TonyWilson wrote:I might actually prefer Gollum to be played by Serkis in makeup over TPM existing.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:I actually MET Jar Jar when I was filming The Phantom Menace on July 4th 1997. The actual actor was there totally in his suit and face and voice and 100% in character. Who else can say that they met Jar Jar Binx?! And BOTH of them lived!!!???![]()
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doglips wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:I actually MET Jar Jar when I was filming The Phantom Menace on July 4th 1997. The actual actor was there totally in his suit and face and voice and 100% in character. Who else can say that they met Jar Jar Binx?! And BOTH of them lived!!!???![]()
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I'm guessing there may be a little bit of 2pay in Best's performance then?
Lord Voldemoo wrote:As for Drew's points....well taken I think. In a way Jar Jar did pave the way for Gollum. If nothing else as a case study in what not to do.
And Drew's also right in that the real problems with the films went waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay deeper than Jar Jar.
Peven wrote:yousa needa toua getsa outy somsa morsi anda watcha soma mora moveees thana justa theesa starsi wasrsi flicksies.........
Zombie Wolfman wrote:The PT could have been great, with a few small fixes to TPM:
1. Make Jar-Jar a badass reptilian warrior, the scaley version of Chewie.
2. Make Anakin more Luke's age from ANH. The "Too old to train" situation would be more believable.
3. Make the Battle Droids badass killing machines.
4. Keep Darth Maul alive until film 3 to have some buildup of drama to a huge epic fight.
And finally....give the characters some damn dignity! Argh!
Zombie Wolfman wrote:1. Make Jar-Jar a badass reptilian warrior, the scaley version of Chewie.
Fievel wrote:Zombie Wolfman wrote:The PT could have been great, with a few small fixes to TPM:
1. Make Jar-Jar a badass reptilian warrior, the scaley version of Chewie.
2. Make Anakin more Luke's age from ANH. The "Too old to train" situation would be more believable.
3. Make the Battle Droids badass killing machines.
4. Keep Darth Maul alive until film 3 to have some buildup of drama to a huge epic fight.
And finally....give the characters some damn dignity! Argh!
Oh sure... make complete sense on your first post in the Zone!
Way to go!
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....and welcome!
Really, it could have been simple as those four points couldn't it?
Hey guys,
32 years ago today a little film called Star Wars was released in only 32 theaters. To celebrate, I thought I’d repost a favorite article from a couple of years ago for Ed Copeland’s Star Wars Blog-A-Thon.
Two great lessons about SW that I hold dear to this day:
* The early drafts were so stunningly awful and so unlike the finished film, it’s such a great reminder that any bad script has the potential to reach great heights like Star Wars.
* Lucas had the amazing ability to scrap a script he just wrote and approach the story again from a completely different perspective, which he did repeatedly before settling on Luke and the hero’s arc. We all need this quality. Too many of us get too stuck on what we write and we lack the discipline to start from scratch or even approach our stories from a different perspective just to see how it plays.
Hope you enjoy it.
-MM
TheButcher wrote:* Lucas had the amazing ability to scrap a script he just wrote and approach the story again from a completely different perspective, which he did repeatedly before settling on Luke and the hero’s arc. We all need this quality. Too many of us get too stuck on what we write and we lack the discipline to start from scratch or even approach our stories from a different perspective just to see how it plays.
TheBaxter wrote:oh, and it's amazing to think it's been TEN YEARS since TPM. boy does time fly.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Being on the set of it and Ep 2 is just about as happy as you'd imagine it to be though.
Peven wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Being on the set of it and Ep 2 is just about as happy as you'd imagine it to be though.
even happier then when you were on the set of "Love Actually"???
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Peven wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Being on the set of it and Ep 2 is just about as happy as you'd imagine it to be though.
even happier than when you were on the set of "Love Actually"???
Dude I made sure I was half way round the farking world in NZ when they made that filmic plague in London. No wonder when I came home the movie industry was dead. Richard farking Curtis premiering that romanticist abomination - all you did was weaken a Cuntry today!!!![]()
Peven wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Peven wrote:Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Being on the set of it and Ep 2 is just about as happy as you'd imagine it to be though.
even happier than when you were on the set of "Love Actually"???
Dude I made sure I was half way round the farking world in NZ when they made that filmic plague in London. No wonder when I came home the movie industry was dead. Richard farking Curtis premiering that romanticist abomination - all you did was weaken a Cuntry today!!!![]()
oh, come on, Kirk, admit it, you were one of the extras in the restaurant scene at the end where Colin Firth proposes...
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:"I staretd getting a headache. Haha you know what I mean!"
Not quite actually, I'd like some specifics just out of interest, but I get it, he hated what he saw of what was in store.
I'm also very interested in finding out more about this Richard Marquand bloke who no one ever seems to talk about. I heard that the actors didn't get on with him and that George and the 1st AD ended up directing a lot of the scenes.
If so, who did what? Who directed the crappy scenes? Who made the good ones? Why didn't they get on with Richard? Why is it that everyone goes quiet when his name is mentioned? Not because he is dead, there has to be more than this.
Fried Gold wrote:Plus he seems to be making fun of some of the things in Star Wars ("Wookies LOL"), and the audience seems to forget some of the odd stuff in Lynch's films.
inanegeek wrote:i actually like this film now......anyone else?
minstrel wrote:I know that everybody loves Star Wars, because it blew their minds when they were kids. But seriously, have you looked at it recently?
minstrel wrote:It doesn't hold up.
minstrel wrote:Neither does Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi.
minstrel wrote:I know that everybody loves Star Wars, because it blew their minds when they were kids. But seriously, have you looked at it recently? It doesn't hold up. Neither does Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi.
Fievel wrote:ESB is far from my favorite.
Thanks to Family Guy for verbalizing what I had thought many-a-time while watching it...
Why the fuck is Lando wearing Han's clothes at the end!?!? No, really.... WHY!?!?
Fievel wrote:The original Star Wars is still my favorite. Although, since the prequel trilogy I do find myself wanting to hear or see a little more depth when Tarkin tells the Imperial crew that the Emperor just disbanded the Senate. Obviously Lucas didn't have a single thought about a prequel trilogy in mind when he wrote/filmed this movie. But after getting beaten over the head with THE SENATE in the prequel films they're just POOF!... gone in a flash in A New Hope. It's like "Man..... now what are those E.T. guys from Episode 1 doing now that the Senate is gone?"
Fievel wrote:The only one of the OT films that doesn't hold up for me is ROTJ, especially with all of the tinkering Lucas did in the past 13 years. Empire took such a dark/down nosedive and ROTJ is just goofy bullshit for 90% of the film. I still do like Ian McDiarmid's performance in ROTJ a lot- possibly one of the few things in the OT that paid off in the prequel films.
TheBaxter wrote:are you SURE you weren't drinking during the prequels?
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