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[quote jardster][quote Jem]Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.
Oh, and you are missing a "." in your subject line.
Always bugged me that the movie had a 4-dot elipsis
That poster only has 3 dots...
Ah yes, but in the movie, with the aqua blue text on black screen, there are FOUR dots in the elipsis.
Someone once explained it as "three dots for the elipsis, and one for a period to end the sentence." But that sort of seems like an oxymoron.
When they redid the films in 97 I checked to see if they'd fix it, and they didn't.
Look for it the next time you watch the movies.
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[quote Jem]Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.
Airbrush!!!
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Very cool, Ralph. I put up a bit on the anniversary myself:
http://vodkapundit.com/archives/008944.php
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Ah yes, but in the movie, with the aqua blue text on black screen, there are FOUR dots in the elipsis.
Jem's 100% right -- I'm watching the 90's retread on "Background Theater" and I just saw it; four dots.
Here's a cap:
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[quote Jem]Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.
That's because that ad depicts the original Hildebrandt artwork developed for the movie. The Luke and Leia in that poster are the artists' conceptualization of the characters and are not based on the actors who played the characters.
I had that poster as a kid and always felt that Hamill didn't quite measure up to the Hildebrandt conceptualization of Skywalker.
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I had just arrived back in the US from my second "tour" of English boarding school (think Hogwarts, but no magic and much draughtier) and my family had moved to Miami. I had a REALLY rough time adjusting to US schools when the film opened at a cinema just down the road from the school.
IIRC, the film played at that cinema for at LEAST a solid year. I must have seen it at least 20-30 times. As far as I and most people were concerned, nothing even REMOTELY like it had ever been presented that way. Photo-realistic, convincing effects? A futuristic scenario that looks futuristic? Characters with imagination and style? Real sci-fi you could suspend your disbelief for?
(before any old fogeys pipe up, yes I now KNOW films like that existed before Star Wars, I just didn't know it THEN, and anyone under 30 was too young to have appreciated earlier efforts. So there.)
Every so often you get a movie that redefines the genre and business. Star Wars was that movie in 1977.
