george lucas has very famously adopted the practice of green screen
special effects. This means he does very little shooting of ACTUAL locations and just makes them on a pc afterwards.....very unconvincingly i might add
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 16:55,
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This is quite possibly
The least humourous and geek addled thing I have ever seen
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 16:56,
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it means that instead of spending a few thousand picking a nice location to shoot and pay a few people to make props
he can spend millions on hiring computer artists and other geeky sorts
- and yeah most of the time it looks quite naff
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 16:58,
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- and yeah most of the time it looks quite naff
Because
The Tatooine you grew up in looked nothing like that, right?
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 17:48,
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No, it is because ...
the Tatooine I grew up watching in the original Star Wars trilogy looks nothing like that.
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Tue 18 Apr 2006, 22:45,
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