Jedi Minute 59: Hitting the Tree

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Date

March 26th, 2015

Summary

Luke leaps from his bike to the back of the scout’s, grabs the Imperial warrior around the neck, and flips him off the bike, into a thick tree trunk.

Guests

Chris Eliopoulos

Notes

Film

Starts with the start of the great speeder bike chase.
Ends with two other speeder bikes firing their lasers at Luke and Leia on their speeder bike.
The word speeder is said in the above sentence more than its ever been said before.

Podcast

  • Cold-open: Ad-read - starwarsminute.com/merch.
  • Chris is a returning champion here for all-star cartoonist week.
  • This is potentially the worst 70s TV rear projection work ever seen in a movie. It looked alright to kids at the time though.
  • The visual effects seem to go backwards (ie get worse) in the original trilogy. Or the shots were more ambitious and therefore harder to achieve.
  • Its actually blue screen being used.
  • The speeder bikes even shake side-to-side when Luke jumps from one to another.
  • Luke is the worst back seat driver ever. Leia should have come back with some snappy answers.
  • Leia is diminished in this movie and has gone from taking charge to being Luke's chauffeur.
  • The character focus in this movie is very much on Luke and Vader; every other character is left undeveloped.
  • Luke could have trusted his sister and let her use the Force to take control. More evidence that Leia is not actually Luke's sister.
  • Who could be Luke's real sister.
  • Was Luke controlling, or trying to control, Leia via the Jedi mind-trick?
  • Why the Scout-troopers don't use their comm links and why they are even running away in the first place.
  • How Luke knows about the comm links and comm link jammers on the speeder bikes.
  • Leia knows how to pilot / ride a speeder bike. Maybe they're very easy to ride and anyone can do it.
  • This scene re-imagined with everyone on actual bicycles.
  • Ben Burtt's sound design for this sequence is great and acts as a prequel for the sound design in the pod-race.
  • Ring theory and links between the speeder bike chase and the pod-race.
  • Hearing jungle sounds as the speeder bikes zip by is very cool.
  • The speeder bikes look like they're moving fast in the long shots but look like they're standing still in the close-ups.
  • Physical models and puppets are used for the long shots.
  • A shot of Luke on the speeder bike is used twice in this sequence - once in this minute with no dialog and then again in the next minute with dialog. Well spotted by Chris.
  • Bad ADR is often a part of Star Wars.
  • Is Luke using the Force to jump from one speeder bike to another, especially at that speed?
  • The forest background was originally filmed a 1 fps (frame/s per second) and then sped up to 24 fps to give the effect of speed. This equates to a ground speed of approximately 100mph.
  • Speeder bike riders must get hit in the face by bugs, sticks and twigs all the time.

<Start at 13:15.>

Meta Minute

  • 26:05 podcast episode length.

Quotes

  • Pete: ...that Leia is not in fact Luke's sister. Chris: Oh, its Mon Mothma?
  • Pete: Its just like riding a speeder bike.

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2015/03/26/jedi-minute-59-hitting-the-tree/


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