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#120349
Topic
Did George actually have an "original vision?"
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OK from what I know:

* Early 70s, he invisions this space sci-fi movie that has the same feel as the old matine serials such as Flash Gordon. He starts to write some stuff and do some concept art. General Luke Starkiller, midgets being the heroes, Solo being a green alien, the story of Mace Windu a Jedi Bendu of Utapau, and stuff like that.

* Mid 70s, he has everything pretty much planned for a SINGLE MOVIE. Obi-Wan dosen't die, there are these force crystals, the art concept guy came up with Vader being in a suit, "may the force of others be with you", stormtroopers with lightsabers, and all that early draft insanity.

* He starts to cast and move the film to pre-production, and he finishes a final draft at the same time. By the time he began casting and creating ILM he still had an early draft. Still no sign of the so called "saga".

* Finishes shooting, movie is released and is a hit. GL is smart enough to know HOW to milk this cash cow, and he does it brilliantly. He comes up with the concept of Star Wars being episode 1, later episode 4 (yes he did considered having Star Wars as episode 1), and writes down small drafts of the following movies. The Emperor is not to appear until movie nine, there is NO death star 2, and so on.

* Comes up with the concept that Vader might be Luke's father (not even GL knows for sure either). Finishes writing the story for ESB, calls Irvin Kershner who takes on the project and make it work.

* Movie is also a hit, he WAITS for Harrison Ford answer so he knows if Solo should be killed off or not. Harrison ford agrees to be in the next one, he writes down a vague story CLOSING the trilogy, because he was probably very bored by now. He gives up doing the later trilogies and try tries to come up with anything to close the movie. Comes up with the Leia being Luke's sister thing.

* ROTJ is released, he focus on other projects.

* Early 90s, he is bored again, and decides to mess up with Star Wars. Lucasfilm and FOX want to re-relase the movies in 1997, but they need something extra to justify someone going into the theater and watching a movie everyone has seen thousands of times: they come up with it being a "director's cut" version - it has been done before with Close Encounters and Fantasia. They change the movie, add a few scenes and add CGI to justify people going into the theaters, NOT because GL had this "original vision", he never had such a vision.

* GL gets trapped in lies and more lies, so he just keeps lying to cover it. He says that the movies were changed in order to make it closer to his original view. Starts pre-production of Phantom Menace BEFORE he had a script written - casts Natalie Portman as OBI-WAN'S WIFE (remember that?! I do, back in 1997). Writes something in a weekend, and moves on with production.

* Losing his touch and his creativity, trapped in media lies and confused by the plot holes, directing bleak, week and slow movies, he goes on and destroy the chance to do good prequels by writing and directing them himself, and adding as much bluescreeen as possible.
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#120347
Topic
From a Certain point of View...
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OK, let's asume that GL HAD an original vision and wrote the siex episodes back in the early 70s, which we know NOT to be true. So, if he had made Phantom Menace as the first Star Wars film, it would be dull and weird. First, there would be no pod racing, so it would be mostly dialogue. He would have edited the film in a slow pace, more like the first rough cut of ANH. I doubt there would even be a Darth Maul, he would probably be Vader, and the fight would be slower and more like swordfighting. There would be no Yoda, and no Jedi aliens. Palpatine would be someone younger... And the movie would most certanly flop, or not even be completed at all...

OK, so asuming he does complete the films and they become hits: they would have more of a cult status nowadays, and would be considered a weirdness of the late 70s early 80s. It would be what Tron is today. I doubt there would be another trilogy, he would kill off Anakin on episode 3.
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#120284
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Anime Question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120284/action/topic#120284
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The manga is more complete than the anime, featuring more details about the characters and a whole new saga which is only partially featured on the OVAs but not on the TV series. Besides, reading kenshin is one heck of a japanese history lesson, I've learned a lot about the shogun and meiji era.
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#120159
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120159/action/topic#120159
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The controller WILL be something like this, the buttons appearing on the controller and it being basically a touch sensitive screen, we just don't know how it'll look like. The thing is: while having real buttons and a + pad is easy to controll because of grip, how is this controller going to work? I mean, you'll be touching "nothing", there will be no buttons and pads, it'll be like "rubbing" a controller with no buttons... It'll be kinda weird.
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#120136
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120136/action/topic#120136
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The controller was officially presented to the official Revolution developers this week, and they signed to not say anything about it yet, but from what everyone has heard so far, it might be something like this (this is NOT the final controller, it's a artistic concempt on it's description):

http://www.neoplastique.com/victor/revZombieWario-especulation.jpg
http://www.neoplastique.com/victor/revZombieWario-especulation.jpg
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#120187
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Anime Question
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120187/action/topic#120187
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I never read or watched Inuyasha, not because I didn't want to, but because I never had the chance. But from what I've heard, it's really not that good... I'm not even sure what's the plot about.

Now, I have every single Rurouni Kenshin manga, and THAT is a good manga (way better than the anime, not sure about the OVAs). I even have the Kenshin Kaden, which is a book regarding the story, trivia, intreviews, art and stuff. Anyone here's a rurouni kenshin fan? "Ama-kakeru-ryuu-no-hirameki!"
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#120167
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Clubbing
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/120167/action/topic#120167
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From Wikipedia

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The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway consists of two parallel bridges which are the longest in the world. Crossing over Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, the longer of the two bridges is 23 miles 1,538 yards (38.422 km) long.


We have a 8 mile bridge over here, between rio de janeiro and niteroi.
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#120133
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Anime Question
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
It's only done like that because the Japanese read things vertically and backwards compared to westerners! But it would be pricey to flip it over, and it would make purists mad, so it is left in it's original format and translated, from what I understand, pretty accurately.


It's not that pricey to flip it over, and most mangas used to be publiched that way, even computer colorized (like Akira). But then the whole manga and anime thing stop being an "underground" cult and became mainstream - which is good AND bad at the same time - and manga are now published on it's correct form.

It has been a while since I've read non-japanese comics, so when I get one, I tend to read from right to left, and then I realize it's not manga