Composer David Das gives us the first two pages of the original Star Wars orchestral suite, note-by-note input – a fascinating breakdown of what makes this score so special.
If you love music, are interested in how it is made, how orchestrations work, this is a great video to start with.
Obi-Wan can find an invisible planet hidden by a devious Sith Lord, Anakin can’t find his ex-best friend on his own home planet while the guy is still using his own damn name.
I know we give Obi-wan a lot of shit for leaving Luke with his real surname but Anakin really is that stupid
the perfect hiding place: the sandiest fucking planet that anakin would never set foot on again
I’d like to remind everyone again that it’s literally canon that Vader can’t step foot on Tatooine because the desert gets into his creaky old man robot joints and makes his suit break down
aka the sand is coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere
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okay but what if everyone was like ‘vader, kenobi’s on tattooine. he’s obviously on tattooine. he’s been there for years. he’s just right fucking there, we all know it.’ and vader is just desperately shaking down jedi like they’re magic eight-balls and he wants a better fortune. like ‘no i don’t like that try again’.
kenobi’s just sitting there in his pile of sand like a smug fucking bastard. he doesn’t need to hide jack shit. he went to the tattooine board of tourism and got them to print up flyers that say ‘COME TO TATTOOINE, WE HAVE SAND’ and luke is probably going to be safe until his midlife fucking crisis at this rate.
palpatine finds vader aimlessly checking behind pieces of furniture in some shitty space motel on kamino
‘he’s on tattooine,’ palpatine says.
‘nuh uh,’ vader says, and peers under a couch.
“Psst…hey, Vader, didn’t you have a step-brother on Tattooine?’
The rouge one soundtrack is almost as good as the movie
Just saw the film – so delighted it was so good.
Musically, though, I kept waiting for familiar cues, so I felt a little unsettled by the lack of them. I’ll have to find the soundtrack and have another listen.
I saw this when it was first reported and was going to ignore it because it is so patently stupid and wrong, but what the hell, since someone @’d me I’ll throw my two cents in: THIS IS COMPLETELY STUPID AND WRONG.
Again this is really indicative of a culture in which women are held to higher standards than men that complete bullshit because no matter what standard you hold a woman to there are women that actually fit that criteria and are getting ignored anyway.
If you only want to consider a woman who has done big budget scifi/action before: Patty Jenkins, Lexi Alexander (WHO HAS SPECIFICALLY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE), Mimi Leder, Anna Foerster, Ava DuVernay (not even going to include the Wachowski sisters or Kathryn Bigelow because they are so obviously overqualified it’s ridiculous).
If you only want to consider women who have done mid-tier (between 20-60 million budget) movies: Julie Taymor, Karyn Kusama, Catherine Hardwicke
If you only want to consider women who have done low-budget scifi/action or TV so you can cultivate their talent: Michelle MacClaren, Jennifer Phang, Ana Lily Amirpour, Jennifer Kent, Mary Harron
This holiday season, instead of blindly throwing your dollars at Star Wars see one of the many great indies out there directed by women. Because you need to support the films they are making right now instead of hoping that one day a producer might wake up and toss one of them a bone.
Here’s some more (might not be associated with SF, but when does that stop the inexperienced boys?):
Gillian Armstrong, Agnieszka Holland, Talya Lavie, Mira Nair, Jane Campion, Susanne Bier.
Might be interesting to see how a non-SF filmmaker makes a SF film.
Donald Glover, aka Grammy-nominated artist Childish Gambino and creator/actor/director of FX’s Atlanta, has been cast as a young Lando Calrissian in Lucasfilm and Disney’s upcoming young Han Solo spin off movie. Glover is having a hell of a year —he’s also in an upcoming Marvel film.
needless to say, people are pumped about it
I’m shocked at everyone. You forgot to add this?
Watching this ‘rebel edition’ trailer for Rogue One, I’m worried.
I’m worried because the acting looks bad and the dialogue sounds bad.
I’m worried because even though this is a female-hero film, she seems to be the only one (her team seems to consist entirely of men).
I’m worried because ‘Jedi’ and ‘The Force’ were influenced by Asian religions and now that they’ve cast an Asian in what seems to be a ‘Force-sensitive’ role, there will be blowback since the character seems to conform to a racist stereotype.
I’m worried that Mads Mikkelsen’s beard looks too fake.
I’m worried that it all looks like it is taking itself too seriously.
I’m sure it will be a gorgeous-looking film, but after the lighter turn of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this one seems out of step, and, possibly, a little too grandiose for its story.
The Doctor Is Out 