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crafty_packratStar Wars Uncut, the Director's Cut
Fan-made recreations of scenes in Star Wars are stitched together in 15 second segments to recreate the entire movie. It's an utterly transformative work, because there is no way this can be mistaken for the George Lucas version in any way, shape, or form, but it also couldn't have existed without the original movie to base it on.
And it is Hilarious and Awesome!
The genre shifts alone -- not just from live action to computer animation to hand drawn animation to stop motion and back, but actual genre shifts -- are spectacular. A notice shifts to Western, 1930s Gangsters, Silent (with inter titles!), a fashion show intro, a radio play, and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.
The animated sequences included thick-line animation, hand-drawn black and white, penciled, stop-motion using Star Wars Lego, stop-motion using Star Wars action figures, stop-motion using Star Trek action figures, stop motion using any number of vintage toys, stop motion using beer bottles, animation using computers, animation using game engines, and animation using a paper-craft Star Destroyer.
The live action range from well-costumed and well-acted to various levels of "bless their hearts". I'm really amused at the various ways to make Obi-Wan Kenobi, whoever is playing him, looking old and bearded -- this is a particular problem when the entire cast of the clip is under the age of 10. I also liked all the cross-gender casting -- the first woman to play Tarkin was impressive, and I'm delighted at how many girls and women got to play Luke and/or Han. Chewbacca gets played by dogs, grandfathers, dads, long-haired people in or out of masks, children in fuzzy foot pajamas, teddy bears, plush bunnies, and on one occasion, an oven mitt. The workarounds for props and special effects ranged from effective stagecraft to innovative uses of available material.
And the number of people who decided Han needed a fedora is just hilarious!
Seriously, if you've loved Star Wars at any point in your life, this movie will make you grin.
Fan-made recreations of scenes in Star Wars are stitched together in 15 second segments to recreate the entire movie. It's an utterly transformative work, because there is no way this can be mistaken for the George Lucas version in any way, shape, or form, but it also couldn't have existed without the original movie to base it on.
And it is Hilarious and Awesome!
The genre shifts alone -- not just from live action to computer animation to hand drawn animation to stop motion and back, but actual genre shifts -- are spectacular. A notice shifts to Western, 1930s Gangsters, Silent (with inter titles!), a fashion show intro, a radio play, and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.
The animated sequences included thick-line animation, hand-drawn black and white, penciled, stop-motion using Star Wars Lego, stop-motion using Star Wars action figures, stop-motion using Star Trek action figures, stop motion using any number of vintage toys, stop motion using beer bottles, animation using computers, animation using game engines, and animation using a paper-craft Star Destroyer.
The live action range from well-costumed and well-acted to various levels of "bless their hearts". I'm really amused at the various ways to make Obi-Wan Kenobi, whoever is playing him, looking old and bearded -- this is a particular problem when the entire cast of the clip is under the age of 10. I also liked all the cross-gender casting -- the first woman to play Tarkin was impressive, and I'm delighted at how many girls and women got to play Luke and/or Han. Chewbacca gets played by dogs, grandfathers, dads, long-haired people in or out of masks, children in fuzzy foot pajamas, teddy bears, plush bunnies, and on one occasion, an oven mitt. The workarounds for props and special effects ranged from effective stagecraft to innovative uses of available material.
And the number of people who decided Han needed a fedora is just hilarious!
Seriously, if you've loved Star Wars at any point in your life, this movie will make you grin.
