Testaments to the Boom Times to Come (Posts tagged Star Wars)

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Things My Sister Said While Watching Return Of the Jedi For the First Time

(Imperial officers stride around in their little hats)
Alayna: “Damn those Germans….”

(a camera lingers on the “bounty hunter” in a suspicious way)
Alayna: “Luke?? I think that’s Luke. They walk like Luke.”
(it’s Leia)

(Han & Chewie are reunited)
Alayna, warbling: “Cheewwiiee!”

(Luke attempts to scale something)
Alayna: “Yeah, scramble on up there, in your jeggings.”

(Luke is upset about something)
Alayna: “Oh no! Oh he’s so bothered.”

(Luke decides that his secret twin sister is surely the only girl he knows, is right)
Alayna: *makes that Kristen Wiig face again*
Alayna: “Whaaaaaaat.”
Me: *laughing*
Alayna: “Oh god but they kissed!”
Me: “Yeah, it’s—“
Alayna: “Eh, it was only once.”
Me: *laughs more*

Luke: “Ask me again sometime.”
Alayna: “Ask me. Again. Sometime.”
Alayna: “Ask me again sometime.”
2 minutes pass
Alayna: “ASK ME AGAIN SOMETIME.”

Alayna: “Can Chewie sense another furry thing?”
Me: “Sure that’s probably how that works, right.”

(the gang is captured by Ewoks)
Alayna: “It’s ok, Leia’s probably their queen now.”

(Emperor Palpatine complains about not being able to “feel Luke”)
Alayna: “Why should he? Is he gramps or something?”
Me: *snorts*
Alayan: “I mean EVERYONE IS APPARENTLY RELATED, I’m just trying to catch up!”

(Han gets huffy & jealous that Leia has a life outside him and goes to storm off, then comes back and apologizes to Leia instead)
Me & Alayna, in the exact same tone: “Wow!”
Alayna: “You’d think more men would have learned, watching this.”

Alayna: “I bet I could speak Ewok.”
Alayna: *pretends to speak Ewok*
Alayna: *continues to pretend to speak Ewok*
Me: “Oh my god.”

Me: “Oh god, Luke, your actual Biggest Weakness is ‘caring too much’.”
Alayna: “That and power converters.”

(Ewoks inexplicable kick ass)
Alayna: “Yeess!! The Minionns!!”

Alayna: “God, look at him. With his jeggings and his knee-high boots.”
Me: “I think those are just…leggings.”
Alayna: *laughs*
Alayna: “Yeah, they are.”

They were, and they were So Fashion. Previously: Episode IV, Episode V

Next: Episode VII (sorry prequels) (I told her about the sand line so it's like she's basically seen them) sister tag Star Wars Return of the Jedi
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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

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There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

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I also want to give a shout out to David Settino Scott, the designer of the original X-wing. A couple years ago he was a art teacher at Ohlone college in San Luis Obispo. He’s extremely kind and inspiring, and one of the only reasons I continued to draw after High School. There are so many great artists with good philosophies who were involved and are still producing work after the films.

“Sometimes the content is related to social issues. Such issues as human rights abuses, the slave trade and the Buddhist immolations have been explored in my work.”

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I NEVER KNEW THIS THIS IS AMAZING.

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Update: My sister, the Star Wars innocent, watched The Empire Strikes Back.

We have learned:
- her favorite character is Chewie
- Han Solo’s inability to chill matches her inability to stop laughing at him
- she also echoes back 80% of his “hey kid”s to Luke
- you can’t fool her with a This *CAVE* Sure Is Damp & Shifting Oddly!
- has accurately assessed that to be promoted by Darth Vader means your lifespan has just been whittled down to about 2-10 hours
- Me: “Hey guess what this city in the clouds is called.”
   Alayna: “What.”
   Me: “Cloud City.”
   Alayna: “Goddamnit.”
- was UNABLE TO HANDLE Space Swamp Crossfit
- is still making jokes that Luke just wanted to get some power converters, also still refers to Obi Wan exclusively as Old Ben
- Me: “Nooo, Luke don’t be a hero!”
   Alayna: “LUKE YOU DON’T KNOW SHIT.”
- her face at the paternity reveal….. it was just, it was spectacular. she was shocked. she yelled NOO, Luke yelled NOO, it was so special.
- she believes Leia to be romantically cuddling up on both the boys, and is that particular combination of judgy yet impressed
- related, she still has no idea what future Skywalker Surprise is waiting for her

FRIENDS, THIS IS A RIDE.

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My little sister and I just rented Star Wars: A New Hope from an actual video rental store (#PDX), it being the first in an entire series of movies that she has a) never seen, b) has ZERO cultural preconceptions about, SOMEHOW.

Naturally the best part of watching this with her for the first time was therefore All Of It, from laughing at every transition that featured sudden lizard steeds to laugh-crying about Space Efron, as she dubbed Luke midway through — but I want to give a big special I’ll-never-forget-this shout out to the moment Obi Wan pulled his “These are not the droids you’re looking for” bit and she was like “…what how did he–??” and I replied “The Force. That’s just something you can do with The Force,” and she literally made THIS FACE

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WHILE TAKING A DRINK OF WINE. 

Anyway we can’t wait for The Empire Strikes Back.

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