New podcast analyzing every minute of Star Wars, individually

http://www.starwarsminute.com

by apeconmyth • 13 years ago

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iterationx• 13 years ago

The analysis of "Minute 8" is 16 minutes and 14 seconds.

greedoinaspeedo3• 13 years ago

Every minute of Star Wars gets 15 minutes of fame.

damon_c2• 13 years ago

In my opinion, they could have gone into "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away" a bit more...

greedoinaspeedo3• 13 years ago

A dissertation could be written about "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away." That phrase is also a hypnotic induction all by itself. And as that sinks in, consider that someone told me that Star Wars' past is Dune's present.

damon_c2• 13 years ago

I like to think that the light rays from that far away galaxy could just be arriving here any moment, treating all with a good enough telescope to a free showing of Star Wars from a really boring camera angle.

lukifer• 13 years ago

My understanding is that Dune is Earth's future (http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Earth), so that doesn't really fit. :)

But the opening line of Star Wars is truly impressive in its economy and efficacy. It tells the viewer all that they need to know so that they have permission to accept the truly fantastic. No need to connect it to Earth or anything vaguely familiar, no reason to wonder if this "future" could really happen, because everything they're seeing has already happened. It even has a beautiful rhythm and cadence, despite never being spoken aloud.

That iconic phrase is one of many little touches that prevents Episode IV from slipping into the silly B-movie niche occupied by so much prior sci-fi.

speedyrev• 13 years ago

What?!? and blast right past the cryptic Episode IV text? "Why is this movie starting at episode 4?"

Boshek• 13 years ago

Because that wasn't there when it was originally released. It just said "Star Wars".

baddox2• 13 years ago

I like this idea, but it would work better for films that actually have some substance.

sentenza• 13 years ago

Then maybe an acutal filmmakers perspective on why the prequels are bad might be the right thing for you. In case you haven't seen it before:

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episo...

baddox2• 13 years ago

In fact, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I claimed that the Star Wars films have no substance.

tathastu• 13 years ago

...just in case reading HN doesn't waste enough of your time.

stopbits2• 13 years ago

I have been doing a minute by minute podcast analysis of The Big Lebowski since last year and some of our episodes are almost two hours. http://gutterballs.tv

JacksonGariety2• 13 years ago

I'm doing the same movie frame-by-frame:

http://jacksongariety.com/journals/the-big-lebowski-project

HelpfulBot3• 13 years ago

By "frame-by-frame", do you mean "shot-by-shot"?

stopbits2• 13 years ago

Dude! You need to do all the frames. That would be truly epic.

New podcast analyzing every minute of Star Wars, individually

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