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December 27, 2020 9:24 AM   Subscribe

Episode I. Episode II. Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill in a galaxy far, far away.
posted by BungaDunga (14 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
I cannot even imagine how many hours of compositing went into making that for maybe a dozen good gags (the good ones were really good!). That said, it had more plot coherence than 8 of the last 9 actual Star Wars movies.
posted by rikschell at 9:53 AM on December 27, 2020 [6 favorites]


Hope/don't hope it ends with the train entering the Sarlacc Pit
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:04 AM on December 27, 2020 [5 favorites]


I love how Cary Grant can squeeze more acting out of standing around with his hands in his pockets than other actors do with Shakespeare. Someone remarked about the first scene in Walk Don't Run where he enters the frame and stands with his back to the camera that he already dominated and owned the movie.
posted by jabah at 10:08 AM on December 27, 2020 [13 favorites]


If only the later star wars movies had any pacing at all. Having a guy stand around for 3 minutes is so weird in that otherwise frenetic environment.
posted by benzenedream at 10:41 AM on December 27, 2020


brilliant. The beginning is like Waiting for Godot with Jawas.
posted by clavdivs at 12:22 PM on December 27, 2020 [2 favorites]


How long would it take to get a suit sponged and pressed on the Death Star?
posted by theory at 1:26 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]


"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops where there ain't no crops, boy!"
posted by theory at 3:02 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


I want to see a longer version of this with Princess Leia as Eva Marie Saint, Darth Vader as James Mason, and a special cameo by current-day Mark Hamill as Man Who Misses The Bus.
posted by dannyboybell at 3:24 PM on December 27, 2020


How long would it take to get a suit sponged and pressed on the Death Star?

Not long. Robots do it.
posted by Miss Cellania at 4:04 PM on December 27, 2020


Most excellent. Really makes you wonder what Hitchcock would have done with digital effects and editing.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 5:08 PM on December 27, 2020


Rogero Thornhill is a decent Star Wars name to be truthful
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 7:12 PM on December 27, 2020 [3 favorites]


This was worth it just for the snapshot of the iconic moment when Grant is running toward the screen, looking over his shoulder at the TIE fighter.
posted by darkstar at 11:06 PM on December 27, 2020 [1 favorite]


I love how Cary Grant can squeeze more acting out of standing around with his hands in his pockets than other actors do with Shakespeare. Someone remarked about the first scene in Walk Don't Run where he enters the frame and stands with his back to the camera that he already dominated and owned the movie.

I was wishing they'd kept the entire thing silent. Without their worldly, sarcastic spoken shells, Silent Roger and Silent Threepio convey such poignant intimacy and vulnerability with their body language.
posted by trig at 12:43 AM on December 28, 2020 [1 favorite]


I also enjoyed Raiders of the Lost Darth, by the same artist. Indy vs. the Ewoks!
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:16 AM on December 28, 2020


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