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A Closer Look at Star Wars on Film and Off

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the revenge-of-the-marketdroids dept.

mclove writes "Revenge of the Sith comes out on DVD today, and there's an interesting article on Slate dissecting the now-complete trilogy as the avant-garde, intellectual sort of film that Lucas keeps saying it is."` Relatedly inkslinger77 writes "ILM model maker, Brian Gernand, speaks about what it is like to work with George Lucas and why he thinks Star Wars attracts such a huge following, particularly among the IT community. He also gives some information about the technology that is used behind the scenes. "

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  1. Movie fantasy leads to real world technology by ReformedExCon · · Score: 0, Troll

    From the article:

    And we're not so far away from having lightsabers as weapons. /end quote

    O RLY?

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  2. Help me out by ifwm · · Score: 0, Troll

    "and there's an interesting article on Slate dissecting the now-complete trilogy as the avant-garde, intellectual sort of film that Lucas keeps saying it is."

    So, is avant-garde french for really crappy?