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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."
This is awesome news, I love this movie!
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For great justice! What you say!
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.
I would hate to see those kids make any money off of this.
Copyright is a scourge on our democracy. It says in essence that thinking unoriginal thoughts is a crime. Take a look around, who among you would be willing to stand for a law that would put all of you in the hands of so-called "creators"?
I have been pwned because my
Nifty, something that's not available online advertised on slashdot. Now where's the real geek news?
What do you do to keep it interesting? Any cool tips or tricks to help keep things interesting?
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.
I got teh first naked post! I got the first naked post!!!! I am SOOOOOOO naked!!!!!
Check out the beginning of the movie UHF and you can dance like a pig in a pen full of dirty fecal mud smears.
"Put down your remote control Throw out your TV Guide Put away your jacket There's no need to go outside Don't you know that we control the horizontal We control the verticle, too
We gonna make a couch potato out of you That's what we gonna do now Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial We got it all on UHF
Kick off your sneakers Stick around for a while
We got it all on UHF Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
Disconnect the phone and leave the dishes in the sink You better put away your homework Prime time ain't no time to think All you do is make yourself a TV dinner Press your face right up against the screen We gonna show you thangs you ain't ever seen If you know what I mean, now
Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial
We got it all on UHF Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while We got it all on UHF
Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
You can watch us all day You can watch us all night You can watch us any time that you please
You can sit around and stare at the picture tube
'Till your brain turns into cottage cheese Well, now Don't change the channel Don't touch that dial
We got it all on UHF Kick off your sneakers
Stick around for a while We got it all on UHF
Don't worry 'bout your laundry Forget about your job Just crank up the volume And yank off the knob
We got it all, we got it all, we got it all on UHF
We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF (we got it all) We got it all on UHF (UHF)
We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF (we got it all)
We got it all (we got it all) on UHF (we got it)
(We got it) we got (we got it) it all (we got it) on UHF (we got it all) We got it all on UHF (we got it all) We got it all on UHF (UHF)
We got it all (we got it all) on UHF (on UHF)
We got it all on UHF We got it all on UHF (UHF)
We got it all (we got it all) on UHF (we go it)
We got it all on UHF We got it all on UHF
We got it all on UHF We got it all on UHF (UHF)
We got it all on UHF (UHF) We got it all on UHF" - From UHF the movie. Weird Al Yankovic
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 ;)
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.
This is known as an obsesession.
Sig & Below
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.
Where is the bittorrent link?
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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I wish I could find the link to this information but Google isn't helping much right now.
During WWII the Germans and Japanese exchanged quite a bit of technology and know-how as allies. One such 'technology' was a secret program to train German assassins using Japanese Ninjitsu techniques. Japan sent 14 ninja spies to Germany to begin the program. However the train the ninjas were riding never arrived in Hamburg. All 82 people aboard including the conductor were never accounted for. The only thing that was found during the investigation was a farmhouse and in the farmhouse the entire family had been killed. Their necks had been broken.
If I find the old source I will post it. If Google turns something up I will post that.
If anyone cares the song that plays during the trailer is Four Ton Mantis by Amon Tobin. An excellent song.
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK shot-for-shot teenage remake review!!!
Fandom - Magic - Fate - Passion - Love... They all came together tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse.
In 1981 - I was 9 years old when I saw RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Some of you, though it boggles my brain, were not even born yet. However, to the crowd right now entering our thirties, heading into our mid-thirties and even stepping well into our forties and fifties... June 12, 1981 was one of those - OHMYGOD moments in history. I actually saw RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK at a sneak preview at the Fox Theater here in Austin, Tx 4 days before it opened. That theater is now, oddly, a Mercedes Benz Outlet. I was a maniac before and after that film, but I don't think I knew a kid that didn't want to be Indiana Jones.
I was going to central America and South America with my parents to visit temples buried deep in the jungles, and had been for 4 years when I saw that movie. Growing up on serials, it amazed me.
However, in Mississippi - there was a 10 year old boy, also born in 1971 that saw RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and he didn't idly think... I want to be Indiana Jones... He was determined TO BE INDIANA JONES. His name, Chris Strompolis. He had friends and they all began hatching a plot, "We'll film a shot-for-shot remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK!"
We're talking 10-11-12 year olds. Kids at the age where they can do anything, dream of anything. We all dream a lot at 10-12... hell, on up through college and until we hit the real world. Some never cease dreaming, few ever really do the dream. Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis shot a shot-for-shot remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. Close to Seven years later... they finished.
They grew up in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. They learned to sew costumes, blow shit up good, take molds of their heads, drag under motorized vehicles, be hurled through windows, set themselves on fire, set their basement on fire, take over a WWII Submarine, improvise brilliantly another animal for the monkey, blow up a truck, get a shitload of snakes, build a giant boulder, the first kiss, get a girl to strip and put on Marion's dress while they filmed it in the mirror. They dressed their friends up as Nazis, killed a brother over and over again, made over 40 traditional Arabic costumes, swordfight, beat the shit out of each other, build giant Egyptian statues, con someone out of a Rolls Royce, scour Goodwill's and Salvation Armies for costumes and props.
This was pre-DV so they had to capture things with BETAMAX recorders, VHS Camcorders... They had substandard equipment, but they got their shots. They weren't trained actors, but they knew RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
They started as boys and girls and finished the film as young men and women. They had the hometown screening, they dressed up for it, then Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolis went to the four winds. Eric Zala was the director and played Belloq - he went to NYU film school. Jayson Lamb set out to pursue a creative position in film and wound up in Fine Art in College. Chris Strompolis - well he went to become an actor in Hollywood, went to school, studied the craft, got a few bits here and there. Point is, for 7 years these kids shared a dream, and now they were gone.
As fate would have it, the story of their shot for shot remake of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK became a bit of a thing of legend. Whispered about at NYU film school. A copy was made. A copy of that copy was made. Then those spawned more, till it began drifting around. Years pass by. To Eric, Chris and Jayson - it had probably become something they'd show a new friend or loved one... "This was my childhood." But otherwise, like most memories of childhood, it became fodder for conversation, but it probably would stay in childhood.
Unknown to any of them - fate was working behind their back.
I had begun to form a friendship with Eli Roth while he was in post on CABIN FEVER. Unknown to Eli Roth - the artist who did the original teaser one-sheet for TEMPLE OF DOOM was doing my Butt-Numb
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
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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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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'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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Karma is overrated, whoring is ok.
I think I will remake Andy Warhol's 8 hour epic "Empire" SHOT-FOR-SHOT!
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
idiotic waste of time. Oh boy lets be "ingenious" and make the exact same freaking movie. Hey I got an idea how about getting alife losers. Sheesh I think I will be ingenious and do a word for word rewrite of shakespears. WHY IS THIS NONSENSE ON SLASHDOT!!
You must have forgotten what happened to the Nazis. Remember the scene with the Angel of Death? If they were 18 in 1988, they are 33 today. That's about 57 in Biloxi years.
If you act out your fantasy on pre pubescent girls, you will find yourself either dead or in jail wishing you were dead. Either way, you will be removed from the gene pool.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
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
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.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
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-
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.)
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.
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
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.
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.
They deffinatly without a doubt should be on set for the new film.
Whoops, right guy, wrong movie.
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-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
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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
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.
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.
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.
plugh
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 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.