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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:Tbf that's every line out of Natalie Portman's mouth It's actually impressive just how bad she is on the prequels. Keira Knightley has like three lines and she pulls it off better than Portman does.
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Inescapable Duck posted:I still like the idea that Yoda's actually a 900 year old human. I like that in games and other media where we've seen other members of Yoda's species, none of them do the backwards talking stuff.
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I still think Yoda should have been super ripped in the prequels. Still tiny though.
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CzarChasm posted:I like that in games and other media where we've seen other members of Yoda's species, none of them do the backwards talking stuff. Yeah, it's not like a cultural thing or like the way their grammar works or something, he's just a loving weirdo.
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Arcsquad12 posted:It's actually impressive just how bad she is on the prequels. Keira Knightley has like three lines and she pulls it off better than Portman does. I 100% blame Lucas. He was shouting "Less emotion, more wooden!" at her every take.
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I can't tell if you're kidding.
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He is not, Lucas is a hack.
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Powaqoatse posted:Any other word than children would be stupid. "Youngsters" would be just as bad as younglings. they need to do way instain jedi> who kill thier yuonglngs
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Gejimayu posted:My wife and I turned to each other, jaws agape at this point. It was such a perfect Dark Tower reference in the way Stephen King likes to do them in his books, with no explanation, so that if you dont read them you wouldn't even know the line meant anything. Really cool. I bet you the new IT and gunslinger were the first steps at launching a Stephen King/Derry/Beamworld Cinematic Universe I'm not even kidding, just you wait and see.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I bet you the new IT and gunslinger were the first steps at launching a Stephen King/Derry/Beamworld Cinematic Universe One of these was a biiig misstep then.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I bet you the new IT and gunslinger were the first steps at launching a Stephen King/Derry/Beamworld Cinematic Universe This is actually going to be a Hulu show called Castle Rock. They already said the guy who played Pennywise is going to be on it in some capacity.
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"Killed wee tots, he did." And George is(was) a master troll. There's so many anecdotes about him an lightsabres. You say "lightsabre" he'll cough and go, "Uh, actually the cannon term for them is 'lazer swords'". Then some talkshow host heard this and tried to get on his good side by saying lazer sword and Lucas goes, "I think you mean "Lightsabre"." 
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Ariong posted:An inside job, it was! Excuse me, but I think you'll find that lightsabres can melt steel beams.
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Alas, anything melts Younglings.
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Actually beam sabers are the result of minovsky particle latices forming a containment field for raw energy from a mobile duit's microfusion generator made into the former of a blade.
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rydiafan posted:I 100% blame Lucas. He was shouting "Less emotion, more wooden!" at her every take. World War Mammories posted:I can't tell if you're kidding. Sorry, I also can't detect if this is a joke or not, so I'm legitimately curious if that's what his direction was like?
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Sand Monster posted:Sorry, I also can't detect if this is a joke or not, so I'm legitimately curious if that's what his direction was like? quote:"So they put the dress on me the first day and bring me to George," Fisher said on HBO's Wishful Drinking. "He takes one look at me and he says, 'you can't wear a bra underneath that dress', so I said, 'why?', and he said, 'because there's no underwear in space'. And the man said it with such conviction too."
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Luminous flamberges are we.
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70s and 80s Lucas is a different guy than the modern troll Lucas. I believe he was sincere with the no bra thing because of the time the film was made in where he had people breathing down his neck. If he'd said that post 1997, when he was surrounded by yes men, I'd assume he was joking to see how much he could get away with with nobody to say no. But in 1976-77, I can see him speaking with conviction about the bra thing as a means of sticking it to the studios and doing what he wanted on set.
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Sand Monster posted:Sorry, I also can't detect if this is a joke or not, so I'm legitimately curious if that's what his direction was like? The two directing notes he's most famous for are "same thing, but better" and "faster, more intense," if I recall.
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mojo1701a posted:The two directing notes he's most famous for are "same thing, but better" and "faster, more intense," if I recall. He sounds like all the girlfriends that dumped me.
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mojo1701a posted:The two directing notes he's most famous for are "same thing, but better" and "faster, more intense," if I recall. If you have the special edition DVD box set, there's a whole section of the entire cast trashing him for his complete inability to do any directing apart from repeating 'Faster and more intense'.
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Oct 5, 2017 17:32
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Telling the game development team they could only choose between Darth Icky and Darth Insanius was extremely funny imo
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mojo1701a posted:The two directing notes he's most famous for are "same thing, but better" and "faster, more intense," if I recall. "same thing but better" is a hilarious burn.
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RBA Starblade posted:"same thing but better" is a hilarious burn. But a poo poo thing for a director to say because it is effectively useless advice.
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From what I've heard, I guess I would describe him as a negative director, in the sense that he doesn't give positive comments (instructions to the cast & crew to realize his vision), but lets people do more or less whatever unless it seems to contradict his vision. Then he intervenes, often on weird and silly elements that strike him at the moment, like the underwear. The Original Trilogy was made with a team that played well with this, because George's biggest role was standing between them and the money men at the studio. He protected his team, they knew what they were trying to do, and he facilitated a really good production. I'd say, overall, that he had some very good ideas, and he really did have an integral role in what made Star Wars what it is, but you couldn't call him an auteur. The Prequels, on the other hand, were this massive thing that brought in a way more complicated setup of early 2000s CGI and a whole new cast and Lucas' directing did not work in that environment. Everyone's lost, and when they look for direction, they just get "faster, more intense."
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All of you should watch SFDebris's video series Hero's Journey and Shadow's Journey, which cover Lucas's rise in creating A New Hope, to his slow professional and personal collapse during the development of Empire and Jedi.
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Precambrian posted:From what I've heard, I guess I would describe him as a negative director, in the sense that he doesn't give positive comments (instructions to the cast & crew to realize his vision), but lets people do more or less whatever unless it seems to contradict his vision. Then he intervenes, often on weird and silly elements that strike him at the moment, like the underwear. The Original Trilogy was made with a team that played well with this, because George's biggest role was standing between them and the money men at the studio. He protected his team, they knew what they were trying to do, and he facilitated a really good production. I'd say, overall, that he had some very good ideas, and he really did have an integral role in what made Star Wars what it is, but you couldn't call him an auteur. Hitchcock, I believe, did a lot of negative directing and famously told one of his leading actresses (I forget which one) that he wouldn't give her direction unless she was doing something wrong. But yeah, he was totally the person everyone looked to on the prequels and he dropped the ball on that one.
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mojo1701a posted:Hitchcock, I believe, did a lot of negative directing and famously told one of his leading actresses (I forget which one) that he wouldn't give her direction unless she was doing something wrong. To be fair, Hitchcock died in 1980. No need to go laying the blame on him.
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It would be a fantastic twist to find out that Hitch faked his death to disguise himself as a mediocre Sci-fi director.
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The prequels are pretty good imo.
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mojo1701a posted:The two directing notes he's most famous for are "same thing, but better" and "faster, more intense," if I recall. Happier, and with your mouth open
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The first time you see snow in the new Blade Runner, it doesn't quite register. Then you realize, holy poo poo, it's snowing in California! Just a nice, visual way to show how hosed up the world is. But not all is lost, because one of the as ballerinas flashes "Made in the USSR" in English and Russian, so not all hope is lost
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I thought it was really neat that the scenes in the new Bladerunner that are dust-blasted reddish hellscapes are based on the 2009 Australian dust storm. Australia:   Blade Runner: 
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:It would be a fantastic twist to find out that Hitch faked his death to
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Well he wouldn't be the first comedian to fake his own death for political reasons  
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Memento posted:I thought it was really neat that the scenes in the new Bladerunner that are dust-blasted reddish hellscapes are based on the 2009 Australian dust storm. Now youve done it, some executive is going to say they're part of the same universe.
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Marmaduke! posted:Now youve done it, some executive is going to say they're part of the same universe.
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Marmaduke! posted:Now youve done it, some executive is going to say they're part of the same universe. Just gotta add some throwaway line in Blade Runner about how "Nobody's heard from Australia since they lost telecommunications twenty years ago" and boom, shared post-apocalyptic world.
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