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#124708
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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Sorry for going a little off-topic:
In my opinion "Sky Captain" was intended to be cheesy and corny, as it was based on 1930/40s comic books and early sci-fi movies. There had to be scenes where action is broken with some dialogue, where female plays "I'm so emancipated and sassy" and the male goes "I'm p*ssed but still charming" style. Go and watch those silly 1950s "aliens ate my livestock" flicks.
You could just as well say "those halos coming from radio stations are so unrealistic", but these images had to represent art deco posters'n'stuff.

BTW: the moment when Gwyneth almost clinges to the chick of her Flyboy (while he reads the map in the cockpit) is far more sexier (in elegant old fashioned way) and romantic than stiff love scenes in Prequels, having dialogues uttered with Fran Dreschner-like voices of main characters, lol (somebody please dub young Anakin!)
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#124554
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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Very interesting post, Darth Asshole... I must admit I agree with you in many points, such as the fact that if we give Lucas too much control - or input - over the movie, we risk a flop. Over the years I've changed my opinion from "George is a Genius" to "George was so damn lucky back in 1970s". The more I learned about how the movies were created, the more convinced I am. It appears that the creative input done by other talented people, who worked on these movies could - if we sum everything up - be decisive factor that lead to their success. I'm not saying that Lucas wasn't needed at all - hey, give the man some credit he deserves - but the point is that he seemed to have a lot of luck to have those people working with him, rather than having the whole thing (I mean plot, dialogues, etc.) laid out neatly in his imagination. Even the fact that Ford changed few lines "in the last moment" proves that OT wasn't made exactly as Lucas could have planned ("Everything proceeds as I have forseen"), but in several cases pure luck decided that these ad hoc changes were the right thing needed.
In the case of Prequels there was far less improvisation. The technology allowed George to execute most of the things he wanted, and this also meant he had even more control, I'd say even more than during making of ANH. If you read the first drafts for OT, you will see that a lot was changed over the time and many of these changes are thanks to the members of the crew - another proof we can't say he had everything planned from the beginning. Some of these changes were forced by technology limitations in those times.

BTW: Darth Asshole, are you by chance related to Major Asshole, from Spaceball One? Hail Skroob!
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#121631
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Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121631/action/topic#121631
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
That's great, RRS. Where you been?

Well... I'm recently too consumed by my "labor of love" (read: will I ever gonna get my cash for it? LOL) - an aviation related project (old warbirds etc.). It started "innocent" as add-on for a PC flight simulator, but as my research goes on, I may end up in arranging an exhibit loan from British museum...

* * *

Another joke in the mood of the one posted by oojason:

A husband returns home way too late and in "not so perfect condition.. hic!". His loving and naive wife helps him to undress and go to bed:
- Oh honey... there is some red lipstick on your collar... so you remembered to take those samples for me... oh, you're so sweet...
- Oh my poor thing... your back is scratched! I'll bet you took that short cut through the bushes to be back home as soon as possible...
...suddenly she discovers that he is wearing... lacy, sexy panties! She is speechless and gapes at him in shock... understanding this awkward moment he mumbles:
- C'mon honey... think hard... focus... improvise...
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#121717
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Who are your 10 favorite and least favorite characters from all six SW films?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121717/action/topic#121717
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"how could you... how could you..." - and I am surprised why people populate their lists with secondary characters (in fact: extras) - do you really feel any emotions toward a person which appeared for few secs on the screen and uttered one sentence?

Yes, I even disliked Mark Hamill until I discovered he's so good in voice-acting (he won me with his Harrison Ford impersonation ).
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#121656
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What about you? The moment when you "divorced" from the Lucas policy about SW?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121656/action/topic#121656
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Originally posted by: Bossk
When the SEs came out in theaters, I was too excited about being able to see them again on the big screen to care about the changes. In fact, many of them didn't even register with my brain (unless blatantly obvious like Jabba in ANH).

Ditto for me. And I assumed I'll be able later to watch (VHS/DVD/etc.) either OT or SE version, whatever I choose...

So for me the shock came with Episode I. I realized that Lucas' train must be off the right track...
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#121649
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I saw Empire at the AFI Silver theatre on Saturday!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/121649/action/topic#121649
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Originally posted by: TheCassidy
One of those things that makes you realize that life is all about symmetry, I guess.

speaking of which... my parents took me to the cinema so I could see my first episode of STAR WARS (which was ROTJ, but luckily for me the theater also re-run previous episodes). After nearly 20 years I took them to the cinema to see the last of STAR WARS episodes

The circle is now complete.