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Post
#615595
Topic
Frink's Digital Diorama [was: OT Deleted Scene Restoration Project?]
Time

I'll have to double check these later when I get home, but...

Based on http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_%28Blu-ray%29#Deleted_Scenes

  • Tosche Station
  • - Luke sees the space battle while fixing a Vaporator
  • - Luke goes to Tosche Station
  • -- Luke gets called Wormie
  • -- Luke & Biggs talk
  • Old Woman on Tatooine
  • - Luke's reckless driving almost kills someone
  • Aunt Beru's Blue Milk
  • - An extra moment in the Lars' kitchen
  • The Search for R2-D2
  • - Threepio & Luke drive around in the landspeeder w/ rear projection
  • Cantina Rough Cut
  • - Black and white original cut of the cantina, in which Han kisses some floozy. Includes some weird aliens we don't see in the regular cut, as well as Greedo's English dialogue.
  • Stormtrooper Search
  • - Weird aliens in Mos Eisley get in the way of Stormtroopers
  • Darth Vader Widens the Search
  • - Darth and that Moff discuss Leia. Dubbed & reused in the Holiday Special.
  • Alternate Biggs and Luke Reunion
  • - Luke & Biggs in the hangar w/ Red Leader. Weird cuts to out of sequence Threepio & Artoo shots. Lacks the line about Luke's father.
  • Han and Leia: Extended Echo Base Arguement
  • - Han & Leia keep arguing a little too long
  • Luke's Recovery
  • - Black & White shots of Luke in the Bacta Tank w/ some dialogue relevant to Wampa plot
  • Luke and Leia: Medical Centre
  • - A tender scene of incest as an intro to the nerf-herder scene
  • Deleted Wampa Scenes
  • - Silly looking Wampas in Echo Base, including Threepio & the door
  • The Fate of General Veers
  • - Veers' AT-AT is hit by a handdrawn animatic speeder and explodes
  • Yoda's Test
  • - Luke chops a floating metal bar in half while Yoda sits on his back. Some Black & White.
  • Hiding in the Asteroid
  • - A few nice moments of reacting to explosions inside the Falcon
  • Alternate Han and Leia Kiss
  • - An alternate version of Han & Leia's romantic scene in the Falcon's maintenance closet. Different dialogue. Black & White. 
  • Lobot's Capture
  • - Lobot sneaks around Cloud City, but ultimately is arrested by stormtroopers just before getting to the Falcon.
  • Leia tends to Luke
  • - A tender moment of incest with an amputee
  • Vader's Arrival and Reaching out to Luke
  • - Vader goes to his DSII meditation chamber after scolding Moff J
  • - Vader talks to Luke w/ some slow motion
  • - Luke puts his lightsaber together and into Artoo on Tatooine
  • - Artoo & Threepio set off for Jabba's
  • Tatooine Sandstorm
  • - Noisy fans obscure dialogue when boarding spaceships after Jabba's barge explosion
  • Rebel Raid on Bunker
  • - The rebel commandos actually do some stuff
  • - Multiple angles of a shootout
  • - Some alternate angles of existing scenes towards the end
  • Jerjerrod's Conflict
  • - Moff J tells Vader that the Emperor doesn't want to see him right now. Vader submits eventually.
  • - Moff J has to decide if he's okay with killing hundreds of Imperial troops just because the Emperor said so. Fires just as the DSII explodes.
  • Battle of Endor: Lost Rebels
  • - The lady who became a man and destroyed the Executor. Black & White
  • - Old lady pilot. Black & White
  • - Sullustan pilot
  • - Mon Cal pilot
  • - Rebels running around inside the Falcon, sometimes fixing things, sometimes carrying assault rifles
  • - Falcon gunners
  • - Madine is a bad actor

 

Post
#615148
Topic
48 fps!
Time

AntcuFaalb said:

timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

I was able to see the 3D effects despite my stereo-blindness.

Wait, what?

I assume this means that you felt the immersion of stereo without stereo, I guess thanks to 48fps. Right?

Not really, no.

I meant that I could actually see the little 3D effects in "3D"; e.g., birds flying out at my face.

I guess I don't understand stereo-blindness, then. My mistake.

Post
#614927
Topic
The Hobbit movie: Dwarves
Time

Tobar said:

Thorin's hate for Elves

This is a necessary consequence of the film being made after Tolkein wrote LOTR and after Jackson made his films. The dwarf/elf relationship is clearly one of animosity, whereas he may not have had that all figured out as much when he wrote The Hobbit. These new films are very much an adaptation of the book, in the context of the previous films, and this is one area where it shows.

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#614700
Topic
When/Why did you become an OT purist?
Time

canofhumdingers said:

Is there actual footage of Luke missing the first time with the grappling hook? In one of the vintage docs or something? While I don't recall ever seeing it in the film itself, I could SWEAR I've seen a clip of him missing and gathering the cord back up to try again... And I mean an actual film clip, not just a picture or anything.

Perhaps you've seen Harmy's joking mockup.

 

Just remember, if you listen to the music, as Williams and the LSO recorded it, there's no room in the scene for a miss. That means, if such a moment was ever even filmed, it never made it to any cut that had music.

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#614680
Topic
When/Why did you become an OT purist?
Time

Baronlando said:

Interesting, since the Biggs scene was put back in 97, the people from the 97 SE would be able to shed light, some of them must be on twitter (hey stranger things have happened, like hearing from Harry Shearer 30 years after the fact). The negative for that scene would have been in a completely different place if it had been in the movie and lifted out vs. if it had never been in at all. (On a small roll of its own with the trims in one place etc.  or still on the big rolls of unused raw negative). 

This is the first good idea in settling this debate that I've heard.

Post
#614420
Topic
Victory Celebration
Time

Baronlando said:

Did they play Victory Celebration at the big ongoing Star Wars concert thing?  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_In_Concert

Nope!

And honestly, given that they can only feasibly do one finale, I'm not surprised. Though I would have done Victory Celebration/End Credits w/ a hybrid end credits that finishes the way the ROTS OST (but not film) credits track runs (ie ending w/ Throne Room).

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#614417
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
Time

Tyrphanax said:

timdiggerm said:

Tyrphanax said:

The markings on the capsule are completely new and don't match up with any Star Wars written language, which is part of why this picture excites me so much; was this supposed to be the original Star Wars language, before Aurebesh?

Aurebesh's first appearance was ROTJ in 83, right? And even then, it's not really the same aurebesh as the more modern codification.

Anyway, keep in mind that the same film has English letters on screens, particularly the Tractor Beam controls.

Yes and yes; if I remember correctly, by modern connotation, the "Aurebesh" in Jedi "translates" to gibberish, but all Aurebesh after Jedi "translates" into English.

The English in the rest of Star Wars is exactly why I find the markings on the capsule so interesting, because it makes me wonder if they were initially going to use those markings as the alphabet and then changed it so it would be readable for viewers, and then changed it again for Jedi; or if the markings are even supposed to be "letters".

I'm very okay with a universe with several alphabets.

 

And oh wow, decoding the Holiday Special alphabets. Amazing.

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#614238
Topic
NFL to eliminate kickoffs?
Time

CP3S said:

georgec said:

...it all just seems so...inconsequential.

When I hear people arguing about sports, what this guy said, what that guy said, etc., it just seems like such a waste of time. I think the culture of sports is extremely bloated. Watching a bit of a game here and there is fun, but anything beyond that doesn't interest me now.

Rant over.

Yay! Guys like me and the Gaffertape are generally made to feel like aliens our entire lives because we don't get into sports. It is kind of refreshing to see someone who was once into sports "get it" and start to see things the way we have always seen them. It just feels like a bunch of inconsequential crap used to sell lots of stuff.

One thing I honestly dread about meeting new people is that I know the sports question is always going to come up.

"What's your name?"

"C3PX"

"Cool. Who's your team?"

"Uhh, never really got much into sports, to be honest"

*Baffled look* *Alert stance* *Cautious tone of voice as if speaking to someone who is clearly a lunatic who could snap and kill you at any moment* "Really?! How come?" (seriously, this question almost always happens. Nobody can hear someone say they are not into sports and just leave it at that, they have to figure out what the hell is wrong with you by pressing the issue and trying to get to the bottom of things. I am not even kidding or exaggerating in the least.)

 

I've gotten to the point where I almost feel guilty when I say I am not into sports. Like I am being rude or difficult. Especially where I live now where people, sadly, have very little else they want to talk about. I feel like I am pushing people away, or telling them that their go to bridge for arbitrarily relating to strangers is, in my case, nothing more than a sheer drop into a gaping ravine. My dad, who has always for the most part felt the same way about sports as me, fakes it. He'll read the local college team's scores online along with any important highlights from the last big game so he can use it to make small talk with people and built rapport. Feels somewhat disingenuous to me, but I can see why he does it. Commercialized sports have become such a deep, embedded part of our culture, and when you don't embrace that aspect of our culture, it can be very hard to find common ground with those around you.

From the other perspective though, someone who's just met is hoping to make small talk (an important part of any social interaction, especially when you've just met) and picks what, statistically speaking, has been a very dependable small talk topic. Uh....shoot, now what to talk about? Plus, if you don't know many people who aren't into sports, it would seem strange.

You probably exaggerate when you say that they immediately suspect you of being ready to murder, and exaggeration never helped anybody come to a peaceful understanding of one another.

And, if it matters, I'm saying all this as a person who doesn't follow sports.