Art Notes: the Dada movement

Luke Crawls a long way on long legs along a long tunnel all the day long.

Along-along,
ding-dong.

Cor... here they come! Han and Luke run toward one of the the Millennium falcon's staircases.

Here, can someone enlighten me on the layout of Solo's ship? In my version, Luke crawls through a sort of tunnel and sits with his back to it. And - there it is in the trading card below. In the film, they climb up and down a vertical tube. But when Solo shouts over his shoulder "Don't get cocky!" at Luke in the film - Luke seems to be at the other end of that tunnel - on the other side of the freighter. We see their guns over their heads. I'm confused!

Cor - brill!

Is it just that there's no up or down in space? - and that the ship's artificial gravity can be flipped depending on what part of the ship you're in? You can see why I wasn't quite sure when the guns were located. Hmm. Maybe I should just stop caring about this.

Music

Oh, yes - the music in this scene. Wonderful. the opening phrases are delicate and sparkling and but the suspense builds. It almost reminds me of John Adams' "The Chairman Dances" or his "Short Ride in a Fast Machine". Funnily enough, during the improbable night-time speeder chase in 'Attack of the Clones', John Williams is clearly borrowing from Adams. Perhaps he was repaying the compliment - or George was using Adams' music as a temp track during the editing. Did you enjoy humming this one to yourself when you were a kid? Seth McFarlane certainly did - and does - during Family Guy's brilliant parody of this scene. I still remember, 9 years old, walking back to my house across the big field, on a Sunday evening, the sun setting; the weekend drawing to a close, after playing soldiers or Star Wars with John S. all day long in the fields and woods - and humming 'Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack' from the soundtrack album. Amazed at myself that I seemed to have the whole London Symphony orchestra in my head and at my command.

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+1 # RE: Here they come! (04) — T. Gatto 2011-10-03 17:28

I like your basement steps in panel #1.

As for your comments, on the ship's design, I simply choose to suspend disbelief.

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0 # RE: RE: Here they come! (04) — john i white 2011-10-03 18:23

So you don't think the Falcon's layout makes sense either?

Good. Yes, now I can suspend belief also.

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+1 # RE: Here they come! (04) — Dan P 2011-10-04 11:04

I'm fairly sure the in-universe answer to the ships layout has something to do with shifted gravity, the cannons are clearly on the top and bottom of the ship, rather than either side, so that kind of makes sense... About as much sense as hearing explosions in space maybe, but it kind of works...

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0 # RE: RE: Here they come! (04) — John white 2011-10-04 11:13

And to take it to ridiculous extremes: seismic charges. Or was it sonic?

I swear George cheekily did that to thumb his nose at science - for a laugh.

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+1 # RE: Here they come! (04) — Neil 2011-10-06 02:51

The guns were at the top and bottom of the ship- duh, everybody knows that.
Just felt like being the schoolyard prick for a minute.

And as for the seismic charges, I read that Ben had originally wanted to use a sound like that back in '75-'76 for the TIE explosions, but nobody bought it. He finally got to use the noise (to fantastic, pant-shaking effect) in AOTC. I went to see it in its limited IMAX release, and my pants are still shaking.

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