eldavojohn writes "Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!"
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
I think passing this off to a team of really good video editors and special effects people when its completed would be a neat idea. But people already did their own special effects in the clips which doesn't help. I suppose they could try asking for the raw clips but people won't all have them.
Having seen the trailer, I've probably seen as much of this project as I really want. But the concept is amusing enough that I'm glad they're doing it.
This is just proof that you can put any sort of crap to great music such as John Williams and make it look interesting. How many movies has he saved, anyway?
John Willaims has done music for pretty much every blockbuster of the past 30+ years:
Fiddler on the Roof
The Poseidon Adventure
Earthquake
The Towering Inferno
Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Empire of the Sun
The Witches of Eastwick
Born on the Fourth of July
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Home Alone
Hook
JFK
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Seven Years in Tibet
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Phantom Menace
The Patriot
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Minority Report
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Terminal
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Memoirs of a Geisha
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
If I were ever to make a movie, I'd get John Williams to do the soundtrack.
John Williams has done music for pretty much every blockbuster of the past 30+ years
Although I appreciate John W's work (especially Schindlers list, Seven years in Tibet), he's not the only composer on the block. It seems somehow you've missed Hans Zimmer then. With well over 100 soundtracks under his belt, I'm surprised you managed to overlook him. Some block busters that carry his name are:
- Rain Man
- Gladiator
- The Davinci Code
- The Lion King
- Backdraft
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Carribe
Parts of Uranus the Magician are quoted in star wars epVI. As well I heard that Star Wars originally hoped to use gustav holst's the planets but it was changed for some reason. I do know that they used some of the planets music early on before john williams made the track.
The kid's a pussy, apparently he/parents sued everything and anyone that had anything to do with that video and he's been scarred by the horrific experience. I'd cut in the original star wars kid clip but again... sued into oblivion seems risky for a non profit joke movie.
"if I turned your hilariously asymmetric visage into an internet meme, and you became the office joke and punching bag, you'd probably sympathise."
I call BS. You don't lash out and sue. You teach your kid to take lemons and make lemonade out of them.
He probably could have gone on Letterman, ran for class president, and started his own highly successful blog, if his parents wouldn't have been total morons and instead had helped him the right way.
Millions of people of all ages would give their left foot for the kind of spotlight he had on him. He took beautiful lemons and made poison out of them.
Someone was definitely feeling their wheaties when they edited/timed the first face-paced segment. Some of the stuff is brilliant, though they should have allowed multiple submissions per segment; I saw some really, really bad stuff. As in, "hey, let's grab my point-and-shoot and spend 5 minutes on this."
Somehow, the SVX seems strangely appropriate as a Millenium Falcon...ugly, cranky, and very weird. Nevermind it's absolutely hilarious when the driver shifts it into park to 'punch it'...
Some of the stuff is brilliant, though they should have allowed multiple submissions per segment
I disagree. They'd then end up with 400 submissions for "I'm Luke Skywalker: I'm here to save you," and big gaps elsewhere, like that critical 15 seconds early in the movie with Leia just sneaking around.
(They'd also probably end up with 800 takes of "That's no moon" in which there WAS a "moon." And they probably don't want to subject anyone to that.)
It also seems very interesting to me to see a frankenmovie of 15 second stretches of wildly varying quality. That's far more interesting to me than a frankenmovie of entirely medium to high quality 15 second clips.
Anyway, once they get the whole movie covered, then they can start accepting submissions for redoing scenes, then have a rating system for each segment. They'll then be able to make a -complete- movie of all the best scenes, emphasis on complete (the aforementioned Leia sneaking around might be pretty poor quality in the "best of" but at least it would be there).
And, again more interesting to me, they could then have a "worst of" where all the worst clips were strung together. And maybe they could then throw in some of the actual movie, like Mark Hamill's original "I'm here to save you!"
I think this will actually result in an interesting curve in the quality levels. The boring pointless parts will be at a glance boring and pointless. With the cool parts that would suck to see badly done all... done well. A "worst of" version sounds like it could end up kind of painful. I think multiple ratings for funny or well done, high quality... could produce a variety of movies though.
Oh, oh, I know!! You could set up a web site with all the clips collected together, but with a user-moderation system for each clip. Then you could view the whole movie at +5 or -1 and depending upon whether you want Funny, Insightful, or Troll, etc. (some people have strange tastes).
They did allow multiple submissions per scene, and say they plan to have some sort of rating system to see which makes the final cut, and to keep the alternates so people can watch it differently. Its in the FAQ on their site, which has more text than all of the rest of the site as far as I could see.
If they let people do any part they wanted.... They could with a little bit of programming have it pick a random 15second clip of what is available for the time slot. It would be a bit different each time. Or people could vote on the best rendition for each time slot to improve the thing.
In any case it is a pretty cool project. And the first 'Open Source' over the internet fan made movie I've heard of. I've been in fan made anime dubs before but that was mostly to horrify anyone that downloaded it to the point of tears.
The original films were, according to Lucas, destroyed in the process of making the remastered editions where Greedo apparently is so terrible a shot that Han was never in any real danger followed by Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
So... can you claim copyright on something you also claim doesn't even exist? It the point of copyright was to promote science and the useful arts by encouraging people to...distribute...copies...
You obviously haven't noticed the issue of Playalien Darth Vader was reading in The Empire Strikes Back when General Veers inadvertently interrupted him
Right after the fan re-write of the "New Hope" script as haiku. I hear there's a Klingon translation in the works. Difficult at the outset. It is rumored that there's no Klingon word for "hope", other than the phrase "Your fear which I did not bring about." Some fans suggested coining a new word, but this was considered a violation of the received Klingon - they don't want to just "make stuff up."
It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
Cool (Score:5, Insightful)
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
Re:Cool (Score:5, Funny)
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
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Right, because crap is the new cool.
-dZ.
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Having seen the trailer, I've probably seen as much of this project as I really want. But the concept is amusing enough that I'm glad they're doing it.
It's the music. (Score:5, Insightful)
This is just proof that you can put any sort of crap to great music such as John Williams and make it look interesting. How many movies has he saved, anyway?
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Re:It's the music. (Score:4, Informative)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Poseidon Adventure
Earthquake
The Towering Inferno
Jaws
Star Wars
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Return of the Jedi
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Empire of the Sun
The Witches of Eastwick
Born on the Fourth of July
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Home Alone
Hook
JFK
Jurassic Park
Schindler's List
Seven Years in Tibet
Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
The Phantom Menace
The Patriot
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
Minority Report
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Terminal
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Memoirs of a Geisha
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
If I were ever to make a movie, I'd get John Williams to do the soundtrack.
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Although I appreciate John W's work (especially Schindlers list, Seven years in Tibet), he's not the only composer on the block. It seems somehow you've missed Hans Zimmer then. With well over 100 soundtracks under his belt, I'm surprised you managed to overlook him. Some block busters that carry his name are:
- Rain Man
- Gladiator
- The Davinci Code
- The Lion King
- Backdraft
- Pearl Harbor
- Pirates of the Carribe
Re:It's the music. (Score:4, Informative)
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We could have World War III, and if it had a John Williams soundtrack, it'd be awesome.
--
Toro
Epileptic Warning (Score:3, Informative)
A warning to those with epilepsy, a history of nausea, or good sense. Do not watch the trailer!
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Yet he's gone after any replica props that don't even bear the Star Wars name like the KGB. Yeah, HUGE supporter of the fan community . . .
Trolls (Score:2)
A higher than average concentration at the start of the thread? This doesn't bode well.
The Jedi Abides (Score:3, Insightful)
No Flash (Score:2, Informative)
If you don't have/want flash/javascript, get the trailer here [vimeo.com].
Payment and Residuals? (Score:2, Insightful)
U don't read? (Score:5, Funny)
There is no cut. It's uncut. There is no cut for you to get.
Penis.
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Is this a viral hunt for new filmmakers? (Score:4, Insightful)
Anybody know how to reach... (Score:4, Funny)
I, for one, would absolutely love to see him flail around with a lightsaber...
Re:Anybody know how to reach... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Anybody know how to reach... (Score:4, Insightful)
I call BS. You don't lash out and sue. You teach your kid to take lemons and make lemonade out of them.
He probably could have gone on Letterman, ran for class president, and started his own highly successful blog, if his parents wouldn't have been total morons and instead had helped him the right way.
Millions of people of all ages would give their left foot for the kind of spotlight he had on him. He took beautiful lemons and made poison out of them.
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If 4chan made Star Wars, only beter (Score:2)
Re:If 4chan made Star Wars, only beter (Score:5, Insightful)
Some of the stuff is brilliant, though they should have allowed multiple submissions per segment
I disagree. They'd then end up with 400 submissions for "I'm Luke Skywalker: I'm here to save you," and big gaps elsewhere, like that critical 15 seconds early in the movie with Leia just sneaking around.
(They'd also probably end up with 800 takes of "That's no moon" in which there WAS a "moon." And they probably don't want to subject anyone to that.)
It also seems very interesting to me to see a frankenmovie of 15 second stretches of wildly varying quality. That's far more interesting to me than a frankenmovie of entirely medium to high quality 15 second clips.
Anyway, once they get the whole movie covered, then they can start accepting submissions for redoing scenes, then have a rating system for each segment. They'll then be able to make a -complete- movie of all the best scenes, emphasis on complete (the aforementioned Leia sneaking around might be pretty poor quality in the "best of" but at least it would be there).
And, again more interesting to me, they could then have a "worst of" where all the worst clips were strung together. And maybe they could then throw in some of the actual movie, like Mark Hamill's original "I'm here to save you!"
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Oh, oh, I know!! You could set up a web site with all the clips collected together, but with a user-moderation system for each clip. Then you could view the whole movie at +5 or -1 and depending upon whether you want Funny, Insightful, or Troll, etc. (some people have strange tastes).
Re:If 4chan made Star Wars, only beter (Score:4, Funny)
the aforementioned Leia sneaking around might be pretty poor quality in the "best of"
Only for very low values of "Leia".
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Re:If 4chan made Star Wars, only beter (Score:5, Informative)
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This is fantastic (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This is fantastic (Score:5, Insightful)
His voice work as Joker in the new Batman Arkham Asylum is absolutely fantastic.
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Boobs ... there, I said it (Score:2, Funny)
She Said: "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?"
He Should Have Replied: "Aren't you a little young to have them sagging like that?"
As if... (Score:5, Funny)
...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror...and in completely uncoordinated voices, scenes, style, gender, costumes, visual effects, height, weight, gestures, inflection, lighting, weather conditions, technology, continuity, tone, background, accent, mood, passion, interpretation, make-up, age, production techniques, storyboarding, stock types, DV formats, exposure, sound levels...
Implications (Score:5, Insightful)
In any case it is a pretty cool project. And the first 'Open Source' over the internet fan made movie I've heard of. I've been in fan made anime dubs before but that was mostly to horrify anyone that downloaded it to the point of tears.
Re:Implications (Score:5, Interesting)
I actually thought it would be cool to have people do this with the Bible. It will be interesting to see how this turns out, quality-wise.
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Hello, I'm from the MPAA and I'm here to help you (Score:2)
Re:Hello, I'm from the MPAA and I'm here to help y (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Hello, I'm from the MPAA and I'm here to help y (Score:3, Informative)
George Lucas is usually supportive of fan-made material as long as they aren't going into for commercial purposes.
Re:Hello, I'm from the MPAA and I'm here to help y (Score:4, Interesting)
The original films were, according to Lucas, destroyed in the process of making the remastered editions where Greedo apparently is so terrible a shot that Han was never in any real danger followed by Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
So... can you claim copyright on something you also claim doesn't even exist? It the point of copyright was to promote science and the useful arts by encouraging people to...distribute...copies...
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Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
Well he couldn't very well murder the LIZARD man in WARM blood, now could he?
I'll get my camera right away! (Score:4, Funny)
-- Mr. Goatse
Who shoots first...? (Score:4, Funny)
Big question, who has to shoot first in this one? Han or Greedo?
IMHO, Greedo shot first, I have video evidence.
All I have to say is... (Score:5, Funny)
You underestimate the power of the Dork Side!
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Fantasize? I'm living the dream, buddy.
BE KIND (Score:2)
Rewind.
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Me soo sore!
Re:WOW!! (Score:5, Funny)
Well. Second largest.
Right after the fan re-write of the "New Hope" script as haiku. I hear there's a Klingon translation in the works. Difficult at the outset. It is rumored that there's no Klingon word for "hope", other than the phrase "Your fear which I did not bring about." Some fans suggested coining a new word, but this was considered a violation of the received Klingon - they don't want to just "make stuff up."
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Wow.
Tattooine IS West Covina. I knew it, all along.
Re:Is there a reason why the site doesn't work? (Score:4, Informative)
It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
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