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#227027
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New director what do you think ?
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Did any of you see Beat Takeshi's 'Zatoichi'? I'd love to see him take on a Jedi movie. I think it would be interesting to see the movies remade by a director more familiar with the traditions upon which the Jedi were based. Can you imagine Ang Lee's 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' remade as a Jedi story?!

I've thought of this before with another great trilogy: Leone's 'Man With No Name' spaghetti westerns. You know how 'A Fistful Of Dollars' was based on 'The Bodyguard' by Kurosawa (who was inspired by the westerns of John Ford)? And then they made 'Last Man Standing' with the same story. I can't remember whether anyone has made it into a sci-fi.

I'd love to see the Star Wars saga remade as samurai films, gangster films and westerns (and possibly remade as sci-fi films too). I think the way that these stories can be translated to the different locations is fascinating!

Samurai <-> gunslinger <-> gangster <-> jedi.
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#226804
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The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: 1979 Animated VS. 2005 Live-Action
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226804/action/topic#226804
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The filmmakers were trying desperately to make a franchise that could repeat the success of LOTR. They thought to themselves: "Brilliant! This will appeal to the same audience, if we play our cards right, and there's 7 parts instead of 3! We can't lose!!"

They shot it in New Zealand, they had CGI monsters, they had "epic" battle scenes, they had "fraught" chases but none of it is entirely supported by the original material, because LOTR is like that but CON isn't.

If they had given CON enough credit to be able to stand on its own merits then they would have made a successful movie.

As it is, they made a bad version of LOTR.

It also suffered from using its child actors in the worst tradition of 70s, Disney, live-action cheese.
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#226638
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&quot;Original Vision&quot;
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226638/action/topic#226638
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I find the relationship with Marcia Lucas breaking down to be a compelling reason for the increasingly muddled output. She was in the editing team on all of Luca$h's films until 1980.

Also I think Luca$h's close relationship with Francis Ford Coppola during the 70s is telling. This is the period of 'The Godfather', 'The Conversation', 'The Godfather: Part II' and 'Apocalypse Now'. I think the serious-mindedness of his friend's very successful filmmaking output at that time may have rubbed off on him.

There is a shift generally, from 70s to 80s American blockbusters, from a big adult audience to a big youth audience.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? It was the egg laid by the chicken's evolutionary ancestor.

Spielberg and Luca$h practically invented the summer blockbuster in the 70s and what audience is around in summer that ain't there during term-time? Kids. Crowds of 'em looking for a thrill. The film companies decided that if they tailored the films to the "youth market" they would out-compete anything else around. Unfortunately they've given kids less and less credit as time has gone on.

Luca$h actually thinks more kids will enjoy his films if they know how the Force works, so he introduces midiclorians! He thinks that they won't understand it when Darth Vader (in ESB) says: "bring my shuttle" when he's in Cloud City and then appears on a Star Destroyer, so he adds clumsy extra dialogue to explain it. He thinks that they won't be able to cope with Han Solo being a hero and also gunning down an alien, so he changes the scene to a worse shot with awkward CGI alterations just to make the alien shoot first. He doesn't think kids can understand metaphor, complex personalities, character development and he also thinks your little sister can't cope without something cute and/or stupid (Ewoks/Jar Jar) to keep them interested.

He gives his audience less and less credit as time goes on.
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#226636
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A Cunning Ploy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226636/action/topic#226636
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As I've said elsewhere, everybody should tell LucasFilm how they feel whether they will "Settle For Less" or are "Fussy Cry-Babies".

I myself am an FCB and proud of it! I have emailed LucasFilm and Fox telling them so and will send snail mail too. I encourage all other FCBs to do the same.

Those of us who are SFLers, I encourage you to join in with the SE disc return and to write letters to LucasFilm and Fox telling them that the versions of the OOT on the discs you kept are sub-standard.

I don't feel like there's been any bad blood between either camp so far. As long as the message gets back to LucasFilm, from both camps, that the versions being released in September are not of a satisfactory standard, then I'd say job done!
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#226635
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Asian Women and Water Operas
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226635/action/topic#226635
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Thanks, Darth Adroit.

Well, I have to say I don't like the new song and I didn't like the new CGI singer, or the CGI Sy but I can honestly say I have no issues with the dancers. At all. Well done to them. I wish you luck there, Ingo Sucks.

As for the 'Water Opera', I got really intersted in seeing what was going on as the scene between Lil' Orphan Annie and Palps really wasn't holding my attention. [Snooze...]
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#226634
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STAR WARS - Enhanced HD &amp; O-OT HD Packs... some suggestions...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226634/action/topic#226634
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Originally posted by: SpecialEditionSaboteur - Does that mean sometime in the future we'll finally be able to see a hardcore porn scene between Slave Leia and Jabba the Hutt?


Oh, man! That would have to be the ultimate indignity! Maybe they could shoot the new scenes with Carrie Fisher in 'youthful' make-up and, of course, use CGI stand-ins ('cos that always looks great).

BTW, did anyone else think that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen looked distinctly effeminate in their make-up at the beginning of X3?
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#226633
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The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: 1979 Animated VS. 2005 Live-Action
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226633/action/topic#226633
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab - Of course, but there was no need to make a thread just to complain about how 'inferior' the movie is to the animated version. It smacks of being arrogant and whiny, and we've had trouble with arrogant whiny people here in the past.


That's nonsense. A sizeable part of this forum is devoted to comparing the SE to the OOT. I see no reason why, in the 'Off Topic' area, we can't compare the animated LWW to the film, or the animated LOTR to the films, or Hitchcock's 'Psycho' to Van Sant's remake, or Burgess' novel 'A Clockwork Orange' to Kubrick's movie, etc.

Ingo Sucks has expressed his opinion on these different versions of the LWW story. If he deems the new film "offensive" and allows himself to be upset by it then that is his own affair. I have expressed my opinion. I think that the new film is a bad film. Darth Chaltab has expressed his opinion. He thinks that the new film is good. How we express that opinion is our own affair.

I do think that this forum is not an appropriate place to express opinions as to the character of other members. That, I think we should all keep to ourselves.

To me, "we've had trouble with arrogant, whiny people here in the past" comes across as the most arrogant statement so far.
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#226491
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STAR WARS - Enhanced HD &amp; O-OT HD Packs... some suggestions...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226491/action/topic#226491
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split - He can add in a five minute scene of Han Solo taking a shit aboard the Millenium Falcon for all I care...


Luca$h: "I just wanted to take people further into the Universe that I created all on my own, by myself, with nobody's help at all, ever.

I just thought to myself, in an all too frequent flash of genius, that we never see people defaecating in my stories. I decided that this left a big hole in the 'Star Wars Experience' (TM)!

So, I revisited all of the movies and have edited in CG-doubles for all the characters to show them at that most private of moments, so that we can all see how it happens! I'm particularly proud of the scene in 'The Phantom Menace', where I have Qui-Gon Jinn squatting over a midden in Mos Eisley, reading 'Funny Quotes The Senators Thought We Forgot!'"
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#226482
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Ralph McQuarrie Website
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226482/action/topic#226482
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I'm going to try to send letters to members of the original creative teams of the OOT to find out their standpoint on current LucasFim policies. If anyone knows any good postal addresses (including ones for companies related to this situation) please post them in the thread ("Postal Addresses") I set up in Preservations And Fan Edits.
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#226479
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The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe: 1979 Animated VS. 2005 Live-Action
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/226479/action/topic#226479
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Originally posted by: Ingo Sucks - I still like the book. I think it's a great book. But since the 2005 movie version is the thing America's familiar with, I can't consider it my favorite book of all time anymore. People will flame me if I hate the movie and say the book is my favorite book of all time. That's why I picked the Black Cauldron. Because I liked it's movie, so people won't get mad at me about that.


People will "flame" you? "Flame" you?!

Like the book and hate the movie and everyone else can fuck off. It's a preference you've arrived at all on your own. You don't need to justify it to anyone.
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#225492
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DVD controversy mentioned on imdb.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/225492/action/topic#225492
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I think it's very encouraging that complaints about the September discs are starting to get some coverage. The more the word gets out the more likely that the people at LFL / Newscorp are going to get the message. They can't be allowed to think that this release is in any way satisfactory.

They have to be made to realise that those that are buying them are buying them for the OOT, and would buy them even if the transfer was 100 times worse, just so that they can (officially) replace their copies on older formats! Further, they have to be told that those that have bought the new discs are not happy with the quality at all!

What we DON'T want them to think is that:

(a) people didn't want to own the OOT on DVD after all.

or

(b) people now have satisfactory DVDs of the OOT and they don't have to be released again.