Awesome Making of The Empire Strikes Back documentary.

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Batutta

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Saw this on AICN. Pretty cool. Something tells me a making of one of the prequels in 30 years time wouldn't be as interesting, as it would just be a bunch of people standing around green screens. This is how they made REAL movies.

 
Forget the prequels, forget the sequels..... What I'd like to know is when are they going to get around to re-imagining the originals!:D
 
keylight said:
Forget the prequels, forget the sequels..... What I'd like to know is when are they going to get around to re-imagining the originals!:D
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Blasphemy! :)

Thanks for posting this, I just watched it twice right in a row. Simply amazing all the way through.
 
I remember watching that on TV. It was my first look at stop-motion.

What's interesting is that the film crew working around the rebel base is a very realistic simulation of what the activity in the base would actually look like. Similiar purposes, similar look.
 
With a $18 million dollar budget, adjusted to around $56 million in today's money, could a movie like that (real sets, lots of trade craftsmen instead of digital artists) still get made?
 
Gary Huff said:
With a $18 million dollar budget, adjusted to around $56 million in today's money, could a movie like that (real sets, lots of trade craftsmen instead of digital artists) still get made?
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No... for the simple reason that there are few if any 'craftspeople' who can do the work.

Dear old dad worked in the area of cast concrete, and worked on the rebuilding of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco in the 70's as well as the rebuilding of the California Tower in San Diego, and worked on various projects that required model making, mould making, pouring of concrete into said moulds, and then getting the result up on a building... into his 80's... because there were such few workers in the area...

That said... I did see some interesting 'wire work' used on foam for creating low weight sculptures, and a blast of stucco. (His last project involved that sort of thing for the 'fancy work' on the campus of San Diego University).
 
I'm going to come right out and say it: a re-release of the Blu-ray set with a remastered "original" original Trilogy (coupled with the latest version of whatever changes will be done since then in an "alternate angle" type feature) on store shelves in Christmas 2014. There's a slight possibility of 2013, but I really doubt it considering the timing of the deal, but I trust that Disney will be more than willing to do this as they would be stupid with the sheer amount of product that would be moved if they provided the remastered trilogy as originally shown on Blu-ray. And Disney generally has a good history of doing the right things by the property on disc (artificial release windows notwithstanding).
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
The wife has been asking for the last number of years... 'has Harrison Ford had a stroke???'...
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Harrison Ford HATES interviews. He clams up. If you see him in behind the scenes footage (like in AIR FORCE ONE) you'll see he's always kidding around and having a good time.

Director Jon Favreau is really good at drawing people out, like he did on his Dinner For Five series on IFC. He did a series of interviews of his cast on COWBOYS AND ALIENS, and you get to see the real Harrison Ford there.
 
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