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Jun 22, 2018 - 10:32 AM
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dogplant
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Really don't like the off shoot film titles. I think they should've been called, "Star Wars: Rogue One" and Star Wars: Solo". I think they should've kept the crawl too. Further more putting the extended universe under " A Star Wars Story" banner is so 70's Disney. Sounds like a film series for preteens. Rant over.
I agree with you, solium; those 'Star Wars Story' titles feel lugubrious. My guess is they were the result of marketing/branding surveys. They don't exactly roll off the tongue.
I interviewed director Gareth Edwards for "Rogue," he was a smart and passionate chap, and he confided that while they were making the first 'Story' film, the title crawl was in and out of the edit. Obviously, they went for the latter, their reason: to differentiate the story as an adjunct to the Skywalker saga. Is it a Skywalker saga any more? I guess Episode IX will answer that question. But I noticed they switched it up again with titles on "Solo," using blue News Gothic intro cards à la 'galaxy far, far away...' so I guess anything goes for the spin-offs. Or, anything went.
I don't think anyone will mind, as the film has been discussed up and down for more than a year, so here's a bit that did not make it into my "Rogue One" story (my own excision, attempting to cut the story down to size), for Cinefex 151:
In a bold move for the saga, establishing a new precedent, the filmmakers chose not open with a scene-setting title crawl. “We tried a title crawl,” recalled Gareth Edwards. “It was in there for a while, it came out and went back in; but in the end, we decided that the visual language of the stand-alone films should be different from the sagas. We also did away with soft-edged wipe scene transitions -- I thought this might be the only time in my life when I could have wipes in a movie without it being cheesy – but we haven’t done so.”
The complete story here: http://www.cinefex.com/backissues/issue151.htm
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Totally agree. One of my favorite swipes was Luke and Ben picking up a damaged C3PO. They were lifting him vertically and the swipe went up as well. It was also a clever edit, since the actors were obviously lifting a dummy head and torso of C3PO.
The same wipe was used when Leia and Chewie picked up Han in the Cloud City brig, which gets my mind racing about the parallels between these shots.
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