Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut 179
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!"
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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. . . which would completely destroy the whole concept. It's already awsome BECAUSE it's so disjointed.
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Right, because crap is the new cool.
-dZ.
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Right, because crap is the new cool.
It's been for some time now.
You're probably new to this internet thing, aren't you?
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>> 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.
And lemme guess, Credo shoots first?
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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.
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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.
I too am not really convinced anybody could sit through 1 1/2 hours (or whatever the duration of that film was) of such a disjointed mishmash. I find the idea creative, wacky and fun, but I really wonder if it'll work for anything beyond 15 or 20 minutes (if that).
Good luck to them anyway, at least they're probably having fun doing it. That's the main thing after all.
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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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?
He did pretty well with "Daddy-O"...
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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Re:It's the music. (Score:4, Informative)
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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
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the segment on the dark knight extras where they talk to zimmer about the sound of the joker is one of the most intriguing things i've seen on a dvd extra. that alone made it worth the buy.
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"The Lion King "
I thought that was Elton John.
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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.
Oddly enough, I haven't seen most of those, and can't recall any of those soundtracks (understandably), but even for those I did see. OTOH I do recall most of John William's work :) . Anecdotal, but there you have it :)
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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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A warning to those with [...] or good sense. Do not watch the trailer!
At least that doesn't eliminate anyone here.
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You show your ignorance when you say "Lucas hammer of wrath"
George Lucas is a huge supporter of projects like this.
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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 . . .
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The OP never claimed he was a huge supporter of the fan community.
He said Lucas is a huge supporter of "projects like this", which is true. Anything that feeds StarWarsMania is a good thing for continuing sales of DVDs and plastic crap, so it's in Lucas' best interest to support such projects.
However, direct infringements on things which do not increase sales, such as replicas, are not in Lucas' best interest, therefore he goes after them.
Lucas is a businessman, who has a franchise that is making him shedl
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)
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The dark side? They're NIHILISTS!
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.
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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Actually his parents only ever brought suit against four kids at his school when he became a walking punchline and subject to a torrent of face-to-face day-to-day abuse. It's arguably a bit excessive but if I turned your hilariously asymmetric visage into an internet meme, and you became the office joke and punching bag, you'd probably sympathise.
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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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.
Sheesus. The proper thing to do in response to this is go on Letterman? Haven't we seen time and time again that fame makes people go crazy, especially the younger they are when they become famous?
How about a proper response being going about a normal life, not trying to sue people, become a Highly Successful Bloggist, or get on David Letterman?
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Because a quick stint around the Hot Air Circuit could have made him some fast bucks. If the parents had managed the interviews and money correctly for the kid, there would probably have been enough for a personal trainer for a year or so (weight loss and confidence gain) and enough left over for a nice deposit into the kid's college fund.
Plus, if the kid had managed to compose himself well while on-air (flailing around with a stick really doesn't tell us much about his personality), he might have leverage
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Lucas has a good track record of allowing non-parody derivative works that aren't made for profit. Remember he is a film nerd who once was a part of the group of young Turks who rose up against the corporate mediocrity of the big studios in the 70's. I'm sure he will be amused by it more than anything else.
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).
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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".
Re:If 4chan made Star Wars, only beter (Score:5, Informative)
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?"
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Well, she did have quite a large cup size. I didn't really notice until I was older. If given the chance I hook up with her today. Last time I saw a picture of her she was still looking good.
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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Have you seen http://www.lolcatbible.com/ [lolcatbible.com] ? I'd be scared if they added video cameras to the mix.
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It is pretty much established that Jesus was closer to what Westerners think of as "black" today that was Westerners think of as "White" today. The image of scrawny white Jesus is a European invention as Jesus in their own image. Look at modern Yeminis for an idea of what Jesus probably looked like.
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If they let people do any part they wanted....
I want to play the part of a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. I will call this character "Baa Baa Jinx"
Ooops. Wrong episode. That should be Episode One : The Bantam Menace.
(When we users get finished with Star Wars, Lucas won't recognise it. Perhaps that's a good thing.)
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...the first 'Open Source' over the internet fan made movie...
Second [elephantsdream.org]
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)
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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Buh? How did they release the original theatrical versions on the latest trilogy release then? I have it at home.
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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?
Tardis Wormhole...... Hyperspace.... (Score:2)
I love that part!
I'll get my camera right away! (Score:4, Funny)
-- Mr. Goatse
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That's no moon!
World of Warcraft? (Score:2)
maybe a scene using flying mounts to simulate star ships?
maybe one of the lightsaber duels?
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Fuck that, let's fire up some Tie Fighter / X-Wing :)
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How do you know there isn't? The trailer is just a ... trailer.
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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.
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George Lucas...? is that you?
Wouldn't it be wiser to remake Ep I, II or III? (Score:2)
Why remake the good Star Wars IV movie? I'm all for redoing the stupid ones: I, II and III.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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Because someone would have to redo JarJar. And that's just wrong, no matter what.
All I have to say is... (Score:5, Funny)
You underestimate the power of the Dork Side!
We should do this for The Thief and the Cobbler (Score:2)
We should do this for The Thief and the Cobbler.
I call the toilet flushing scene!!
OMG it's YOUwars.com! (Score:2)
You know, one of the worst things that made YOUtube so great, is what makes this fan-movie.
As much as I love Star-Wars (and I do LOVE the Star-Wars universe), I don't think I could stand to watch much more
than it's trailer, and do you know why? YOUtube!
Anyone of you guys who have ever browsed YOUtube videos, knows that it consists of ENDLESS drivel and "look-ma-I'm-on-TV" teenagers who can't get enough attention, and you've got to fight like insane for hours to get 1 % actually COOL footage.
One hour of the
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Fantasize? I'm living the dream, buddy.
BE KIND (Score:2)
Rewind.
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Me soo sore!
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Meesa soo sore!
FTFY.
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What do you mean? African or european wookies?
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your mom does
*did*
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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What are you talking about? There is nothing like New Hope in its original Klingon!
Of course, Episode VI really was called "Revenge of the Jedi" in its original Klingon release, and merely toned down for us humans to "Return".
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Somehow, the image of a Klingon doing "Dickish Air Quotes" has just made my morning. Takes my mind off the back pain for a few seconds. Thank you.
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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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I certainly hope not, because he's not dead yet.