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Favourite Visual Artist
Charles R Knight
Favourite Movies
Star Wars series, Lord of the Rings, Godzilla films, Indiana Jones, Aladdin, Lion King, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Favourite TV Shows
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mythbusters, Friendship is Magic, Svengoolie, River Monsters, Walking With dinosaurs, Deadliest Warrior
Favourite Books
The Lost World, Raptor Red, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, the first 5 Harry Potter books
Favourite Writers
J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Favourite Games
Dungeons and Dragons, Age of Empires 3, Scrabble
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Other Interests
Paleontology, anthropology, zoology, history, creative writing
One of the eternal questions in Star Wars is how much credit should George Lucas deserve. On one hand, it’s a blatant attempt to minimize his contributions to justify the dissonance of reception between the original films and the prequels. On the other, it’s really a microcosm of filmmaking in general. All filmmaking is necessarily a collaboration. The writer and director can be the same but not predominantly, and of course they’re usually not the star as well. There’s also cinematography, art design, score, sound design, lighting, blocking, performances, special effects, editing etc etc etc. And of course the producer, who is responsible for wrangling all this to make sure things run smooth. That kills the auteur, there is no auteur, the end. But wait, there’s more. You see, filmmaking is more than just an individual story but a whole career. This is easy to overlook when the directors Lucas, Kershner and Marquand had relatively few films. What about, say, a prolific
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Godzilla vs Kong marked the 9th theatrical feature of the character of King Kong. Of course, the evolution of the character is marked by dramatic changes in appearance, tone, role, fate, size, and most importantly the character itself. That begs the question of what King Kong actually is; a kaiju? A humanoid? Just a giant gorilla? You don’t become a pop culture icon by being dull, after all. A lot of Godzilla fans haven’t’ seen the original film, which is a shame considering how important it is the entire genre. Indeed, Eiji Tsuburaya and Ishiro Honda loved the film, and Tsuburaya wanted to make a stop motion film, but never had the time for one.. Furthermore the previous year’s Beast From 20,000 Fathoms was an even more direct inspiration for Godzilla, and it was made by Kong fans with the ape’s imprint on the scaly dinosaur hide. Godzilla, like Kong, is a terrifying but tragic character, thrown into conflict with humans, causing death and chaos before being killed by technology.
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I honestly had no idea that the special editions were hated until the internet really came into its own. Thing is, for the most part they've improved the stories. See, I don't have that nostalgia attached to the original versions, so I don't have 20 years of being used to seeing one thing. Not everything worked in the special editions, but certainly enough did and you can see the reasoning if you bother to think about it. The first changes are on Tatooine. We see an exterior shot of the sandcrawler (compensating for the immobility of the original prop), and Stormtroopers on Dewbacks (the Dewbacks were always there, but they were immobile props) I get the impression that Lucas wanted a busy, lush, heavily populated, very real world in his films. A city is a city, and that means a lot of people and traffic. In 1977, he didn't have that ability. It helps if you compare the Mos Eisley shots with travelogues in other films; they set the stage. It's in stark contrast to what we've seen
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