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#86275
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Cartoons!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86275/action/topic#86275
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My favorite episode was when Bingo the squirrel was going to move, and he was saying goodbye to the whole gang and stuff, and everyone was doing him favors and paying him icecreams and stuff, and then he moved to a house 2 blocks away, and everyone got pissed with him.
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#86182
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Cartoons!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86182/action/topic#86182
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Originally posted by: Warbler
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
"Not many people know, but the Fürher was a terrific dancer."

"Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! Two coats!"



he may have been those things, but he was still a bad guy(imho).


That's from "The Producers", Warbler.

Hitler was such a bad guy, even Palpatine is better than him.
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#86078
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86078/action/topic#86078
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I liked "Paths of Glory", but it's a good film, and that's it.

I didn't like "Spartacus".

I absolutely loved "Dr Strangelove" - it's a great anti-war film, explores the absurdity and the insanity of the cold-war. It's like what Carl Seagan once said, the cold war was like two persons standing in oil to their chest, one with 2 matches, the other with 5.

I don't need to say anything about 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, as they are the absolute perfect films.

I enjoyed "The Shining", but it was kinda weird, not exactly a "horror" film.

I enjoyed "Full Metal Jacket", specially the first half (of course).

I kinda liked "Eyes Wide Shut", not bad, but still NOT his best film.
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#86084
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What if someone else had played Obi-Wan instead of Alec Guinness?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86084/action/topic#86084
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
Yeah, that would be something to see. Also, I wish I lived in an alternate reality where Lucas didn't have a dispute with the Director's Guild and Spielberg directd ROTJ.


There would be no "Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom", as he would do ROTJ instead. And ROTJ would probably only come out in 1984, as he was busy finishing ET and Poltergeist on early 1982. He would add more senthimentalism to the "Vader is Luke's father" thing, Leia would not be his sister, and Solo would die.
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#86081
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SW Photo Spread in Vanity Fair
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86081/action/topic#86081
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

This relates to something i've been pondering recently - By the time of the OT, are all Storm Troopers still Jango Fett clones, or has the empire started recruiting/enlisting? While Obi Wan is messing with the tractor beam on the death star we hear 2 troopers talking about a new landspeeder model on the market, just like a couple of regular joes, not purpose built clones. What does everyone else think? Ordinary people joined the Nazis during the war, why not the empire? You would get to see the galaxy, you wouldn't run the risk of them killing you cos you're one of them, and I bet they have a great retirement plan...


There are some EU stories that back this theory up. I remember the one that came with the game "Tie-Fighter", in which a friend of someone who was enlisting to be a tie-fighter pilot wanted to join the empire and become a stormtrooper.
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#86038
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What if someone else had played Obi-Wan instead of Alec Guinness?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/86038/action/topic#86038
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This, TheSessler:
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Originally posted by: buddy-x-wing
although I did hear that Peter Cushing never allowed his likeness to be used as an Action figure, so thats why there was never a Grand Moff Tarkin action figure until after his death.


Chaltab: well, we know what is SW now, but back then no one would know... they all thought they were wroking on some crappy sci-fi flick. Besides, it may come as a shock, but... some people don't like SW! Yeah I don't get it either.

Getting back on the topic: I wonder how SW would have come if Toshiro Mifune had been cast as Obi-Wan, as originally planned...
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#85986
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/85986/action/topic#85986
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They came from the radio shows that were performed in front of live audiences, and that came all the way back from vaudeville theater. After some time, it became too expensive to broadcast the comedy shows live at a theater, so they started to tape it, edit it, and add laughs to it, so that people would still think they were still live. Since TV comedy came from radio comedy, laugh tracks were incorporated to TV shows, the early ones still had the "theater" feel, like "I Love Lucy" and "Honeymooners".

And today, I can watch this piece of crap called "Friends", and see what has the laugh track evolved to. I watched 2 episodes of Friends, a long time ago, and I simply could not laugh, it was NOT funny, the actors were terrible, the writing was awful, and yet thanks to the laugh track that became the most successful sitcom in the world. I have NOTHING against sitcons, but if you have any talent, try it without the laugh track.

I did some stand ups experiences during college, and I had this tape recorder with me, on my right hand. After the first joke, which was the best one, I would stand my right hand and tape the laughs. People would laugh even more after I did it. After 2 or 3 minutes I would tell a bad joke on porpouse, and after 3 seconds with no laughs, I'd show the tape recorder, rewind it, put it on the microphone and press play, and the laughs would play. Then I'd say "See? I don't need you anymore. I've captured your laughs. They know what's funny."