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Star Wars Saga (OT/PT/ST) Discussion Thread
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I remember that art (John Berkey) way back from the novelization paperback...
And I from cereal boxes!
I remember that art (John Berkey) way back from the novelization paperback...
And I from cereal boxes!
I realized the Darth Vader in that poster is @darth dennis ’s profile picture! I stumbled upon it and thought “Hmm looks familiar.”
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I watched Adam the Woo's vlog on his stay there and it looked exausting. Not fun at all.
Having to interact with actors in-character for like three straight days while we are all in costume sounds like a vision out of the pit of Hell to me. Especially for $6000 quatloos.
Gosh now i wonder why this idea would fail.
Gosh now i wonder why this idea would fail.
Prime Clone
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Is he wrong tho
"Prefer not to I would. Computer generated I might be, but stupid I am not."
Sixth Scale Man
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Feel like watching Aliens now…
This day -- May 25th -- used to have special meaning.
That date no longer has any meaning for me.
That date no longer has any meaning for me.
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Blame -
And apparently astrophysicist Jeanne Cavelos for coining and shifting the emphasis from May 25th, to May the 4th .
Though Lucas primarily always celebrated the more significant May 25th.
It was the inane fans who just liked to invoke and celabrate "May the 4th be with you" instead.
So Lucas/film recognizing the commercial value of fandom compulsion to mindlessly parrot an inane pun, over an actual historic date, finally just capitulated.
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Lame ass, lisping fool.
Hm, is this true? 
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Little history:Hm, is this true?
Star Wars was released on a Wednesday, May 25, 1977, showing on 32 screens. Another 8-11 were added to that list over the next two days.
A famous story has it that George Lucas was taking his wife Marcia out for a meal during a brief break from mixing the foreign language prints of Star Wars. They came upon a crowd near Mann’s Chinese Theatre and initially had no idea that the phenomenon causing the commotion was George's movie.
But in short, to see the film on May 25, you had to be in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Louisville, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Salt Lake City , Seattle, St Paul or Washington DC.
The film reached Kansas City on Thursday May 26 and Chicago, Dallas, Dayton, Des Moines, Houston, Omaha and St Louis on the Friday.
Despite the immediate furore, the film only reached two more screens on June 3 and another three on June 10. It was only on June 17 that the film’s release widened significantly, reaching 157 screens.
With 20th Century-Fox producing prints as fast as it could, Star Wars reached 360 cinemas by June 24. The height of the film’s US release would not come until August 5, when it was on 1,044 screens. And most of the world would have to wait much longer.
In the UK, unless you could get to the West End of London over Christmas, Star Wars was not a film of 1977 at all, but a film of 1978. And in some parts of the country, it was well into 1978 before people saw it.
The way films were released in the 1970s was very different from today, when major movies are released everywhere at once and live or die by their opening weekend’s box office. But even by the standards of the time, the opening of Star Wars was quite small.
Earlier blockbusters like The Godfather and Jaws had opened on hundreds of screens. One of the other big films of 1977 was the tedious actioner The Deep, based on a novel by Jaws author Peter Benchley which opened on more than 800.
Why did Star Wars open on so few screens? There are two theories, depending on who you chose to believe. One was that 20th Century-Fox was mounting a “prestige opening” – showing the film in a small number of venues equipped with the best sound and projection systems, in order to generate enthusiasm ahead of a wider release. The other possible explanation is that few cinemas wanted it. It's said that Fox even told some venues that unless they booked Star Wars, they wouldn’t be able to show the company’s expected hit of 1977 – The Other Side of Midnight.
Supposedly Spielberg to this day still receives 2.5% of profits from ANH.
Alec Guinness also received 2.25%.
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