Attack of the Clones Minute 81: Aggressively Emotive

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Date

March 6th, 2017

Summary

ANAKIN stands outside the hut door. His face is a grim mask. The CHILD stares, then there is a FLASH OF LIGHT as Anakin’s lightsaber switches on.

Guests

Paul Scheer

Notes

Film

• Starts with Shmi's head flopping back in death and ends with Mace Windu entering the room entering a completely different room.
• Unusual wipe from Tatooine to Yoda's office.
• Female native Tatooiners.

Podcast

• Paul promises not to eat any sandwiches this time.
• The Phantom Menace poster of Anakin with Darth Vader's shadow.
• Hayden is playing to the back row; it's the James Dean school of acting.
• Who might have done a better job in this role.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio turning down the role.
• Actors who escape from Star Wars with charisma intact.
• Seeing the future through the Force doesn't ever help anything.
• Yoda playing Force voicemails. He's experiencing time out of sync. Mentioned Arrival (2016).
• George Lucas as a filmmaker vs. as a director. He pushed the technical achievement envelope without advancing his "actor directing".
  • Bruce Willis not understanding why people like Die Hard. Mentioned: Indiana Jones.
• The Star Wars first story treatment. Lucas needs collaborators.
• "Computer assistance" in every frame of the movie.
  • Callback to the only shot in Phantom Menace with no digital effects.
• Wipes in Star Wars.
• There is a good movie somewhere within all three Prequels.
  • Mentioned: The Hobbit trilogy.
  • Phantom Edits.
• Mentioned: Bernard Herman and Hitchcock.
• Support the Show.

Meta Minute

• 20:36 podcast episode length.
• The "office" is actually Yoda's personal quarters.

Quotes

• Pete: Like "here, I made a cake, help me with the frosting" vs. like "hey, help me make a cake".

Link

http://www.starwarsminute.com/2017/03/06/attack-of-the-clones-minute-81-aggressively-emotive/

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