yeah but brando goes back to what i was saying about every star turn being sutntcasting - "they had to pay him more than god it was kind of a joke to him" describes most movies he made
it's been a long time since i saw star wars so i can't remember if cushing had a lot to do or if he just stood around all prissylike
― da croupier, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 7:53 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk it was one of the first movies he did purely for the money right?
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
James Earl Jones! not even on screen, pretty ridiculous casting
Cushing did some great scenery chewing in the "blowing up Alderaan" scene
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
love this from the stunt casting wiki:
Stunt casting makes roles traditionally played by character actors unavailable to them.[2]
2. Commentary by Carlos Bernard on the season 3 episode "Day 3: 5:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m." of 24
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
The closest example of stuntcasting I can think of with respect to the Star Wars franchise was when they cast Jocelyn Wildenstein as Yak Face.
― Honey Mustard On My Tunic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Cushing casting mostly just Lucas connecting Star Wars directly to the b movie monster horror and fantasy heritage.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
He's basically Dr. Frankenstein, sub Darth Vader for the Monster, and the Death Star for the castle laboratory.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
now do Christopher Lee
― mh, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/deXK274SW58/hqdefault.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
eVACuate? in our moment of triumph??
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
also an a+ reading of "the regional governors now have direct control over their territories"; too bad he didn't live to class up trade embargo lines.
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
always liked how that little exchange sketches out this whole recent and soon-to-be-obsolete political system without showing us any of it. you got the whole republic -> empire plot in a nutshell. i'm sure the novels or something run the "regional governors" into the ground of course.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 April 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty so much as a bunch of 60s film-school types who'd seen Lawrence of Arabia too many times and wanting to grab as much from that as they could, like using older(cheaper) Panavision cameras, shooting in the desert, and Omar Sharif's look.
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
Let's talk about the stunt intro text and stunt screen wipes.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much everything about the b movie was designed for sensationalism. Low budget roots necessitated eye-catching measures.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
I enjoy the premise of this joke more than the execution*. It feels like it needs another pass thru for sharpening and ejection of too-easy jokes.
http://humboldt.craigslist.org/rvs/4986649886.html
humboldt >for sale >rvs - by owner
Imperial II-class Star Destroyer (Mad River)
"First come, first serve basis. You are responsible for towing."
*(or Executor, as it may be)
― Doktor Van Peebles (kingfish), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:41 (nine years ago) link
Freddie prinze jr became a writer for the wwe (or whatever they call it now) in the last decade. I think he may just be an enthusiastic nerd.― da croupier, Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― da croupier, Sunday, April 19, 2015 3:43 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait really
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 24 April 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
Wait is wrestling nerdy now I thought it was for jocks
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 April 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
what world are you from? the biggest nerds I know are wrestling nerds
― mh, Friday, 24 April 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
afaik the two biggest wrestling fans I've personally met (held up giant hand-painted signs on cardboard) are now a surgeon and an international economics lecturer/researcher
― mh, Friday, 24 April 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
John D
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 24 April 2015 03:26 (nine years ago) link
currently dating a wrestling nerd and it rules. kept this from the beat the champ thread as i didn't want my enthusiasm to look contingent.
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 April 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if Alec Guinness was stuntcasty
It's called "getting a star." It helped sell the dopey Force.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 April 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
kinda unrelated but I heard the guys on the Flophouse podcast summarize Star Wars as "old guy takes a young guy to a bar" and it made me lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 24 April 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
rolling (non-millenials) grabbing the brass ring 2015
about as nerdy as humanly possible
― qualx, Friday, 24 April 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
I was being kind of jokey there. Wrestling is totally nerdy. I feel like the word 'nerd' has come from meaning someone persecuted for intellectual or physical differences to someone who enjoys x y z pop media.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 April 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link
Like the reason original nerds were so into Star Wars and fantasy stuff was to escape their shitty lives.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 April 2015 05:27 (nine years ago) link
Alec Guinness, box office catnip XP
Yeah, it wasn't that long ago "nerd" and "geek" were insults
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 24 April 2015 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Josh Trank fired from the second spin-off movie
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/inside-a-star-wars-firing-792933
― Number None, Saturday, 2 May 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
what the hell
Trank has several small dogs who were left in a rented house in New Orleans while the film was shooting there. According to sources, as much as $100,000 worth of damage was done to the property.
― bizarro gazzara, Saturday, 2 May 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEGfpq1WoAAMOPs.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Sunday, 3 May 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
The high stakes being will Disney make all the money in the world or all the money in the solar system?
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Han Polo (shirt)
― nashwan, Sunday, 3 May 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
High stakes = can they stave off "Star Wars 8 shit talk"
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Collectors, start your engines: http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-force-awakens-products-to-arrive-on-force-friday-september-4
Brief featurette on that VF cover shoot shows Adam Driver in costume and new snowtroopers: https://thescene.com/watch/vanityfair/cover-photo-shoots-watch-the-star-wars-cast-on-set-for-vanity-fair-cover-shoot
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 4 May 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
And Lupita Nyongo in a mo-cap suit.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 4 May 2015 12:30 (nine years ago) link
http://photos.vanityfair.com/2015/05/01/5543ca95801ffcbc36b3417b_vanity-fair-star-wars-01.jpg
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 4 May 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
+ non CGI aliens
http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/e8/6a/3ac344984aa1b2ff5ab00e0d8edc/star-wars-the-force-awakens.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 4 May 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
^^^Proper Star Wars
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 4 May 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Includes at least two classic Star Wars aliens, an Ithorian second from left, and one of the dude's from Jabba's palace near the right, next to the guy in red.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 4 May 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
evil dark really really bad adam in a snowscape followed by nu-snowtroopers is really cracking me up
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 May 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I'm parsing him as Imperial middle management jobsworth rather than evil dark really really bad.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 4 May 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link
I hope this is really good and everyone rubs it in Lucas's face for the rest of his life (in regards to the prequels of course)
― Evan, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i0.wp.com/makingstarwars.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/phasma_big.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I love that. The chrome makes it look like a sci-fi medieval suit of armour.
― jmm, Monday, 4 May 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
Game of Star Thrones
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
HBO's Rome in Space
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 4 May 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
Brienne of Darth
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Monday, 4 May 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
lol
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
So Josh Trank got fired from the 2nd spinoff movie that they hadn't even started yet
― akm, Monday, 4 May 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
very publicly too.. he fucked up. hell hath no fury like a studio scorned.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 4 May 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link