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Kraichgauer
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25 Apr 2015, 10:36 am

trollcatman wrote:
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I've read that the town in Tunisia where they had filmed Luke's home has since been taken over by terrorists.


I was reading about Star Wars filming locations yesterday, and it is Anakin's home that the terrorists use as a waypoint. It is not far south from where Luke's home was filmed, both in Tunesia. Here is where Anakin's home was filmed for ep1, it is called Tataouine (Tattooine?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tataouine
Those buildings look very familiar from ep1.

Here is a funny wikipedia article with all of the filming locations of the Star Wars films. Many of them are very recognisable, the palace of Naboo is a palace in Italy, Boba Fett died in the Sarlacc pit in the USA, Hoth is in Norway, Yavin IV is in Guatemala and the Ewoks on Endor live in California.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_filming_locations



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Okay, I had been depending on an article I recalled that had apparently gotten Luke and Anakin mixed up, I suppose because both of them are blond, whiny guys. :lol:


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25 Apr 2015, 10:19 pm

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I never liked the Ewoks and of all the things Lucas could have changed in the original films, why he didn't CGI over all the stupid looking Muppets and glitter-covered aliens with more realistic creatures, I'll never understand. But I fully expect the next Disney Princess to have cinnabuns on her head.


:( , and CGI isn't really all that realistic either...I like the stupid looking muppets that's something you don't see in movies anymore its all CGI anymore, so I am glad they preserved the original muppet aliens in the original Star Wars movies...though not sure how they could have changed that anyways, they would have had to re-do a lot of movie scenes or somehow paste CGI over the Muppet aliens.

But yeah I think back in the time they made the original movies(wasn't it in the 70's or something) if they even had CGI yet it was probably still pretty crappy and undefined....muppets/puppets where the most advanced technology for adding aliens/monsters and other strange creatures to movies from what I gather. There's that or movies where they add an animated thing but then you can tell its animated at least the muppets are still 3 dimensional.


In the 70's, they had what they called rotoscoping (the direct painting over and animating over live action sequences) which was a direct precursor to modern CGI. The original Star Wars movies used rotoscoping to create the glowing lightsabers as well as the use of a green screen and the painting of the background of the space battles (which is why you'll notice that there are no wires holding up the spaceships in those scenes like you might find in older movies). So actually, despite the fact that the original Star Wars trilogy started in the '70's, the special effects were actually pretty groundbreaking at the time.


I still think the Muppet aliens look better than it would have looked if they had created them that way. I have seen movies with what you describe.


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