Star Wars (1977) - A New Era: A look back on a beloved film.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- This is the film that changed science fiction forever and we look back on tidbits throughout the narrative, it's deleted scenes as well as arguments such as cannon conflicts, Star Wars is for kids and who saved this movie.
Nerdonymous video: How Star Wars was saved in the edit sort of but not really
• How "How Star Wars was...
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Could not agree more about the "genie being out of the bottle" re: force users.
When Kenobi says to Yoda, "That boy is our last hope," Yoda didn't reply, "Nah, there's another 50 or so."
Thanks, I am enjoying these videos. After watching so much movie content on TH-cam it’s great to find someone who has carved out their own angle and style.
Very glad to hear that. We'll keep bringing content out. We have at least a years worth of content planned out.
Looking forward to it 👍
To be fair, all of the violent movies that you cite as being PG came before the PG-13 rating existed. In fact, it was Temple of Doom (along with Gremlins) that spurred the MPAA to create the PG-13 category.
Great video! I look forward to enjoying more of your content!
fascinating and clever mix of source materials and insights ... again, wonderful !!
I saw Star Wars in 1977 and, apart from the excellent design and effects, it was the rather straightforward plot that made you feel very satisfied leaving the cinema as the bad guys were defeated and the good guys won. A beautiful princess in jeopardy, a faceless and ruthless villain, a relatable young hero on an arc of learning, a cynical yet very funny and attractive spaceship pilot and.. most importantly the father figure of Obi-Wan Kenobi who you felt was going to sort everything out. Plus the scene in the bar where Obi-Wan cuts off the bully's arm to let you know he wasn't just about wisdom and empathy - that guy was pretty lethal if required!
I was 6 months old when I saw this movie in it's first week of release.
It was absolutely incredible!
I will never forget the hype at the time.
People often use that "Star Wars was made for kids" quote without mentioning the rest of it; the one I saw was an interview with Warwick Davis for the 40th anniversary, and he went on to mention "it was designed to be a film, like mythology, that says 'This is what we stand for; you're about to enter the real world, you're 12 years old, you're gonna go on into the big world, you're moving away from your parents being the center focus, you're probably scared, you don't know what's going to happen. And here is a little idea of the things you should pay attention to. Friendships, and honesty, and trust, and doing the right thing, living on the light side, avoiding the dark side.' Those are the things it was meant to do."
TLDR, George has far more respect for the minds of 12 year old boys than the brains behind modern SW films.
Amazing video of my all time favorite Star Wars (1-6).
Nice vid! :) Look forward to the Aliens and the rest of the stuff you'll put out in the future! I'm hooked :)
That was one of the most enjoyable, autobiographical retrospectives I've ever seen. Keep up the good work.
I love this video series as it’s not like all the other videos which just point out the obvious. You actually know and care about the meaning behind the movie and the lore. Personally, my favorite part of Star Wars is hunting for deleted scenes and content. For example, I had recently discovered a black and white video showing the Wampa’s hand bursting out of the ice just before striking Luke on Hoth. I like these interesting little things.
You and me both. I love the bones of all films not just the obvious. Deleted scenes sometimes really brings out some of the depth in films we love.
Really awesome video. Very well done!
I remember seeing promo shots before the movie was released.... and assuming Chewbacca was a space werewolf!
from what i know of the editing, the first editor (forget his name, editor of Beatles' Hard Days Night) got fired and the others picked up that slack by using every available frame before the endboard etc ... worth seeing the Jamie Benning filmumentaries of each flick which may still be available on vimeo
I'm really loving this channel the more I watch great video also love how you rightfully called out the Kenobi show getting Vader wrong when he killed those civilians for no reason is out of character
Glad you're enjoying it. We are currently writing our script for Return of the Jedi and will begin editing in about a week on that film. Hope to see you then.
Not to blame the Prequels again, but when they came out, the focus was no longer on the rogue space cowboys like Dash Rendar. The focus was now on Force users
Excellent job ❤😂
Thanks for the excellent video about my favorite movie! By the way, my parents had a brown Ford Pinto in the 70's.
Love that, I still remember the upholstery of that car.
I had one in the 80s.
@@Blaize24 They don't make them like they used to.
Good stuff
This is a GREAT video!
Thank you!
We’re about the same age and your love and appreciation of classic (real) Star Wars and total disgust of Disney (fake) Star Wars is exactly how I feel.
Also, “power converters” is Tatooine teen slang for skanky girls. Oh Luke you rascal!
I think most of our age group goes gaga for the classic films and those "power converters" Love your handle. We'll see you next in Aliens (1986) or Empire Strikes back (1980)
Who are you to question Sean Connery's fashion sense?
My personal interpretation of Obi-Wan's line about R2 is that, it's never really said outright in the prequels that R2 "belongs to" or is "owned by" Obi-Wan, right? R2 is just sort of incidentally with them. The way I see it, Obi-Wan just never thought of R2 as "his droid", so his rebuttal is out of mere curiosity that this little droid seems to consider Obi-Wan as having been his owner, when he didn't see it that way at all. To me it says more about R2's character than anything, that R2 was attached to Obi-Wan like a pet would be, and Obi-Wan just wasn't aware of that.
It's a good take to have, thanks for sharing it.
I don't hold to the Lucas canon, much less the Disney canon, but those are the breaks. So I'll stick to my head canon.
I'm glad we're seeing reactions toward the near decades of anti-Lucas sentiment. I remember seeing Episode 3 and being a changed kid, especially after watching all the original movies and getting to see the backstory of it all. All six films are awesome.
I completely agree with you.
Why not an avid collector now? I'm a WW1 & 2 collector but have fallen away and without regret.
I clocked out at the end of the stupid obiwan show. If they couldn't even get that right, there is nothing further I want to see in Disney star wars.
Amazing
Another enjoyable video. One thing that stuck out for me is your highlighting of other sci-fi movies that came before Star Wars and how their dark grittiness permeated the space. It's funny to me that DUNE is said to be bringing that back as an antidote to Star Wars's childishness. That attitude is folly along with the notion that Lucas ripped DUNE off. Frank Herbert was bitter about what Lucas had created because it derived from the same well of Aristotle, Carl Jung, and Joseph Cambell that he had been going to and hoped no one else would be aware of. To run salt in his wounds it was executed in a much more streamlined and upbeat manner that captured audiences more immediately than DUNE did. Don't get me wrong, it's a decent novel but the whole argument about who did it first is as irrelevant to me as the thinking behind Alien 3 as an antidote to Aliens. The fact is that two different artists can take the same ingredients and make similar "cakes" but inevitably people are going to gravitate towards one over another because the method just worked better for them. In this case, it turned out that a dash of optimism, levity, and adventure was all it needed. A lot of people have been mad about that because they liked it better when they could meet any subject with cynicism and call it a day.
A true fan you are, sir. How about a retrospect on the SW radio plays?
Love the idea, but I'll stick to films for now. Lot's of them on the docket to cover.
"Star Wars" and "Science Fiction" are in different galaxies. "Star Wars" is "Space Fantasy," since Imperial and Rebel Alliance starfighters don't scream through the vacuum of Space. ("2001: A Space Odyssey" got that right, but that was Hard Science Fiction like "Star Trek.") As for Disney and "Star Wars," those are separated by light years, since Felony and Darth Kennedy were out to "re-make 'Star Wars' for modern audiences."
But isnt that what the fans wanted. Just empty remakes because George doesnt know how to make movies
But hey, Rey Skywalker is how real Star Wars is supposed to be made
Disney should have made Old Republic movies. that simple
8:00 it wasn't Dribbly that changed things to include the Inquisitors. The Inquisition was established decades prior, it's explicitly detailed in SWAJ 4 and GG9 and so dates from at least 1993. More or less twenty years prior. They weren't called Brothers and Sisters and they certainly didn't have helicopter lightsabres, but they were dark jedi, lightsabre-wielding hunters and killers of Jedi long, LONG before Felony got involved.
I assume when you say SWAJ 4 and GG9 you are referring to the Star Wars Adventure Journal #4 (published 11/94) and the Galaxy Guide 9 (published on 5/13/93). These are for roleplaying games and siting this is a pandora's box that no view can ever win because it comes down to what individuals see as cannon. As for me I believe cannon should be what you make it as I myself disregard most Disney stuff as Star Wars. I also disregarded marvel 70's and 80's comics because they often conflicted with films and legacy novels. For my film reviews I site the movies, movie novelization, scripts and movie tie-in materials specifically supporting said film as my bedrock to explore the original vision.
I only mentioned the other cannon (comics and novels) to contrast the extremity of jedi survivors from Lucas cannon to the blatant, irresponsible storytelling of current cannon. Sometime a bit of Legacy cannon is interesting as well. I will say the roleplaying books have some really awesome stuff in them, especially some of the 93 publications which really opened up the believability of the universe and film characters. They are great reads for die-hard fans. The 1993 Star Wars: Movie Trilogy Sourcebook was amazing for character depth in film. Though I don't site it as cannon it's must-read.
Thanks for your views.
@@RepresentThis XD JFC is this a from birth thing or have you had an accident?
It's CANON, by the way, you seem to like the word even though you absolutely do not understand the meaning.
@@Belzediel OK, if that's how you feel then let it be truth for you.
To be fair originally the jedi were numbered in the several hundred thousand instead of the ten thousand of the prequels so there being only a handful is kind of a stretch. But that was a different form of cannon, back then Lucas had the idea of Darth and anakin being completely different characters, and Luke being the son of anakin, which I prefer.
Tf you mean, "surprisingly". Lost in Space was and still is a beloved sci-fi franchise, with music by Star Wars legend, John Williams, to boot.
I only ever watch the 'despecialised' versions on BluRay now.
Amen!!!
Now do the Christmas Special. It's still canon to me.
Interesting. My take is that nobody, including Lucas, knew how SW was going to blow up. Though modeled after serials and Kurosawa films, the story was complete enough that the series could have ended without people being pissed off. Certainly THX and American Graffiti weren't designed for sequels, but once SW hit, he had to spin out someone's story and that was the big V. I was iffy on it at the time, and sure enough, all of SW onwards had to be bent around the fallen Anakin story and it completely screwed it up, IMHO.
As for Vader and Tarkin, well, you don't hire two legendary British actors as sidekicks to a kid and a guy in black Japanese armor. It's well known Guiness refused to make Ben a wacky wizard and kept his English composure, while you hire Cushing to be the coldest man you've ever met. He's even too cold to enjoy killing or give it much thought. If something's a nuiance, you get rid of it like you'd step on a cockroach. I also got the feeling it wasn't just rank, but that Vader respected Tarkin. He certainly wouldn't have been subordinate to him if he thought he was an idiot. Tarkin always had a plan and an unflappable belief in himself. He may not have had the Force, but Tarkin was an icy force, and Vader would have appreciated that. He was probably more uncertain too, which is why he'd let subordinates question him. Had he thought of all the angles? You enhance your command rep not only with force, but by being right. With Tarkin gone, he started cracking the whip and showing who was in charge because he felt he could assume the role effectively. After all, he reported directly now to the big cheese, so he couldn't afford any bad moves.
Are you ever going to do "Solaris"? Maybe pair it with the remake or "Stalker"? You're awfully good at context and deeper meanings, so I'm curious what you might say about them. These are two films that I think just keep getting better with time.
Love your takes although there are some who commented on this video who said the focus of Star Wars was Luke not Vader, but I'm not the arguing type so I didn't defend my position. As for Solaris it's a great film but I never thought of doing it. I love stuff like 2001 and 2010 as well and I'm on the fence about doing those too. If I ever do such films it will be when I have time to sink into such films in detail and not worry about growing an audience.
I subscribe to the original theatrical releases, just the way I saw them in the cinema.
Great to have you, then I'll see you in Empire Strikes Back, just after Aliens.
Your channel might be better called - Retrospect This
Or - In Retrospect
Another alternative could be -
Represent Cope.
Grindhouse or Harmy ?
I was around 9 or 10 when star wars came out in 1977. Toys and all. The prequels and sequels pale by comparison. You can't improve on the original. No episode this or that. Just plain star wars. Before the house of mouse took over.
It was truly a great time to be alive.
Originals always better.
In several of your videos, you’ve used said “orientated” when the correct spelling and pronunciation is “oriented.”
Great videos otherwise!