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#62624
Topic
Yoda's Secret Identity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62624/action/topic#62624
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First time I saw The Empire Strikes Back was ona TV broadcast back in the late 80s, it was the first SW movie I watched all the way (when I was about 5 I remember watching ANH in a x-mas eve TV broadcast, but I don't remember watching it to the end, I only remember the first 2 minutes) - and back then I knew who Yoda was as well as most characters, even thought I haven't seen any SW movie yet. I did not know Vader was Luke's father, but it didn't get to me as a surprise revelation, somewhat I thought everyone knew about this except Luke, so I wasn't surprised. Maybe if I had watched ANH before, I would have been a little bit more surprised.

I was more concerned on Darth Vader removing his mask, I remember someone told me, obviously by mistake, that in that movie we would see Darth Vader's face, and he would be all deformed and stuff, and I was kinda scared of it (I was 7 or 8 years old). So there was that scene in which Luke fights that "imaginary" Vader, and the masks "explodes" and there's Luke's face behind it, I thought that was it... lol
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#62593
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62593/action/topic#62593
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Oh, something I always wanted to know, and never asked anyone: what exactly is the period of a school year in the US? Just for fun, and as an example, Brazil's: starts at the last monday in January and stops for a while during july, our "July break". Starts again at the first weekday of august, and the school year ends at the last weekday of november (there might be some stuff to do in the first days of december depending on what classes you take), because that's when our summer happens. I know that the school year in the US starts at the middle of a year and ends in the middle of the following year, that's just insane
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#62533
Topic
Lucas: Madman or Genius?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62533/action/topic#62533
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OK, here's the thing about George Lucas. First of all, I've seen only one non-SW movie directed by him, American Graffitti, and I enjoyed it. I've noticed that he had the actors decide how the scene would be made by themselves, you can notice that on how Richard Dreifuss acts in this movie. The writing is pretty ok but no sheakespeare. The thing is, he had a great idea, and executed it well.

For Star Wars, he had a terrible idea which slowly developed into something good. After some script re-writes, he got into something that would be interesting to see. In order to do that he had many influences that actually "worked" the script for him, Kurosawa as an example. He also had a great team and great minds working with him. In 1977 he had a visionary mind and a great criative vision.

Suddenly he becamse a multi-millionaire, and became distant to his creative mind and decided to focus on his business. He got old and lost all his experience. If you ask a 15 year old kid to tell you a story, and then ask that same person, 30 years later, to do it again, he'll not be as imaginative and creative as he used to be.

SFX, big budgets, bad luck, out of touch with today's world and a ego problem all contributed to what he is today. He might do some interesting non-SW films if he wants to, I'm sure he would do great drama films, or maybe a romantic comedy, but he has lost his touch for something as visionary and insanely creative as Star Wars is.
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#62522
Topic
The tauntaun stiffy thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62522/action/topic#62522
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
my fave has to be...
"everythings fine now here.... we're all fine now... thx.... how are you?"
Han Solo


Yeah I love that one too, it's a great comic moment. Harrison Ford showed GL that you CAN have a good comic moment on a SW movie without having alien poo on the scene.

"Say, ric, I need some help here, could you get that box up there? I cant reach it."
"Thats impossible, even for a computer!"
"Would you STOP quoting Star Wars for a minute! Geez..."
"Uh... no, because... thats impossible. Even for a..."
"Yeah yeah, even for a computer, real mature. I'll get that box."
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#62409
Topic
What did we all expect from the Prequel Trilogy?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62409/action/topic#62409
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Originally posted by: Starboy

(Speaking of all this, this always gives me chills. What if Luke, upon his father's redemption, had just stayed there with him in the throne room and held him until the Death Star blew up? (they still take off the mask and have the same conversation, they just don't get on the shuttle) Would have been a very different ending, but what it does to Luke's character...)


This is what the ending would be:

Lando is blowing up the death star, and scaping the fire. Cut to a close up on Luke's face, when he realize the whole thing is blowing up:

LUKE: Oh crap.

K-BOOM

Leia meets Lando after he lands on the Endor Moon:

LEIA: So, Lando, do you know where Luke is? You waited for him before you blew up the death star, didn't you?
LANDO: ...... Uh... Yeah sure. I did. I.. uh... you see... when I... uh...
LEIA: You blew his ass off didn't you?
LANDO: Yes.
LEIA: Oh for the love of benji, what have you done! You killed the only remaining Jedi on the... oh well, who cares. Luke's dead, but we don't need him anymore.
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#62303
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/62303/action/topic#62303
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker
You'd be surprised Luke. The ones with no worries are the ones that don't graduate.


already graduated high school with honors....

and finished 2 years of college and now going to university in January...

believe me.... highschool is a breeze compared to what you have coming...
you dont pay for your tuition, or books, still living at home in most cases, no bills to pay....
im telling you its the life


The thing is, you're in school when you're still growing up. If I had right now the problems I had back in highschool days I'd be more than happy, it would be nothing compared to what I face today, but back then it was horrible. But hopefully I'm living the worse part of my life right now, so I guess things kind of settle down someday.