My take on a scene recreation for Brookline Interactive Groups production of Crowdsourced Boston 2022-Star Wars-Scene 25- Secret Compartment You can check out their full version here: • Crowdsourced Star Wars...
@@katsuragiyoriai In 1880 it certainly would not have been a flintlock rifle. You are thinking 1780. By 1880 revolvers had long been in use and the percussion cap had been introduced decades ago.
@@katsuragiyoriai By the Boshin war the Shogunate already had the Minie rifle, a percussion cap rifle. They also imported the Chassepot, Snider-Enfield, and Spencer Repeating rifle. They ended up copying the Chessepot - the Meiji Type 13 Murata rifle and took it into service by 1880. In the video, the officers are English, so I thought the Martini-Henry was more fitting.
British Empire using local soldiers? That's awfully realistic and cool. Love the clash between modern-looking uniforms standing side by side with feudal ashigaru-samurai armor.
Well if you think about it it's more like the Japanese using the British empire since palpatine is a sith and the officers of the empire are just random guys
Now I am imagining all kinds of eras for retelling this story, a Renaissance version, Shakespearian obviously or Medieval, Roman, or a Bronze Age Homeric epic
You’ll be surprised how many films/books/real life events inspired George Lucas to make stars wars: •1930s Flash Gordon serials •The John Cater from Mars series •Japanese Samurai films, namely Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. •The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings •Dune •Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. •WW2 •Vietnam war
Starwars is a space western, but never really consider what that would look like just as a western. The mighty British empire with a mystical army of Samurai. That sounds so epic 😻 Thanks for the video you have a wonderful day!
@@sonicfanboy3375 by Bandai. Part of the 'Tamashii Nations' line. There are also Kylo Ren and The Mandalorian models. A Jango Fett, a Maul. They've also done some Xmen and Power Ranger/Sentai characters.
I actually really like this, it’s like watching an episode of Dr. Who, but what I really want to see is that absolutely borked technology like tuning forks built into scanners and the lightsabers being some kind of hidden switchblade with electrical current running through it. I really want to know what the droids would be.
Limited budget forces filmmakers to be more creative than billion dollars productions in large studios sometimes. It takes real talent to make it look and feel this good. Imagine a full ass movie made like this! ♡
This is really well done. Also... the combination of the British Empire and Feudal/Imperial Japan makes too much sense due to how similar they are that it terrifies me. (Using British Soldiers to represent Grand Moffs and Admirals and using Samurai to represent Vader and Stormtroopers)
funfact: the British and Japanese were allies from 1854 to 1923, and it was only ended due to pressure from America on the British. although it was only a limited alliance unitll 1902.
The only Star Wars "reboot" I would pay to see. The blending of late 19th century historical elements and modern sci-fi is oddly satisfying and most... impressive.
Star Wars Episode IV was described by George Lucas as basically being “The Hidden Fortress” in space. This truly brings everything full circle! What a joy to watch this!
@@Anti-HyperLink Extremely so. C3P0 & R2D2's dynamic was taken from those of the two peasants. Then again Lucas himself has always held that it was his inspiration and pushed for some studio recognition. The princess who lost her kingdom. The general who had previously switched sides to turned back after a duel with her faithful general. Sure the Magnificent Seven and A Fistful of Dollars much closer to the original Kurosawa. but anybody who has seen both movies (SW & THF) can see it.
Both the stormtroopers and Darth Vader are models released by Bandai reimagined as samurai under their Tamashii Nations brand. They've also done other characters like Boba Fett C3P0, the Mandalorian, etc.
This is great! Top effort all round. Using British colonial imagery alongside the Japanese Samurai (bearing in mind that George Lucy's was influenced by films like Akira Kurosawa's 'Hidden Fortress') is a masterstroke. Han Solo as a cowboy - another good parallel. The nipples on the Samurai stormtroopers armour - not sure about that though. Reminds me of George Clooney's Batman armour in 'Batman and Robin'. That almost derailed and k-o'd future Batman appearances. Glad we got past that wardrobe malfunction!
I love the retro 30's serial vibe of the whole thing...the retro-futurism and certain steampunk aspects spun into the Star Wars mythos. This really highlights the mythological transcendent heroic storyline that Lucas was channeling when you see the story told in this environment. Great take!
I love it. We need a whole trilogy. My favorite part is "Civil War veteran" Han Solo, actually. I know it was probably one of the easiest to do, but I love the detail. Not sure about "pug" chewie, though. The breed actually looked a lot different in the 1800s.
I had an idea like this once. The Death Star was instead a massive battleship with nuclear missiles and Luke would have to fly in with his World War 2 era fighter plane and drop a bomb in the right spot to blow it up. This scene in the video would have taken place on that massive battleship where Han and his smuggling plane the Millennium Falcon was forced to land in the water (It’s a water plane) due to enemy aircraft forcing them to. The planes parachutes were missing so the empire assumed the pilots bailed and the plane landed on autopilot or some stupid crap like that even though they are just hiding in the water planes smuggling department. I don’t know, it sounds stupid when I type it out.
I'm fact I am not sure why the stand-in for the Death Star here appears to be an islandz fortress, and not some kind of floating mega-fortress with a giant island-obliterating super gun...some mega-cannon.
Or maybe a uranium processing plant surrounded by mountains with only a winding canyon as a safe access with a team of F/A-18s piloted by a select team and led by an about to be retired captain, perhaps some kind of maverick pilot.
I mean I’m sure you already know this, but the Death Star run idea came from a dam bombing film based on footage from ww2, so it’s certainly not stupid to imagine it in that era. George always thought of his stories and themes as timeless
Someone mentioned on another comment, the troopers and Vader are toys. Notice how they bob instead of really walking. I imagine this means they would have to do stop motion for action scenes.
This is a really cool! Love how it turned out, especially with how it was reworked into the times. Imagining the ‘droids’ as some sort of sluggish brass automaton
Check out "Star Wars Uncut" or "The Empire Strikes Back Uncut," which recreate both films in their entirety with a series of short fan-made and reimagined scenes like this
You've done that really well. I remember once trying to rewrite Phantom Menace's script into a medieval setting. I never finished it, but I find it fascinating to see a similar idea visualized in this form.
This not only honks my chuffs in a way that partialy reveled ankles only can, but makes me think there isn't enough Meji-British or Taishō-British alliance fiction.
I’m a huge fan of both Science Fiction and period pieces set prior to WWII so this really hit the spot. Phenomenal costume design. Immediately subscribed
I saw the original in theater in 1977... and only now did it occur to me that there were four corpses getting stiff somewhere inside the Falcon for the hours between that moment and (at the earliest) the escape into hyperspace.
HAHAHAHAHAHA omigosh! Ok i saw it in 77 but i dont remember it at all - i was 4. Suffice to say Ive been a fan all my life, and I really just thought of that during covid lockdown when I was rewatching all the movies. It hit me "the Falcon must have smelled pretty funky when they made their escape, the scanning crew and stormtroopers bodies are packed in there somewhere!" I mentioned that to my star wars fan friends and as a whole theiy had never thought of that before either haha - good observation Gordon! Haha can just imagine Chewbacca freaking out at the smell and Han "what an incredible smell youve discovered!"
@@andrewa9895 - thinking on it further, though, it seems likely that the gang hid the stiffs in the contraband holds while they were off in the station, and we know a couple things about those holds... 1. they can be opened to space (cf: Jabba was pissed at Han specifically for dumping a load of spice when hew was about to get pulled over by a patrol ship) 2. as that's the case, they must have an airtight seal separating the holds from the interior of the ship, so stinks probably can't seep through. that being the case, presumably after they got away from the TIE fighters, Han just hit a button and flushed the stiffs into the black.
@@gordonpromish9218 THAT makes sense. Just dump their trash before making the Hyperspace jump :) That or just eject them in the hangar bay as they blast out "smell ya later you imperial goons!"
Not SOLELY; when creating his Star Wars, George Lucas took inspiration from A LOT of varying cultures, religions, historical occurrences, and older stories. It's a really rather interesting rabbit hole to go down, so to say, and there's numerous books and documentaries made about the subject. May the Force be with you!
@@maaz322 Thank you for the correction. Yes, Hidden Fortress is set in 16th century Japan, a time of civil war, which is how the A New Hope's crawl begins.
Wow, this is what i always imagined if the prequels were made in the 40s with these special effects, Alec Guiness would be an helluva young Padawan learner.
Very cool! Good use of minatures and compositing. Old film scratches with the vignette and desaturation sold it really well. The sound efx were really good too.
Amazing film. Like other said at first i laughed at the whole concept, but after admiring the tools and the costumes used i got really impressed. Fantastic job
