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Star Wars Extras Needed

Posted by timothy on from the tell-them-slashdot-sent-you dept.

lyonsden writes "Ever want to be in a Star Wars movie? Live in Australia? Check out this page at the Maura Fay Group Casting web site. Especially the Star Wars part towards the bottom. Any takers?"

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  1. You know... by planetside · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A lil off topic, but with all the complaining about how crummy the new trilogy is (which...it is) you really have to think. Even though we don't like it, (the ones who grew up with it), younger children sure seem to love it. In all honesty thats not such a bad thing. Infact its a good thing. We have The Matrix to look forward to. That can be our Star Wars. The little kids can have the new Star Wars.

  2. I think this STAR WARS stuff should made illegal. by Krapangor · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yes, it sounds rather harsh but isn't it true ?

    Star Wars is one of the science fiction series which is most ridden with illogial pseudo-science rubbish. Take some examples:

    • During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
    • We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
    • The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
    • In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
    • Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
    • The super star destroyer is so big in Star Wars II(old series) that it's gravitational field made asteriods revolve around it, but this isn't the case.
    • When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
    • The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
    This is just a very limited list of the rubbish you see in Star Wars. Well, if the movie would be aimed just to grown-up, I wouldn't care. Grown-ups are grown-up, thus it's their own business what rubbish they watch and what not. But the Star Wars movies are aimed to kiddies ! Sorry, we can't G. Lucas to stupify our kids just that his company makes more and more money out of the Star Wars waste.
    I was even asked by kids why the US military isn't using Laser weapons in Iraq and why we use these rockets which are so slow !
    This can't go one any longer. The goverment shouldn't interfere with the rights of the individual too much, but there is a line at which the goverment must protect people from themselves. I mean, drug consumption is illegal for the very same reason, too.
    Bush should get at least something right and outlaw this rubbish.
    --
    Owner of a Mensa membership card.
  3. I think you should get out more by UberLord · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're a troll, but I'll bite.

    During the space fights you heard explosions and swoosh sounds of lasers. But in space there is no air to transmit sound.
    Some keyboards were "click-less" and someone wrote a program to send a "click" out of the PC speaker making it more useable for most people. Why couldn't someone take the same approach and install sound FX units into each X-Wing/TIE Figher so that pilots could "hear" where craft were and what they were doing?

    We see laser "beams" slowly travel from the cannon to the target. Sub-light speed light ?
    What you were seeing was tracers. Modern day armies use similar things

    The spaceship travel around with sup light speed, but we have NO relativistic effects.
    Of course you've seen the real thing

    In starwars II (old series) R2D2 solves several times computational problems which are NOT turing computable.
    StarWars II was the new series - IV-VI were the old ones. As to R2D2, look at how far computers have come since conception. I really can't even to think about what they will be capable of by the time we've started to colonise the galaxy.

    Most alien creatures breate oxygen.
    AFAIK, all creatures on Earth breath it as well - even the fish in the sea. They are as "alien" to us as we are to them.

    When the Death Star fires, we see 3 laser beams "hitting" each other an send of a 4th one in a different direction.
    Well, just whack a prism or similar at the point where the beams join and blamo - it could work. And as it's transparent, you didn't see it in the movie.

    The Death Star has cooling shafts which have a direct connection to the vaccum, therefore have no air whatever for cooling in them.
    Why does it have to be air? You do know that NASA space suits are very well insulated to stop there astronuts from freezing right?

    Why does a movie have to be scientifically accurate? It's supposed to entertain you dammit. And little kiddies who you want to protect have vivid imaginations - something which you appear to have lost. Their imagination is often their freedom which you want to remove.

    Outlaw inaccurate science fiction movies? Then there would be NO SF movies! Heck, whilst we're here let's outlaw ALL fiction because as it's fiction it can't possibly be true.
    As to the kids, you could have told them that Star Wars is not a true story. I take it that you've already old them that Santa doesn't exist either and mythical persons don't bring presents.