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Sort of liveblogging A New Hope. I wrote this on my phone while we watched the ORIGINAL 1977 THEATRICAL RELEASE.
It does not contain any very great revelations, but it is, I hope, mildly amusing.
I forgot how wooden the opening is. Also the wipe transitions.
*The Jawa ship thing full of droids is giving me LIFE. Look at them! Dude in a garbage can! I love this.
* Obi-Wan is so full of shit! He told me he wanted you to have this! When, bitch? Even if you admit that Lucas hadn’t really written Ep 3, or something, when was Anakin going to have had the time to say something like that?? The whole thing’s a crock?
*Luke is like nine years old holy shit
*That speeder totally has greenscreened wheels. None of the supposedly hovering craft ever lift off or set down, ever ever. They just– exist.
*WOW cutting a dude’s arm off in a bar fight is super low key Ben! What a great way of problem-solving, when you just demonstrated you can make people change their minds! Yikes man.
*HANDIwork hah great pun there Han
* Huh not only did Han shoot first but Greedo didn’t shoot at all
*Suddenly they have radios! Sorry commlinks.
* INTO THE GARBAGE CHUTE, FLYBOY!
* Say “where could he be” a couple more times Luke
*I had completely forgotten what Obi-Wan was supposed to be doing. Why are the controls for the tractor beam on a weird pillar you have to tiptoe to access while hanging over a random death chasm? What kind of design sense does that make? Galen clearly had a lot of issues he was working through as he laid this whole thing out.
* They just used the same shot of Leia three times in a row. She ducks out of the doorway to shoot the Stormtroopers, they show the Stormtroopers reacting, cut back, the shot repeats, three times. Amazing.
* The kiss for luck makes zero sense narratively or character-wise or– anything
*OK Luke and han totally banged
*OK R2 and 3PO totally banged
*Thanks, Wedge
* They came from– behind hell of a last line my guy
*Darth Vader flying the tie looks like he’s unscrewing a bottle
*Seriously the whole scene he’s uncapping a flask or something
* “I can’t shoot these little fuckers for shit I’m just gonna drink fellas”
* “Yeah I got a respirator on but there’s an attachment so I can just pour booze straight into my gullet, you don’t think i’ve been sober a day in my life do you? Not since the Lava Incident”
* This movie mostly doesn’t make sense? You just kind of – get the idea?
Leia’s reactions are great in the scene where they destroy Alderaan. Arguably that’s the only acting that takes place in this entire fucking movie. The rest is just bewildered people reacting.
Alec Guinness clearly hated this entire movie.
Han was written so incredibly casually misogynistic, it’s sort of– astonishing really. I guess it was the seventies. I guess we’ve come a long way. It’s so interesting to me, though, that they clearly cast Carrie because she was so mouthy– that was exactly what they needed! A cute, strong-featured, lip-glossed, shiny-haired honey with a really powerful voice and the presence to believably blow the shit out of a bunch of extras with a blaster. She’s such a good character– and there’s so little support for it in the script that she could’ve gone badly wrong. I dunno, I really feel like Carrie did a lot with what she had.
YAVIN FOUR YAVIN FOUR I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS JUST Y’ALL WAIT IT IS GOING TO BE SO FUCKING GOOD
Sort of liveblogging A New Hope. I wrote this on my phone while we watched the ORIGINAL 1977 THEATRICAL RELEASE.
It does not contain any very great revelations, but it is, I hope, mildly amusing.
I forgot how wooden the opening is. Also the wipe transitions.
*The Jawa ship thing full of droids is giving me LIFE. Look at them! Dude in a garbage can! I love this.
* Obi-Wan is so full of shit! He told me he wanted you to have this! When, bitch? Even if you admit that Lucas hadn’t really written Ep 3, or something, when was Anakin going to have had the time to say something like that?? The whole thing’s a crock?
*Luke is like nine years old holy shit
*That speeder totally has greenscreened wheels. None of the supposedly hovering craft ever lift off or set down, ever ever. They just– exist.
*WOW cutting a dude’s arm off in a bar fight is super low key Ben! What a great way of problem-solving, when you just demonstrated you can make people change their minds! Yikes man.
*HANDIwork hah great pun there Han
* Huh not only did Han shoot first but Greedo didn’t shoot at all
*Suddenly they have radios! Sorry commlinks.
* INTO THE GARBAGE CHUTE, FLYBOY!
* Say “where could he be” a couple more times Luke
*I had completely forgotten what Obi-Wan was supposed to be doing. Why are the controls for the tractor beam on a weird pillar you have to tiptoe to access while hanging over a random death chasm? What kind of design sense does that make? Galen clearly had a lot of issues he was working through as he laid this whole thing out.
* They just used the same shot of Leia three times in a row. She ducks out of the doorway to shoot the Stormtroopers, they show the Stormtroopers reacting, cut back, the shot repeats, three times. Amazing.
* The kiss for luck makes zero sense narratively or character-wise or– anything
*OK Luke and han totally banged
*OK R2 and 3PO totally banged
*Thanks, Wedge
* They came from– behind hell of a last line my guy
*Darth Vader flying the tie looks like he’s unscrewing a bottle
*Seriously the whole scene he’s uncapping a flask or something
* “I can’t shoot these little fuckers for shit I’m just gonna drink fellas”
* “Yeah I got a respirator on but there’s an attachment so I can just pour booze straight into my gullet, you don’t think i’ve been sober a day in my life do you? Not since the Lava Incident”
* This movie mostly doesn’t make sense? You just kind of – get the idea?
Leia’s reactions are great in the scene where they destroy Alderaan. Arguably that’s the only acting that takes place in this entire fucking movie. The rest is just bewildered people reacting.
Alec Guinness clearly hated this entire movie.
Han was written so incredibly casually misogynistic, it’s sort of– astonishing really. I guess it was the seventies. I guess we’ve come a long way. It’s so interesting to me, though, that they clearly cast Carrie because she was so mouthy– that was exactly what they needed! A cute, strong-featured, lip-glossed, shiny-haired honey with a really powerful voice and the presence to believably blow the shit out of a bunch of extras with a blaster. She’s such a good character– and there’s so little support for it in the script that she could’ve gone badly wrong. I dunno, I really feel like Carrie did a lot with what she had.
YAVIN FOUR YAVIN FOUR I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS JUST Y’ALL WAIT IT IS GOING TO BE SO FUCKING GOOD
