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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:39:03 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcast net> wrote:
>> SW Ep 4-6 really broke new technical ground in SF movie making.
>
> Hmm. When I compare the first SW movie (made in 1977) to the Alien
> movie
> (made in 1979), the former looks really, really simple and cheap. I'm
> just not able to see why it's so good as everyone claims.
The thing about SWEP4 was that there were a lot of techniques used in
making the film that had not been done before (or had been done in very
limited fashion). There were a lot of "firsts" in filmmaking with that
film.
Of course Alien would look much better - 2 years to develop and refine
techniques first used *ever* in ep4 would tend to do that. And of course
you also had Stan Winston doing the animatronics and creature effects.
They guy was *outstanding* with that stuff.
Jim
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