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#67941
Topic
Anakin's ghost?!?!?!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67941/action/topic#67941
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I've seen it. When the movie reached the celebration scene, I was like "oh no, here we go, this is going to suck", and I was like a 5 year old watching a horror flick, I was SCARED of looking at the screen, and at the same time I was so embarassed. I felt like crying when I saw Hayden. There are VERY FEW things that can make a 22 year old man to cry. Congratulations, GL you did it.

Hey, a final thought, maybe GL has died in the mid 80s, and he was replacer by... Andy Kaufman! And he's just messing up with our heads! I mean, it DOES make sense, the only person who would deliberated destroy Star Wars just for the fun of it is Andy Kaufman.
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#67938
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Bowling for Coruscant
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67938/action/topic#67938
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It still lacks timing, we need more "aww that's nice" stuff before we get to the "uh oh not good" stuff: before we mention the Special Editions we gotta make sure the viewer loves the O-OT as much as we do, so that when we present the SEs, he is pissed too. It's a good old documentary trick (as seen in "Roger and Me"). So I'll try to re-write the whole first part a.s.a.p., and post here.
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#67934
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Best Movie Endings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67934/action/topic#67934
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Oh, and how could I forgot, Monty Python and the Holy Grail's ending is great too. Very controversial, some people hate it, some people love it.

ET's ending is sooo cute. And sad.

There's also the ambiguous, open endings, such as The Shining, 2001 (as I mentioned before), The Elephant Man, Resevoir Dogs, Memento...
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#67933
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Posting stories here
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67933/action/topic#67933
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I don't write fanfics, but here's something I've written some time ago for my website (I write short stories, poems, kung fu reviews, and some of my old stand up routine there). Unfortunally I'm not that good at translating, so a lot of the original meaning was lost in translation.



ANALOGY OF THE UNTOUCHED BOOK

He became very surprised when he received that package sent by an old colleague who now lived in London. It was wrapped in a brown paper, addressed to his person, and had a stamp dated a from few weeks ago, being delivered by ship. He didn't have any news from this old colleague for a few months now, since he found out, thanks to a common friend, that this colleague had contracted an unknown form of tuberculosis in one of his trips to Asia. He remembered those news and slowly moved the package away from his own face. With the tips of his fingers he unfolded the brown paper and found out that inside the package there was a book, probably a gift. There were no notes, not a single explanation to the reason for such gift. The book had a dark, red leather cover, and it wasn't possible to see its title or author. He considered opening the book and reading its contents, but reminded himself from his colleague's disease. What if that disease was highly contagious and could have been carried through the pages of that book? Maybe his colleague had read the book several times, and now had decided to get rid of it, delivering it as a gift to his old profession colleague, himself? What if he had breathed over the pages of that given volume, or coughed over it, impregnating it with that mysterious and lethal desease? Decided on what to do, got the book away from himself, letting it rest over a wooden table at the studio.

During that night, under the candle light that burned on the silver candelabrum, he merely watched that mysterious book supposedly impregnated, that rested over that same wooden table at the corner of his studio. Sometimes a servant would go down to where his master was and ask him if he needed anything, to which he only nodded his head saying "no", indicating that he was comfortable in his nightly solitude. He would then have his attention back to the book, which seemed to be watching him back like an owl. The moving flames on the candles created a small trembling movement to the book's shadow, making it even more isolated and mysterious.

Days passed and the book remained untouched. It now rested over an empty bookshelf in the library. He took the care of removing all the books that were previously occupying the bookshelf, letting them piled up in some other place, so that the bookshelf would be of exclusive use of the given book. He instructed all the servants, from the cookers to the coachman, telling them to never open the book and never let it be close to themselves. And there was the book, in the center of that huge empty bookshelf. The red volume was kept laying down on it's side, in a position no book ever would have in a bookshelf, showing itself in a lonely way to whoever entered the library and saw that only empty bookshelf in a room full of filled bookshelves. And in such isolation the book was kept over the years, almost fogotten.

He got the news, this time over the monthly newspaper, that the old profession colleague had finally died of the feared lung disease, and that his funeral was a huge happening in London, because of the significance of his works and merits. As he read about his old coallegue's death, he reminded himself of the abandoned book. He went to the room where it was and saw that it remained there, resting, unmoved, untouched. He considered opening it for a moment so he could find out what were the contents of that book once and for all. After all, if there was any harmful effect contaminated between the pages of that book, it was long gone, or it would have contaminated everyone, and there was no one sick around there. But he decided not to do it. Such a long time without opening it, why would he do such thing now? It didn't matter anymore, since the late coallegue had perished, he could not ask him to see if he had received the gift and enjoyed it. And abandoned the book continued, imaculated, never opened.

But in his own death bed, several years later, he asked one of his servants to fetch that book and delivered into his hands, so that he could finnaly open it and find out its contents. Now that he was about to die, it didn't matter anymore on what such act could cause.
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#67603
Topic
Info Wanted: Bonus Material not offered by the major bootleggers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67603/action/topic#67603
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Originally posted by: starkiller
Actually, I have one other documentary...I think it was called "From Jedi to Jedi".
It was hosted by Samuel L. Jackson (its kind of funny with him in a Fighter cockpit recycling lines from another movie of his).
I think it covered a fair chunk of ILM and Lucasfilm's work over the years.


I've seen this one.
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#67601
Topic
Poor Obi-Wan
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67601/action/topic#67601
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Originally posted by: Zombie Chewbacca
Now that's the way to end a trilogy.

If we're lucky, maybe Lucas will realize he always intended Darth Vader to be Scarface and Han Solo to be Mr. Blonde. The possiblities of Lucas's illogical and slightly insane imagination are endless!


Yeah, perhaps he could go into a more Tarantino like direction for the 2007 crapfest Super Duper HighDVD set.

"In 2007, Luke Skywalker WILL KILL VADER", with Luke in a yellow outfit and his Hatori Hanzo lightsaber.
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#67594
Topic
Why is Lucas such a Knob?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67594/action/topic#67594
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Originally posted by: Asha
I've been wondering if Lucas isn't trying to orchestrate a "New Coke vs. Old Formula" outrage.

Some people dismiss it as conspiracy, but there's a good bit of evidence that suggests the release of "New Coke" was an intentional ploy to inspire people to DEMAND the original formula be re-introduced. And that's what happened ... the "New Coke" was quietly phased-out and the so-called Original Formula (which wasn't actually the same because it now contained corn syrup and was missing its trace cocaine elements) ended up closing the gap in the Cola Wars.


I thought of it myself, but the New Coke rejection thing wasn't really planned. The SEs, on the other hand...
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#67593
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Why the fans complain...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67593/action/topic#67593
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There's also a more passionated kiss between Luke and Leia, a brief moment of it can be seen in the original trailer. I don't know where that scene would be, it looked like an alternate version of Leia's kiss, but didn't work as well as the surprise kiss one. Perhaps they already knew Leia was Luke's sister, and thought that a more passionated kiss between siblings would be waaay too much for a PG film. It would be ok in a early 70s Jonh Waters film though.
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#67591
Topic
Bowling for Coruscant
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67591/action/topic#67591
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OK folks, here's what we need:

* Footage of the O-OT.
* Footage of the 1997 version and the 2004 version.
* Footage of the line outside the theater in the original 1977 release.
* Footage from TMP and AOTC
* Any GL interviews we can get


Here's what I considered to be the opening shot.

(Fade In, scenes from the celebration in the O-OT ROTJ, edited to finish with Sebastian Shawn's ghost)

NARRATOR: Was it all... a dream? Didn't this really happen? Didn't wee see this scene in the Return of The Jedi back in 1983? And wasn't mr. Sebastian Shawn the actor who played Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker? (zoom in Sebastian's face smiling)

(Cut to 1977 footage of SW fans, international posters, and stuff)

NARRATOR: Star Wars, a cultural fenomenon, a huge hit all over the world, the story of a boy... (Luke's scene "I'm here to help")

NARRATOR: A princess (Leia's "Ben Kenobi?!")

NARRATOR: A man who had nothing to lose (Han "I'm the captain of the milenium falcon")

NARRATOR: And his sidekicks and friends (Chewier growls, Threepio "I am C3PO...", R2 beeping)

NARRATOR: It was a story of heroes... and villains (Darth Vader going into Leia's cell, Tarkin, Emperor in ROTJ getting up)

(Scenes from the battle of Yavin)
NARRATOR: And above all, a story filled with incredible special effects, never seen before in a motio picture.

(Fill in any SFX crew interview, if possible one made around 1977)

(scenes from the movies, if possible old O-OT scenes)
NARRATOR: Star Wars, a new hope. The Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi. That was the trilogy we all loved. The trilogy we enjoyed watching. The movies we loved seeing over, and over, and over again, until...

(silence. fades in to 1997 SE's trailer)

NARRATOR: What was that?! Suddenly, there were creatures we never wanted to see! (1997 Jabba scene, Wampa scene)

NARRATOR: There was CGI all over the place! (Jedi rocks scene)

NARRATOR: Suddenly, Han Solo was not the bravest man in the galaxy, the man we all wanted to be (O-OT shooting Greedo scene)

NARRATOR: ... he was a loser! (1997 Greedo scene)

NARRATOR: (slowly closes up into the 2004 DVD box) And in 2004, when the antecipated DVDs were released, all hell broke loose! Good actors suddenly... Didn't exist anymore! (fades from the Old Emperor scene into the 2004 one, fades from the old sebastian shawn scene to the one with Hayden, slow down, zomms into Hayden's smile)

(Interview with anyone about the changes, explaining what happened)

... and after that, we start talking to fans, and showing the hypocrisie of one man... George Lucas.
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#67541
Topic
Zombies and Jedi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67541/action/topic#67541
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Originally posted by: Sam_Lu
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Hehe no I'm serious, he could really pull it of. I think he can make excelent non-star wars films if he wishes to.


Trust me, if Lucas ever released a non-SW movie, it would sink at the box office. The guy has no talent left, only an incredibly valuable license he is running into the ground.


I don't think so. I belive he has stressed out the SW franchise in a way that he can't make a good movie with it anymore. And I still belive he could do a pretty decent flick if he avoids using CGI on it.
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#67534
Topic
Zombies and Jedi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/67534/action/topic#67534
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I don't know why, but I feel like GL could do an excelent western-spaghetti film with a low budget and no CGI. That way we would enjoy seeing the villain characters shooting first.

Hehe no I'm serious, he could really pull it of. I think he can make excelent non-star wars films if he wishes to.