Ziz

Lucy Collett

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Ziz said:

My understanding of Lucas' original concept when he started writing was that his story outline started with Obi-Wan and Anakin ...

Will this never end...

Read "The Making of Star Wars" and zombie's "Secret History of Star Wars".  The seeds of the prequels were always there, they just kept getting changed and recycled until they evolved into the SW we know and love.  When Lucas finally decided to do the PT, he went back and re-recycled his old ideas back into what they started as.

I'm not saying they were good ideas, but they were there.

Found her in a Redhead Appreciation page on Facebook.  No idea what her name is.

Another thing to remember with editing in general is that it's a standard practice to "advance the moment" from shot to shot unless the story literally requires following the action in real time.  Things like troopers walking away from the platform or how many feet someone has to run down a hallway to get from point A to point B aren't necessary to know to keep the story moving.

Fang Zei said:

Back in September of '04, I distinctly remember my roommate and I catching something on vh1 called "When Star Wars Ruled the World."

Anyway, another thing they bring up in the last moments is, of course, the prequels. Now, remember this was a vh1 documentary and, as such, had very quick back-and-forth sound bridge editing, but Mark Hamill definitely says (and I'll try and type this the way it sounded) "I saw the new movies, aaaaaaand, they're not Star Wars."

I wish I could just find the clip somewhere to show you guys so you could actually hear how he says it. He doesn't have a harsh tone in his voice or anything, quite the opposite. There's that very cautious way he says "aaaaaaand" like he's thinking "oh, I don't want to piss anyone off with what I'm about to say." The way he says "they're not Star Wars" is as gentle as can be.

Poke around YouTube.  I've seen pieces of the show posted there.

My understanding of Lucas' original concept when he started writing was that his story outline started with Obi-Wan and Anakin, continued on through the events of the OT and then continued even beyond that.  It wasn't until he started fleshing things out into script form that he realized just how much potential material he had and eventually worked his way back down to the "Star Wars" we now know.  So in theory, he's got some leftover notes vaguely spelling out what could happen in a third trilogy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4m6CrBUvWw

The Golden Idol said:

adywan said:

here is the new screenshot:

Looks great! Although, don't the new displays look a bit jagged or pixelated? Or is that just me? Either way, awesome job Ady!

That could be artifacts from being resized.  The screenshot is 1280 wide where BD resolution is 1920 wide.  I'm sure his full size screen shot is fine.

There's another way to look at some of these perceived problems.

In "All Our Variant Futures" in the supplementary material for Blade Runner:Final Cut, Ridley Scott discussed the debates they had on how many of the mistakes in the film they should fix and whether they should leave some of them alone or at least not fix them as much as they could have.  He called them "beloved errors" - things they knew were mistakes but people were so used to them being there that the real mistake would be fixing them.

Maybe these couple of bad line deliveries fall into that category.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfOEOVaO8IQ&feature=relmfu

I think that's part 1 as it's got a "credit" sequence of storyboards from TESB (it starts with about 2 minutes of Japanese commercials)

Who knows Japanese and can help out here?  What's the history of it and is there anything in there we haven't seen before?

You're going to have to hope someone has vintage TV rips they saved, or else get yourself the appropriate recordings of the problem songs and re-mix them into the existing audio.  A few S4 eps say "Disc Only" on NF streaming.

Running for Honor

It's A Wonderful Leap

A Leap For Lisa

marioxb said:

When I get home, I'll look and see how long it takes (in terms of movie runtime between when Coulson tells Stark he's been moved to New Mexico and the Funny Thing short.)

I belive he is driving from New York to New Mexico? What is a reasonable amount of time to drive there?

Google Maps clocks it at around 2000 miles/34 hours, so depending how many hours he put in per day and the exact starting and destination points, you're looking at 3 to 4 days of driving.

Probably because that was the start of the run of films that lead up to Avengers.

Since the book has lots of interviews and quotes, what about doing it more like a full cast audio drama?  One board member is the narrator and reads all prose content.  Everyone else gets "cast" as the different people that show up throughout SW production history and reads their part(s) "in character".

Lesser of two evils, man.  They may have been cool to you in public but you don't know what they would have been like in a private relationship.

Y'know what the difference is between every woman I've ever dated and Charles Manson?

Manson has the decency to look like a nut when you first meet him!

Agreed.  You're probably a Family Guy fan, huh Frink?  They love dragging out a single joke long after the punchline until it isn't funny anymore.

TV's Frink said:

Remove the question mark at the end of each one.

That's strange.  What made them work for me was adding the question mark.

I have a lot of WEG SW RPG D6 stuff in my closet.  I keep debating if I should sell it because I don't play it any more or fill in the holes in my set and keep it for history's sake.

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xhonzi said:

I'm also hoping a deleted scene or two clears up the Stark-Banner arrangement.  I'm not sure why Stark trusted Banner/Hulk as much as he did.

Haven't seen the film yet but character wise, it's probably because they both have the genius/scientist thing going on - Stark is a technology whiz, Banner is a biology whiz.  Not that Thor and Cap are dumb, but it's something Banner and Stark have in common outside of the hero/team thing.

Ewa Sonnet

It doesn't work that way.  Google can't have pages taken of of web sites.  They don't host the sites, they just provide an index of them.  Google's cacheing of the page is just their way of archiving it at the time they found it, similar to what Wayback Machine does.  The closest LFL could request Google do is not list the page in searches, but even that's not foolproof.

If the page isn't on ssw.com anymore then it's because Zombie took it down, not LFL or Google.

At least the content of the films hasn't been 'tweaked' like another trilogy I could mention...

 

Heh...

That would be an interesting collection - weekly newspaper ads tracking the film's theatrical run.

All else aside, Hz rating only matters for sports and live events.  Higher refresh rate (120/240/480 Hz) makes things look "live", which doesn't really work for movies and some TV shows.  Most sets have a way to disable the increased refresh rate so play around with the menu controls or download the instruction manual before you buy.