{"id":293386,"date":"2021-07-08T00:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/brian-de-palmas-star-wars-reaction-is-hilarious-film\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:40:31","slug":"brian-de-palmas-star-wars-reaction-is-hilarious-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brian-de-palmas-star-wars-reaction-is-hilarious-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Brian De Palma&#8217;s Star Wars Reaction is Hilarious \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf27aa554c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf27aa554c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/brian-de-palmas-star-wars-reaction-is-hilarious-film\/#A_Force_by_Any_Other_Name_and_a_Classic_Crawl\" >A Force by Any Other Name (and a Classic Crawl)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Brian De Palma&#8217;s Star Wars Reaction is Hilarious \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-487840 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Brian-De-Palma-Harvey-Weinstein-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brian De Palma Harvey Weinstein\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Brian-De-Palma-Harvey-Weinstein.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Brian-De-Palma-Harvey-Weinstein-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artists often show their friends and fellow creatives their work before it\u2019s finished. It\u2019s a great way to get feedback and new ideas, and you hope your friends will be more honest with you than people who rely on you for a paycheck. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>arently, that level of honesty was a bit too much when director\u00a0<strong>George Lucas<\/strong> screened his unfinished cut of\u00a0<em><strong>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>for his Hollywood friends, including filmmakers\u00a0<strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Brian De Palma<\/strong>. This screening is the stuff of legend \u2013\u00a0the only person who was positive at all was Spielberg. (To everyone else\u2019s credit, Lucas had substituted airplane footage for unfinished special effects shots, which is more than a little jarring.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, De Palma, the legendary director of <em>Carrie<\/em>, <em>Scarface<\/em>, <em>Blow Out<\/em>, <em>Mission: Impossible<\/em>, and more, is reflecting on that debacle of a screening, where he made fun of one of the most famous movie concepts of all time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post -->In a recent interview with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/light-the-fuse-a-mission-impossible-podcast\/id1404667823\">the\u00a0<em><strong>Mission: Impossible\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>podcast\u00a0<em><strong>Light the Fuse<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(via <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/star-wars-screening-brian-de-palma-george-lucas-the-force\/\">Collider<\/a>) De Palma set the record straight on that infamous screening. He was supportive of Lucas, though he wasn\u2019t exactly sold on the name for \u201cthe Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all saw it as a terrific thing that George had done and we were well aware of where the special effects weren\u2019t there, and how they had cut in all these planes from other <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> that were supposed to be the ships and stuff like that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I did make a joke about The Force, that\u2019s true\u2026 I just thought the idea of The Force, you know \u2013 \u2018The Force,\u2019 I would say, and I kept repeating it. It doesn\u2019t seem like a great name for this kind of spiritual guidance, \u2018The Force.\u2019 So needless to say I had a lot to say about The Force, which obviously I was terribly wrong about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603877 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/sw-bits-george-lucas-scream-tros-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/sw-bits-george-lucas-scream-tros.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/sw-bits-george-lucas-scream-tros-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Force_by_Any_Other_Name_and_a_Classic_Crawl\"><\/span>A Force by Any Other Name (and a Classic Crawl)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>De Palma might have been wrong about \u201cThe Force,\u201d but he did have some great practical advice that changed the future of the franchise. (What could Lucas have even really used anyway? \u201cThe Magic Power\u201d? \u201cThe Shining\u201d? \u201cThe Stuff\u201d?)<\/p>\n<p>Because\u00a0<em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em> is technically the fourth chapter in the saga, some of its first viewers felt a little lost. De Palma suggested that Lucas could riff on the old <em><strong>Flash Gordon<\/strong><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>movies and do an opening crawl, and then he and screenwriter\u00a0<strong>Jay Cocks<\/strong> rewrote Lucas\u2019 original notes. That original opening crawl, which explains the roles of the Empire and the Rebels and the characters at play, was De Palma and Cocks\u2019 creation.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 -->\u201cBut the other thing was the movie starts in chapter [four], we\u2019re in a world nobody knows anything about, he\u2019s got all these funny names for people, I said, \u2018George you\u2019ve gotta set this up somehow like those crawls in the Flash Gordon movies,&#8217;\u201d he said on the podcast. \u201cGeorge had that idea, but it was all gobbledygook basically, so I and Jay Cocks went over the crawl and basically rewrote it so it made some sense. And that was our contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out the two\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/light-the-fuse-a-mission-impossible-podcast\/id1404667823\"><em>Light the Fuse\u00a0<\/em>Brian De Palma episodes<\/a> for tons of more candid, behind-the-scenes knowledge from the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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