From: roy@watson.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Lightsabers & more
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 16:34:56 GMT
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In <1ifrekINN2ve@golem.wcc.govt.nz> parnell_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Pi-Rat) writes:
>Just afew things that I've noticed.
>
>1) I have the Record 'The Story Of Starwars' and with it came a book with
>several stliis taken from the movie. Any way there is a shot of the Lightsaber
>duel with Darth on the left, Ben on the right and the Falcon in the background,
>the Sabers are crossed and pointing slightly downwards, anyway the colour of
>both sabers is the blue that Ben's usally is, can anyone verify that this is a
>shot from the movie?

Many stills used in dozens of books and mags about the various SW films do
not have spfx elements superimposed on them.  This could be one of them.
There are a number of stills out that are not freeze-frames of movie
scenes.

I vaguely remember (but I no longer have the book or its title) a Star
Wars storybook of sorts that contains many movie stills.  The one in
particular the sticks out in my mind is a shot of Luke, Ben, and Threepio
in Ben's home.  Luke is wielding his lightsaber in the center of the
shot, Threepio, sitting to the left, and Ben seated to the right.
The interesting part of the shot is that Threepio's legs are not covered.
I think the shot showed the actors legs with minimal or no Threepio
armor covering.  This is probably a still, and not a movie freeze-frame
because I couldn't find the uncovered legs in said scene in ANH.

Does anyone know the book I am referring to?


>2) Also from the stliis that came with the record  ther is a shot of Darth's
>Tie flying down the trench, with only _ONE_ wingman on the left(Vaders right)
>from another still this is the wingman that gets destroyed by the falcon, so
>can't be after that point in the film.

See explanation above.  Possibly the negative got reversed.  This happens
often, though I don't have other examples.

Maybe it was still from just after the left wingman got destroyed and just
before the right wingman runs into Vader.  Reverse the negative and you
get a lone wingman on the left, not the right.  Are the fighter headed
from left to right by chance?  If so, then this is more evidence of the
reversed negative theory as in the movie they moved from right to left.


>3) This should be the last... In Empire, just after Luke starts falling down
>the shaft in Bespin I seem to recall a shot of Darth trying to catch him with
>the force but the effort is too much so he lets him fall. Now it has been ages
>since I have seen any of the trilogy Uncut, so I can't be sure about this last
>sequence, but I deffinitly recall it.

That is the way it happened in TESB novelization.  Darth uses the force to
hold Luke in place momentarily, then after toying with him, releases him.

Regards,
Tom Rogers
roy@trigger.watson.ibm.com
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