Originally Posted by Trebuchet
Just checkin', but you guys know this was a deliberate choice, right?
He went searching for that because that's what he wanted to portray.
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Just checkin', but you guys know this was a deliberate choice, right?
He went searching for that because that's what he wanted to portray.
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Right. He had no intertest in representing realism or Newtonian physics, that was not part of his goal.
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Correct.
He's not a making science fiction movie; he's making a space adventure, and that needs to evoke dogfights as we know them.
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The trench run vs. scenes from The Dam Busters, side-by-side: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
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633 Squadron attacks the Death Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OZq-tlJTrU
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Cell phones were put on this Earth to give me an brain embolism.Items which have no obvious flaw or situation where they don't work. Items which fail so routinely that they are useless. Cell phones are an example of both.
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Did he ever say so?
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Gary Kurtz, the producer of Star Wars, certainly said so.Grant Hutchison"Before the storyboards were done," Kurtz explains, "we recorded on videotape any war movie involving aircraft that came up on television, so we had this massive library of parts of old war movies--The Dam Busters, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Battle of Britain, Jet Pilot, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 633 Squadron and about forty-five other movies. We went through them all and picked out scenes to transfer to film to use as guidelines in the battle.
"We cut them all together into a battle sequence to get an idea of the movement. It was a very bizarre-looking film, all black-and-white, a dirty 16mm dupe. There would be a shot of the pilot saying something, then you cut back to a long shot of the plane, explosions, crashes. It gave a reasonably accurate idea of what the battle sequence would look like, the feeling of it.
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Firefly's take on that.
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A terraformed Mars is semi-plausible, though it would need to be set many centuries in the future; Venus? Terraforming it would take thousands of years. Perhaps too far ahead for a modern reader to relate to a vastly changed culture or technology.
Interstellar travel? Depends on how reasonable your reasoning is on relative travel times, and how into exotic physics you're willing to get.
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