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Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies
An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas produced his Star Wars movies, he subtitled them 'Episode I,' 'Episode IV' etc. But that style will become inappropriate and confusing with Disney producing a new Star Wars movie each year, observes blogger Christopher Knight: 'Those were individual chapters of one story in an epic fantasy setting. And it suffices for that one multi-generational epic on film. Except now, there is the intent to produce several stories in that same setting. And they aren't necessarily going to pertain to the tale of the Skywalker family from Anakin to Luke to whoever it will be in the next trilogy.' Knight's solution is to retroactively amend the titles of Episodes I through IX to reflect it being the Skywalkers' saga, just as Lucas retroactively subtitled the first movie to be Episode IV."
The movies formerly known as star wars.
. . . you know, like A.D., as in, "Anno Disneyi" . . . ?
. . . and BCE . . . "Before Crap Era" . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
So in my view the Rebel Alliance are not freedom fighters, but terrorists. Leave it to Disney to make movies celebrating horrific, terrorist acts against the forces of the democratically elected galactic government. It's sickening.
You misspelled. "Pez".
Jar Jar Strikes Back??? NOOOOOOOOOOOO...
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Or why not "Star Wars That Sucks" ?
Not nearly specific enough
rewriting history since 2109
Well better than Darth mouse!
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Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
What are you talking about? Disney has re-innovated Star Wars quite well. Just look at the new characters introduced in episode 7?
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Meesa thinking a movie about da Binks family is mooie mooie good. Nowsa that I'm a traitorous bastard who sold da Jedi and da Republic up da river, it could be called Revenge of da Binks!
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They could just name the last six movies, "The.Star.Wars.Saga.dvdrip.engsubs.aXX0" and I'm not sure anyone would notice.
You are welcome on my lawn.
How about Mickey Skywalker?
Tomorrow is another day...
No, it did not. You are misremembering it because it was changed and has been seen in that form so many times since.
The Episode IV moniker was added to the film later.
He's obviously confused or deranged. Next he'll be claiming something outlandish, like "Han shot first" or something equally absurd.
John
Oh god I hope it's very different.
You only believe you did. Memory is fluid, and yours has changed. The "Episode IV" was NOT there at the premiere. In 1977, they hadn't even begun planning a sequel, much less the idea of a "trilogy of trilogies." It was there in the 1981 re-release.
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In those days the delay between US and UK releases was huge. Sailing ships were at the mercy of the weather, steamships were in their infancy and the only relaible thing about them was that they were unreliable. Then there was the redone dialog (adding "please" and "thank you" all over) and conversion for right-handed projectors.
And don't get me started about Australia. They have to reshoot the whole movie in a mirror because the spools turn the other way. In fact they still haven't got round to doing "Cocktail", which many say is a mercy.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."