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#212111
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212111/action/topic#212111
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There's more to history than American history. I find that Americans know a lot about their own history and next to nothing about the rest of the world, or how their history impacted on other countries. I also find they know lots of names and dates but not much about the actual importance or consequences of those events. IMO it is more imporatnt to know what happened and why and what came as a result rather than when.

Of course, I am not talking about all Americans, so no offense to anyone.

I personally am very into history, but I thought National treasure was lame. It was made by Americans for Americans, and screw the rest of us. Which is fair enough I guess, but don't expect me to enjoy it

Anyway, you can't even compare National Treasure to the Da Vinci code - they are totally different and unrelated.
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#212100
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Should Lucus make 4,5 and 6 over?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212100/action/topic#212100
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Originally posted by: darkhelmet
A bolder cinematic attempt would have been to shoot the PT to match the look of the Original Trilogy, from art direction to writing to editing to directing. Can you imagine if he had deliberately casted and designed the PT to look like films shot in the '70s and '80s? (and spent more time and effort on sculpting a Yoda puppet that actually resembled the OT Yoda? but i digress.)
Yes, I've said this before - how cool would it be if the prequels were purposely retro? I'm sure he would get a lot of respect for going against current trends.

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#212096
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Upcoming DVD covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212096/action/topic#212096
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Originally posted by: HotRod
You're gonna love this quote I found on the Drew Struzan's web site


Drew speaking with George Lucas – director and writer of the Star Wars Epic

Drew: “Why do you use illustration to advertise and represent your projects? Computer manipulated photographs dominate the advertising of so many studios, but you continue to loyally choose illustration….”

George Lucas: “The kind of movies I make are more fanciful in nature, more mythical in nature. To market my films, I like to move one step away from photo- realism to something that’s a little grander, a little more glorious, and something a bit more romantic than what you get with just simple photographs.”

© Copyright & TM Lucasfilm Ltd. 1999 Used by permission All right reserved
Linky

Has he seen his f***ing dvd covers?!
Good find on that quote Hotrod. The man is insane.

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#211934
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211934/action/topic#211934
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Congrats on 2700 Gaff. I was just about to log off, content in knowing that I had pushed a little further ahead, and then just as I'm about to call it quits for the night, you show up!

Still, I doubt you'll post 43 times before I log on tomorrow, so I'll concede for now.
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#211928
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211928/action/topic#211928
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Thanks for the compliment, but I do believe that my viewing experience was affected by the fact that I have read the book and knew what to expect. My positive rating of the movie is more to do with comparing it to the source material than actually rating it as a film (which is something that I feel would be impossible for me to do - once you have read or seen something it is impossible to forget that and watch the film on it's own merits). Was it a good movie rather than a good adaptation? I don't know. However, I do wonder what the people slating this movie were actually expecting - is it that the movie is bad, or is it that it wasn't what they thought it was going to be. After all, here's an awful lot of hype around the Da Vinci Code.

Also, if people didn't enjoy the movie because of the plot, that is not the fault of the filmmakers or actors, who were only trying to follow the Brown's book.
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#211924
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Should Lucus make 4,5 and 6 over?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211924/action/topic#211924
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Originally posted by: Zebonka
And if remakes truly do suck... why on earth would you want him to make the PT again if you don't like them? Wouldn't they just get worse? Now that's a frightening thought.
Not if you read my above post - in the right hands, the central ideas could be reworked and developed into something that doesn't suck.

But no, I don't want the PT or the OT remade.

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#211918
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Should Lucus make 4,5 and 6 over?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211918/action/topic#211918
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Originally posted by: Je
I think he should make them over. I love the originals but they just look to out of date. Especially IV ANH man it just looks to low budget but its still a good movie. If he does do them over he can really make them how he intended to. He can also add to the story or change little things. I don't think anyone would disagree with a lightsaber battle between the empire and vader at the end of VI ROTJ instead of him just throwing the emp down the drain like he wasn't nothing. I would pay to see that. Excuse me while I vomit.

Originally posted by: Je
I agree with you darkhelmet. The originals are what they are ORIGINALS! Now its time for a remake. Its like this, what would you rather watch 1930's King Kong or 2005 King Kong? The originals are classics so leave them alone.
Movies are new and improved. So why not remake IV,V and VI. Thats all I'm saying. Most of the movies these days are remakes anyway. Many of them turn out to be better than the originals (batman is a great example even though I think no one can ever replace Jack as joker). CASE CLOSED!
Case reopened - I for one would rather watch the original '33 King Kong and/or poke my eyes out with blunt sticks than watch Kong '05 again. And Burton's batman movies DO NOT need to be remade (although batman is a crappy example because comics are always being 'reimagined' every decade or so - Batman alone has been bought to the screen in a number of interpretations).

The only movies that should ever be remade are movies with good ideas that were executed badly, in the hope that the remake will do a better job of turning a good idea into a good movie. An example of this is the new Battlestar Galactica series, which takes an idea and develops it into something with the same central ideas and characters, but presented in a different, and many would say better way (that's not to say I don't like the original series, but you get the idea). Taking a movie that is already good and remaking it is pointless, and often disastrous.

However, despite the fact that I fundamentally disagree with everything you have to say, I wish Lucas would just remake 4 5 and 6 - that way he would leave the true trilogy alone, and maybe, just maybe, I would be able to enjoy his 6 part 'vision'. But it wouldn't be star wars - it would be some other thing, and I would consider it just that - a seperate, unrelated thing.

One last thing: Saying a movie is dated and therefore should be remade is ridiculous. Time passes and things date. That doesn't mean they need to be replaced by a 'new model'. They are of their time, and that is often part of their value. Shall we burn the Mona Lisa and photoshop a new one (modelled on Mandy Moore) to hang in the Louvre?

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#211916
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Upcoming DVD covers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211916/action/topic#211916
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
The original poster look has that romantisism about it. Look at Vader in ESB. He's wearing some type of poncho thing blowing in the wind. There is action, adventure, intrigue in every corner of the poster. Luke, honorably gazing off in to some distant battle. Leia caught in the middle of danger.
That's exactly it! You've summed it up perfectly.

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#211913
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211913/action/topic#211913
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Congratulations on your promotion Dayv. Does this mean you will be here less often, or was it only a temporary absence that will ease off once you settle into your new role?

Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Hmm. I haven't seen you post any like that.
That's why I'm only 40 ahead of you!
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#211912
Topic
The Empire Strikes Back Script Game
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211912/action/topic#211912
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Lando: Well done. Hold them in the security tower -- and keep it quiet. Move.

Leia: What do you think you're doing?

Lando: We're getting out of here.

3PO: I knew all along it had to be a mistake.

Leia: Do you think that after what you did to Han we're going to trust you?

Lando: I had no choice

Chewie: Rarrraghhh

3PO: What are you doing? Trust him, trust him!

Leia: Oh, so we understand, don't we, Chewie? He had no choice.

Lando: I'm just trying to help...

Leia: We don't need any of your help.

Lando: H..a...a...a..

Leia: What?

3PO: It sounds like Han.

Lando: There's still a chance to save Han... at the east platform

Leia: Chewie.

3PO: I'm terribly sorry about all this. After all, he's only a Wookiee.
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#211910
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The Da Vinci Code Movie
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211910/action/topic#211910
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I just saw the Da Vinci Code and I liked it. It was quite hard for me to actually watch as a movie because I have read the book and knew all the twists and turns (it was as if somebody was reminding me of a the book I have already read - 'remember this bit?' 'Oh yeah') but all in all I think it was good. One thing I must say is that all the locations (not just the real ones like the Louvre, but for example the interior of Teabring's home) were exactly as I imagined while reading, which I suppose is a compliment to both Brown as a writer and Howard as a director. It was also very cool to see London again (I was at temple church just over 2 weeks ago and the finale of the movie where teabring is arrested was filmed on the street I worked on).

And, despite the naysayers (myself included) Hanks was good as Langdon. He may not look the way I imagined him, but he played him well.

The only thing I wonder is would I feel differently about the movie if I hadn't read the book? Lots of things were merely skimmed over, which didn't bother me because I have already read the 'extended version', but I'm not sure you get the whole story buy just watching the film. Plus, the feeling of code breaking and mystery solving, the role of symbology in the historical world we live in, and Langdon's symbology background wasn't explored as much in the movie as is was in the book, and neither was the importance of Da Vinci - apart from a brief appearence by some of his paintings, he was hardly mentioned (according to the book he was a one time grand master of the priory of sion and a key player in the history of the world with regard to the grail). Of course, cuts need to be made when adapting a book to the screen, but for me these were the things that made the book such a good read.

Overall though, thumbs up from YIYF.

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Neither did The Godfather, even though it was an awful book.
The Godfather isn't about the Knights Templar.