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greygirlbeast

held and dyed and skinned alive

May 25, 2007 12:23

On this day thirty years ago, Star Wars opened in US theaters. I was twelve, which was probably the perfect age for Star Wars. I think what I find most amazing now is that is was made for a mere $11 million dollars, whereas the last of the six films was made for $113 million dollars. Also on this day, but forty years ago, docbrite was born. Normally, I ( Read more... )

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rkbwrites May 25 2007, 18:09:22 UTC

greygirlbeast May 25 2007, 21:26:08 UTC

Re: the ebay thing, so even if you host the eBay Pictures on your own server and just link the pictures in the auction to your server they're still charging the additional charge for the additional pictures?

You can not (as fear as I can tell) any long link directly to the images you've uploaded to your own server, but pay to must use eBay's hosting "service." That seems to be the case.

stardustgirl May 26 2007, 00:02:19 UTC

You can still host your own - it's just more idiotically complex now. I put a link the the old form in a comment in Spooky's LJ, or if you are OK with the new one, you need to pick the Show/Hide Options box in the upper left corner and tell it there that you'll be hosting your own photos. There are a slew of other options to set there too ( ... )

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greygirlbeast May 25 2007, 21:27:02 UTC

Rewriting sucks

As does unwriting.

robyn_ma May 25 2007, 19:46:14 UTC

'I think what I find most amazing now is that is was made for a mere $11 million dollars, whereas the last of the six films was made for $113 million dollars ( ... )

greygirlbeast May 25 2007, 21:34:04 UTC

And there you have the problem with the prequels in a nutshell. On the first film, Lucas had to think around obstacles and use his imagination. On the prequels, he had all the money he needed and all the CGI his money could buy.

Well, in fairness to Lucas, there's no way that the original Star Wars could be made today for anything close to $11 million dollars. Doing a quick and sloppy job of the math, adjusting to 2007 dollars, it would take something like $40 to $50 million. It does not gall me so much that Lucas spent what he spent, but that he ultimately had so little to show for it (though I do still think that Episode III is a better film than was Episode VI - which, by the way, only cost a paltry $32 million).

robyn_ma May 25 2007, 21:55:33 UTC

Well, for me it's not so much the expenditure as the leaps of imagination made necessary by the lack of money. Lucas' 1997 remix of A New Hope is a good example - the changes he made amounted to nothing special.

What I had in mind was Terry Gilliam (around the time of Munchausen) yearning for the old Python days where he had to use coconuts for the sound of horse's hooves. A funny, imaginative solution. But when he got into Munchausen territory he needed actual horses, which someone has to train and feed, and actual horse riders, and actual trainers for the actors who would be riding the horses...

I guess my point is, when directors with no money make their first feature, they have to use their imaginations in ways that can make their debuts more energized. (Not necessarily rookie directors, either - Aronofsky did some weird, on-the-cheap stuff for The Fountain that was more enthralling than anything Lucas and his ILM army could come up with.) As those directors get more clout and bigger budgets, and are told the sky isn't even the ( ... )

__hecate__ May 25 2007, 23:54:29 UTC

Happy new year Caitlin!
And did you see this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/6686933.stm

sfmarty May 26 2007, 06:11:46 UTC

Others wished you a Happy Birthday first, but here are my best wishes!