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Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released 48 years ago today
#CloseEncountersoftheThirdKind #StevenSpielberg #StarWars #FanthaTracks #CE3K #CloseEncounters #StevenSpielberg
Happy 48th birthday Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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I know I'm late to the party, but as my Disney+ subscription is nearly over, I finally watched The Orville. I. Fracking. Loved. It.
It started out funny, and ended sweet and deep and tackling real life issues in a way Seth McFarland does so well.
Highly encouraged to watch if you like SciFi/Star Trek/Star Wars, as Seth pays homage to all of them.
I know I'm late to the party, but as my Disney+ subscription is nearly over, I finally watched The Orville. I. Fracking. Loved. It.
It started out funny, and ended sweet and deep and tackling real life issues in a way Seth McFarland does so well.
Highly encouraged to watch if you like SciFi/Star Trek/Star Wars, as Seth pays homage to all of them.
🌄 In 1998, the #Lucasfilm site greeted visitors with a simple image of Skywalker Ranch. Today it’s a cinematic showcase of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Just as they advanced film technology, their web presence leveled up too.
Explore websites from a long long time ago with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ https://web.archive.org
Only took me 3 years to finish! It is 8x8 inches, 18 count Aida. Over 20,000 stitches/pixels. #crossstitch #embroidery #sewing #StarWars
I picked up cross stitch when sick with #LongCovid. As I got healthy, and ran out of a couple thread colors, I set it down. Did not pick it up until I went on vacation a couple weeks ago, and needed a project. And I finished it!
The pattern designer is Awesome Pattern Studio on Etsy, and they are a Ukrainian pattern maker. Love the use of color and color blocking. Have done a couple of her pieces and they are always striking.
Not sure I will do another all over cross stitch due to the amount of time they take, but I love the results.
I’m not sure I would call drowning in your own lung fluid “passing away peacefully”, but I guess if that’s the story they have to tell themselves.
From the link:
“He had been admitted after a fall with an injured arm, however he quickly contracted Covid which developed into pneumonia. He passed away peacefully with friends at his bedside,” the statement said.
Kenneth Colley: #StarWars actor dies after contracting #Covid and #pneumonia | The Independent https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/kenneth-colley-cause-of-death-b2781998.html
I've decided to start this book, after watching the recent excellent video on the #StarWars Series #Andor by #transwoman youtuber Jessie Gender (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8), which cites this study multiple times. I also feel that this could be an interesting tengential approach to the issue of #autoritarism and #fascism, as it appears that George Lucas' political messages (because, yes, Star Wars has always been political and well, woke) is based more on a popular idea of what #dictatorship and #imperialism are based more than on pure historical and political science theory. This is like looking at something from the embossed traces it left on the ground. It might also help me choose my next readings on these topics, while making for a really agreable reading, as I'm now quite exhausted and not in the state to digest more complexe analysis.
I've decided to start this book, after watching the recent excellent video on the #StarWars Series #Andor by #transwoman youtuber Jessie Gender (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8), which cites this study multiple times. I also feel that this could be an interesting tengential approach to the issue of #autoritarism and #fascism, as it appears that George Lucas' political messages (because, yes, Star Wars has always been political and well, woke) is based more on a popular idea of what #dictatorship and #imperialism are based more than on pure historical and political science theory. This is like looking at something from the embossed traces it left on the ground. It might also help me choose my next readings on these topics, while making for a really agreable reading, as I'm now quite exhausted and not in the state to digest more complexe analysis.
El 1 de junio de 2015 inicia la grabación del soundtrack de Star Wars: The Force Awakens en los Sony Pictures Studios de Culver City, California, Estados Unidos.
On June 1, 2015, the recording of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens soundtrack begins at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, United States.
#StarWars #JohnWilliams #StarWarsSoundtrack #TheForceAwakens
I am coming to the conclusion that the galaxy map of Star Wars (first created in 1998, I believe) makes no sense.
In the first movie they are going from Tatooine to Alderaan and to Yavin, which is pretty much a trip across the entire galaxy and appears to be maybe an hour of flight at most. (More examples in replies.)
If the distances and positions of the map are correct, then any jump is near instant teleportation to any location, making a map pointless.
Just finished the 4th chapter of Andor Season 2. This is SciFi at its absolute best. I want to hack IMDB so I can rate it 11 out of 10 stars.
I rewatched Season 1 before starting Season 2, and I've also watched the prequel movies and Solo. Next up is Rogue One, merging the two perfectly before continuing to the original trilogy.
Just finished the 4th chapter of Andor Season 2. This is SciFi at its absolute best. I want to hack IMDB so I can rate it 11 out of 10 stars.
I rewatched Season 1 before starting Season 2, and I've also watched the prequel movies and Solo. Next up is Rogue One, merging the two perfectly before continuing to the original trilogy.
“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” #MonMothma
It’s interesting how closely the actors who play characters on TV & in film become associated with their characters. I think this is an artifact of the age of photography, film & video. After all, Hamlet is a well-known & beloved character. No one gets upset when it’s not Olivier.
#StarTrek now has at least 3 different actors (counting back to TOS) playing Kirk & Spock, including SNW & Prodigy, if I’m not mistaken (probably am). It hasn’t spelled the end of the franchise, as far as I can tell, especially since the passing of Nimoy.
#StarWars seems to have a hard time letting go of original actors. Tem Morrison & Hayden Christensen will have work into the 22nd century if they can hang on that long. Lucasfilm has notoriously produced pretty remarkable results with AI (Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in "The Book of Boba …
It’s interesting how closely the actors who play characters on TV & in film become associated with their characters. I think this is an artifact of the age of photography, film & video. After all, Hamlet is a well-known & beloved character. No one gets upset when it’s not Olivier.
#StarTrek now has at least 3 different actors (counting back to TOS) playing Kirk & Spock, including SNW & Prodigy, if I’m not mistaken (probably am). It hasn’t spelled the end of the franchise, as far as I can tell, especially since the passing of Nimoy.
#StarWars seems to have a hard time letting go of original actors. Tem Morrison & Hayden Christensen will have work into the 22nd century if they can hang on that long. Lucasfilm has notoriously produced pretty remarkable results with AI (Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in "The Book of Boba Fett"), though I believe another actor played him in S2 of #TheMandalorian. And in #RogueOne & #TheRiseOfSkywalker, other actors were cast to play #Tarkin & #LeiaOrgana. Notably Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher’s daughter, who played Lt Connix in the ST, played a younger Leia, with a helmet, in a training flashback.
I recall a remark on Twitter about the #JamesBond franchise. George Lazenby played JB in only one film: “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.” In part this was because he was not well received by the audience as a replacement for Sean Connery. But he successfully destroyed the idea that Bond had to be played by Connery & paved the way for Roger Moore to own the role for a generation, or at least until Remington Steele had gone off the air.
Though Abrams Trek has a mixed reputation in the fandom, it successfully broke the TOS cast barrier & paved the way for some of the new material on P+.
Star Wars is more conservative than Star Trek. Maybe that’s why fans have a harder time letting go. When Carrie Fisher died, I thought: Can’t they just cast someone else in the role? But the fandom would show up at Skywalker Ranch with pitchforks. I thought: Isn’t there anyone else with the fan cred to be Leia? Maybe Natalie Portman? Or Pernilla August? These actors played Leia’s mother and grandmother, respectively. Surely Portman is actor enough to play a character a bit older than herself. Leia (not Fisher) died around 54. I think Portman was about 40 when they were making TRoS.
It’s still hard to see the fandom letting go until they successfully release, say an OT remake with new cast or something. Until there’s a series about Luke Skywalker’s temple post-Endor starring Sebastian Shan (once rumored to be playing Luke in the Mandoverse) or something like that, I fear we’re in for deepfakes & de-aging technology for a while.
YOURS TRULY (1983)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 28" X 22"
When Del Rey Books commissioned me to do this portrait of the Master Jedi, Lucasfilms sent me black and white movie still photos to use as reference. 1/3
