Trumpās family and mentored him until Pealeās death in 1993.[57][56] Trump, who is Presbyterian,[58][59] has cited Peale and his works during interviews when asked about the role of religion in his personal life.[56]
After marrying his first wife Ivana in 1977 at Marble Collegiate Church, he attended that church until 2013.[60][55] In 2016, Trump visited Bethesda-by-the-Sea, an Episcopal church, for Christmas services.[61] Trump has said that he participates in Holy Communion. Beyond that, he has not asked God for forgiveness, stating: āI think if I do something wrong, I just try and make it right. I donāt bring God into that picture.ā[62]
Trump refers to his ghostwritten book The Art of the Deal, a bestseller following publication in 1987, as āmy second favorite book of all time, after the Bible. Nothing beats the Bible.ā[63][64] In a 2016 speech to Liberty University, he referred to āTwo Corinthiansā instead of āSecond Corinthiansā, eliciting chuckles from the audience.[65] Despite this, The New York Times reported that Evangelical Christians nationwide thought āthat his heart was in the right place, that his intentions for the country were pureā.[66]
Outside of his church affiliations, Trump has relationships with a number of Christian spiritual leaders, including Florida pastor Paula White, who has been described as his āclosest spiritual confidantā.[67] In 2015, he asked for and received a blessing from Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Lemelson[68] and, in 2016, released a list of his religious advisers, including James Dobson, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ralph Reed and others.[69] Referring to his daughter Ivankaās conversion to Judaism before her marriage to Jared Kushner, Trump said in 2015: āI have a Jewish daughter; and I am very honored by that [ā¦] it wasnāt in the plan but I am very glad it happened.ā[70]
Now do I think that Obama is probably more on the agnostic side of the coin? Yes. But he definitively states that he is a Christian, and has explicitly said āI believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.ā Although Obama is good at weaseling his way around a question and exaggerating when necessary, I do not doubt that he values the truth and wouldnāt simply lie.
Trump, on the other hand, lies without a second thought, yet even when he could lie to protect his political prospects he says that āhe has not asked God for forgivenessā. Itās not exactly possible to be a Christian in that situation.
Thatās a very cool painting. But what is going on with Vaderās arm? It looks like itās coming out of his waist. And itās the wrong (ESB style) glove. That I can forgive, but the angle/perspective on the arm itself is just bizarre. Itās kinda ruining the awesomeness of the picture for me cause thatās all my eye is drawn to once I noticed it. š
That bothered me as well. I think it is an illusion caused by the shadow of his cape.
Great! Iāll get to work on the second scene then š
https://mega.nz/#!2JsBhCzI!q5jWh078iTDwJ5byvncLPhmZ3rtrd2PRg8-j1Ilwerg
This is what Iām thinking about for the first R2 scene. Audio is temporary, and if people like it, my hope is that someone with a 5.1 surround setup can do more justice to the sound.
For the second R2 scene, it would only require lengthening the shot of R2 waking up slightly and adding the final clicks and flashes of the backup data drive.
What makes that image so good for me is that itās an entirely new look at something that must have happened in the original continuity. Star Wars has many such āmust have happenedā moments that are never shown, and thatās the key to unleashing peopleās imagination, even 40 years after the fact.
Yep, to me the Finn line is the only thing that still needs work.
Just because itās not what you or I might have expected after ROTJ doesnāt mean itās a definitively wrong way to do it. As long as it makes sense in the story, and the story is well told, I donāt see any reason to be upset by it.
Story is the worst aspect of TFA (and there are many bad aspects), not because it did not turn out what I expected but because it is actually utter shit:
You seem to be under the impression that the main character in TFA was Luke. He was not. His story function was similar to that of the Death Star plans in ANH. The real main character is of course Rey, and we spend most of the movie with her. This is not something up for debate, and your criticism is entirely because it did not conform to what you wanted it to be.