Very interesting. I notice at 2mins on the monitor they were replaying original scenes from ANH, for rehearsal I assume.
That was superb! Thanks.
I wonder, was Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd asked some time if she wanted to play princess Leia in the end sequence?
I have read before, in interviews at the time of The Force Awakens that she had expressed interest in playing Leia in a flashback, if the film would have had one.
I wonder, was Carrie Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd asked some time if she wanted to play princess Leia in the end sequence?
I have read before, in interviews at the time of The Force Awakens that she had expressed interest in playing Leia in a flashback, if the film would have had one.
That isn't ANH, it's new. I guess they restaged an ANH scene with a Leia stand-in to see our their new Tarkin was measuring up with the original.Very interesting. I notice at 2mins on the monitor they were replaying original scenes from ANH, for rehearsal I assume.
That isn't ANH, it's new. I guess they restaged an ANH scene with a Leia stand-in to see our their new Tarkin was measuring up with the original.
I agree there's room for both, and you're right. As I said above, you don't want to overdo it. But the balance was just off-kilter for me.
Lucas and his team found ways to pepper Bith, Rodians, Aqualish, Arconans, Hutts, Twi'leks and other OT aliens into the background of the Prequels while still introducing Toydarians, Dugs, Neimoidians, Kel Dor, Geonosians, Zabraks, Gungans, etc. as front-and-center new aliens. I think he struck a better middle ground between old and new.
I've had enough Twi'leks to last a lifetime. Never understood the popularity of this race.
Answer: hot dancers.
The end.
I guess I have to eat a little crow. Saw it again tonight, and there were Twi'leks - the holo-dancer that one of Saw's soldiers was watching while Cassian, Baze and Chirrut were talking in their cell. Plus, when Jyn is being led to Saw, and passes by his motley crew, there is a Twi'lek sitting at a table. He had a very pronounced brow, similar to the male Twi'lk design in "Rebels". I wonder if that was supposed to be Cham Syndulla.
And right there, I may have answered my own question on why the filmmakers were so sparse in the use of OT/Prequel aliens. If they showed a Rodian, would people almost reflexively wonder "Is that Greedo?"? If they show a male Twi'lek, will people wonder "Is that Cham Syndulla or Bib Fortuna?"? If they showed an Ithorian, would people wonder "Is that the same guy who was in the cantina in ANH?"?
Granted, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense - why would Bib Fortuna be on Jedha with Saw? - but nonetheless, maybe they wanted to avoid people being distracted with "finding" Easter eggs that don't really exist.
I wonder what happened to poor Admiral Raddus. Absent an escape pod or a suicide pill, I have to imagine that the Empire's treatment of him was not awesome.
To lighten the mood.
From Pablo Hidalgo's twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/pablohidalgo/status/817883061203259392
That doesn't lighten the mood!
Been offline for quite some time for Holidays & New Year.
Out of the usual deep RPF level thoughts and tangents (pointless bickering), I found a few postings & vid links to like and thumbs up.
But your initial post was just so innocent and pure, that I just could not resist.
Enjoy.
Happy New Year.
Speaking of Raddus, I don't it was wise to have him sound so much like Ackbar. We've heard at least one Mon Cal voice that wasn't low and gravelly. One of Ackbar's crew in ROTJ sounded like a 20-year old from Arizona. ("we have enemy ships in sector three seven!")
I see your point, but since he looked nothing like Ackbar, I did not find it confusing or distracting. Since they modeled him after Winston Churchill, a low gravelly voice that carried gravitas seems fitting.
I, too, laugh at the blue officer behind him on the Profundity, especially when he says "Admiral, receiving transmission from Scarif!". Like, you guys knew "Rogue One" had the plans and was going to send them to you as soon as the gate shield was down. You just sacrificed a corvette to take out two star destroyers and the gate installation to make that transmission possible. Why the "surprised and mystified" reading of that line?