The Incomparable

00:00:04 ◼   ► the constable test number four desserts [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► to 2011 [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► it's that time on the uncomfortable the [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► podcast that I never thought would [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► happen mostly because i'm not quite sure [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► that this isn't going to go on for the [TS]

00:00:22 ◼   ► next five hours but we're gonna give it [TS]

00:00:24 ◼   ► a shot we are going to talk finally [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► about Star Wars the original star wars [TS]

00:00:30 ◼   ► or four gigantic star wars nerds like [TS]

00:00:33 ◼   ► John siracusa star wars episode for a [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► new hope it's not as if we haven't [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► talked about star wars on the [TS]

00:00:39 ◼   ► incomparable in fact i think basically [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► every episode we talk about star wars in [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► some way or other but we're actually [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► going to dive in we're going to talk [TS]

00:00:46 ◼   ► about the original movie and joining me [TS]

00:00:49 ◼   ► today to discuss it are a group of Star [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► Wars aficionados I guess we we could say [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► the a4 mentioned John siracusa is here [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► hi John Jason dan more'n as well hello [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► Dan [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► thank you for having me Jason no it's [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► impossible [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► no that's the wrong movie Scott McNulty [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► hello hello [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► and Greg moss hello hello Greg [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► so star wars episode for a new hope my [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► favorite character is Captain Kirk [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► ah I like dr. Spock there's a button we [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► can press to keep people off the right [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► so start working out in 1977 and the [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► first thing I wanted to ask everybody [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► here knowing that's that several viewer [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► are quite a bit younger that I am is how [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► you you first experienced star wars [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► before we get into the movie itself and [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► how you heard about it what your [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► memories are but i think i should start [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► with the elder statesman of the podcast [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► by like three years but Greg moss Greg [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► where were you what tell us your [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► childhood star wars story my my life it [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► exists in into separate dimensions one [TS]

00:02:09 ◼   ► pre star wars and one post Star Wars it [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► was the transformative experience I I [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► wasn't nine years old when Star Wars was [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► released and I saw at nine times during [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► its initial theatrical run i was just [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► totally blown away by everything in it [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► was it was perfect [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► in every way and i still believe that [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► and I will argue it with anybody who [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► wants to that it is it remains perfect [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► despite its flaws [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► it is the Socratic ideal of what a [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► science-fiction movie should be so what [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► you're saying is even its flaws are part [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► of its reaction that exactly it would it [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► it is perfect because of its flaws all [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► right I was a six I guess when this [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► movie came out and i think i did see it [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► in the theater but I was I was pretty [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► young and I was a big star trek fan so I [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► was kind of a little offended by how how [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► much attention Star Wars God but in the [TS]

00:03:02 ◼   ► end even I broke down and learn to love [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► it [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► John syracuse what about you so you know [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► when you try to think about things that [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► happened in your childhood and like your [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► memory stops at a certain point you know [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► like usually most people can't remember [TS]

00:03:15 ◼   ► anything before they could talk [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► obviously all I have two things are like [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► that one of them is skiing [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► I can't remember ever not knowing how to [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► ski it's not like walking like people [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► don't remember before they could walk [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► right but most people if they learn to [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► ski and a child they can remember all I [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► didn't know how to ski and then I went [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► through a learning process and I learned [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► to see I have no memory of not only had [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► a ski the other one is I have no memory [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► of not having seen a new hope so [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► obviously I didn't see when it came out [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► because I was three I when they released [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► you know I was five and I really doubt [TS]

00:03:44 ◼   ► my parents took me to see it when I was [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► five but I have no memory of any time in [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► my life when I did not have an [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► encyclopedic knowledge of a new hope so [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► i'm assuming either my parents to come [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► you see it when i was 5 or I saw it on [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► VHS or something i have ever maybe we [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► running in the movie theater when I was [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► six or 7i have no idea when I first saw [TS]

00:04:03 ◼   ► this movie but i might as well been born [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► with it inside my head [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► well are you going to call it a new hope [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► for throughout this entire podcast [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► well I used to just called Star Wars I [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► definitely would not call it episode 4 [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► because the word episode has been [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► tainted by things that will not be [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► mentioned on this podcast let's just [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► agree to call it star worse than four no [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► way and you with the idea that it [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► doesn't refer to any other movie at this [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► BS because that was the the thing that I [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► called it you know until the second [TS]

00:04:27 ◼   ► movie came out and what everybody called [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► it and the episode thing was tacked on [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► later and hope it just is just good for [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► disambiguation at this point is you just [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► say Star Wars god knows what people are [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► thinking [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► ok so we're going to limit ourselves in [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► this as much as possible to just the [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► first movie so yeah [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► this for all those out there who are [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► wondering we're not going to talk about [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► anything Luke's father might be for [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► example [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► no I isn't he yes exactly so Dan Morgan [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► how about you what's your Star Wars [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► memory John kinda stole my line which is [TS]

00:04:57 ◼   ► saying that I i mean i was born in [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► nineteen eighty so I shortly before the [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► Empire came out and so I literally there [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► i did not exist in a time when there was [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► no stars my closest cousin Tim who is [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► was born in 77 actually can claim to [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► have seen it in utero since his pregnant [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► mother saw it but I did not have that [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► however i guess my my memory of its [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► really tied very closely to a lot of my [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► cousins because i feel like every time [TS]

00:05:26 ◼   ► they came in visited we would watch some [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► star wars movie on VHS but it's hard for [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► me to pin down kind of with that sort of [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► fuzziness of youth exactly when that was [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► I do know that i went to see a return [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► the Jedi in the theater my parents [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► picked me up from preschool so i must [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► have been four or five at that point and [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► I I knew what was going on so I must [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► have seen the first two movies prior to [TS]

00:05:51 ◼   ► that because i was really excited i [TS]

00:05:53 ◼   ► really wanted to go see the movie but [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► yeah it for me they're really there [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► really isn't a time there's there's no [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► way that I can remember not having seen [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► Star Wars Scott McNulty have you seen [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► Star Wars i have seen Star Wars for the [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► first time earlier tonight no that's not [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► true [TS]

00:06:10 ◼   ► uh-huh i living thing that pic button so [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► i was born in 1977 I was three months [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► old when a star wars KS came out and I [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► remember taking myself to the movie [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► theater and buying know my first Star [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► Wars related memory is doesn't actually [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► involve the movie but involves my [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► brother's Millennium Falcon he had the [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► Millennium Falcon toy which was awesome [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► and I have a very very clear memory of [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► the whatever that force or birthing that [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► Luke practices with the moon fell can [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► have a little one in it and for some [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► reason that fascinated me as a child [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► and then I think the first Star Wars [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► movie that I saw in a movie theater was [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► Return of the Jedi [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► I don't know and I don't recall ever not [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► knowing about Star Wars wow that's for [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► old people like me and Greg that's um [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► that's such a strange idea the idea that [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► star wars was always there [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► I have to think that it would be a [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► little disappointing having it always [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► around because you didn't get to [TS]

00:07:13 ◼   ► discover it didn't like up here you know [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► dawn but I i might argue that that as as [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► as your idea Greg that star wars a [TS]

00:07:24 ◼   ► Socratic ideal in some ways up hasn't it [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► always been there [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► we just didn't know it's been inside of [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► us it was inside the block of marble it [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► was a long time ago in a galaxy far far [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► away [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► you know I never had never discovered [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► star trek it was aight i have that same [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► feeling about that original Star Trek is [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► I have no memory of not knowing about [TS]

00:07:43 ◼   ► Star Trek and Captain Kirk mr. Spock so [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► i can i can relate to that and i would [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► argue that that I don't wanna know what [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► it was like to live in a world that [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► other artworks just makes me sad but it [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► was a very sad time I look back on with [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► huge fondness on seeing the movie for [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► the first time I mean I remember my [TS]

00:08:01 ◼   ► little nine-year-old brain was imprinted [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► with how jazzed i was walking out of the [TS]

00:08:05 ◼   ► theater get convinced that i was Luke [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► Skywalker until like you know caught [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► sight of myself in a mirror [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► sad trombone and was that your nickname [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► is your phone said revoke I feel the [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► same way about hitchhikers when i was [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► home sick one day and my mom brought [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► home a book from the library and turned [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► out to be hitchhiker's guide to the [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► galaxy and that chop [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► I thought you were gonna say your mom [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► your mom brought home an attacker that [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► I've always had a great fondness for the [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► minute to change my life it was it was [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► rector Howard next week on a very [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► special episode of the incomparable good [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► men my mom brought home [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► got a lot of really fun memories of that [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► what we have really good amount of [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► course quickly here so you know but [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► that's that's good i mean i think i [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► think that's true that you have those [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► moments there the things that you sort [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► of swim in they were always there and [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► then you have those kind of regulatory [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► moments where you're like oh my god I [TS]

00:09:03 ◼   ► can't believe that instructors guide to [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► the galaxy is a good example although [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► the thing about books is usually old [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► enough you know you're old enough to [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► read and read books that are complex and [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► so you all those are always moments of [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► discovery wear something like a TV show [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► or movie you know you don't have to you [TS]

00:09:20 ◼   ► don't have to be old at all just to [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► watch it and start absorbing it and so [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► so it happens before that moment where [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► you you know have you your memories [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► beginning so it's just always movies and [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► TV are much more likely to music I [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► supposed to have always been there [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► that was what as I was watching star [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► wars that tonight to you know prepare [TS]

00:09:38 ◼   ► for the podcast [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► ah I thought to myself because you know [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► a lot of kids the movie is like the [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► perfect for the perfect movie for kids [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► it's very exciting but it begins [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► you have to read a bunch of stuff and a [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► and i imagine when it first was in the [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► movie theater a lot of parents reading [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► to their children with the the the [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► scroll says so that they can understand [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► what's going on my son who's just now [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► reading he he would he would shout at me [TS]

00:10:03 ◼   ► while we watch Star Wars read daddy read [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► it is that I demand to know what is the [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► only it's the only movie with subtitles [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► will get your kids to watch [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► I tried to get my daughter into Star [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► Wars a little bit too early and I tried [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► to explain to her that it was an [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► exciting movie that involved the [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► princess and robots and she was sorely [TS]

00:10:20 ◼   ► disappointed but then she liked to look [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► like a year later but you have to read [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► first I think there is something to that [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► you know not to say there there's a you [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► know it's very exciting beginning but [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► there's also i was thinking about the [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► fact that it takes so you know so long [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► to get to the arguably the protagonist [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► of the story like 15 minutes 15 minutes [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► in and you know that's kind of a long [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► time I think it struck me how this [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► compared to a modern movie in the way [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► that it's structured it isn't and that I [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► feel like a lot of I wonder if kids [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► today or people growing up in the area [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► of this like cut a second you know so [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► like speedy fast-paced [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► films would you know would be bored [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► sitting there as this unfolds and [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► graduates out to exactly a studio [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► executive today being like you know [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► what's all this stuff out about you know [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► at the beginning was just to the kind of [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► thing everything do we get to Luke [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► Skywalker I think it's genius where the [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► way they open with a bank because they [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► know there's gonna be this downtime of [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► like the guy on the farm and he's got a [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► loser and he's got a boring life they [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► know that's gonna be there so that the [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► movie opens for the bank gigantic [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► spaceship that you have never the way [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► you've never seen it before in your life [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► laser battles big dark guy in black [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► Chokin people like it starts the way [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► you're supposed to start you know then a [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► lot there's a low and it comes down but [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► at that point like what the hell was [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► that triangle ship dark dude you know [TS]

00:11:41 ◼   ► even better than that it helps I think [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► somatically because it establishes [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► Luke's place in the universe which is [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► pretty much zero until the story gets [TS]

00:11:48 ◼   ► going on compared to what we just saw [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► exactly thats and then suddenly you're [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► dealing with this farm boy and you know [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► you can go into the Campbell hoo-ha [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► about you know the journey of the hero [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► and all that but you want Luke to be [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► unimportant at the beginning you know [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► you not only that you don't even know [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► his last name until like halfway through [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► the movie it's Starkiller right [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► nice nice unassuming name for a farm boy [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► that killed stars whatever you know not [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► to go too much into the backstory but of [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► course I mean I believe the earlier of [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► you know there are several cut scenes [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► involving you know starting with Luke [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► seeing this battle in space and whatever [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► it being more leaving you know you start [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► out earlier with him and I think this is [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► I agree I agree that I think this is a [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► lot stronger as an opening as a [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► structure then then sort of a more [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► gradual like easing in would be but you [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► know i was just watching at the end of [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► the just watch the movie as well like [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► Scott and at the end it happened to flip [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► over to it was one of the additions that [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► has like an interview with George Lucas [TS]

00:12:50 ◼   ► afterwards like you know 10 minute thing [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► they were talking about like you know [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► the selling this idea as a movie in like [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► cow alan ladd at fox's like I don't know [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► what's going on here but i love it let's [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► do it [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► it's just like that struck me as as [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► amusing and the like I can imagine being [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► a lot to take in if you're not like you [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► know seven-year-old boy who loves this [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► stuff anyway [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► and there were no I'm [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► there was really no sci-fi movies that [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► they would have been 2001 yeah this is [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► really not in the same thing sci-fi [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► blockbuster summer blockbuster movie [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► which we take for granted today did not [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► really exist until this movie was [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► released so it was a tough sell and I [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► you know and as the documentary say was [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► that attention go there for a while one [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► of the things what we're talking about [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► the opening 15 minutes basically is [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► based on something that Greg said it was [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► Greg there's so many of you [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► the the spaceship that Princess Leia [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► spaceship the it's all like white walls [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► super clean and I find that really [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► interesting because after that you know [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► super bright like very future seems like [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► a very almost 60 is kind of an idea of a [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► spaceship and you know then the next [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► thing we know we're on Tatooine and it's [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► dirty and crappy and c3po is all beat up [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► and scratched and and I I was really [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► struck and watching it again by that by [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► that choice that we start out on this [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► kind of idealistic idealized future you [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► know spaceship and we're promptly kind [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► of kicked out of there and sit down on [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► this planet where you know with with [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► sand people and stuff you get you could [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► almost take it as a knock against [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► something like Star Trek or don't have [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► someone that have that very sterile [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► environment i love that's one of my [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► favorite things [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► the thing that that made this universe [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► resonate for me so much more than Star [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► Trek really ever has is that it's a [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► universe that feels lived-in it feels [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► used it's dirty it's not clean look at [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► the Jawa sandcrawler there's crap [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► everywhere there's wiring that's exposed [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► it's clearly been cobbled together I [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► mean something about that feels like [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► very homey into me maybe because I have [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► all these wires lying around my office [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► for and a Jawa even on the 10 24 like [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► even though we saw the white walls and [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► everything it's two seconds when you're [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► away from that scene when the layers [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► like you know hiding the data tapes and [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► reinvention like the engine room you [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► know it's like more now it's dark and [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► looks like it's more like a working type [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► thing and the escape pod looks like a [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► big mess of you know pipes and tubes it [TS]

00:15:20 ◼   ► does not look like a sleek silver [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► capsule you know so you know that's like [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► the [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► normal area of that ship and its [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► color-coded white so you know that [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► they're the good guys you know unlike [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► the bad guys ship is all have black [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► floors and gray ceilings and everything [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► as soon as you get out off the main [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► hallway even on the good guys ship it [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► looks like you know a bunch of machinery [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► and automatically it it continues i mean [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► the there are the rich people and [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► they're the bad guys and they're the [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► only ones who are clean other [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► technologies new their technology is [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► polished you know and everybody else is [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► making do with what they can because the [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► Empire has crushed everybody they've [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► really cornered the market on blinking [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► lights around those little black boxes [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► with wheels that roll around on their [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► own man i want one of those when I was a [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► kid that was that was like my favorite [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► thing was the little boxes that one [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► around like I want to romance reveals [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► mankind's if around the droid sound and [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► we re watching this I realized how [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► useless most of the droids are I cannot [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► understand any of them do they just walk [TS]

00:16:21 ◼   ► around aimlessly and they're lost their [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► could phase it but it's all dried as a [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► clear purpose in case anyone remember [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► all of your protocol needs r2 unit is a [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► is a Swiss Army knife of we really why [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► don't they just replace them all with r2 [TS]

00:16:36 ◼   ► unit seems like those guys are the best [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► because then who would translate for [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► them because always speak is beep boop [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► you think that just because you have to [TS]

00:16:44 ◼   ► look at your x-wing screen understanding [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► it is it is the only flaw in the r2 [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► design would anyone need to talk to [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► these and just make a beep yeah I can't [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► we could actually fit the voice unit [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► into there is just so crammed full of [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► like welding tools we have to leave a [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► space so someone can cram data tapes in [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► here every universe needs its comic [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► relief and it's a I feet British comic [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► relief yeah that's what I was gonna say [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► i I've heard people refer to c-3po is [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► sort of this effeminate effeminate gay [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► robot my thought no he's just English [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► that's a legit the word you're looking [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► for is prissy yeah no he's just english [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► is an English robot don't you understand [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► what would a gay robot involved [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► I wonder who built c-3po laughs we'll [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► never get the incident now that's he's [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► was manufactured sure that there's [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► vertical thousands of others like him [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► alright would anyone build a protocol [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► enjoyed themselves like in their garage [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► or something in fact when we first see [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► him there's another one just like him [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► with a slightly different decks silvery [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► Sheen right behind him and of course he [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► has the mismatch leg too [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► wow that's good knowledge so we meet [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► Princess Leia very briefly and she [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► recorded the famous hologram that help [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► me obi-wan Kenobi you're my only hope [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► and we see that's a nice touch that we [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► see her recording it from afar c-3po [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► sees her recording it and then later we [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► we get the playback but you know Carrie [TS]

00:18:10 ◼   ► Fisher interesting hairstyle she has it [TS]

00:18:13 ◼   ► i had to bring it up its alien it is [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► nanak it is it looks delicious [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► I guess in a minivan will see is [TS]

00:18:23 ◼   ► interesting it's dumb [TS]

00:18:27 ◼   ► it's your brother she had forehead [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► makeup mr. star trek I would in fact you [TS]

00:18:34 ◼   ► know in in the seventies I could think [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► of worse hairstyles to have and in and [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► movie made in the late seventies exactly [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► couldn't like Farrah Fawcett feathered [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► enough Saturn to have would have been [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► weird to you when you watch this movie [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► do you get any sense of you know the [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► seventies correct encroaching in or does [TS]

00:18:54 ◼   ► it feel a little more time less than [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► almost none like maybe Luke's hair but [TS]

00:18:59 ◼   ► almost none of the seventies is any [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► right argue that the the filmmaking of [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► it feels like the seventies to me [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► I mean I guess there's lots of parts of [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► it would feel what I feel like a [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► throwback to earlier times though you [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► know that the wipes and stuff like that [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► that Lucas uses that are clearly [TS]

00:19:13 ◼   ► revoking you know the serials from like [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► the thirties but there's a couple it's [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► just struck me in early on that there's [TS]

00:19:20 ◼   ► a couple things in there that are a [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► little feel a little off-kilter for for [TS]

00:19:24 ◼   ► example the scene where r 2 is working [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► his way through the canyon we get a [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► couple POV shots from the job was point [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► of view and they're very unsteady like [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► you know like their film like with a [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► handheld or something like that and that [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► to me almost seems like it seems a [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► little rough and a little edgy or [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► something that might be more like [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► seventies I feel like camera angles [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► these days are very often very you know [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► cut-and-dried in terms of what they [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► attempt to do but isn't isn't that [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► invoking the fact that you're being [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► looking at him rather than absolutely i [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► just don't think that I don't think that [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► modern filmmaking would do that I feel [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► like that was something that I mean [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► Lucas you know obviously he was a film [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► student he was exposed to a lot of these [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► other you know sort of on guard stuff [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► and stuff that was going on in the [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► seventies I just feel like I mean I'm [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► not criticizing it i think i think it's [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► good i better not be easy [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► ok i just think i just think it's it's [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► sort of indicative of it as a seventies [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► film in the way that it was body like it [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► doesn't feel like the seventies at all [TS]

00:20:19 ◼   ► to me [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► I mean it I realize I'm totally over the [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► hedge on this but it feels just as [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► modern today it could be released today [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► with some of the hairstyle exceptions [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► and everything would look in you some of [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► the set of special-effects I'm glad they [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► go but don't ever go back and correct [TS]

00:20:36 ◼   ► that yes that's good but it did [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► everything about it feels totally [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► timeless when you get especially when [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► compared to even like THX which feels [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► really really seventies to me you've [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► actually seen THX yes why haven't you [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► know why would I it sounds terrible but [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► I'm holding out for the sequel THX 1 39 [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► 39 yeah I've reinforced to 1137 of them [TS]

00:21:09 ◼   ► so I'm start with THX one so when we're [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► on Tatooine moving ahead sort of [TS]

00:21:15 ◼   ► chronologically here talking about the [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► Jawas and they're spying are our little [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► droid friends and and and then we meet [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► Luke Skywalker our hero along with his [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► aunt and uncle Owen and Beru that's 15 [TS]

00:21:30 ◼   ► minutes in we have semantic you an [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► interesting an interesting setting and [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► the thing that I remember most actually [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► from when I was a kid is that scene of [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► Luke watching the two sons set over [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► tattooing III that was burned into my [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► brain when I was six years old when i [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► watch that movie more than anything else [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► just so so striking a scene to make you [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► realize what you're watching that they [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► were on an alien planet and I got a note [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► about that is that like I know they do [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► location shooting for modern movies and [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► it's the but when they show that scene [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► there like you [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► you tell that they're there in Tunisia [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► and the sun is actually setting right [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► and if you like today if they were doing [TS]

00:22:10 ◼   ► that scene either would be you know I [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► can Vancouver or LA or something or they [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► would just do it on blue-screen and have [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► like they do that this guy in the sun's [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► with CG because it's like more dramatic [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► and I can draw whatever they want but [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► for the scene they had to get look out [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► there during sunset in Tunisia and [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► haven't stand there and shoot him and it [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► was a little bit windy and it just it [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► works how much better than I can go [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► ahead and that's so much better as well [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► if you were still in modern techniques [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► and I know for the movies that we won't [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► mention they were actually in Tunisia [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► for them too but it's just something [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► about modern filmmaking but they don't [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► wanna they don't want to take the time [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► to get that shot or they would be [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► annoyed that shop is it was too much [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► wind looks hair was going into space or [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► something that you know or if your GI [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► they don't overdo it [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► yeah they you know they do the cg sons [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► we could they just took two sons and [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► overlaid an optically and both of them [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► look like the Sun and it's not you know [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► there's not a lens flare is not rings [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► around the Sun with a meteor shooting [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► through the corner you know anything [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► yeah they have have a big you know moon [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► up there with a ring around it kind of [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► hanging in the corner just say we're [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► cool [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► I i think that touches upon something [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► that makes this such a great film and [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► again you know part of this was it [TS]

00:23:15 ◼   ► constraints freed creativity you know [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► they only had a certain number of [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► techniques to work with and they were [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► busy inventing like pretty much every [TS]

00:23:21 ◼   ► sort of technique they could think of [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► but everything in this film seems much [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► more real to me than almost any other [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► film i feel like i've seen and it's just [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► because you know some of those things [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► are there real you can tell that it's a [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► tangible object even if the sandcrawler [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► is like a scale model it's a real thing [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► it's an object they were artists working [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► on that painting these little details [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► you know and it feels real as a result [TS]

00:23:48 ◼   ► of that in a way that that as advanced [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► as it's gotten you know computer [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► graphics never feel like they always [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► seem alien to me they always seem just a [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► little bit out of place [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► I mean whether that's just the way the [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► light hits it or something you know I [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► think that there's just something that [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► hasn't been a they have been able to [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► duplicate and so the thing that strikes [TS]

00:24:07 ◼   ► me you know and in the way that I think [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► greg was saying that this is sort of [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► timeless is that it doesn't it's amazing [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► to me how dated it does not feel given [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► you know given its age and I think it a [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► lot of that can be chalked up to the [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► fact that these emphasis on these these [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► real effects things like optical effects [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► or model building or stuff like the [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► costuming all that stuff some of the [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► matte paintings weren't great they're [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► like most likely spaceport and now when [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► I see matte paintings nowadays it takes [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► a really good matte painting to not make [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► me go out like this in that painting [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► because every now they just used for [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► backgrounds but this is one of the [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► things on watching this in the modern [TS]

00:24:40 ◼   ► era especially if you're watching and [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► the one that wasn't even cleaned up the [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► original run of this head effects that [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► now we looked at we like we'd be like [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► jeez guys aren't afraid about the mat [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► lines i mean the mat lines were just [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► really bad but even just stuff like the [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► the you know that paintings on glass [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► they look fine but they look like [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► paintings on glass and I I would never [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► trade them for I mean there's definitely [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► there are definitely rough edges i mean [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► the one that always strikes me going [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► back and watching star wars as opposed [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► to empire and Jedi is Vader is somewhat [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► is a little bit less imposing to me in [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► this one and a couple that's a [TS]

00:25:15 ◼   ► combination with a couple of x1 you can [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► kind of see through the eyes and the [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► master i feels like you lose something [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► and two they don't do nearly as good a [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► job either with james earl jones voice [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► or sinking it up with what the what [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► David Rosen doing it the audio looping [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► in general is not great at anything I [TS]

00:25:33 ◼   ► always notice in Darth Vader especially [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► early on is I guess the peaks really [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► fast he speaks really fast like they [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► have a mistimed it or they change the [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► dialogue and then they gave it to James [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► Earl Jones misses really i need to read [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► all of this right there and so you know [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► I took her away to take her [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► oh you're part of the lines of the table [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► take away hey that's a run-on sentence [TS]

00:25:54 ◼   ► yeah it doesn't it already baby there'll [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► be no one to stop us this time he's got [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► a boss to that I think the other thing [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► is he's got a boss right Tarkin target [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► is in charge of Darth Vader which you [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► know later [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► Darth Vader's the guy right there's the [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► Emperor and their stars Vader but Miss [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► it's like Peter Cushing is like Vader [TS]

00:26:13 ◼   ► enough like really the plot reason for [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► that you know yes I know but still it's [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► it's almost people go away the second [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► movie he's got a he's got a boss so it's [TS]

00:26:21 ◼   ► just it sees a lot less imposing when [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► there's like a general who's in charge [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► of him i think that works better [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► I [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► minutes it it's a progression for [TS]

00:26:29 ◼   ► innovators well you'd better get in his [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► own ship and flies you haven't seen [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► singing that level in later movies but [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► that's what happens when all your bosses [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► explode [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► he's got a chauffeur and later movies [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► supposed to send commander Riker to do [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► all that stuff right so can we can we [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► get a shout-out for peter cushing who I [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► think is one of the one of the two [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► performances in this that I think really [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► really elevate is great with him in a [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► lacuna sorry-assed they just bring a [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► class to this like because i was gonna [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► say Kenny Baker Eddy's great time we're [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► not being around the guy who plays wedge [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► Denis Lawson Ewan McGregor's we're [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► actually ok anyways but I was gonna say [TS]

00:27:07 ◼   ► both peter cushing analogous are so [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► they're such professionals you know you [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► can tell and like guinness famously did [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► not really like making star wars but you [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► can't tell that from his performance [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► because he's such a professional is like [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► you know I don't understand what the [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► hell's going on here I don't want the [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► lines are they sound like ridiculous but [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► you know what I'm going to this i was [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► paid to do this is my job i'm going to [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► do the best damn job I can he does not [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► sleepwalk through this he delivers a [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► fantastic performance holy love Kenobi [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► will be left [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► now that's a name I've not heard in a [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► long long time [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► I think my uncle knows he said he was [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► dead [TS]

00:27:49 ◼   ► no he's not dead yet [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► you know of course i know it is me when [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► I haven't come by the name will be when [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► in school with all you look pushing [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► likewise was no no stranger to hockey [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► you know horror movies and science [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► fiction movies but also is just great [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► and like menacing and and you know again [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► you can't I don't think you can poke a [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► hole in either of those performances [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► well it helps that they're playing next [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► two amateurs and makes them look even [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► better right because at this point [TS]

00:28:24 ◼   ► Carrie Fisher really doesn't know what [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► she's doing her accent comes and goes [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► and she changes her mind from seen Luke [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► you know I mean it's not bad but he's [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► not there cal but these are two young [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► actors we're playing opposite these guys [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► who could who could do this in their [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► sleep and don't you know so it by [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► comparison they stand out in this movie [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► princess lianna before your execution i [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► would like you to be my guest at a [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► ceremony that will make this battle [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► station operational [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► no star system will be opposed the input [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► on now [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► the more you tighten your grip talk the [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► more star systems will slip through your [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► fingers [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► not after we demonstrate the power of [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► this dish in a way you have the term in [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► the choice of the planet will be [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► destroyed first since you are reluctant [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► to provide us with the location of the [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► rebel base I have chosen to test this [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► stations destructive power on your home [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► planet of Alderaan I know this piece but [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► we have no weapons you can work without [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► another target of visibility target then [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► name the system all that said I will I [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► will defend to the death to our Eunice [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► you know just fantastic actor no matter [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► what you put in [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► oh ya know this and it is it is a good [TS]

00:29:37 ◼   ► performance remember there are in [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► watching it back there are a few moments [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► where I i could sort of sense that he's [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► like really stuff [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► ok I'll just I'll just say it but in [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► general it's a great performance and I [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► know that Alec Guinness later you know [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► at the end of his life was really tired [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► of talking about Star Wars and didn't [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► feel like it was you know really worth [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► talking about compared to some of the [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► other things that he did but he [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► certainly brought credibility to this [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► movie in a way that you know if the if [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► he and pushing weren't in it I think [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► you're right Dan you know think he just [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► has a lot of weight he has a lot of [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► gravitas to the to the movie and you [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► have to take it more seriously than you [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► might otherwise take it [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► yeah otherwise it would be just a bunch [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► of kids yeah i mean like he was so good [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► he was one of the things that like entry [TS]

00:30:24 ◼   ► you know intrigue me to go watch him and [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► other things you know that's not [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► necessarily the case for Mark Hamill [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► that didn't happen with Marc and Jesse [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► coordinate summer a Corvette summer is a [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► great movie but hey i have i have some [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► my incomparable trivia related to a [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► lagunas when i bought the domain of the [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► original intent was going to be for a [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► little web game originally called the [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► incomparable sean bean and they would [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► search you would search google for [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► actors names that had been labeled [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► incomparable and whoever got the highest [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► would win that particular round and we [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► keep a running list of the incomparable [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► whomever and Alec Guinness had the [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► highest rating of anybody we could find [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► when we're doing that and that's because [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► it is impossible to compare him [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► yes so that the reason the reason that [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► this that we have the domain being comp [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► bullies is in part because of a lagunas [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► because he is the definition of [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► uncomfortable on so long i'm captain the [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► millennium fawlcon [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► Chewie here tells me you're looking for [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► passage to the Alderaan system is indeed [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► if it's a fast ship fast ship you've [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► never heard of the Millennium problem [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► should i have it's the ship that made [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► so people complained a lot about the the [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► the 12 parsecs thing I always the one [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► and there are plenty of you know later [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► explanations which i won't go into [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► somewhat of a huge yard but my favorite [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► you know simple explanation is I just [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► always took that seen as as as Han [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► trying to snow i'm a bit and if you [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► watch the Guinness his expression after [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► he says that is just this perfect like [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► it narrows his eyes he looks at him you [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► look like uh huh yeah whatever and I [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► just I always loved that little it's a [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► little moment it's a little moment that [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► makes you think like oh maybe maybe [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► solos just trying to like screw it up a [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► bit to see how much they actually know [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► like whether they he can take him for a [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► ride or whatever and and you know [TS]

00:32:21 ◼   ► obi-wan's being like now I know what [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► you're talking about [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► he confirms that right afterwards but [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► these guys must really be desperate [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► right that's it that's going over there [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► I think that's one of my favorite things [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► in the entire movie is that when they [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► leave in hunts now we're left with Han [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► Solo we don't follow that we stay with [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► han Solo and he's like wow those guys [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► you totally just print you realize this [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► guy is a rogue and that felt very modern [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► to me also [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► that's that's the kind of scene where [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► you know we're not just dealing with the [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► text that the subtext is there it you [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► know they they're making it clear to the [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► audience that this guy is a is a kind of [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► a con man or a scoundrel [TS]

00:32:56 ◼   ► seventeen thousand those guys was really [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► be desperate [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► this can really save my neck get back to [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► the ship already you know cuz he can we [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► meet hot solo he's like who it is a [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► smuggler we these units we've already [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► seen several people be dismembered in [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► this bar who knows what will be next and [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► that shows him as a vulnerable person [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► too because I mean he has he he's all [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► bluster and confidence when he's talking [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► to them and of course he's got the whole [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► thing with Guido but when he's just [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► talking to Chewie he's just you know [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► he's like me and you he's got it [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► concerns and Morgan is desperate right [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► and that's basically i mean later movie [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► they'll develop his character more in [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► that regard but if he was just the [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► cowboy was just i'm han Solo and I'm a [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► big macho guy that's not his character [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► at all it's it's the two halves and even [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► in the very first movie and it's very [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► first scenes they established that you [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► can tell a nerd because if they come out [TS]

00:33:44 ◼   ► of Star Wars complaining that a parsec [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► is it is a measure of distance and not a [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► measure of time it's like they came out [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► of this star trek reboot saying a giant [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► red reptile wouldn't evolve on an ice [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► planet that it will they come out with [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► that complaint of the first thing on [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► their lips then then you know you are [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► among profound and deep nerds and if [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► they're super nerds they will tell you [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► that it's because the castle system is [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► full of black holes and therefore you [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► try to turn the shower the shortest [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► route through it all that's red car and [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► could be an astronaut you have to charge [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► the shortest distance through as many [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► many explanations that involve [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► rationalize I just like i like i like [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► the con man and when in reality is just [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► the George Lucas doesn't know what he's [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► talking about this time let's stick with [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► the conman angle that's my favorite [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► spice mines of Kessel right yeah yeah [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► they're too casual restaurants on the [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► yeah I hope they have sandworms on [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► Castle that would be good [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► they've gotten interested to sell our [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► flight but the biggest commodity for [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► trade is the spices just like it was on [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► earth in the 15th century [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► yes or in dune I'm telling you no [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► special spice the different kinds but [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► she was the one that didn't get to be in [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► the group anymore huh scary spice and i [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► realize i miss the next generation [TS]

00:34:57 ◼   ► podcast but my favorite piece about the [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► about three hours back story was that [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► her like planet was known for its rape [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► gangs yes that that was their major [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► export was rape gangs yeah [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► the entire planet following that they're [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► really good [TS]

00:35:11 ◼   ► who's buying it there was a severe trade [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► deficit going until she hears planet so [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► we talked about about Han Solo hey you [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► know the this is where we have the [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► classic cantina scene you know that was [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► that was so i remember when i was young [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► i remember there being a buzz about that [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► scene amongst the adults are like the [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► media or whatever that the cantina scene [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► was like the that you know the highlight [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► of this movie I guess it's because you [TS]

00:35:48 ◼   ► know the adults were like wow look at [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► all these crazy aliens but i don't [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► remember being that impressed with it as [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► a child and it certainly hasn't grown in [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► stature it's a bunch of guys with masks [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► on and I mean it works fine in the movie [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► does what it's supposed to do but it was [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► not as not a special effects [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► tour-de-force it was not particularly [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► you know important to the plot that they [TS]

00:36:06 ◼   ► were always there [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► that's just the setting for seams [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► between the characters as a as a small [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► child I will tell you what impressed me [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► most about that scene the bloody arm [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► oh yeah yeah that's just the action [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► happening out it was also a gold mine [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► for licensing I i think i had a [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► hammerhead and that of course what was [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► we all know that keep that kept George [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► Lucas in business [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► that's the wrong arm on the Florida of [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► course and of course otherwise they [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► would probably cauterize the wound [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► Oh nerdiness I don't know that [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► Mythbusters has to do that because I [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► think the it would not cauterize it will [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► spend enough time in contact with the [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► parts that has to colorize doesn't [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► because hand isn't bleeding and like a [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► later movie when these things happen [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► asleep discovering also swings the [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► lightsaber much faster in the cantina [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► its alien blood whatever little they cut [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► off the arm of the guy who speaks the [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► who doesn't speak the language and not [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► his friend who says we're wanted men [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► incidentally that is the best skit in [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► the robot chicken star what is anybody [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► that it about what the two of them are [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► actually doing at the bar jeep onda I [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► just don't see how you can keep [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► designing with no drawing arm or work or [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► oral [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► I'm sorry but we have to let you go [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► and i recommend highly both of those [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► robot chicken star wars episodes [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► although it does it does is their third [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► yes [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► oh man okay well I'm gonna go down like [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► that that it has completely changed how [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► I view star wars now because honestly I [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► can't watch the scene where we're wanted [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► men and the guy gets his arm cut off [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► without thinking of the poor architect [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► who drawing with his life I could still [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► draw with my left [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► it's just I can't not if you think about [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► it i can't think of a little mouse [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► that's driving the little black robot [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► box on the floor and get scared when [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► Chewbacca else Adam I can't stop [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► thinking of all the jokes because those [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► are made by people who've seen the movie [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► you know fifty or a hundred times just [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► like all of us except and i'm sure you [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► guys do as you know as I do like I had [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► you know my good friend Evan who I was [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► like Star Wars fanatics with me and we [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► will watch these movies like weekend we [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► got used to do Star Wars trivia on AOL [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► that metal datos but nobody else would [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► and it was just you know of course you [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► develop you see it so many times you [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► develop all these little in jokes and [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► you know lines about about the [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► ridiculous things going on in these [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► movies in the back stories of these tiny [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► little characters it's all I mean the [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► funny thing about this movie and most [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► these movies especially this movie file [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► other than the cantina scene [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► are there any aliens any warehouse it's [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► all chewy chips are all aliens Jason on [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► the morrow yeah and I ok long time ago [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► but to say they kind of blew their whole [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► costuming budget on that onesie [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► yeah there's the job was early on and [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► the and cheerleaders very little [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► it's imagine a young will be on that [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► guy's masks but only in a bar i believe [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► the Federation is a homo sapien club [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► there's also i'm sorry wrong wrong but [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► also they walk into the bar and they get [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► we get instant racism right from serve [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► your kind here kind welcome here [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► I like they have a robot detector but [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► why would droids go to bars i don't [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► understand different oil is like bender [TS]

00:39:20 ◼   ► on futurama their power by cool they [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► have to they have to you know sold their [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► masters drinks for them also we learned [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► that the correct way to I'm order a [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► drink at a bar is to read [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► Josh the bartender of different [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► especially you that's right that's what [TS]

00:39:35 ◼   ► I try to gently actually I do one of the [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► things i noticed this time because i was [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► a little watching my laser disc version [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► i had the volume turned up whatever he [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► does bumble what can I have one of those [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► but it's really quiet [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► hey mister mister i like that because [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► he's it's the first time he's been in a [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► bar he doesn't know what the protocol is [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► you gotta water blue milk if he had his [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► protocol droid with him [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► yes exactly both know dammit that's what [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► he would have been useful it's so sad [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► and then so then at the end of the scene [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► han Solo is confronted to defy Greedo [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► what greater was like as a kid anyway it [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► so we can talk about it now other than [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► to say that one of the things we learned [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► about Han Solo is that into in addition [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► to being a roegan kind of desperate he [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► is willing when threatened by Greedo to [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► shoot grito before Greedo shoots him [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► right little cowboy western kind of [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► scene exactly it's a few on he unblocked [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► unbuttons his his holster in fact under [TS]

00:40:40 ◼   ► the table it's such a really behavior [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► that makes sense and it shows that he's [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► not tied to an honor system where he's [TS]

00:40:47 ◼   ► not like a white knight he's not going [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► to say i wanna honorably do you know it [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► will show you under the table [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► yeah although he will pay for the mess [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► and then then I on returns to the the [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► Millennium Falcon and I believe there [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► was a scene there that got cut out so [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► that's where there was a scene there [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► where they were going to put in jabba [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► the hutt but they decided not to and so [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► we sure that seems most intimidating [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► that Irish guy playing yeah I'm sure [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► surely we can just leave that seen [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► Sydney Greenstreet as Jabba the Hutt [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► speaking of cutting out scenes I want to [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► get this before when you're talking [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► about the seventies influence one part [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► where I see the seventies is in the it [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► not the fact that we're on on you know [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► that this planet with this farm boy for [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► a while but the pacing of that section [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► is very 77 tease they were not in a [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► hurry so it seems like you spent a [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► really long time just kind of wandering [TS]

00:41:38 ◼   ► through is a farm boys going into town [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► has been nobody won the side thing with [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► the job was it just takes its time like [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► they're not enough [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► re and that's very much like a lot of [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► seventies movies where they were like [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► action-packed when you saw them but if [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► you go back and watch them like go back [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► and watch mean streets or something [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► you're like boy they you know they were [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► not in a hurry to get to the next scene [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► where that right well that's the whole [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► generation of directors [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► I I dancing is very very very fast at [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► other points that this one thing struck [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► me watching it all yet picks up that it [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► picks up to it by the end of the movie [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► and just got you if you're instantly [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► fast [TS]

00:42:10 ◼   ► yeah that's amazing having a movie [TS]

00:42:12 ◼   ► that's not going 90 miles an hour from [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► the opening scene [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► yeah you know that's that's what people [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► like about the seventies movies you know [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► that that style facing something that [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► reminds me of the seventies that they [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► did right you know movies back then just [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► did it wasn't like this was a leisurely [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► pace this was par for the course you [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► know if anything this movie was [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► different in the it cranked up the speed [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► at the end and sort of you know you have [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► brought on the whole idea of like a look [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► at me crank up the speed and intensity [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► you know people like that so let's just [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► do a whole movie like that and that of [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► course doesn't work but that was sort of [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► the outcome of this it helps the [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► structure a little bit i think this is [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► in many ways at you know it is act one [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► of a story and it kind of doesn't have [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► an end and we'll get to the ending but [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► that is working for it in some ways to [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► that it's going to lay out the world and [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► introduce all the characters and then [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► the action starts but I mean we were [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► about to get as we walk through the plot [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► here get on the millennium falcon for [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► the first time [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► yeah and for we've been talking for [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► quite a while now but there's a lot that [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► happens and it does take its time to get [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► there before we get on the on the ship [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► and and you know i'm i'm i'm aight lobby [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► for I was thinking about this earlier [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► you mentioned about favorite characters [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► and I feel like it's hard to it's hard [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► to pick a favorite character but i might [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► actually lobby for the Millennium Falcon [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► is my favorite character nerd [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► wow it's a man who did not want a [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► millennium fawlcon wanted to notice only [TS]

00:43:36 ◼   ► characterized through a han because of [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► Han wasn't on it is not as if the thing [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► has a computer voice like it or you know [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► it's missing characters really isn't for [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► that's what i want to see I want to see [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► ability Williams and michael william [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► daniel daniels in night falken that's [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► what i want to say anything and I would [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► watch that ship lads at turbo boost [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► their coming out [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► driving you know I I think I'm my other [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► I mean you know the argument make and I [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► think this is a larger point was i think [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► there's something really impressive [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► about the number of characters of the [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► don't talk intelligently in this movie [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► and yet how much those characters convey [TS]

00:44:14 ◼   ► and in particular I mean our to [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► obviously but also to Ibaka who I think [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► is a is a he's legitimately i think one [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► of my favorite characters [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► regardless of the fact that he does not [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► speak any intelligible words in three [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► movies and that's because you still get [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► an idea of who he is you know you still [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► get an idea of his character later on [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► you know you see it being like that [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► despite the fact being this big [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► tough-looking guy and he's very scary at [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► times he still freaks out the thing in [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► the garbage compactor right like you [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► know I think there's there's enough [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► going on there that I i really like him [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► to care and he doesn't get subtitle just [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► like r2d2 doesn't get subtitled which is [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► something which is actually move I mean [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► like that's that [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► yeah i think i like you would have a [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► hard time selling that today [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► well that's how you get them to say [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► things that you couldn't stay in a [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► pg-rated movie because you know what [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► that you can imagine what they're saying [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► based on the people's reaction to them [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► and basically get all that both of them [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► are free to say horrible things and [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► essentially curse without have I want to [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► actually do so I don't think r2d2 would [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► curse all you have that that's what that [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► really low [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► I sound is trusting so that lets we were [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► up to the water up to the mass murder [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► now [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► basketball is a peaceful planet we have [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► no weapons seriously now we have danced [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► on the whole planet is like this one [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► it's locked in a box i didn't we use [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► butter knives to cut our meat that's [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► right the so Alderaan I don't know if [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► anybody has anything to say here i think [TS]

00:45:41 ◼   ► this is one of those interesting [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► interesting parts of the movie where [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► where we get a little demonstration of [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► the Death Star and and they decide hey [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► will blow up a planet there's a there's [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► a great piece out there on the internet [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► on a blog called overthinking it where [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► they talk about the economy of of the [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► Empire i believe and they talk about i [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► think that's what I think it's not [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► overthinking and they talk about this is [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► how much how much economic impact you [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► have on the Empire if you destroy [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► presumably what's a fairly high level [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► industrial planet and where [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► it was cost-effective to destroy [TS]

00:46:13 ◼   ► Alderaan entire I mean they destroyed [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► the planet that that's major export was [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► peace and thus descended into civil war [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► but they kept the rape gang Quinn that [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► overthinking thing didn't just [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► overthinking it but I mean it over [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► played the opposing view because as the [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► overthinking it peace eventually got to [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► it's it's it's terrorism it's just as an [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► example of its cementing your power [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► through fear and economic impact of it [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► pales compared I mean they say that [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► yeah here will keep the systems in line [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► yeah right exactly was that like this [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► but i want to have got the piece is [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► really funny and trying to try to put in [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► a context but it's absolutely it is is [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► we don't need the Senate really we just [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► need them to realize that if they ever [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► oppose us we will just blow up the [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► planet at all the way that scene is also [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► notable for the the appearance and [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► disappearance of layers inexplicable [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► accent her English it is it because [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► English its I really any English very [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► early on and i totally you know what I [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► think that totally escaped me on almost [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► every other prior viewing but this time [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► for some reason when she first comes in [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► on the you know the first scene with her [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► entire log I was like she using a [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► british accent and there's like [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► Madonna's British accent it's not a real [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► British she's speaking in the [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► ambassadorial yes she's a freakin sense [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► and she's speaking in the vernacular of [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► diplomacy you know using a particular [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► accent and then that goes away when she [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► becomes a rebel yeah but IDK doing so [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► can you explain the French accent yeah [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► oh yes I else and you a good attacking [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► IM supplies anything you want because [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► and never underestimate the podcast that [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► bank and working his French accent and [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► my proudest moment as a father is [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► related to the destruction of Alderaan [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► okay but how my eldest son [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► upon seeing the movie a few times but he [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► says hey when they blew up Alderaan [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► wouldn't she become queen and i have [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► never considered that off my favorite [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► queen of my friend for my it is that uh [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► is that if i don't know if anybody else [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► has listened to the star wars radio [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► dramas which are actually quite good but [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► there's there's that that infamous line [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► of course where where Luke tries to [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► convince hon to go after the princess it [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► says [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► bitch and in upon the radio to actually [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► point out [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► well she was Richard all dread but it's [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► not there anymore [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► our money is on and money was an account [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► don't have the money on the minded the [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► Galactic Bank in PL crowns on the planet [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► that's the the capital city your capital [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► planet the Empire whatever its name is I [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► guess we'll never know now [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► yeah Imperial center something like that [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► but but still I mean it's quite a [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► shocking thing and this is the this is [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► the point where you realize you know why [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► the Death Star's here and they blow up [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► an entire planet that's quite gets kind [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► of bold these Empire guys are not [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► messing around that's right they don't [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► kid around and it's good for our kids [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► movie where she gives in to the threats [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► like we're going to blow up your planet [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► you gotta tell us she tells them and [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► when your kid you're like oh she told [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► him to save our planet and they [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► immediately blow it up which is not a [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► complicated didn't she was lying and she [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► does realize that's what happens when [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► you like kids but to a little kid that [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► was fairly shocking the plan because we [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► all know it wasn't tortured does not [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► produce accurate information enhanced [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► interrogation the the sound design [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► yeah when they're cranking up the Death [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► Star I remember it just it just rattled [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► me in my seat [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► the low hum as they don't bounce the [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► beam around inside whatever they're [TS]

00:49:41 ◼   ► doing when it when it starts cranking up [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► they were commenced and groom [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► recognition [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► yes thank you thank you can wait in [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► general though the sound design it is [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► fantastic i mean i think you know Ben [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► Burtt seriously deserves a shout-out for [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► all the work that's done we have because [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► it's and that is some of the you know [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► it's just phenomenal the stuff that he [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► comes up with this stuff that like it's [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► always fascinating if you were watching [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► the behind-the-scenes stuff to see how [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► we came up with all these sounds from [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► these like ordinary objects that exist [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► in our world and then taking them and [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► distorting them and combining them into [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► something that's unrecognizable yet at [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► the same time fits perfectly like chewy [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► you know it seems like his voice seems [TS]

00:50:22 ◼   ► right for him the blasters sound like [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► right from what we would you know think [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► of as blasters the lightsabers you know [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► it all just seems to fit with you know [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► the objects they're portraying and yet [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► these are sounds that are you know [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► totally unrecognizable you know from our [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► reality [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► and it's not just like that the sounds [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► they pick it's it's the fact that they [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► decided that certain things needed sound [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► at all that is the big thing with the [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► soundscape this moving out the music but [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► the soundscape is that you know when it [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► comes time to say okay we're gonna have [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► people shooting a gun obviously you know [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► that has to make a sound and even like [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► that they'll desktop has to make a sound [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► but they add sounds in places where the [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► movies didn't have any sound ever [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► whatsoever in the biggest one I see is [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► that whenever there's a piece of [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► machinery on the screen [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► they have a sound of that machinery and [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► operation and the sound is different [TS]

00:51:05 ◼   ► from the person inside the missionary to [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► the person outside so this for example [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► the x-wing [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► when you're inside the x-wing this [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► constant background high-pitched hum and [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► they're saying that's the sound of the [TS]

00:51:15 ◼   ► x-wing running and of course when you're [TS]

00:51:17 ◼   ► outside it in space with no sound [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► whatever there's a different sound of [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► each of the neck but machinery in this [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► universe makes noise when it's running [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► this like your lawnmower make noise when [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► it's ryan doesn't sound like your lawn [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► mower but that but if any machinery is [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► running there is a constant background [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► noise and that adds tremendously to me [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► when you're a little kid you know when [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► you're in a car the car makes noise so [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► when he's in his x-wing you can hear the [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► x-wing running you the sound of the [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► machine is there it really makes [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► everything feel much more rebound of [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► turning tractor beams off like it being [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► dirty as well [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► yeah just like visually all the machines [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► are dirty because you [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► yeah exactly it's a riddle lived in [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► universe when I was a cheese I must have [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► been ten just a few years after i made [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► the discovery that if you take two [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► double A batteries hold them loosely at [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► the base and bang them together they [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► sound just a little like lightsabers and [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► and so I spend 40 50 60 hours doing that [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► so [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► autumn autumn fall come a day off is [TS]

00:52:12 ◼   ► when we get our first introduction into [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► the force and then it's a mystical [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► magical wonderful thing that is [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► everywhere all around us and blue and [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► put a little too technically we go out [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► before they left but hey he will do [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► wheeler or whether some of that well i'm [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► thinking we wanted Ben Ben breaks him in [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► and when he's at his house at ben's [TS]

00:52:32 ◼   ► house and add the forces and mystical [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► and he lies to him to about maybe about [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► well maybe about his father in theory [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► certain point of view [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► thank you John R i'm thinking of Luke's [TS]

00:52:49 ◼   ► for first we get the dead [TS]

00:52:51 ◼   ► the chats with the Ray Harryhausen and [TS]

00:52:53 ◼   ► stop motion animation animated chest [TS]

00:52:55 ◼   ► guys right but working with my kiddos [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► Laver one of my favorite things let the [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► wookie that whole lakes that whole [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► exchange is great stories don't pull [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► people's arms out of theirs [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► did they reverse the film there in terms [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► of you know the perspectives when they [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► were to win [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► jubak is taking his arms down from [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► behind his head [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► they just seem to fall awfully fast the [TS]

00:53:19 ◼   ► seventies they had trouble with film [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► speed they were still cranking it by [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► hand i think that's it you talk about [TS]

00:53:25 ◼   ► the the some of the places where the [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► special effects look just off and like [TS]

00:53:31 ◼   ► the Millennium Falcon leaving most [TS]

00:53:32 ◼   ► isolate always look like a really bad [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► Matt to me even when I was young and [TS]

00:53:36 ◼   ► Chewbacca taking his hand down from [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► behind his head looks artificial I never [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► noticed that when the sandpeople thrust [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► their little Spears up and down that I I [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► never realized that that's just like a [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► half a second film played forward and [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► backward a couple of times yeah that had [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► no idea that you need in the ending [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► scene with the with the space battle [TS]

00:53:55 ◼   ► there's a couple clips to get reused in [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► there too but it's I would still say [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► they're really use fewer clips than a [TS]

00:54:01 ◼   ► much later movie like for example top [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► gun which we use air combat footage like [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► crazy to an annoying degree that's what [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► you found annoying about the elephant [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► even something that had a limited budget [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► yep yeah and the mix were training but [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► the homoerotic subtext is perfect [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► that was the best part about on the [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► danger zone I mean what a song [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► Oh Kenny Loggins wherefore art thou [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► wow finally catalog incident involved in [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► so now we probably have an attitude of [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► the Opera ya inside of the star wars [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► episode we were we finally got into what [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► we wanted to talk about from real [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► witches topcoat it's you know Star Wars [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► is really a riddle wrapped in a mystery [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► wrapped inside top gun so the other [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► thing that happens on the Millennium [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► Falcon is is Luke wears a helmet with [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► the blast shield down and gets shot in [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► the butt by a laser from a floating ball [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► thing with spikes on it as you do i [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► would like to know what a practical use [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► of that blast shield is because [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► seriously if you throw away from slabs [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► and you have a time to put a completely [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► opaque piece of [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► metal over the front of your face it's I [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► don't know it's free welding cheese this [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► for well it's a completely opaque [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► yeah when you don't need to see what [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► your well-being and why did he have that [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► thing [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► it depends on how bright the blast is [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► nothing if you put the word blast in [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► front of everything anything it can make [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► this a futuristic it's just like my [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► heart to order the guys you're writing [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► it and saying what's that thing has [TS]

00:55:27 ◼   ► gotten from his case on i'll call a [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► blast shield that was my George Lucas [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► impression floating spiky blast ball you [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► need a blast shield in case you get hit [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► by a turbolaser but i think the keys the [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► key part of the scene on the Millennium [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► Falcon other than once again having the [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► sound of the inside of the money back on [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► the outside which we can all hear in [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► your head now and know that that's the [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► sound of the mine Falcon but anyway the [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► key scene there i think is the Han [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► expressing skepticism about the force [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► because up to this point we were from [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► Luke's point of view this old guy tells [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► us about the forest now is always going [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► to show us how to do it [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► we've seen is all guide to effectively [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► magic with these are not the droids [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► you're looking for and stuff and we get [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► on the ship and his lowest branches and [TS]

00:56:06 ◼   ► we're not heroes to ya and hongos listen [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► kid I seen a lot of strange things you [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► know you go through that whole speech [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► about I've never seen anything that he [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► thinks is something some magical force [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► controlling everything [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► no forced finds his destiny you know it [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► it'll give visit we didn't have that not [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► so much in this movie but in later [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► movies you wouldn't have any sort of [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► diabetes like all the force and I and [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► look believes and so I believe it and it [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► shows that their skepticism that it's [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► not you know that that there's some some [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► leap of faith requires them to believe [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► this is even possible even though we [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► live in a world with spaceships and [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► everything this crazy idea of the force [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► is still a little bit wacky I think that [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► was the key plot point dropped and in [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► the interior the line talking scene in [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► that but you know not only does a Darth [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► Vader use the Force to choke somebody to [TS]

00:56:49 ◼   ► death [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► he also uses it to get coffee in the [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► comic con it [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► yeah he does you don't use the word [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► faith there to find his lack of faith [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► disturbing [TS]

00:56:59 ◼   ► I want you need that faith i'm choking [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► you dude you don't have to believe [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► believe that I believe it may go Greg [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► can you explain [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► can you explain the darth vader coffee [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► thing by the way for those who don't [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► know because this is one of my favorite [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► things about about the original star [TS]

00:57:15 ◼   ► wars in the comic version [TS]