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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation
jonerik writes "Ain't It Cool News has an article on one of the more fascinating fan film projects ever conceived: A shot-for-shot remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" filmed in Biloxi, Mississippi between 1982 and 1988 by Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis. What's particularly amazing is that the trio began filming the project when they were twelve and finished six years later when they were eighteen. Now, fifteen years after the project was completed, word of the film's existence has gotten out and audiences who have seen it have reportedly been stunned by the trio's ingenuity, with none other than "RotLA" director Steven Spielberg giving Zala, Lamb, and Strompolis a big thumbs-up. The complete film isn't available online, but a trailer that gives a bit of the feel of the finished project can be viewed. The Austin Chronicle also has a story on the project."
Maybe the DVD to the adaptation will be out before the original version's. I certainly have stopped holding my breath for RoT and the original Star Wars series on DVD.
Nifty, something that's not available online advertised on slashdot. Now where's the real geek news?
This is when it pays to be a subscriber. Download at 100+ kbps before the /.'ing begins.
I was gonna throw in a "now three young girls progressing through....." punch line....but....nahhhh, even I'm not that perverted.
that's alot of work just to duplicate your favorite film and it's not like they'll make anything from the effort other than the satisfaction of having done it.
But then, back in my teens in the mainframe and paper tape days, I wrote my own version of the ever popular Star Trek game. I didn't need to, I could play the original all I wanted. Even the source code was available. But I thought I could do the same job in a more easily understood manner. So I coded up a virtually identical version. It was much less code and alot easier to read, although the original was a little faster.
So I guess remaking something you like just because you can must be some kind of teen geek ritual.
Great - I give those kids a week before they get sued.
Nice one Slashdot!
(For humor impaired moderations - move along, nothing to read here)
I'm not Seth.
Shot for Shot remake, certainly the Writers guild will have something to say.
A brilliant piece of work though. Puts Hardware Wars to shame.
Man they'd have to have big balls to attempt that scene!
Esteem isn't a zero sum game
They did this with Betamax and VHS? That must've meant linear editors - I don't envy them that task...
6 years of doing this. Now that's dedication. My interest in re-enacting scenes from Indiana Jones waned after a heated August afternoon with a bunch of friends, following which the guy who played an evil German had to be rushed to the hospital.
Ahh...good times.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - G.B. Shaw
Hmmmm, kids making films....
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Yep, sounds like a frontpage slashdot story to me.
Thanks
Am I the only one who thinks that a shot-by-shot remake of a movie is far from ingenious? Hell, when Gus Van Sant did it with Psycho, he was criticized for making it too identical. It's cool that they did it, and were able to manage it on what we must assume is a fairly small budget, but I think the hype over this thing is getting way out of hand.
This is a prime example of a copy of a previous work as a beautiful thing. Immitation really is the greatest form of flattery. It is terrible that works like this are normally supressed by copyright laws that don't serve the populance. The point of laws is to serve the populance. Clearly supression of creative expression serves no one. It is encouraging to see that Spielberg gave them a thumbs up on this project, but I don't doubt he would sue the pants off of them it he thought their project would harm his extensive bank roll. And who can really blame him if he did, he would just be taking advantage of the ludicrous law of the land. Who knows how many other cool projects like this have/will never seen/see the light of day as a result of corporate america's tight grip on the world.
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Am I the only one who saw 'RotLA' and thought:
"Rolling on the laugh ass", what the hell?
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
this is all to the good, but I'm going to wait ten years for the "director's cut" with gratuitous CGI, unnecessary scenes, etc..
It would be in keeping with the Spielberg spirit, after all..
... if any karma whore out there has a bittorrent of it or something ;)
how do we know you're naked?
But I do hope the quality is slightly better than the one with the Star Wars kid...
Back in my day, we didn't have all that new-fangled technology to put ourselves in our favorite movies. We did it all in our minds! Uphill! In the snow! Through barbed wired and acid pits! And we liked it!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Scimitar-wielding man shot first!
I have been pwned because my
What the hell is a populance?
Casting call for leading ladies will be held in my apartment.
It's not much, and the encoding seems rather horrible if you ask me, but I managed to snag a copy before the Slashdot effect took over. Their front page seems to be loading rather slowly now.
So, if you want to watch an AMD K6/2 400mhz go up in flames on a 768kbps DSL line. Here you go:
Raider's of the Lost Ark Remake Trailer
My ISP is so going to kill me...
I saw this last Saturday. One of the most entertaining movie going experiences I ever had.
These guys did every sequence in the movie save one. After some frightening messing around with explosives they opted not to attempt the flying wing sequence despite having access to an aircraft and the part of the bald mechanic already cast.
Every other scene is there though and done with impressive skill given their ages and the era in which they made it.
Once more unto the breach dear friends...
It is the word used to group together the entire population into one entity. I'm sure we can come to an agreeance on that.
I have been pwned because my
Holy crap! You're right, that isn't a word. I guess I meant populace. Thanks.
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What, no BitTorrent link?
I guess if you want it you'll have to check Kazaa for yourself!
Only it wasn't quite "shot for shot". ...and it was called "Raiders of the Burning Bush." ...and it starred "Idaho Smith" not "Indiana Jones." ...and "our hero" ended up with 1st degree burns after digging up the bush (he was subsequently beaten by Nazi Ninjas.
A really cool thing to do... I didn't realize Mississippi was so boring!
This is known as an obsesession.
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Yuck Fou
When we go and pay our $7.00 for slightly less then 2hrs of entertainment, less we forget the fact that the fact that amature fan spinoffs done by essentually students can provide entertainment. While they can't nessicarly match the production quality of hollywood's almost endless budget, there is alot more to a media then it's production value, content is a factor too.
Starship Exeter [www.starshipexeter.com] is one example of fan based work. Based on classic star trek, their one release actually has a somewhat decent story as well as capturing that late 60's sci-fi theme while by todays standards is considered most cheezy. If you can get over the wind in the boom low quality film and shacky camera man, it's a worth see.
Now, i'm not nessicarly going to say that this is going to be any good... but it should prove to be entertaining at the very least. More so then alot of things targeted tward the typcial 12 year old. I intend to watch it, if for nothing else but to use as an example, "Look at what these 12 year olds did... hollywood you have no excuse".
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
How long before we get a telesync on alt.binaries.vcd?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
is quite amusing.
I don't know where you came up with the idea that laws are for the populace. It is plain to see that laws are there to protect those organizations who sponsor them. The government must protect the church of the un-holy dollar; where righteousness is measured by profit. If there's is NO PROFIT in letting you copy a work, and there's IS PROFIT in restricting your "right" to copy, which do you think is "Righteous" in the law?
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They can't, since it's a scene for scene remake it falls under the heading of 'derived work' and requires permission of the copyright holder (LucasFilm, I presume) to distribute.
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If anyone cares the song that plays during the trailer is Four Ton Mantis by Amon Tobin. An excellent song.
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for violations of Der Kopiright Akt. Herr Ashkroft announced that these economic terrorists will be stripped of their citizenship and summarially tortured for days without sleep until they confess to their vile plans of toppling the government-approved media.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
I live in middle of nowhere and will never get to see a screening, so if anyone has a copy, please get a torrent version out there for me.
Some friends of mine did a similar project. It wasn't a shot for shot re-make, but an original story called Indiana Jed. Was a lot of fun for high-school students to make, and sure beats the heck out of playing computer games for hours on end. Take a look at Indiana Jed
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who
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I know some kids about that age who are attemping their own version of the LOtR trilogy, complete with costumes and sets that they sew and make themselves.
guess i just like having fun and its nice to see some kids come through with it.
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We use to be boring...
now we have all kinda stuff to do.
And that's just a sampling of biloxi...
Here's a sample of Tunica's boats! Of course, here is a whole web site dedicated to Mississippi's new found wealth.
If you enjoy hiking, camping, fishing, Elvis, the blues, college sports, famous authors--then you might rather visit this site.
Anyway, trying to get Mississippi a few props... and I have a few Karma points to burn.
Davak
Keeping in mind the majority of /. readers, I really really hope that they don't post proof.
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Sure they can. They just need permission. And Speilberg could concievably give it, since he liked their version.
Nothing personal against Mississippi (damn.. it takes forever to type M i s s i s s i p p i !).
:)
You should be proud that it inspired these guys to do something cool...
Yes, back in 1978, I too wrote my own version of Star Trek for an IBM 370 using APL.
APL. (Perl for arrays.)
Star Trek in 15 lines (and a lot of 0,0rho reshaping!)
I'd think it wouldn't be Spielberg who'd make trouble - after all, he got his start as a punk kid making films at a very young age. If anything, he probably be supportive. It's the numerous monied interests who own various bits and pieces of "intellectual property" who would sue the pants off of anyone they thought might "reduce the value of the asset", despite the fact that many fan-derivived works serve to sustain interest in the original property, thus ENHANCING the value of the asset...
this is amazing - everyone here needs to understand.. THESE BOYS ARE LIABLE FOR IP THEFT.
Now, its fine, dandy, and wonderful that Spielberg is not being an asshole.
What is wrong is that the ONLY reason that these guys are not behind bars already is that Spielberg appears to not be an asshole.
"Asshole-ness" should not be the reason one is or is not legitimately liable for IP "theft"... even if they are never charged for it.... they should live in fear, because maybe, someday, Spielberg may change his tune, or one of his lawyers may make him change his tune (a la trademark infringement rules)
and that is why i contribute to the EFF and gave to Eldred. Damnit, people. This nation is coming unglued, and you're glad that one dude is not a dick.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
I appreciate the comments as well.
:)
There are a lot of people FROM Miss'ppi. Most of us just move away.
AC
I've never understood it. Never. Neither did Mom.
Wow I am totally impressed by the trailer. Does anyone know whether this thing will ever be screened in LA?
That you can accomplish anything you want if you devote an average of fifteen minutes a day to it. That might take a while for bigger undertakings (do you suppose these guys averaged 15 minutes a day working on this for six years? I bet it might even be a little less than that). But fifteen minutes a day is such a small commitment that if you want to accomplish anything at all faster, just devote an hour a day to it over a period of time.
The only trick is knowing what you consider worth making an extended effort for. That takes vision. All the implementation takes is dedication.
How did we all manage for all those decades...
... the first kiss, get a girl to strip and put on Marion's dress while they filmed it in the mirror.
They are in my opinion quite obviously geeks, not that that's bad, considering how they had to make it, but when your a geek it's hard to get a girl to do anything (personal experience).
Definetely. Even after getting the thumbs up from Spielberg these folks should be concerned. They could still be sued by those monied interests.
A lot of people don't get that derivitive works contribute to the original work. Just look at open-source software if you want good examples of this effect. How else was an Indiana Jones movie going to make it onto the front page of Slashdot today? I can't think of too many that do not include a derivitive work.
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It was insane. People wrapped around the Alamo two wide. The adaptation is very true to the film while still being very creative. I mean, how would you have done this stuff when you were twelve? I wish I had the ability to finish things I start like these guys. The Q&A's should've been filmed for the DVD special features. It was almost as entertaining listening to these guys describe how the risked life and limb and broke the law numerous times. Tbey basically played with guns, blew things up, got plaster molds stuck on their heads, (NOT dental plaster either) and lots of other stupid stuff kids do.
Four words in closing. The fire is real.
Hey! Don't spoil it, I've never seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I'm still waiting the DVD release anytime now.
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I think I will remake Andy Warhol's 8 hour epic "Empire" SHOT-FOR-SHOT!
Perhaps somebody dropped a spoon.
Ah, that page always cracks me up.
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
They could make so much more money if they were to put up a web cam that shows them working on the film. Yeahh...that's the ticket. And every 12 hours shut it off and recycle old footage. Yeah. $20 a subscriber.
I think I should get $5 just for suggesting it.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
He listens to Hong Kong Jedi.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
The "ludicrous law" that says he who created something gets to own it? Jesus, imagine that.
You geeks are always comparing IP to real life objects. How about this: if I create, with my own hands, a piece of furniture, should that piece of furniture become public property after being in my possession for ten years? For five years? No time at all? After all, you seem to think that if I come up with a completely novel idea, that idea should become public property after a certain (usually low) number of years.
If I am creative enough to create something that the public likes then my reward should be ownership of my work. Full stop.
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
--Ronald Reagan
Saw it Sunday afternoon. Was a ton of fun. The QA session afterwards was really interesting.
There are obviously many parodies and knockoffs that have been released as retail products, such as spaceballs, and a large majority of Weird Al Yankovicz's songs. Does anyone know about how copyright law applies to these situations? Does one have to first license the material, then make whatever they want, or do they have to license it and get a final product approved, or, can they just do whatever they want and pass it off as a parody? If the latter was true, it would be interesting to see some sort of Hong Kong Starr Worrs or something with the exact same movie, word for word, but with actors in goofy costumes. I dunno, im kinda losing focus here, but i would be interested to hear details about this if available. Later.
-Silmarildur
Oh yes, she did. Only too well. Unfortunately she kept her illness from me until all I could do was mourn her.
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
That's pretty cheap. it's 10 bucks around here. And rising.
"essentially"
"necessarily"
"amateur"
the background music to the trailer is Amon Tobin... They may be geeks, they may love this movie too much...but they at the least have GREAT taste in music... god i wish the rain would stop -me
i saw the baby, and the baby looked at me
Excuse me sir but you're an idiot. Such creativity is not a waste of time. Think of it as problem solving. It isn't the fact that you solve a problem that's already been solved that's important. It's how you go about doing it. We call it learning. If everything someone did had to be 'original' then 99.99% of the worlds population would never achieve anything.
While reading this story I got an ad:
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"Star Wars Trilogy DVD $31.99 Only. Ready for delivery One shipping rate for any quantity"
which linked through to http://www.dvdoriginal.com/product/viewprod.asp?p
Which have such wonderful nuggest such as:
"Due to the fragility and bulkiness of standard DVD case, all of our DVD titles will come in a specially designed light-weight DVD sleeve pack. This shall hold and protect the disc better than the normal case." Riiiight...
or
"Q5: Does your DVD come with inserts or booklets that normally contained within the DVD case? A: No. Our DVD consists of Disc and Cover Art only. There are no inserts of booklets. " Uuuh huh.
Erm... slightly illegal copies of the Star Wars movies... how is it legal for Slashdot (by way of OSDN) to promote such illegal products on the website?
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-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
> How about this: if I create, with my own hands, a piece of furniture
The very next day I could legally create, with my own hands, a nearly identical replica of that piece of furniture. Thank you for the excellent example.
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I think more than anything else, people are cheering it on because of the ingenuity displayed by these amatuers in writing this OS. Low budget software like that are far more impressive than stale Microsoft remakes precisely because they are low budget - people have to improvise. Surely you would not see the remake for the interface or anything new - it's a remake, you've seen it before. It's just something that makes me step back and marvel at what can be accomplished if you are dedicated enough.
Cheers ;)
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
I'm currently in the pre-production stage of a shot by shot remake of Star Wars OT. It finally took six years and three second degree burns, but I made a functional light saber. Also, any female /.'rs who have a C-cup chest or bigger can audition for the roles of Leia and Oola ;)
I think this proves one of my beliefs that you can accomplish anything you want if you devote an average of fifteen minutes a day to it.
v alidated-man??
Not if you want to watch one new movie every day!
Whatcha think of that, Mister-I'm-so-smart-because-my-beliefs-have-been-
Could you help me get out then? I'm stuck in Picayune for the summer whilst waiting for fall to move back to Hattiesburg and start my second year at USM (yes computer science, shut up). This is really cool though, haven't seen many things like this. Plus I've been somewhere mentioned on Slashdot *starry eyed glaze*.
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The entire cast has been digitally replaced by ewoks.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
can i suggest a remake of john cage's 4'33" instead?
It really takes four days for links to get from Fark to here? That's actually pretty surprising...
I want a shot-for-shot recreation of Matrix:Reloaded. Go, you 12-year-olds! By the time you're 18 this ought to be pretty easy.. the rendering should be possible in realtime what with the 16x increase in computing power we'll see between now and then.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
About a month ago I was reading something or other about Star Wars on /. and it occurred to me that (given time) someone would no doubt create a remake of the dire Star Wars prequels...the difference being that of course you would NOT follow the original storyline.
:o
:P
"StarWars I.alt"
Anyone think they can do a better job than George?
(Hmmm...forget about the prequels...make a SEQUEL!
I am writing a word for word adaptation of
:^)
The Bible. I think it will be a big hit!
Seriously, why not come up with their own story
and film that (ala that Star Trek Exeter thingy).
While interesting, this seems like a (near)
complete waste of time. M. Night Shyamalan keeps
including the films he made as a teenager on the
DVD releases of his movies. They are usually
crap, but look where he is today (The Sixth
Sense, Unbreakable and Signs). Oh well, everyone
had to start somewhere!
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that since they started this when they were 12.. they probably did most of the acting themselves right? So do we get to watch Indiana grow up in the movie too? the trailer shows a kid MUCH older that 12 =P
In any scenario, I think the internet and new imaging tech, etc, plus the general lack of lives, need for nostalgia, and the stupidity of the tv/moviemaker corporations has led more and more fans to start making their own remakes. Take Star Trek Exeter, for example...
1 for 3 by my count.
Signs and Unbreakable were awful. Especially Signs. I didn't think you could get Mel Gibson to act in B movies any more, but he did it.
In the law there is no overlap between theft and copyright infringement whatsoever.
I did the same thing at the age of 11 or 12 with a badly made photocopy of a printout of the fortran source and data files for ADVENT (my Dad may have photocopied it for me at work out of Dr. Dobbs or something like that). My version was never complete, but ran on Honeywell mainframe compiled BASIC.
The thing is, I've since become a caver: I've been in the REAL Bedquilt/Colossal Cave in the Mammoth Cave system. I have always credited that game for recruiting me into caving, and I never even played it: just tried to port a source printout. (Now Zork is another story.)
You forgot to mention the Grand Casinos!! Are you from the coast? I'm in gulfport and this is the first I've heard about those kids doing a remake of Raiders. WLOX hasn't even mentioned them.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
I've been in the REAL Bedquilt/Colossal Cave in the Mammoth Cave system
So, did you find the diamonds? How did you get out of the maze of twisty little passages all alike? Where was the vending machine?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Is what they will be saying after the cinema gets /.'ed in REAL LIFE!! May god have mercy on their soul!
The movie looks absolutely amazing! Can't wait to see it.
Hopefully the media attention will pull out of the woodwork all the other fan movies that have sat forgotten.
I need your help. We need to start a coalition to keep people undisturbed. It's evil to bother a person when they are trying to put together a group of thoughts. It's certainly not fair. It should be stopped.
I find myself working from home (or needing to) more and more, if only to gain a sense of mental continuity so I can get more than an hour's work done in one stretch. More often than not, I head on up to my office when I get home from "work" so that I can actually get something accomplished "at work". It's affecting my psyche, and I need like a Congressional order for some sort of blue ribbon task force needed to stop this from ruining my entire life. Either that or I need to have my sense of duty mitigated somehow. Ideas? (I don't take drugs, so the obvious is out of the way...)
Craft me a clever sign for my office door: "The door is closed for a reason: I'm trying to actually do work. Don't knock, don't leave voicemail. Send me email and let me get back to you." If they have to type it out then they'll be brief, right?
Oh yeah: can this blue ribbon panel find a way to ban jabber forever? I thought "chat" was evil back when IRC started becoming all the rage for SLIP guys in the dorms. Online chat is worse than evil now. It's a guaranteed productivity stopper without parallel. I only have so many keystrokes in my RSI-laden forelimbs, so I have to maximize their earning potential and longevity, right?
-B
Enough of my ranting.
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George Lucus ISN'T Stephen Spielberg. Lucus is to Media what Sco is to linux. For those who can't remember, Lucusfilm sued Battlestar Galactica because of multi-points of similuarity between it and Star Wars.
But even George Lucus has a sence of humor, according to this site [http://www.nitcentral.com/askchief/ac980522.htm]
"I remember the guy who made a Star Wars parody, Hardware Wars, got a letter from Lucas' lawyers warning him about copyright infringement, and he sent them a letter saying, "your boss liked it", and he included a copy of a letter from George Lucas saying how much he liked the parody. He never heard from the lawyers again."
So, strictly speaking if the director of the orgin work likes it, it really helps.
[why sue Galactica and not hardware wars, this is beyond me, oh perhaps because lucus wanted the money, and new hardware wars made no money]
While you are correct, the artical seemed to emply that Mr. Spielberg liked the derived work planed to see it on opening night.
However, I don't know other copyright holders that may have an interest in this work.
According to [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/07
Raiders of the Lost Arc is chapter 24 in the complete adventures of Indiana Jones. So there might be an author that still holds a copyright somewhere, but who knows.
I would suspect that that Spielberg would be willing to atleast co-operate with the kids if they decided to release this either on P2P systems, TV, or video, at least give them a whos who to contact.
I am not a Raders of the Lost Arc geek... perhaps someone who knows more about the specifics can shed some light on the details.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
after all, he got his start as a punk kid making films at a very young age
If you have the special edition of Saving Private Ryan on DVD, there's a fascinating documentary on Spielberg's early film-making career: making war films with his childhood friends using such techniques as splicing in freely-available WWII gun camera footage into tilted camera scenes of his friends sitting in cockpits. It's low-budget, improvised genius stuff. I don't think he could have had any other reaction than nostalgia when he saw what these guys had done with Raiders.
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
For an awesome example of an original work by amateurs with a shoestring budget search for "It Happened Here" , released in 1963 depicting a successful German invasion of England in 1940 and the occupation aftermath. Made by Kevin Bronwlow and Andrew Mollo (brother of John Mollo - costume designer on Star Wars) starting in 1956 on 16mm it took 8 years to finish. Although the cast were not professionals and the equipment and costumes were scrounged/made/borrowed/bought at flea-markets, the film has a chillingly convincing look. The most famous still , used to to promote at the time of release, was a German Army band marching across London Bridge with the House of Parliament in the background. The film makes the point that collaborators and Quislings would not have been exclusive to the Continent if the Battle of Britain had not wounded the Luftwaffe.
while lucas isn't spielberg (although it's easy to see how some might get them confused, being two once great directors who can't seem to put out a decent movie anymore), spielberg does not necessarily (and most likely does not) own the copyright to the movie. lucas produced the movies and i do believe the copyright is owned by lucasfilm, which means that in the legal sense what spielberg thinks doesn't mean squat.
fuck you.
once great directors who can't seem to put out a decent movie
Herm? Did you miss SPR and Minority Report?
Did anyone else find the Ain't It Cool News site annoying with all those fucking exclaimation marks and capital letters - holeee-shit, calm the fuck down people - the news shouldn't need typographical embellishment to make it more exciting.
I live in England, it always rains.
Immitation really is the greatest form of flattery.
Litigation is the most sincere form of thanks.
Didn't this happen on Southpark S6E09 - Free Hat ? :)
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
Last time I was there, all-you-can-eat shrimp was $1.00 (peel 'em yourself)
In case anyone cares, it's "Four Ton Mantis" by Amon Tobin from the album Supermodified.
did you see catch me if you can, AI or the lost world?
and yes i have seen SPR and minority report. didn't care for SPR (cheesy story among other things. great opening battle scene though), and i forgot that he directed minority report...enjoyed that one despite a general dislike for tom cruise.
while i will admit that he is doing much better these days than lucas (although i also think that he has always been a better director than lucas), the overall quality has been diminishing. IMHO.
fuck you.
They deffinatly without a doubt should be on set for the new film.
Whoops, right guy, wrong movie.
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How is it all these tech/internet/geek companies go down the first 5 minutes after a /. post but these guys are still serving up movies at 63Kb/s? /. effect.
I don't want to hear any complaints about the
That would be because they suck.
Give me Beau Rivage, any day. I'm in Jackson, and no way in hell would I drive three hours to hang out at a casino right next to the port.
Indiana Jones was a joint Lucas/Spielberg production.
-uso.
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You must be pretty stupid not to recognize a misspelled word. Oh wait, you were probably trying to be funny. Ha. Ha ha.
Hammer time.
Well, hello thailor!
We did the same thing one summer but didn't go for a shot by shot remake. ND was the kid who had the camera and we had an overweight asian kid run around saying "ND, ND, they stole the ankh stone". He was taller than ND and we knew it was schlock. We also did a spoof of Star Wars but pre-internet had no hope for distribution.
cheesy story among other things
:)
What, you didn't know that his movies tend to be overly sentimental?
did you see catch me if you can, AI or the lost world?
Nope, nope and nope so I can't comment on those. Critics thought he did a good job getting a performance out of DeCrappio and that Christopher Walken had a chance for best supporting actor.
I'd still sell my grandmother to see him direct the next Star Wars movie.
Ok, here you go... :) Indiana Jones was first envisioned by George Lucas, but jointly fleshed out by him and Steven Spielberg (along with co-storywriter Philip Kaufman and scriptwriter Lawrence Kasdan) when they made the original Indy adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was released in 1981; Lucas had gotten the ball rolling (so to speak ;), but he, Spielberg, and Kaufman all made significant, apparently near-equal contributions to the story of that particular film and the character of Indiana Jones in general. Lucas's company, Lucasfilm Ltd., owns the character since Lucas created him; Lucas and Spielberg went on to make two additional movies. Lucas is credited with writing or co-writing the story for each film, as well as being executive producer; Spielberg of course directs; and there are a few other "core" people involved with all the Indy movies, notably producer / executive producer Frank Marshall, associate producer / producer Robert Watts, stunt performer / coordinator Vic Armstrong, sound designer Ben Burtt, composer John Williams, and of course actor Harrison Ford, among others. However, each film has a different writing team, with Lucas the only writer who worked on each one.
In the early '90s Lucas created a TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which premiered in 1992; the show had a deliberately different tone from the films but was meant to fill out the background of the character and develop him into a more realistic person, with the films dovetailing into what would eventually become a fleshed-out biography for the character. Spielberg was apparently not involved with the show personally, although Lucas and Lucasfilm made the show "in association with" Spielberg's company, Amblin Entertainment. Aside from Indy creator / executive producer George Lucas, a surprising number of other people involved with the movies made contributions to the TV series, including Armstrong, Burtt, and even Harrison Ford, who appeared for a few minutes in framing segments of one two-hour episode as a 50-year-old Indy, reminiscing about an earlier adventure and thus telling the story of the episode as a big flashback (most of the episodes were originally presented in a similar fashion, albeit usually by an aged, 90+something-year-old Indy in contemporary times, played by George Hall).
In late 1999 Paramount reissued the movies on VHS, along with the first domestic home video release of some of the Young Indy TV episodes (there had been a previous release of a few episodes as a laserdisc boxed set that was available only in Japan). For the new '99 release they organized all the Indy material into a timeline and designated the episodes and movies to be "chapters" in the Indy mythos; various adventures from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles comprise chapters 1 to 22, and the three movies are chapters 23, 24 and 25. Although the 1981 Raiders is the original movie, the second one, 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, is actually set a year earlier (Temple takes place in 1935, Raiders in '36 - Temple of Doom was Lucasfilm's very first prequel :), so Temple of Doom is chapter 23 and Raiders is chapter 24.
a punk Eagle Scout. now that's an amusing image!
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Hopefully we'll see more of this type of creativity. Even more hopefully, it won't be stifled by patents, etc.
But seriously, thinking back to what it cost for decent A/V equipment back "in the day", and how much one can do with a decent video camera, and video-editing software+encoder is amazing.
Open-source must progress. Kazaa must stay alive. As long as a mass-transition media, a mass-communication/support media, and free/cheap tools are around that keep improving - somebody is bound to come up with something pretty nifty.
Substitute lots of money with lots of talent, and MPAA doesn't have a chance.
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I wrote a couple of those too. For a good while, my STARTREK VERSION 4 was the most popular game on the California State University state-wide timesharing system. And nobody sued me either.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Dammit... here I DL this video, expecting "to watch an AMD K6/2 400mhz go up in flames" as promised, but all I got was this crappy Indy ripoff.. what a gyp. ;P
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
what is the point? I admire their effort, but trying to copy each shot....it's like cover bands who do exact note-for-note renditions of their favourite heros. Admirable, but what exactly was their goal?
"I'd still sell my grandmother to see him direct the next Star Wars movie."
i see this more as an indictment of lucas, then an endorsement of spielberg. but i would still second it. my original comment was more to highlight that both men are past their prime. IMHO, of course.
but hell,if spielberg won't direct it, i would sell my grandmother to have your grandmother direct the next star wars movie...
fuck you.
did you see catch me if you can, AI or the lost world?
Yes, and what's more I know how to use the shift key on my keyboard, ya yutz.
"The Lost World" was fun, albeit not perfect. "Catch Me If You Can" was an exceptional movie, although also not perfect.
"AI" was one of the best science fiction movies of all time. I assume that you didn't like it because you didn't understand it. This is true of most people who find fault with it.
I don't know how well an adaptation will fly. I mean that movie is a classic. But if these kids are really blowing people away, the more power to them... give us the movie already.