Star Wars Fans Fix Up Luke Skywalker's Home 90
An anonymous reader writes "How far would a Star Wars fan go to preserve a relic from the iconic film series? One devoted fan traveled to Tunisia to rescue Luke Skywalker's boyhood home, also known as The Lars Homestead, as seen in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. On a trip to Tunisia in 2010, Belgian traveler Mark Dermul came upon the modest dome-shaped hut that George Lucas built in the mid-1970s to serve as Luke Skywalker's home. The structure was falling apart when Dermul found it, so he hatched a scheme to restore it. After two years and a lot of cement and plaster, Luke's house is looking better than ever."
Re:calling it now (Score:5, Insightful)
If Lucas (or RIAA or MPAA) ever tries to sue me, and I end-up owing millions of dollars of supposed "damages", they can eat a bullet. If I'm going to receive a life sentence as my punishment, make it for something worthwhile, not fake rights.
Re:Better? (Score:4, Insightful)
That's never bothered Lucas before.
Re:$11,000?? (Score:5, Insightful)
That structure isn't even a real desert structure, its constructed out of cheap wood (which is not used in the desert as there are no trees), and plaster....it's not a 'real' house or building, its a SET PIECE. Wouldn't it have been more useful to rebuild it from scratch from cement blocks and then open it as a B&B?
Uhm... Duh. Movie sets aren't made to last. Most of the time they aren't made to look good up close either. They aren't made to code, and they aren't intended to be lived in. They are made of cheap wood and plaster, or whatever material are quickest, cheapest, and adequate for the planned shot. Sets are usually torn down the day after shooting on the set is finished.
If this guy had torn it all down and built it out of stone or cement, then the original set would be gone. His goal was to restore it. Using cheap wood and plaster was entirely appropriate, because he was doing a restoration. Now matching the colors to what was seen in the film would have been nice. Oh well.
Re:Back of the class losers. (Score:5, Insightful)
Lucas never was right in the head, but he did get worse over the years. The only reason the first three movies were any good is because 1) his wife (now ex-wife, since he dumped her after those movies) cleaned up the dialog and scripts, particularly in the first movie, and 2) in the latter two movies, he had other people help with writing and direction. The second movie was the best precisely because he didn't direct it or write it, and the third wasn't bad because he didn't direct it and only helped write it (Kasdan is credited first with the screenplay on IMDB). Heck, if his ex-wife didn't clean up his crappy scriptwriting on the first movie, Star Wars would probably have been forgotten and never spawned any sequels; she's probably the one we really have to thank, and she probably got cut out of all his riches.
Re:calling it now (Score:3, Insightful)
"Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997!"
Since when it is "anti-social" to kill your masters who are your deliberate and malicious enemies?
Laws are for the rich. If you decide you have nothing to lose, why not take some of your enemies with you instead of being crushed by the legal system they own?
It's the ultimate way of saying "NO!", and he who doesn't fear punishment cannot be enslaved. Our masters don't fear us. They only fear brute violence, nothing else. As long as we are cozy enough not to inflict it upon them, they win.
I'm comfortable enough that I don't feel any need to act. Someone in a different situation might say "enough" and open fire. I'll not call that choice "anti-social". My choice not to act is much more selfish.