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Film / Nerd This is Your Grandfather's Star Wars!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM
What Star Wars would look like had it been filmed in the early 1900s before sound. THIS IS SO FREAKING AWESOME!!
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Uh oh. Everybody, we have to make sure George Lucas doesn't see this. Otherwise in two years we'll all be subjected to the re-release of the digitally "un-mastered" edition of The Empire Strikes back.
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I actually liked the music. The solo piano version of The Imperial March was fantastic.
@2>>>I work at a funeral home with a crematory....nobody has to know.....Who first? Lucas or Christensen?
@2>>>I work at a funeral home with a crematory....nobody has to know.....Who first? Lucas or Christensen?
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I liked it too... it actually didn't seem too out-of-place (except for the lightsabers. I didn't think they translated too well).
@3,
Definitely Lucas first. Christiansen can be forgiven for youthful ignorance. Lucas has no excuses.
@3,
Definitely Lucas first. Christiansen can be forgiven for youthful ignorance. Lucas has no excuses.
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Sorry, but it just doesn't work. The camera movement, camera angles and fast cutting don't fit into the silent movie era. It looks exactly like what it is, which is a bad After Effects filter job on modern footage.
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@6 yeah...coincidentally I was checking out some really early Chaplin movies (as in 1914 early with Mabel Normand). I was struck by how little of the dialog (as in almost none of it) was shown in the movie; the audience supplied it for itself.
That and just how tiny and cramped the interior sets were.
But a Keystone Kops version would be freaking awesome! I can see Vader now kicking Luke in the ass leading right into a Mack Sennet style pratfall.
That and just how tiny and cramped the interior sets were.
But a Keystone Kops version would be freaking awesome! I can see Vader now kicking Luke in the ass leading right into a Mack Sennet style pratfall.
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I thought it was great fun.
I'd pick it over the original, mainly because the cheese factor fits so well into the silent movie schtick.
I'd pick it over the original, mainly because the cheese factor fits so well into the silent movie schtick.
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It is cool looking, but there are too many inter-titles. Were this an actual silent movie, the story would be told more visually. There is no need, for example, for a card reading "N-O-O-O!!!"
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Because the idea here is to trick you into thinking that you are really looking at a vintage movie right? Nope.
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Manages to be almost as gripping and dramatic as the original, even though the appearance is hokey.
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