Friday, November 30, 2007

STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC

Submitted for your weekend viewing pleasure ....

STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC (2005?) is a version of STAR WARS (1977) that's full of filmed alternate takes, actors speaking through imperial soldier masks and c-3PO masks, and deleted scenes re-cut in according to early existing script drafts.

It's "a look behind the scenes at what didn't make it to the final cut of the Star Wars trilogy," put together painstakingly by fan and filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist. I was hooked early on. Here's the first couple of minutes via YouTube:




I'm not a huge WARS fan (more of a TREK guy, as ya'll know), so this was all new to me. Better watch this now as those YouTube folks tend to yank vids like this. It's in 17 parts:

  1. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 1
  2. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 2
  3. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 3
  4. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 4
  5. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 5
  6. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 6
  7. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 7
  8. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 8
  9. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 9
  10. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 10
  11. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 11
  12. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 12
  13. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 13
  14. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 14
  15. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 15
  16. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 16
  17. STAR WARS DELETED MAGIC 17

2 comments:

Brian Fies said...

Darn it, Mike, I had work to do this afternoon. Guess it'll wait until Monday....

richardcthompson said...

This is great! It goes in the opposite direction from all the later digital fussing Lucas did with the original movie.