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Kenobi

 

Premiered December  24, 2019, and it is the best Star Wars that I have seen since the original trilogy.  Interesting echoes of Herod attempting to kill the Christ child, and the revolt of the Maccabees.  We live in an interesting time when fan flicks are sometimes superior to big budget productions with a thousand times their budget.

 

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Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Tuesday, December 31, AD 2019 10:26am

Doesn’t surprise me in the least. After all, who is more likely to respect the source material instead of seeing it as something to be problematized and subverted?

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Friday, January 3, AD 2020 8:02am

Thanks for this, Don. I’ve got a playlist of fanfilms I’ve been steadily growing over the years. Some good efforts on there.

My top pick though is still this beautiful sequence animated in an 80s anime style.

A sign of Disney’s foolishness is that they don’t bother trying to tap into all this fan talent and recruit them to its properties. I mean I would rather go to a theater and watch a compilation of all these fan films than actual episode 9 right now.

Nate Winchester
Nate Winchester
Friday, January 3, AD 2020 10:28am

No kidding, Don. I mean when Star Trek was at its best was when they would accept random script submissions. Some of the best talent they ever had they acquired from nobodies who submitted a random idea.

Every time I’ve inquired about this among people that kind of know about hollywood, the answer usually seems to boil down to “lawyers” or rather, lawsuits. Something about the hassle or risk or whatever makes these companies too scared to risk tapping into a free resource.

I think if you could ever crack into that vein of possibility in the law mines, you could be a very rich man, Don. 😉

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, January 3, AD 2020 2:51pm

Doesn’t the Mouse itself go out of copyright soon?

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