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Post by Seeker of the Whills on May 20, 2021 14:51:48 GMT
I like how fast he zaps his eyes open and is immediately ready for combat after meditating.  |
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Post by Cryogenic on May 20, 2021 17:24:00 GMT
Seeker of the Whills -- That moment has always stuck out to me, too (in a good way). Violence doesn't really suit Qui-Gon. Meditation does. He prospers with one, dies with the other. The whole laser gate sequence is a trip. The ultimate trip. 2001. You may have heard of the KyloFireMoonWalk, but now I give you... QuiGonBowMan
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Post by smittysgelato on May 20, 2021 19:06:33 GMT
I absolutely love this dissolve of Meditating Qui-Gon and Dave. I have something new to mull over the next time I watch both of these great films!
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Post by Cryogenic on May 20, 2021 19:41:06 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on May 20, 2021 20:16:57 GMT
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Post by Cryogenic on May 20, 2021 20:35:17 GMT
I was vaguely thinking of that post, but couldn't remember where it was! Nice.  |
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Post by Ingram on May 21, 2021 7:23:42 GMT
Obi-Wan screenwipe.  Paradoxically, the most boldly mundane image in all of Star Wars: just a plain white door.
Anakin spectral. 
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Post by Cryogenic on May 21, 2021 8:32:18 GMT
Obi-Wan screenwipe. Paradoxically, the most boldly mundane image in all of Star Wars: just a plain white door.
And accompanied by a hydraulic "pssssst". In fact, I just re-watched the entire scene, and noticed something neat in the sound design: Obi-Wan actually disguises the opening and closing of the compartment door by activating it as Padme's ship is taking off. The sounds of the ship's engines powering up and the degassing of the vessel perfectly overlap with the door sound. A really nice detail. And this mundane event, like all shots in Star Wars, has a purpose. In this case, in addition to making clear Obi-Wan has used deception to find Anakin, it's to put an appropriate (and somewhat ironic) punctuation mark on the human cost of confronting Anakin. In AOTC, Obi-Wan lightly scolds Anakin for using Padme as "bait". And here in ROTS, this is exactly what he is doing -- well, from a certain point of view. Also, even this mundane event has some evocative symbolism: Obi-Wan hiding himself and re-appearing "when the time is right" (or, indeed, disastrously wrong). There's even a nice contrast with Obi-Wan fighting Jango in the previous film:   Aggressive door opening with the Force vs... Politely using the button:  And politely closing with a gentle application of the Force:   Character growth. Obi-Wan even treats doors more kindly as he matures. Some other resonances: Door closing on the other surviving Jedi of the PT who also secretes himself into a small space:   In Episode II, again on Kamino, Boba calmly closes the door to the compartment where Obi-Wan spies Jango's armour:     This one is funny -- and perhaps symbolic of the "going in circles" plotline of the film... Obi-Wan emerges from the main door to confront Jango on the landing platform:  Then he falls and has to make his way through the same door again, just in the nick of time to hurl the tracking device onto Jango's ship: 
"It's possible he was conceived by the midi-chlorians."
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Post by smittysgelato on May 21, 2021 19:50:09 GMT
CryogenicThe Doors of Deception vs. The Doors of Perception. Lucid and Intoxicated Perception.
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Post by Cryogenic on May 22, 2021 11:09:28 GMT
Cryogenic The Doors of Deception vs. The Doors of Perception. Lucid and Intoxicated Perception. And, of course, there's this famous line: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
-- William BlakeBTW, I just noticed another resonance based on Ingram's last screencap of Anakin: Rainy Obi-Wan reporting to his masters with blurred light bands in the background:  "Rainy" Anakin reporting to his master with blurred light disks in the background:  Close-up distortion:   Regretful head -- ponderous and/or distracted -- once transmission ends:   |
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Post by Moonshield on May 26, 2021 8:54:12 GMT
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Post by Samnz on May 26, 2021 11:47:49 GMT
My favourite should come at no surprise:  |
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Post by Samnz on May 27, 2021 13:00:33 GMT
I know I am making myself guilty of a double post, but I don't think this is much of an issue here.
I like that this one of made of almost solely black and white and still shows the distinctive "digital gloss" of the Prequels. That dark figure in the left is actually Palpatine and I like how he appears to be cutting Anakin off from the light of the lamp and how that lamp seems to be in contrast to that black vase hiding Palpatine dirty dark side secrets^^
Hayden also carries himself in a way that makes you really feel the burden. Like that!
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Post by Ingram on Jun 2, 2021 21:11:31 GMT
My annual viewing continues. Where last week I dished some material for the OT thread I now find myself back here, having commenced my 2nd week with the Prequels. I almost considered skipping these given how much has been extrapolated already with a thread now 5 pages strong. Almost. I still think there's some trinkets and curiosities to consider. Today, The Phantom Menace... Viewfinder geometry.  Neeson's visage really was well utilized in this movie; Qui-Gon seen here as a shadow-framed Sohei.  "Yeah?"
 Still one of my favorite panning reveals. The glow of it along with Williams' hushed choir'd ambiance. Lucas' longing ambitions now finally realized. Much larger worlds.
 Just an incredibly complex array of light, textures, models, plates and set-design all glimpsed through some peculiar hangar bay door framing.
 Geography thrift.
 Padme a large form in little Anakin's orbit. It's an old language but Lucas always understood the compositional value of keeping your characters in foreground coverage...
 ...here, the Kurosawa-Leone touch in modest fashion.
 Some Jedis sit atop jeweled towers. Others walk at ease through junkyards.
 A quirky offset amidst Lucas' otherwise formalist visual language: Anakin's first-person POV of Padme in frame-broken soft focus, turning away from the camera. Little boys see girls in fleeting perspectives.
 Interestingly, such dead-centering of the audience is all over Episode I, something that distanced it a bit from the other installments.
 AniCap.
 It still amazes me how much thematic resonance these movies communicate through the simplest of imagery. Humble story glyphs.
 Debris.
 Team Lucasberg will forever hold a certain merit badge for their fantastical desert-set escapism.
 When Star Wars still used scaled live-action explosions.
 Something about little Anakin... at times he's almost like a Don Bluth character.
 Banana flares.
 Alexandre Dumas writ space pulp. Even on paper Episode I (the PT at a certain length) evokes plot mechanics and dramatic stakes vaguely similar to those of The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask.
 Padme and her sport blaster outside your window.
 Obi-Wan's quantum leap.
 Heaven's gate.
 Utini!
 This is almost a meta moment, as the three "fates" are separated by film cell negatives.
 This always struck me as a plainly Biblical-like image.
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 2, 2021 23:15:00 GMT
Another awesome collection of stirring shots, Ingram . I actually think you should put that post in your thread and rename it "Ingram's Great Saga Adventure" or something. They're very subjective (which is a good thing) and kinda wasted in here. Or put the other way: your thread is impoverished because they're not also in there. Oh, and this: Hilariously epic win! |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on Jun 3, 2021 2:35:22 GMT
Ingram, I am in awe a tour de force |
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Post by Ingram on Jun 3, 2021 21:50:43 GMT
I actually think you should put that post in your thread and rename it "Ingram's Great Saga Adventure" or something. They're very subjective (which is a good thing) and kinda wasted in here. Or put the other way: your thread is impoverished because they're not also in there. I'd prefer to be among the rest of you and contribute to that which is already in motion. Anyhow, Attack of the Clones...
A falcon approaches a clouded city.
Hiding in plain sight, looming large over events.
Padme, Obi-Wan, Anakin and Jar Jar. And pillows.
Anakin truly is the teen archetype in this movie, constantly torn between urges: the promise of sex or racing off with big brother for action and adventure.
All seats in their upright positions.
Downtown.
Kinda found this humorous as a followup image. Also, feigned injury in the grass is better than real injury next to a river of lava, I guess.
I'm so dumb. I never (really) got this. Anakin's juxtaposed firelight interludes, framed and lit in reverse angles to boot.
Yellow coding.
Planetary electrum.
A recurring motif in staging.
Fishing for Jedi.
Face.
I love predawn Geonosis.
Ad for 1970s made-for-TV teledrama. Imagine projected over this in large text: The Lars Homestead Tragedy - Thursday Night at 8pm est on CBS
Church of Obi-Wan.
Where Episode I weighed a certain anchor in 1st-person POVs, Episode II seems to have something of a proclivity -- outside the saga's average -- for inserts, itemized and ornamental.
Oh, I got nothing here. Natalie Portman was just devastatingly beautiful in this scene.
Vertical chain.
Totemic.
Amidst all the FX mayhem, just a great bit of old fashioned, in-camera, 'cowboy action' stunt work.
Impossible to see.
Over a stretch of the third act, the palette for Episode II borders on downright septic. I dig that... a rust-colored venue, its daylight sickly, dotted with garish limes and laser flares.
Dust to dust.
A remote, lingering sadness that is the nonessential existence of a battle droid. I'm not kidding when I mention this.
Waste no portion of the frame in exhibiting scale.
Inadvertent forced perspective.
Stone, dirt, water, air.
Breaking the glass ceiling.
A solid graphic art dynamic of vista and costuming.
Coruscant targeted for the next installment.
Bronze age. "Welcome home, Lord Tyranus."
Our Jedi in the peach glow of a Venetian backdrop.
Romanticism.
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Post by smittysgelato on Jun 3, 2021 22:12:52 GMT
I can't wait for Ingram's batch of shots for ROTS.
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 3, 2021 22:59:07 GMT
I actually think you should put that post in your thread and rename it "Ingram's Great Saga Adventure" or something. They're very subjective (which is a good thing) and kinda wasted in here. Or put the other way: your thread is impoverished because they're not also in there. I'd prefer to be among the rest of you and contribute to that which is already in motion. Fair enough. I just wanted it all in one place. Well, I guess it is all in one place: Naberrie Fields. Speaking o' which: Anakin getting a face full of cowpat. A Jedi turd. Maybe, when Anakin said he slaughtered the Tuskens "like animals", he secretly wanted revenge on those recalcitrant shaaks. Hey, man. That's been me for the past twenty years.   Nice! Goes well with the opening shot. This sense of surreal vertiginalism may also have been experienced by people who saw the IMAX version of AOTC. There's a more striking juxtaposition here. If I may: Jar Jar passes the Olympic swimmer baton to Anakin:       Seduction, discovery, rejection, and loss at a place of fire. Anakin is the Promethean Jedi that wants to forget: "Aim right above the fuel cells."  Those scenes are Anakin's hidden hearths/chambers -- sources of pain he wants erased. It was, appropriately enough, Pyrogenic who first described these meanings, many years ago. Anyway, if that's too flighty or esoteric for you, you can't deny that George Lucas chooses images and words carefully. Yep. Also: Orthogonal gatherings. Light injection. Abiogenesis. Very good. AOTC is beautifully blocked and framed -- it's just the opposite of what fan-normies say. Anakin and Padme do quite an elaborate "dance" around one another in this movie. Like Lucas has said, his movies are (almost) "all in the visuals". And the amber curtain in the meditation scene:  I knew a girl as beautiful as Natalie Portman. Similar in temperament to Padme in this movie, actually -- e.g.: "We live in a real world. Come back to it."Some of those lines cut hard. Jango faceplanting like Anakin earlier. Also this:   Millennium Falcon shadows, even. Good call, my fellow Nubian! Now, that's just showing off! Fascinating allusion. Also: the four "strings" of fate: (Whatever characters or concepts you hold those to be). It's true. AOTC very nearly ends on a flower pot. The best Star Wars movie. |
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Post by Cryogenic on Jun 3, 2021 23:07:44 GMT
Just wanted to add one additional image/comment to Ingram's set: No matter where you go in life, what you achieve, or what you become, you will never be as cool as Episode II Obi-Wan swinging his saber in the rain: Swingin' in the rain, just swingin' in the rain...  |
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