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You know why people hate Han Solo? Cause the whole time he was on hoth he’d see Taun Taun crap and he’d make that stupid “I thought they smelled bad on the outside!” joke. Day in and day out.
By the time he rescued Luke he was muttering that dumb joke to himself like that guy from the office saying “That’s what she said.” after everything.
The audience laughed, but the rest of us that actually knew Han were just rolling out eyes and shaking our heads in disbelief.
Turbo is a student film like you’ve never seen before; a two year effort by a USC film school student to make his film thesis. The result is a fun, well crafted 20 minute ride of action, effects and story. Jarrett Conaway smoothly mixes styles, picks his shots and keeps the narrative heartfelt. I think you’ll be impressed with the film’s polish, style and ability to tell a story.
Back near the beginning of this blog I told a story of finding and watching the final episode of the original Star Trek from1969 called “Turnabout Intruder”. I made the point that the episode, which dealt with an angry woman from Kirk’s past trying to take over the ship, ended with Kirk saying “She could have had a life as rich as any woman’s….if only….. if only……” One of the major plot points was that women could not be Starfleet captains, so I wondered what they were trying to say here? It’s true that Gene Roddenberry’s original idea was to have a male captain, played by Jeffery Hunter, and a female second in command played by his wife Majel Barrett. Perhaps Kirk’s final words were a reference to the network’s dislike of the idea of a woman so close to the captain’s chair.
Regardless, question would come up from time to time and it’s odd that I never saw it this way before, but the question was “answered” in a sense by another character in another Star Trek series: Captain Kathryn Janeway.
photo credit: loop_oh I promised myself I would write something about the CGI animated program “Clone Wars”. It is a show about the adventures of Anakin Skywalker before his fall, and while his friendship with Obi Wan, and marriage to Padme still meant something to him. The array of characters is surprising. Anakin [...]
photo credit: Erathic Eric Writer’s often are voracious readers, and when a writer finds a particular piece he loves, he may read it over and over. The following is one such piece for me. It is not an easy read. It is a news story written in an interesting narrative style, but goes into [...]
