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Fans Come Together To Complete Star Wars Uncut
eldavojohn writes "Star Wars Uncut has taken a novel approach to remaking Star Wars IV: A New Hope. You merely sign up for a 15 second clip, film it and submit it. The trailer is now complete and I will suspect you might enjoy the high quality (and low quality) of some of the already accepted scenes. 251 scenes remain in need of claiming with 688 claimed and 291 finished. Do your part to remake one of the greatest movies by filming fifteen seconds of yourself and your friends!"
You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
1:41 Big Lebowski meets SW. Brilliant!
If you don't have/want flash/javascript, get the trailer here.
If this is the big-box hit that the first 3 star wars were ... do I get some sort of cut for my 15 seconds of fame? I mean, that'll still be tonnes!
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Fantasize? I'm living the dream, buddy.
some of these submissions will likely be much better than the original.
Anything you say will be held against you.
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I, for one, would absolutely love to see him flail around with a lightsaber...
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Maybe we'll actually see Mark Hamill in a motion picture again, after all these years! He was pretty fantastic in robot chicken, though.
There is no cut. It's uncut. There is no cut for you to get.
Penis.
Well. Second largest.
Right after the fan re-write of the "New Hope" script as haiku. I hear there's a Klingon translation in the works. Difficult at the outset. It is rumored that there's no Klingon word for "hope", other than the phrase "Your fear which I did not bring about." Some fans suggested coining a new word, but this was considered a violation of the received Klingon - they don't want to just "make stuff up."
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
She Said: "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?"
He Should Have Replied: "Aren't you a little young to have them sagging like that?"
L'esperienza de questa dolce vita (The experience of this sweet life) - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror...and in completely uncoordinated voices, scenes, style, gender, costumes, visual effects, height, weight, gestures, inflection, lighting, weather conditions, technology, continuity, tone, background, accent, mood, passion, interpretation, make-up, age, production techniques, storyboarding, stock types, DV formats, exposure, sound levels...
AT&ROFLMAO
If they let people do any part they wanted.... They could with a little bit of programming have it pick a random 15second clip of what is available for the time slot. It would be a bit different each time. Or people could vote on the best rendition for each time slot to improve the thing.
In any case it is a pretty cool project. And the first 'Open Source' over the internet fan made movie I've heard of. I've been in fan made anime dubs before but that was mostly to horrify anyone that downloaded it to the point of tears.
Me soo sore!
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Clearly you haven't seen most of the scenes...
Wow.
Tattooine IS West Covina. I knew it, all along.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Some of the stuff is brilliant, though they should have allowed multiple submissions per segment
I disagree. They'd then end up with 400 submissions for "I'm Luke Skywalker: I'm here to save you," and big gaps elsewhere, like that critical 15 seconds early in the movie with Leia just sneaking around.
(They'd also probably end up with 800 takes of "That's no moon" in which there WAS a "moon." And they probably don't want to subject anyone to that.)
It also seems very interesting to me to see a frankenmovie of 15 second stretches of wildly varying quality. That's far more interesting to me than a frankenmovie of entirely medium to high quality 15 second clips.
Anyway, once they get the whole movie covered, then they can start accepting submissions for redoing scenes, then have a rating system for each segment. They'll then be able to make a -complete- movie of all the best scenes, emphasis on complete (the aforementioned Leia sneaking around might be pretty poor quality in the "best of" but at least it would be there).
And, again more interesting to me, they could then have a "worst of" where all the worst clips were strung together. And maybe they could then throw in some of the actual movie, like Mark Hamill's original "I'm here to save you!"
They did allow multiple submissions per scene, and say they plan to have some sort of rating system to see which makes the final cut, and to keep the alternates so people can watch it differently. Its in the FAQ on their site, which has more text than all of the rest of the site as far as I could see.
George Lucas is usually supportive of fan-made material as long as they aren't going into for commercial purposes.
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The original films were, according to Lucas, destroyed in the process of making the remastered editions where Greedo apparently is so terrible a shot that Han was never in any real danger followed by Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
So... can you claim copyright on something you also claim doesn't even exist? It the point of copyright was to promote science and the useful arts by encouraging people to...distribute...copies...
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
I think this will actually result in an interesting curve in the quality levels. The boring pointless parts will be at a glance boring and pointless. With the cool parts that would suck to see badly done all... done well. A "worst of" version sounds like it could end up kind of painful. I think multiple ratings for funny or well done, high quality... could produce a variety of movies though.
This is just proof that you can put any sort of crap to great music such as John Williams and make it look interesting. How many movies has he saved, anyway?
It is pretty confusing. The "free" link lists all scenes that haven't yet been "claimed" or "finished". Currently, there are no scenes that are neither. However, each scene may be claimed/finished up to three times, so you can select a scene that has only 1-2 claims against it, or if you see a "finished" scene which you feel could be done better, you can put a claim against it.
Currently, finished scenes are marked in blue and claims are marked in red. Any scene that has less than a total of three claims, finished or not (if red+blue 3), may be claimed.
-- Mr. Goatse
Big question, who has to shoot first in this one? Han or Greedo?
IMHO, Greedo shot first, I have video evidence.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
the aforementioned Leia sneaking around might be pretty poor quality in the "best of"
Only for very low values of "Leia".
Oh, oh, I know!! You could set up a web site with all the clips collected together, but with a user-moderation system for each clip. Then you could view the whole movie at +5 or -1 and depending upon whether you want Funny, Insightful, or Troll, etc. (some people have strange tastes).
A warning to those with epilepsy, a history of nausea, or good sense. Do not watch the trailer!
Han cold-bloodedly murdering the handicapped lizard-man.
Well he couldn't very well murder the LIZARD man in WARM blood, now could he?
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