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George Lucas DVD Audio Commentary Leaked
Lucasfan04 writes "Apparently
a few clips leaked out from the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy DVD. They're from George Lucas' audio commentary, and you can hear him talking about the films. Five 3-minute or so clips are featured."
"I'm sorry about Attack of the Clones. I'm so sorry. Oh, what was I thinking? Sorry."
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What? Has Slashdot really published a story on April 1 that was NOT an April Fool's joke?
That is the problem with slashdot on april 1st it is like the boy who cried wolf.
But this seems more subtile then the rest
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I'm too tired of the AF pranks at this point to bother. Could someone let us know if this is legit?
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I've heard it has some stupid name like 'The Creeping Death'. Is this true?
I like 'Rise of the Dark Lord' or 'Annakin takes a Lava Bath' better.......
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(?) Animal House (regarding the addition to the cast of Donald Sutherland)
(?) Il Postino (regarding the poestry of Pablo Neruda and the sacrifice of Massimo Troisi)
I'm not sure I'll care anymore for Lucas' comments than those of Star Wars "Fans" whinging about how bad the other episodes are (1. Saw it 2. Complained about how awful it was 3. Bought the DVD anyway), but good to know it's there, should I have nothing better to watch.
In other news, Simpsons voice actors on strike, wanting $360K per episode, rather than $120K presently. I say to Fox, just give em the D'oh!
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Isn't April Fool's just grand?
SPOILER
"George" refers to Luke's Death Star run. He notes that the Trench could be considered a vaginal corridor and talks of the great Oedipal struggle between him and his father (Vader).
But then they started making too much shit up...imho a lowlight of today's stories. I think the best are those that are funny and then make you think. Like this: Bush Addresses 8.2 Million Unemployed: 'Get a Job'. I laughed then said, hey...wait...
Lucas: Here's where we had Obi Wan's cloak held up by fishing line when Darth made the final blow an.. oh shit, I got pizza sauce on my shirt.
Lucas: Yeah, the landspeeders were actually mounted on a long arm revolv.. ah.. crap spilled my Pepsi Super Big Gulp..
Lucas: This is where Darth tells Princess Le.. shoot.. can't read that spot in the original script. I have a coffee stain there.
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Well get off the internet then.
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:-) ;-)
great april fools joke, especially when you're no US citizen...
very nice work
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Simple amazing, a real story on April Fool's Day! Really poor quality, but you can make it out fairly well.
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The worst one has to be clip of him rolling around naked in a big pile of money and laughing. I mean my god, I will never touch money with my bare hands again.
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Because it sucks! Lucas (assuming it is him) explains that the 'Greedo shoots first' will remain to fix an obvious "FLAW" in Han's character . . the hero would never shoot first?!?!?!?! ARGGGGGhhh - Nothing that sucks this much gould be an april fool
Lucas: "...and it was at this point that I realied that if I did a prequel, there'd be no lame ass character to market to the five year old crowd, so that's when the Idea of Jar Jar came around. I based him on the idea of open source develpoers: stupid, eager to please, and ultimately, tools of evil."
"that's not a moon..."
...that this was an April Fool's joke. I listened to a bit of it, and it sounds like it might be authentic. It's a joke, just not the 4/1 type.
10. Chewie really had the farts on this day... ..and the film series will have its big climax scene at a volcano! It's my original idea, I tell you! ..... rosebud....
9. Come on now, admit it, none of my films reeks as much as "Star Trek 5".
8. If you look real close in this sky car scene in "Phantom Menace", you will see Bruce Willis, and his girlfriend who wears only duct tape.
7. Here's a little secret: that 5th movie I made was supposed to be "The Clown Wars". Damn secretary didn't type it in right. I was so looking foward to Bozo vs Pennywise!
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5. "Phantom Edit", my ass
4. This battle with giant elephant-like things. No one has ever written or thought about it before. Just watch!
3. The hot grits scene with Natalie Portman will be on the director's cut
2. Guys, doncha think that there weren't enough Jar Jar scenes?
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Haha! Great one! Like we are gonna believe that!
George Lucas doesn't speak, he just mumbles like Jabba. "Hoh hoh hoh hoh".
That's obviously a leslie nielsen inpersonation...
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That's got to be the best description of the death star explosion I've ever heard... This joke at least is somewhat funny. How would Lucas make the death star scene better? "perhaps the inclusion of gungan pilot."
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That's what is says. Guess the rest of the may contain terrorists.
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YOU FAIL IT! And for a long time you didn't believe it, but then you saw it with your own eyes.
... its true you can see 6 clips with commentary from some pretentious twat who may or may not be George Lucas (the site aren't sure either)
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For those who are thinking about getting these clips, don't!!! It's all a ploy -- the media's way of testing their Omniscience Protocol. Once you play it, something in the background will find your list of mp3's and BAM, you and your machine are toast.
Besides, I've checked it for the evil bit and sure enough, it's got Palpatine written all over it. If that doesn't stop you, maybe this will: that thing's got a subliminal message within asking you to vote Jar-Jar into office this coming election. That and ask you to mail-order some skywalker ranch wine.
It looks legit. I saw the vid and herd commentary.
Evolution or ID?
Can you hear the Doritos that he's shoving into his face as he watches, or do they edit that out? What about the $100 bills he's wiping his ass with? Any of that? I'm just curious.
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I've read on other, non-AFing sites about the commentaries. I've heard these and they sound just about right. So yeah, it's real. Go slashdot it.
So many jokes today - I wonder if this is real:
On the main page of starwars.com under the movies section subtitle of "The Creeping Fear" has been entered for Episode III.
...Don't even know what this is, or if it's real. But I already don't like it. I'm sure that if it's good, Lucas'll redo it in a few years with uber cool VR technology, and it'll suck. *sigh*
"Jar Jar? Ah, yes. We first met during auditions, and our eyes met and it was like sparks were flying, but only we could see them. I met up with him after the auditions were over and asked him out for coffee. We really hit it off, you know? There is just something about how his ears flow in the wind and his accent is so charming...I just can't help myself. We really haven't figured out sex, yet, but I haven't been happier than during these wonderful years so I don't mind. Jar Jar is the best."
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The guy doing Lucas on the voice over sounds like a total 15 year old geek, it's not even vaguely adult. But his cadence and comments are pretty funny, although it attempts realism a little too much. The whole "my daughter learned this was an oedipal conflict at Columbia" thing was funny, as was the line "We'd like to remaster Indiana Jones swordfight scene, because we didn't want to show Harrison hiding behind a gun." was pretty funny.
Nothing really classic, like the guys who did a spoof on Cops with Stormtrooper outfits. Anybody know if those videos can be found?
Nothing like a few good leaks to set the free publicity machine rolling.
here are some paraphrased comments "lucas" makes:
re han shooting first: steven and i haven't had time to go back and fix the unheroic actions of indiana jones yet
re luke's death star run: one way to improve the scene is to include gungan pilots. and my daughters alerted me to the fact that at college they desconstructed this scene and found it to be very much like the "oedipal abortion of his father's dark creation"
can you actually imagine the same person who wrote and directed the last 2 pieces of star wars crap using the phrase "oedipal abortion"? ok, perhaps thats the wrong question. On second thought, I think that particular line is a clear reference to Lucas aborting his movies in the prequel before they were even metaphorically born.
(waves hand)
These aren't the comments you are looking for...
(/waves hand)
(1) The Han vs. Greedo scene in Episode IV: Han didn't shoot first...no hero would hide behind his blaster like that. The original scene will never be seen again as long as Lucas is alive.
(2) The Death Star trench attack in IV: Lucas goes off on some bizarre tangent about the symbolism in this scene, claiming that it actually represented an Oedipal desire by Luke to distance himself from his father by attacking the trench, which represents his mother's birth canal. The act of destroying the Death Star via the port in the trench was a figurative "abortion" of his father's evil plans. I swear I'm not making this up.
(3) The "I am your father" scene from Episode V: Mark Hamill's scream was too girly and had to be dubbed. The harness he had to wear while hanging from the bridge was very uncomfortable.
... how he ignores the incessant whining of all the "fans" who are always complaining about his movies yet keep paying him for everything that he produces.
Truly, I'd like to know the trick, because goodness gracious it's so annoying to have every other moron out there come up with the "original" idea to post how much they hate the prequels and how they have spoilt their life and childhood memories. Or how about those geniouses with their Jar Jar jokes, we can never have enough Jar Jar jokes, can't we?
He probably loves these type of people, after all, they make him rich even though they don't like what he does! Maybe he should share the secret, how to make money off of morons who hate your product. I'd buy that book.
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Why would he admit to wanting to edit Raiders?! Why would he say that Chewbacca should be digital?!?!
This is infuriating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reqires Windows media Player 9? Its a Trap!!!
Since I use a Mac and refuse to download wmp I had to dig through the source of the page in order to find the video file and play it in VLC. Turns out the name of the file for the Vader redemtion clip is aprilfools_redemption_02.wvx
Hmmm...
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it cant be true, it's impossible!
You're not my father!!!!!
George Lucas has lost his mind. I cannot believe what he says. Baby freedom? Daikini babies? He talks about willow, his daughters and a bunch more nonsense. I say I was swearing off Star Wars, but I already have Episode 3 tix pre-ordered.
This is like saying that 5 minutes of DVD commentary from the Simpsons DVD Season 4 has been released.....anyone who shows a vested interest in George Lucas bragging about his "space" movie truely has stepped over to the "Dark Side"
Some of Lucas' comments are pretty out there. Still, he remains the godfather of greatness!
For those of you who really listened closely to those clips, the commentator's voice is way too young to be Lucas... not to mention the drole comments that are being made. Rip on Lucas all you want, but at least recognize when the man is actually putting his foot in his mouth or not... Someone had way too much free time on their hands to record that dreck!
I was just turned down for a mortgage. The woman specifically said my application was denied because my karma was "poor".
"Greedo shoots first!?! WTF!?! Somebody's getting fired over *that* one!"
Those first two movies were an elaborate April fool's joke. Gotcha!
Those Clone Wars shows on the cartoon network, those aren't a mico-series, those are my story boards.
Oh, and I've had JRR Tolkien resurrected so he can tighten up the stories I originally intended to base the prequels on but couldn't get through.
Vader: (holding aloft paternity test results)Luke, I'm 99.99999% sure I am your father... Luke: No!!!! That's almost impossible...!
The rumor has been that the title for the 3rd Episode will be "The Creeping Fear" and unless this is a horrible April Fool's joke it looks legit.
Go to the official site and check the options under the menu item 'THE MOVIES'.
Let's hope its a joke!
If you listen to the commentary for Pirates of the Carribean, you can -- arguably -- hear Depp taking a hit off a bong. You know it's him because shortly after he answers a question and he has that voice like he's holding in the hit.
Pretty funny, actually.
For those who still aren't sure, check out the filenames of the video streams : eg.l fools/aprilfools_greedo_04.wvx
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/ugo/ugo/misc/apri
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
Kind of getting ill to my stomach listening to Lucas talking about the Oedipal aspects in the scene, and how the son was aborting the production of the father's evil seed when blowing up the death star?
-- If we were in any other industry they would've shot us a long time ago.
Sadly I'm familiar enough with the man's voice that I can comfortably say that this isn't George Lucas. Happy April Fool's.
"that's not a moon..."
"That's no moon."
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i have heard that all the leaks are available for download here.
It's coming from a directory:/ aprilfools_redemption_02.wmv
http://69.27.160.145:80/6/ugo/ugo/misc/aprilfools
I'd say it's a pretty safe bet that makes it fake.
Blah blah blah blah blah ruined my childhood blah blah blah blah not as good as Empire blah blah blah blah blah Jar Jar sucks blah blah blah Han shoots first dammit blah blah blah Lucas should be castrated blah blah blah blah I can't masturbate anymore blah blah blah blah Natalie was the only good part blah blah midichlorians?!?! blah blah *sniff sniff* poor me blah blah ...
There, all done. Now let the rest of us whose lives and souls don't depend on the purity of Star Wars discuss and enjoy.
--Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
My brain hurts from listening
Guess I'll watch Trek instead
Has one of the best comentaries i've bothered to listen to on any of my dvds.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
He mentions that besides the "Greedo Shoots first" fiasco, he is also planning on changing the "Indy Shoots the Swordsman" scene in Raiders in a similar fashion.
The guy must be stopped, he is killing film history!
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Vader is shaking his fist and trying to convince Luke that he should join him and rule the galaxy...and Lucas says "I don't really remember what he's saying here, it's not really important."
Both candidates are scum-sucking hooligans too rich for their own good. Nader has a track record of giving a shit about the people.
This is horribly off-topic, sorry. But I'm sick of "the whole world is either Democrat or Republican!" Sorry, but the two-party system has destroyed our country and thrown us into a bizarre culture war.
the special edition trilogy is just better, so why waste time and money including the older, inferior version.
really nice
That said, there are only a few that I really enjoy listening to.
The Simpsons have enjoyable contents: They talk about what the censors made them cut, and when they were surprised when something made it past the censors. They mention how difficult the Halloween episodes are, and they also have a few laughs and enjoy watching what they did more than 10 years earlier.
I just started watching a few Futurama commentaries and so far they seem similar to the simpsons, so I will probably watch a few more.
They only other commentary I like is from Babylon 5 . However, you need to listen to the cast's commentary. (I thought the directors commentary was boring for the most part) The cast cracks jokes at themselves and have an enjoyable time doing it. I think it was Boxleitner(Sheridan) that mentioned whenever he saw Stephen Furst(Vir Cotto) he had a hard time shaking Furst's prior role as Flounder from Animal House. And Claudia Christian(Ivanova) was talking about how she was trim and fit back on the set.
Other than that I generally don't have the time to listen to director's babble.
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I agree that The Phantom Menace, and Attack of the Clones were really dragged down by the cartoon characters. Every time I started to enjoy the movie, it would suddenly get interrupted by Bugs Bunny and Road Runner.
But that's not the reason for my boycott.
I am boycotting all future George Lucas movies in response to his refusal to release the original Star Wars movies on DVD (i.e. without the CGI changes, Han Solo shooting second, etc.).
I saw those movies when I was young, and they really blew me away. I was hoping to relive a part of my youth by seeing them again, as they were the first time.
George Lucas has said that he doesn't care about me, so I no longer care about his movies.
I swear I'm not karma whoring, but this'll help out for those unfortunate folks (like myself) whose browser won't play embedded windows media files.
Greedo veruses Han
The Trench
I am your father
Jabba's Dance Number
Redemption of Vader
It's a trap!
A Jar Jar jokes, HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's so funny, Jar-Jar !!!! HAAHAHA, man, you're a riot!
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There are no rules to a gunfight!!! Hero's usually end up dead. Han / Indy didn't stay alive cause he fought fair. He stayed alive cause he fought smart. If a guy wants to kill you with his giant sword and is obviously better trained with it than you, only a fool would drop the gun, pick up a sword and engage in sword play.
I manage a store that specializes in turtlenecks and various related (enormous) neck accessories. (Trivia time! Boss Nass was inspired by the area between Lucas' chin and chest.)
Indeed.
:P
What's scary is that I believed that a good chunk of this is something that Lucas would actually say. Then again, if someone REALLY had leaked clips, they'd be taken down from the site (and moved into p2p space) before you could say "lawyer".
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Im a huge Star wars geek. I checked this to the voice on the clips that came with the special edition. It is not the same voice. The voice is younger, breathes heavier, and is obviously a fake
. . .who will apparantly watch any garbage Hollywood shits into their mouth, are why crap like Gigli, Event Horizon and Battlefield Earth get made.
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He asked, I answered - stop wasting your mod points you incompetent twits.
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