Official Star Wars Thread - May the force be with you

[Jammy]

Now that Disney own Fox, are they allowed to put the Fox Fanfare back on the Star Wars movies ?

[kensei]

 

Decent video on why the first Star Was is so good. 

[Kevvy Metal]

15 hours ago, kensei said:

 

Decent video on why the first Star Was is so good. 

 

 

[rubberducker]

this is a great video about how the original Star Wars was saved from mediocrity by great editing - that really perfected its structure. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kensei]

That editing one is awesome. The first film is so tight. The only other film I can think that flows as well is the first Back To The Future.

 

I put this one in the TLJ thread, about Empire's structure:

 

 

[SeanR]

 

[Nick R]

In the Last Jedi thread I linked to this video on Star Wars music, specifically Rey's Theme:

 

On 1/2/2018 at 17:11, Nick R said:

Film music theory YouTube video channel Sideways has done a video about Rey's Theme.

 

His conclusion is that because the filmmakers don't have a long-term plan in mind, John Williams put Rey's Theme together using melodic and harmonic elements of just about every major theme in the series, so that there's a lot of flexibility in in how it can be used depending on what direction they decide to take her story.

 

Well, the video gets to that point eventually. It starts off with a different talk about the different (and inconsistent) roles that the Force Theme/Binary Sunset/May the Force Be With You leitmotif plays over the course of the films: how it's used for Obi-Wan in the OT but not in the prequel trilogy; and how it gets played 21 times(!) in The Last Jedi, but surprisingly not for the most prominent example of Force usage in the entire movie.

 

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Further to that, here's a New Yorker article by Alex Ross on John Williams' use of the leitmotifs in Star Wars. (Some Last Jedi spoilers!)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-field-guide-to-the-musical-leitmotifs-of-star-wars

 

In that, he links to this previous article he wrote on Williams' Star Wars music:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/listening-to-star-wars

 

And he also links to this document which breaks down almost all the leitmotifs in the Williams-scored Star Wars films (in most cases with handy YouTube links to illustrate their most prominent occurrence):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJ0Jj-mLfOPUCtcAm_HDGIkFwvHL5gbX/view

 

And continuing the music theory links, here's a video I watched a while ago. It should be obvious in retrospect, and it's probably common knowledge - but before watching this, it had never occurred to me just how similar the Star Wars score is to The Planets!

 

 

And one more music theory breakdown video...

 

 

[JohnC]

Not much of a surprise, considering he'll be 87 when it comes out, but John Williams is retiring from Star Wars when he's done Ep 9.

[JohnC]

[Nick R]

 

Sorry, the cropping in the embedded version slightly spoils it. Oh well.

[JohnC]

A bit of new Williams music for the new theme park attraction and a bit of a look at the park

 

 

[Goose]

Topher Grace, who dabbles in editing in his off days, has released a Star Wars Always trailer, which cuts together footage from all ten of the Star Wars movies and spin offs. I'm still interested in seeing his 85 minute cut of the prequels, as well as his Hobbit super cut, which apparently takes all three movies and makes them a single 100 minute feature. 

 

 

 

[Darren]

That’s brilliant.

[K]

That was really good, if only for imagining how much I would lose my shit if I saw it in around 1996.

[Ran]

I rewatched force awakens and last Jedi this evening and it's got me all hyped up for the final film now.

I hope the backlash on last Jedi doesn't influence proceedings, though there are definitely bits that stick out and occasionally jar it absolutely nails it's big moments for me.

[NecroMorrius]

On 26/02/2019 at 19:57, Goose said:

Topher Grace, who dabbles in editing in his off days, has released a Star Wars Always trailer, which cuts together footage from all ten of the Star Wars movies and spin offs. I'm still interested in seeing his 85 minute cut of the prequels, as well as his Hobbit super cut, which apparently takes all three movies and makes them a single 100 minute feature. 

 

 

 

 

"Previously, on Calpol Fever Dream..."

[Mr Do 71]

 

[Nick R]

 

[JohnC]

Georgie has given an undisclosed sum from his spare change to the Academy for their new museum. Enough for them to allow free entry to people 17 and under in perpetuity.

[Dirty Harry Potter]

Apologies if posted before - but i came across this on YouTube and I have never seen it before... very funny and perfectly sums up The Phantom Menace (It’s also properly the reason they recast Maul for Solo!)

 

 

[Jammy]

On 07/03/2019 at 17:14, Mr Do 71 said:

 

So annoyed - we’re going to Orlando in July. Originally this was opening nearer Christmas and missing it by a few months wasn’t as bad as missing it by 4 weeks.

[Nick R]

A nice picture on display at ILM:

 

 

 

[Jammy]

Thrawn looking very ‘Brosnan-y’ in the Rebels segment.

[Unofficial Who]

https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/boba-fett-movie-rumored-to-be-90-minutes-of-climbing-out-of-sarlacc-pit-in-real-time/?

 

Boba Fett Movie Rumored to be 90 Minutes of Climbing Out of Sarlacc Pit in Real Time

 

LOS ANGELES — Although Disney has confirmed that the Boba Fett standalone film will be delayed, rumors are circulating that the reasoning is due to the movie being just an hour and a half of the bounty hunter climbing out of the sarlacc pit in real time.

An anonymous source used the term “experimental art piece” to describe Fett’s journey to the surface in one unbroken shot.

“It’s a different kind of Star Wars story,” said the Disney executive. “Like, really different. Instead of diving into the fan favorite’s tragic childhood or badass adventures with Bossk, Disney is focusing on how he got out of the sarlacc after Return of the Jedi. Literally just that. Going up the pit one step at a time without cutting away to anything more interesting.”

 

[b00dles]

Didn't he end up getting out in a really lazy way in the jabbas palace book? I seem to remember there's allegedly big corridors and it's linked to other sarlacc monsters and he just flies out ?

 

Both of these are obviously terrible though 

[JohnC]

They've announced their new plan. Alternating Star Wars and Avatar in Decembers. Star Wars in 2022, 24 and 26. Avatar in 2021, 23, 25 and 27.

 

It's not known what 3 Star Wars movies those will be from the ones said to be in some stage of development.

[Unofficial Who]

2 hours ago, JohnC said:

They've announced their new plan. Alternating Star Wars and Avatar in Decembers. Star Wars in 2022, 24 and 26. Avatar in 2021, 23, 25 and 27.

 

It's not known what 3 Star Wars movies those will be from the ones said to be in some stage of development.

 

Can’t link now due to being in transit but apparently the trilogy is most likely the one being developed by the Game of Thrones people.

[mushashi]

A 3 year break for the creatives to polish up their material, I wonder if the bookmakers are taking bets on whose films these are going to be :)

 

They'll have had a fairly long time to come up with something decent with that amount of time, but even 4+ years is a relatively short period compared to the gestation period James Cameron is getting.

[SeanR]

me and the boy were going through this book

 

 

it starts with ep.1, and works its way through to whatever film it ends on, we didn't make it to the end yet. (it doesn't have Solo or Rogue 1 in this edition, may not have ep7 or 8)

 

anyway he's telling me how much he likes jar-jar, doing his jar-jar impersonation, and I tell him that jar-jar makes the Ewoks look like Shaft...

 

he doesn't know who Shaft is...

 

(nor has he watched Spaced)

 

[mushashi]

So you've shown him the prequel trilogy or does he just like Jar-Jar solely from reading this book? As the films seem a tad overlong and mildly boring for a child to sit through.