So excited to finally see this when you’re finished! DrDre, you and this project are one of the reasons I made an account here to begin with, the efforts are yielding results only matched by Mike Verta!
Appears to have been removed, shame I was in the middle of it, great stuff.
This is just something fun, with no other special edits made after initial alignment, here is the opening to The Empire Strikes Back set to the score from the 1950’s Billy Wilder classic Sunset Boulevard.
https://streamable.com/i4yse
(I would recommend at least watching the opening if you haven’t already seen the movie before viewing this mashup.)
ESB video sourced from 35mm restoration thread by poita
Sunset Boulevard audio from https://youtu.be/u2RHPQpSbYI
I don’t have anything more to build on top of this, there is no extended version, but I thought it would be different and could open up some discussion. Maybe others have tried their own soundtrack replacements, what score would really change or suit other scenes in fun and interesting ways?
Stop motion animation always holds a special place in my heart for its inherent creep factor, in particular creatures composited against live action. There’s just something about the jerky movements that add a strange, unsettling layer to whatever the effect is, and usually it was some deformed monster to start.
I will always remember the 1986 Eddie Murphy movie The Golden Child for this reason. Not otherwise the most memorable or respected movie, listed as a “fantasy comedy film”. I won’t go deep into the plot details, a lot about some magic knife and the most 80s approach to Tibetan mysticism you could ever hope for. Oh, also the main villain worships the devil and transforms into a giant literal demon with wings that chases down Eddie Murphy and a little boy.
You just don’t know how to brace for that as a kid, definite nightmare fuel.
And that’s not even as crazy as whatever is going on with the final boss from a movie like Howard the Duck
(also released in '86)!
I’ve only just joined this community after some time spent lurking, still went here first just after reading the news.
RIP to a real talent in storytelling, we missed you before you were ever really gone.
