I remember the documentary with Burtt whacking on the cable. They also showed how the Millenium Falcon's engine is a busted hotel air conditioner.
Every time I think about how much fun it would be to be a sound editor for big Hollywood movies, I remember that for every Star Wars I would have to do the sound for a dozen craptacular Transformers 2-type films as well.Originally Posted by Telefrog
Ben Burtt LIED to me in the Wall-E documentary! He demonstrated on a slinky & said it was that.
They might have used different sounds for different weapons. The Death Star plant destroying laser sounds different than Princess Leia's little stun gun. :]
What happened to novelty songs, period?
Here's One!
They went main stream:
Weird Al is still recording AFAIK.
Since the thread turned into a bit of a nostalgia trip:
I was in between 6th and 7th grade during the summer of 1977. Like someone said earlier, I was the target demographic when that movie came out, and memories of it are big part of my childhood. The funny thing is I couldn't care less about the changes in the SE. Star Wars was a much bigger part of life than whether Greedo shot first. From my recollection Greedo didn't shoot at all... Han just blasted the bastard as was his right!
The thing that sticks in my mind is movies don't get "held over" anymore. Today a movie hits the theater for its part of the movie season, and a few months later you are buying the DVD, and then it hits Netflix. When Star Wars was released there was no consumer market for video tape -- the machines were there, but they were prohibitively expensive. At that time the only way to see a theatrical release was to wait for HBO to get it, and big movies *didn't* go to HBO. The result was that movies stayed in theaters much longer, and sometimes they were re-released into theaters years later.
I remember scanning the theater ads in the local paper one morning. When I checked the ad for the Imperial VI - a six screen multiplex - there was the Star Wars ad with the text "HELD OVER FOR THE 108th BIG WEEK!!" Star Wars played in that theater constantly for more than two years!
I don't think any movie or movie franchise has every become as integrated into popular culture the way that Star Wars did. I'm not sure the feat will or can be repeated.
At 108 weeks, most of the money from ticket sales goes directly to the theatre. Pure profit!
Oh, and Burtt is the original voice of Boba Fett if I recall correctly.
--- Alan
Nope, Fett's voice in ESB and RotJ was Jason Wingreen.
But who voiced him in the Star Wars Holiday Special?
Seriously, who? I don't know.
Oh, Don Francks. Whoever he is.
I thought it was Don Rickles. He did call Darth Vader a hockey puck.
I was in college with his daughter, I think one of my roommates ran into her at a party.
Is that a euphemism?
Lucas to covert original trilogy to 3D
Fuck you, George.
Yeah, their PR department sucks at that covert stuff, you're absolutely right to be incensed.
Oh my god, seriously. Can't he just leave well enough alone? Stop raping my childhood, Lucas.
You don't have to watch them. Just FYI...
Oh, and I likely won't, but every time something like this surfaces, it bubbles up the anger and sadness of what's happened to a franchise I once adored and now mostly despise.
Seriously, who is going to pay to see Phantom Menace in the theater again?
(I'm afraid of the answer)
Lots and lots of people.
It all depends on whether they show the extended pod race.
A lot of people will refuse to go as well, though:
I agree with Mr. Delaney. I totally am not going to see this, but sadly I know lots of saps who will. Sigh.
I wish he would just fix the cheap looking 1997 CGI done for the original trilogy. I read that ILM spent very little time and money on it. I saw the re-release of A New Hope in 1997 and good lord the CG C-3PO on the landspeeder was like 2000 polys, which was very noticeable on the big screen.
What pisses me off is that he's doing this after seeing Avatar. Oddly enough, James Cameron is against the current fad of 3D movies because most of the 3D movies are doing the 3D as a post-production gimmick to get the extra $3 bucks.
But didn't he announce this years ago? Wasn't it supposed to have happened by 2007, for the 30th anniversary?
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