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[–]iamaelephant 174 points175 points ago

More here - my favourite is slide 10 which shows the pile of mattresses Luke falls onto in the "I am your father" scene.

[–]Belseb 68 points69 points ago

Harrison Ford looks so damn cool in these old pictures, he really is Han Solo.

[–]BeneathAnIronSky 26 points27 points ago

He hated the role, though, at least for the first film. I think he said something to the effect of, "I'll play the role, but don't expect me to understand it or like it." Perhaps that's why it's so easy for Solo to be contemptuous of everything, because Ford actually was.

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[–]landooo 0 points1 point ago

damn right

[–]rhinestonelife 53 points54 points ago

Seeing how they used to make movies like this kind of depresses me how all we do now is CG work. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love what they're able to do in movies now, but there was just something special about the "Hollywood magic" they used to have to employ to do anything. The audience used to wonder how the hell they did half of the effects of a movie, now we all just leave knowing it was done by some dude sitting at a computer, oh well.

[–]itsprobablytrue 39 points40 points ago

You should watch "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and then watch the dvd extras that shows the directors insane use of practical camera tricks instead of easy computer generated effects. They were all done quite well.

[–]glglglglgl 17 points18 points ago

I love that some shots are "wear this costume, move camera, you run and change fast behind the camera, and appear on the other side of the scene".

[–]hakkzpets 6 points7 points ago

Also watch any C. Nolan movie. That guy hates the use of CG.

The sad part about CGI isn't that the special effects aren't that "cool" anymore. It's that the actors seems to lack emotions.

It's obviously blatant in Star Wars if you watch Ep 4-6 and then Ep 1-3.

[–]FadeToSack 2 points3 points ago

He doesn't hate CG, he just uses it sparingly when 'real' shots aren't possible. Double Negative did a ton of work on Inception. And won an Oscar for it - http://www.dneg.com/news/dnegs_work_on_inception_wins_visual_effects_oscar_307.html

[–]Jewboi 1 point2 points ago

Also Death Proof

[–]discopowerpack 25 points26 points ago

But it explains why the directors want to go and remaster their movies. In the past, a title sequence was actually filmed, and robotic actions scenes required clever camera work involving toy models. You can't blame George Lucas and Steven Spielberg for getting excited by new technology that causes those painstaking scenes to be constructed in 10% of the time. Now they can do everything they wanted to do in short period of time... On a computer... It's like 80s kids growing up playing Zelda on their tiny TVs. Now we have massive flatscreens, so let's play the game again to see how great it looks.

[–]electrolemon 11 points12 points ago

... Shit. That was a damn good analogy, and now I kind of feel for them.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

... this is sort of irrelevant, but when I fired up Zelda on my 42 inch TV, it actually looked BETTER than in the old NES days because of the graphics algorithms that the emulator used. Comparitively my PS games look like shit ;)

[–]dinocool 1 point2 points ago

graphics algorithms, the fuck you talking bout? (programmer here)

[–]nupogodi 8 points9 points ago*

Output filters. "Intelligent upscaling". Anti-aliasing. Turns this into this. Makes SNES emulation infinitely more bearable in high resolution.

[–]7za 0 points1 point ago

Whenever I try to open your links, I get "403 Forbidden".

[–]nupogodi 2 points3 points ago

Oops. I hotlinked. Let me fix that.

[–]Lycurgus 0 points1 point ago

And now I'll be downloading Chrono Trigger. Thanks, jerk. I have work to do!

[–]dinocool 0 points1 point ago

supersal and the like are 1, not antialiasing, and 2 are not hardware algorithms.

[–]nupogodi 0 points1 point ago

not hardware algorithms

No one claimed that...

[–]l4qu3 3 points4 points ago

It's just a case of decentralising the metaplasics and allowing the drataflow to bypass the syntrim.

[–]Disasturbator 1 point2 points ago

I'm glad someone had the balls to say this.

[–]PicopicoEMD 0 points1 point ago

Exactly my thoughts.

[–]aethelberga 0 points1 point ago

I'm still surprised the title sequence was actually done like this. I assumed it would have been done in post. Were end credits done the same way?

[–]nupogodi 3 points4 points ago

This is post. It's certainly not principal photography.

[–]photosensitiv 0 points1 point ago

i think technically this would have been post, back in the day. and credits were similarly done, just with the camera floating above the slides

[–]riverduck 18 points19 points ago

Funnily enough, people thought the same thing at Star Wars' release as well. Star Wars used a fuck-ton of computer-controlled cameras and computer-controlled models to reproduce exact effects without human error, which the old-school effects guys felt was cheating and made it boring.

[–]junkmanuk 7 points8 points ago

Then watch this and renew your your enthusiasm!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB0PyyLNIV4

(From Inception)

[–]glglglglgl 5 points6 points ago

Not entirely, practical effects still exist. It's not a great film, but if you check out Zathura (basically, it's Jumanji in Space, from a few years ago), almost all of the effects are done practically with just CG touch-ups. For instance, there is a scene with no gravity... so the entire set was built in a giant rotating cylinder.

[–]TheTrueMephisto 1 point2 points ago

I agree. Every special effect had a different creative and clever solution behind it. I really admire when modern film-makers decide to make a film using as much special effects as possible. Although I think often the audience doesn't appreciate it.

[–]eat-your-corn-syrup 0 points1 point ago

CG math is cool too

[–]nissenissenisse 20 points21 points ago

the "I am your father" scene

DUDE! Spoiler alert!

[–]MomoTheCow 3 points4 points ago

TIL the guy who directed The Rocketeer and Honey I Shrunk the Kids is the guy who painted Boba Fett's costume.

[–]missmediajunkie 0 points1 point ago

He also directed a little movie called Captain America...

[–]vertigo1083 6 points7 points ago

What the hell is up with the monkey?

[–]platipress 19 points20 points ago

I think they put a yoda suit on him and had him walk around for the shots that couldn't be filmed with a puppet.

[–]Jidget 8 points9 points ago

The simian was also briefly considered for walking shots

Doesn't sound like it was actually used in the end.

[–]colecrain 36 points37 points ago

upvote for knowing how to read!

[–]vertigo1083 2 points3 points ago

Actually I just found out that adblock caused me to not see the text as the program sometimes has too much of a border around the original image or link its blocking.

[–]brussels4breakfast 0 points1 point ago

My favorite is the close-up of Harrison Ford.

[–]trampus1 0 points1 point ago

And now the magic is gone, thanks.

[–]RobertM525 0 points1 point ago

Thanks for the link!

I love the pics of Carrie Fischer's... "playfulness" there. God, she was so hot in ESB. Fuck the stupid slave girl bikini in RotJ, that Bespin dress thing was hot. It's kinda sad how much her character sort of devolved over the course of the trilogy—she was so much more interesting and alive in ANH than she was by RotJ.

Also, it's amazing how tall the actor who played Chewie was.

[–]GoodScreenName 0 points1 point ago

imgur'd.

[–]Freewheelin_ 1 point2 points ago

Thanks, I couldn't see it on Vanity Fair.

[–]taylorraboin 455 points456 points ago

that's stupid, they could have easily made that effect with even a shitty program like windows movie mak... oh, right.

[–]MrAndroidFilms 236 points237 points ago

It's so weird to see how much effort it took for even the most simple ideas

[–]ohok1 5 points6 points ago

well what did they use to create the words on the screen? why couldn't that just be inserted into the film

[–]shawa666 0 points1 point ago

Acetate sheets. Because no computers. As in it's easier to do this than to draw each cell one by one.... oh wait.

[–]aTroll 15 points16 points ago

i don't get it...why couldn't they use windows movie mak

[–]1919 104 points105 points ago

Because BootCamp wasn't available back then ofc

[–]taylorraboin 6 points7 points ago

well played.

[–]ImmatureMaTt 202 points203 points ago

And to think that today any kid with After Effects can blow up the Empire State Building.

[–]binary 268 points269 points ago

That was only a few words short of insulting Michael Bay.

[–]25or6tofour 17 points18 points ago

He's telling you to try harder next time.

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points ago

michael bay basically feeds off the tears of my generation's childhood.

our insults, however, will just bounce off of him on his way back to bed with supermodels.

[–]mazinger_z 14 points15 points ago

Actually, our insults bounce off of him straight to his bank account. Zero fucks given.

[–]itsprobablytrue 32 points33 points ago

I thought our insults bounce off him and blow up the empire state building

[–]RowdyPants 8 points9 points ago

That's probably tr- hey wait a minute!

[–]ComradePyro 5 points6 points ago

I think you mean fucks givin' zeroes.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

well mine don't. i refuse to pay for michael bay films.

[–]Antrikshy 0 points1 point ago

By the way, ninja turtles.

[–]Aiyon 1 point2 points ago

Only, being a michael bay film, they won't be teenage, and they won't be turtles... and one will have huge tits and a face that's 90% plastic

[–]scrith 1 point2 points ago

Fuck Michael Bay.

There, I did it in even fewer words.

[–]FletchDoesNotLive 0 points1 point ago

Funny enough, Michael Bay actually worked on Raiders of the Lost Ark as an intern. From what I understand he said the movie wouldn't work....whoops.

[–]Illogical_Response 19 points20 points ago

Don't let the terrorists know that.

[–]morphinapg 15 points16 points ago

Not quite. It still takes a lot of skill to pull off something like that, and then much more so to do it convincingly.

[–]kyrodes 5 points6 points ago

You said that the kid strikes back Empire?

[–]DivineJustice 0 points1 point ago

It's not like any idiot can just open up aftereffects and click on explode.

[–]electrolemon 4 points5 points ago

*Ideas for CS6

[–]PrototypeT800 0 points1 point ago

*CS6.5

[–]MattyMcD 0 points1 point ago

Too bad it looks like a pile of shit and most people can tell because 80% of AE comp looks incredibly fake. (This is mostly because people just use Video Copilot tutorials and their basic plug ins.)

I don't think I've ever seen After Effects used for any sort of thing in a large production.

[–]smiley325 0 points1 point ago

What do the pros use and where can I learn to make professional looking special effects?

[–]MattyMcD 0 points1 point ago

Depends. A lot of companies will used proprietary software or iterated software based off of another if they can.

The Foundry's Nuke is becoming the standard now for Compositing but there are a large amount of programs used during production.

Houdini, Maya and most 3d packages to name a few.

[–]ghostleeone 31 points32 points ago

You gotta love their imagination back then. How something can be so simply yet amazing. End result is a masterpiece!

[–]Atario 7 points8 points ago

It was also a tribute to the Flash Gordon serials he enjoyed as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOL8Fx3Tvc

[–]25or6tofour 45 points46 points ago

What about string?

[–]cy_sperling 90 points91 points ago

Best guess is this is a shot when the motion control move was being programmed. If they run the move, and the string stays dead center in the videotap, they know the move is programmed perfectly straight. Once checked, remove the string, rerun the move with camera rolling.

[–]25or6tofour 9 points10 points ago

TIL. Thanks.

[–]vertigo1083 1 point2 points ago

Kind of like the way a yaw string functions. This was my first thought as well.

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[–]cy_sperling 12 points13 points ago

Camera is not stationary. That is a motion control camera. The camera moves from the top of the crawl to the bottom at a steady speed. Since the motors are computer controlled, the camera move can be repeated exactly the same every time. These same rigs were used to move the cameras past models of the ships to create the illusion of flight. In many shots, the models were also placed on motion control rigs so they could perform more complex counter moves relative to the camera.

[–]bryanhbell 4 points5 points ago

He's right. I used to operate a motion control camera rig (for a small outfit that mostly made TV commercials) and that's how we did stuff like that. My specialty was motion graphics (dancing logos that glow, sparkle, and whatnot). Man, that's a skill set I'll never use again. Sure was fun at the time, though.

[–]zero_defects 10 points11 points ago

A decade before, Douglas Trumbull used slit-scan photography to create the stargate psychedelia in Kubrick's 2001. It was a brilliant use of mechanical means to produce a CGI-ish warping and stretching effect ahead of its time.

[–]i_troll_cus_i_luv 50 points51 points ago

its easy to forget they had to shoot everything. no CGI

[–]vertigo1083 38 points39 points ago

And most importantly, none of this fucking guy.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

Who is that?

[–]vertigo1083 1 point2 points ago

Someone I'd like to forget, also.

[–]BootsyCollinsGlasses 9 points10 points ago

I saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, and those opening credits blew me away. Then it got even more amazing with the giant ship in the first scene. It's hard to convey how revolutionary it was.

[–]riverduck 13 points14 points ago

It's hard to convey how revolutionary it was.

I love Star Wars too, but this kind of bugs me. At least, about the titles. The opening titles are an exact reproduction of those used in the 1930s Flash Gordon series that Lucas grew up with. They were a really retro effect. Same thing with the wipes across the screen rather than hard cuts and the designs for some of the weapons and costumes. It was revolutionary in a financial and marketing sense, representing the first attempt to duplicate Jaws' accidental creation of the blockbuster model. But the actual content of the film was very much a nostalgic attempt to recreate classic serials, not exactly something new or revolutionary.

Lucas went on to make Indiana Jones to recreate the 30s adventure serials, rather than the Flash Gordon style sci-fi serials. Lucas' trademark is nostalgia.

[–]muddysoap 2 points3 points ago

right, but for this to be on a huge color screen in a relatively new theater, it's different. and to a lot of people, it was new and groundbreaking. no matter if it had been done before or when, 99% of people had seen nothing like it. then, all the sudden, you could see it around the block at your local theater. definitely important to give credit where credit is due (flash), but also without star wars and lucas, you wouldn't have half of america experiencing it, realizing that, to them, it was rather groundbreaking.

[–]SnowblindAlbino 3 points4 points ago

Keep this in mind as well: back then NONE of us had access to those old shows. No VCRs, no 200 channel cable, no classic film channel, no net. When Star Wars was released I had seen exactly ONE episode of Commander Cody-- because someone my dad knew was a 16mm film collector and screened one for me --but I had never seen Flash or anything else from that era. Lucas's homage was evident only to those who were old enough to have seen that material themselves as kids in the 1930s-40's, or like him had access to a film school library or screening room. The vast majority of the original theatrical audience for Star Wars only knew of the connection to the old serials because film critics wrote about it in Time and Newsweek. Thus everything was new to us, including the credits, since Star Trek and 2001 were pretty much our only experienced with sci-fi in that era.

[–]eat-your-corn-syrup 0 points1 point ago

You never go full new.

[–]wgclock 17 points18 points ago

Well I was gonna clean my basement tonight but now I'm starting another Star Wars 4-6 marathon. Thanks alot.

[–]binocusecond 22 points23 points ago

Try this: the Machete Order for watching the films, without completely excluding the prequels

I haven't done it myself yet, but the logic seems compelling.

[–]nickells 7 points8 points ago

that was an excellent 20 minutes, thank you

[–]warrior2233 3 points4 points ago

Sped read while on pooper, good read. Great idea!

[–]UnfittingToast 3 points4 points ago

I actually tried this a few weeks ago with someone in my office who had never seen Star Wars before. She reported that it was actually pretty good.

[–]hatestosmell 2 points3 points ago

That is an amazing idea, well thought out and explored. Skip the pod racing and Jar Jar; treat 2 and 3 like a flashback before the climax. Brilliant!

[–]I_CAPE_RATS 8 points9 points ago

They got the idea from 1930s Flash Gordon movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnOL8Fx3Tvc

[–]greenBaozi 32 points33 points ago

[–]riverduck 9 points10 points ago

Empire Strikes Back used loads of blue screen.

[–]Wazowski 7 points8 points ago

And the prequels used a shitton of miniatures.

[–]lucw 7 points8 points ago

I remember when effects were done traditionally, some may have been cheesy, but I kinda liked the feel of them

[–]bewk 4 points5 points ago

[–]Interesting_name 44 points45 points ago

A famous opening, to be sure. A cool behind-the-scenes picture!

[–]JeffTD 3 points4 points ago

I approve of how much gaff tape is on that thing.

[–]TinyMarsh 2 points3 points ago

A depressing and sad piece of trivia for you; Elstree Studios, where they filmed the original three episodes, is now known for the location of the UK's Big Brother house.

The big Lucas studio still stands though. It's quite a cool feeling being around that area, knowing that that's where the magic happened 30 years ago.

[–]walgman 1 point2 points ago

It's depressing the programme even exists.

[–]scudmonger 4 points5 points ago

A block of credits was seen floating through space today...

[–]reaper6788 1 point2 points ago

And now I have to watch it tonight. Damn you!

[–]Iasktoomuch 1 point2 points ago

How did they transition that into the opening scene of Hoth?

[–]TabascoQuesadilla 5 points6 points ago

They composited the crawl onto a starfield, on which they pan down once the crawl has disappeared, at which point they composited Hoth and the Star Destroyer onto the lower part of the same starfield. Then they cut to a different (but still composited) shot of the probes launching from the Star Destroyer.

[–]sil3ntki11 2 points3 points ago

Holy crap, so much work and you don't even think about it. Amazing

[–]keiyakins 4 points5 points ago

If the effects guys are doing their job, you should never realize they exist until their names pop up in the end credits.

[–]teeka421 5 points6 points ago

This is up for clarification, but I understand that Lucas went to Steve Jobs to solve a problem:

When compositing multiple shots the classic way, layering the bits of film, the final scenes became so muddy / noisy that they weren't good enough to use in the movie. So George was curious of there was a way to do this using computers.

A team lead by Steve Jobs creating the first digital compositing computer for George. It was a huge success, and this team went on to be Pixar.

[–]a_over_b 6 points7 points ago

Not quite -- Lucas started his computer division in 1979. Steve Jobs wasn't involved until 1986 when he bought the computer animation group from Lucas and turned it into Pixar. Those who remained at Lucasfilm became the computer graphics department at ILM, focusing on visual effects for live-action films as opposed to animation.

The computer group at Lucasfilm did make their own hardware for a while but it wasn't the first and it was never a big financial success. However, their Renderman software is still popular.

[–]teeka421 0 points1 point ago

Thanks for info! /nerdwink

[–]TabascoQuesadilla 0 points1 point ago

You're right that, in compositing multiple layers of film, the grain of one layer gets added to the next until you have an extremely grainy image.

Many movies of the time (Close Encounters and Blade Runner are two examples) used 70mm for effects sequences for this very reason (since 70mm film has a much finer grain structure than 35mm does).

For Star Wars, they used VistaVision, which is to 35mm as IMAX is to 70mm (that is, VistaVision is just 35mm turned on its side). This reduced the amount of grain, but not nearly as well as using 70mm did.

So yeah, you can notice very heavy grain during some effects shots of the original trilogy because of this. The shots of the landspeeder entering Mos Eisley are great examples of this.

[–]cuntrolled 0 points1 point ago

One does not pan down or up. Even in the seventies.

[–]TabascoQuesadilla 1 point2 points ago

Tilt, then?

Hey, I'm a post-production guy, not a DP. I don't know the "proper" terms for that stuff.

[–]cuntrolled 1 point2 points ago

Passing the abuse along, I was the pan up guy once.

[–]A_British_Gentleman 1 point2 points ago

I always wondered how films did text effects before the days of computers. Very interesting :)

[–]HermitCrabTuesday 1 point2 points ago

I wonder how much that piece of paper is worth now....

[–]TheLightingGuy 1 point2 points ago

What's the string for?

[–]PraetorianXVIII 1 point2 points ago

I always wanted to know how they did that. I figured it was "done with computers" but this is a bit more. . . I don't know. . . hands-on than I'd thought.

[–]Dunabu 2 points3 points ago

Well I'll be. I wouldn't have thought it was done that way.

This sort of ingenuity is so diminished in the film industry these days.

[–]iLikeCode 0 points1 point ago

Any more info?

[–]patio87 3 points4 points ago

And the effects and models in this movie still feel more real than any CG model ever.

[–]keiyakins 1 point2 points ago

Some of them do. Others have issues. The AT-ATs move really awkwardly, for instance. Not like the massive, heavy machines they are.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

Why does it read Episode V, shouldn't it be Episode II, since the new Episodes weren't even in process at that time.

[–]aerospeed 1 point2 points ago

Before Empire came out, they had already re-released the 1977 Star Wars with Lucas changing the opening crawl to say "Episode IV." He'd been thinking about it for a while.

[–]SpookyRockjaw 0 points1 point ago

The first Star Wars was released in 1977 as just Star Wars but before the second film came out Lucas changed the crawl of the original film to read Episode IV. That was the first change made to any of the films post-release. Then Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980 with the Episode V title and Return of the Jedi was released as Episode VI in 1983.

[–]GoCuse 1 point2 points ago

This was an idea Lucas stole from The Flash. Every Star Wars fan should watch this. Everything is a Remix.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

"stole"

[–]overall 1 point2 points ago

cinema B.C. (before computers)

[–]well_golly 1 point2 points ago

Makes me think of how The Star Wars Holiday Special was so cheap, they didn't include a crawl in the opening. Back then this stuff took some time & money.

Today the technology is so inexpensive and prevalent, fans came along later and added a crawl to the beginning of the Holiday Special which you can see on YouTube/Google:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544

The first part (crawl), is CG from someone's desktop computer. It was not in the actual Special when it broadcast.

The actual Special begins at a cold open, occurring at about 00:00:54. Opening titles occur at 00:01:44.

You'll see there is no crawl at 00:01:44, where a crawl should occur. Rather there is some cross-fading of "Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."


I know some of you are looking at that link and thinking: Wow! A Star Wars I never head of! I'm gonna watch it!!

Well let me warn you that this isn't like the oth-- ... ... ...

... Y'know what? Go ahead and watch the whole thing. It'll put hair on your chest. Chewbacca watched it twice!

[–]beerwhiskywhatever 1 point2 points ago

My very first tattoo was from this movie. "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter" I intently gain respect for anyone who recognizes its origin.

[–]XTraumaX 0 points1 point ago

Can anyone explain exactly whats going on here? I'm trying to make sense of what exactly the set up is here and how its being done.

[–]whatzart 0 points1 point ago

It's probably a Kodalith negative, a piece of film with the words on it, burned in like a photographic negative. They are tilting the camera and tracking down the words to give a "keystone" effect so the words will appear to be receding into the distance.

Also I believe that in the background is a large airbrushed backdrop for the Hoth ATAT stop motion scenes.

[–]skysignor 0 points1 point ago

Before computers, we actually had to do things ourselves. Yuck.

[–]crpearce 0 points1 point ago

In my Motion Graphics class, we reproduced this crawl in After Effects with 2 pre-comps on an older iMac.

Future and technology and shit.

[–]alpenbum 0 points1 point ago

It's gotten a lot easier!!! They got the ball rolling! Thx guys!!!

[–]BlakeBallard 0 points1 point ago

GoshcatUnpunished. Nice to see you again...

I've been following your posts. And finding your irl location.

[–]xEzio 0 points1 point ago

Learned something today :D

[–]aperman 0 points1 point ago

fun fact: my professor designed those title sequences.

[–]henny88 0 points1 point ago

jeez, got digital?

[–]stinky-weaselteats 0 points1 point ago

The best 1 of them all.

[–]ClownsInJumpsuits 0 points1 point ago

Repost

[–]Docfeelbad 0 points1 point ago

Want to downvote because this is like a 7th generation repost. But I have to upvote because ESB is my favorite film.

[–]jew_jitsu 0 points1 point ago

Why did they have a moving camera with static titles, wouldn't it have been easier to have a static camera with title moving away?

[–]SpookyRockjaw 0 points1 point ago

They used computer programmed motion control cameras which could reproduce exact movements multiple times. This means they could do multiple passes with the exact same camera move and then optically composite different film elements together. This is how the majority of special effects in the original trilogy were done.

Since they shot all the special effects with motion control cameras they were just being consistent and using the equipment that they had built. To create this effect they just needed to put the stationary text over a backlit screen and move the camera across it. Simple. To somehow make the text itself scroll they would have to build a contraption to roll the sheet of text, somehow make that movement perfectly smooth and then figure out how to backlight the moving text.

[–]A_guy_from_Germany 0 points1 point ago

... again.

[–]Mr_Evangelion 0 points1 point ago

I KNEW IT

[–]cmegam1ghtyf1lms 0 points1 point ago

I'd like to see a video of the crew making all the special effects back in the day. A whole movie about it, not just snippets. Every single effect.

[–]DavieJones333 0 points1 point ago

They don't make things the way they used to.

[–]hypertown 0 points1 point ago

If I ever become a super movie maker, this is how shit will go down on set. Real shit. Fuck computers, fuck the absence of film. Movies should be made like a kid digging in the back yard.

[–]GashcatUnpunished[S] 0 points1 point ago

I love that analogy.

[–]live4thepast 0 points1 point ago

I don't understand how this could have over 2,480 down votes???

[–]Purple_Streak 0 points1 point ago

Because it's a repost of a reposted repost.

[–]Nightbynight 0 points1 point ago

Imaginative film-making is what made Star Wars great.

[–]Zadkovic 0 points1 point ago

I allways thought it was a "cartoon style" opening. Thanks for clearing that out for me:)

[–]Full_Of_Win 0 points1 point ago

Saw this yesterday, why I did not post it I have no idea.

[–]brainburger 0 points1 point ago

I don't remember that bit of string.