Tag: filmmaking
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Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Oh hey! Another made-for-TV Star Wars documentary directed by Mr. Robert Guenette coming out almost immediately after one of the main films! I had planned on covering documentaries at some point when I dreamed up 2024: A Star Wars Event, but it was only after watching The Making of Star Wars and finding out the director did two more–SP FX: Special Effects – The Empire Strikes Back and this one–that I decided to follow each of the original trilogy films with their corresponding doc. And I–a former die hard Star Wars nerd–actually learned a fair amount watching these, so I…
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SP FX: Special Effects – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
This documentary made me sad, and I have no one to blame but myself. Not that it’s depressing or anything–it’s rather technical and really makes it seem that Mr. Mark Hamill’s narration comes straight off of a cue card. But rather this is all about the various special effects and techniques used while making Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, the second Star Wars documentary directed by Robert Guenette and written by Robert Schickel (the previous one being The Making of Star Wars). But as for why I got sad, well… I’ll get to that.
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The Making of Star Wars (1977)
Oh ho! You expected me to cover Stars Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back immediately after talking about Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, didn’t you? But surprise! In between rewatching the two films I checked out an old documentary on the Star Wars phenomenon, and I thought it was interesting enough to cover. While many documentaries cover their subjects long after the fact, this one stands out for coming out in September of 1977, four months after the film’s debut. So this is not only informative, but it’s a look into a world where the…
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