When Other Fandoms See What The Gushers Can’t (Or Won’t)

October 19th, 2007

I don’t need to set this up. Well, only to say I found this on a Halo forum:

scarab: If Bungie [Studios] are going to do another action adventure story then they should watch Star Wars episode 4 to see how Lucas constructed that story. To see how it all hangs together, its elegant simplicity. Lucas’ story construction trade craft was exemplary. Bungie: emulate it!

Narcogen: If they were making a movie that’d be relevant. It’s not, really.

Also, I’d say Lucas’ tradecraft has deteriorated over the years. The prequels are considerably more clumsy and confused than any of the Halo games. Maybe he should start emulating Bungie.

scarab: Something happened to Lucas. I knew that when he made Greedo shoot first. He either had a stroke, was taken over by space aliens, or fatherhood addled his mind.

Source: first link, second link. WARNING: Halo 3 spoilers included.

What were they talking about? Internal continuity. Divergent plot lines and how they sync up timewise. That’s a HUGE problem for the PT, as any deep examination of AOTC for instance would bear out.

And, once again, the PT is not as lauded in the outside world as the inhabitants of The Gusher Echo Chamber TF.N fervently want it to be. One of the two I quoted even praised Star Wars. The unmitigated gall! lol

You gushers keep lining up your talking points on the fence, and we’ll keep shootin’ ‘em off. evil

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Mr. Spielberg, Thank You For Putting Your Foot Down (And Keeping It There)

October 10th, 2007

Steven on Indy 4. Same story from two viewpoints (and note the lack of new pics in both):

Slashfilm (h/t Rotten Tomatoes)
Ain’t It Cool News (h/t obi-kris)

He’s being as clear as mud about the movie, and that’s understandable. What really jumps out at you is the apparent leash he has on Lucas. Not a very nice way for me to say it, with he and George being best buds and all. But you really sense that some of GL’s tendencies are being curbed. (Two dog references in the same post: bad. :pfft: )

Well, forget the dog references and see for yourself.

Sciretta:

Producer and friend George Lucas tried at length to convince Spielberg to film the movie digitally but Steven resisted. He joked that he is the last person in Hollywood still cutting the film negatives, and that he learned from the greats and they all worked that way. He says that he has still never used an Avid to edit, and won’t do so until Tintin.

Steven gushed about how a film frame is alive with movement and film grain and that digital video is “too perfect.” Lucas tried to convince Steven that they could add the film grain to the digital image, which Spielberg found totally amusing because doesn’t that defeat the whole purpose? [My emphasis. -S] And wouldn’t it just be easier to shoot the whole thing on film.

That bold part is just hilarious and highly indicative of GL these days. Would he have “faked it” if he had digital in 1977? Somehow, I don’t think so.

Check out what Quint said:

Lucas visited the set 8 times during production and will have a pass at editing.

Spielberg said that was a tradition (I’m pretty sure it’s just on their collaborations). He’ll get his cut, one that he’s ready to stand by, and then he’ll ship Michael Kahn and the cut up to the Ranch and give Lucas a go. He said it usually takes him a week and a half and Lucas will send a cut back that’s usually tighter and suggest ideas on different juxtapositions. Spielberg watches the cut and considers the ideas, but if he doesn’t agree with them, he goes back to his cut.

Spielberg has final cut on INDY 4.

Now that is very reassuring. )

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