123: “He’s the brains, sweetheart!”
c.1982/83 | age 14? That’s a pretty hastily sketched-in Leia! I don’t think—even at 13 or 14—that I was that interested in drawing her.
I’m getting through the better drawn stuff at the moment. See the muzzle flare? Very much inspired by « Howard Chaykin. If you freeze frame the original movie you’ll see that most of the time they either did a scratchy mark for a frame or two, and did a flash effect on the film. Like the type you get when you accidentally open a camera and let some light in. Those frames are very colourful. I « wrote about this last year and it was quite pertinent to the colouring in the 1977 Marvel Adaptation. Chaykin instead went for a more fluid ballooning effect – like a mass of napalm or something. Probably a better visual solution than just copying the film (below); not that he would have had access to film frames with composited effects of course.
Film Notes
Blink and you’ll miss it! Good ol’ YouTube and freeze frame
When Carrie moves across the corridor in the film after taking Luke’s blaster—she fires a few shots with her prop-gun. You might think that she’s acting blinking as the imaginary shots fire off. But actually, those—usually WWII—weapons really did fire. They fired blanks! That way the actors would fire, and react more realistically.
Wow WW2 weapons! That’s a bit creepy.
You think so? I know it sounds silly, but I was a bit dissapointed that they sawed them up!
I suppose I shouldn’t be sentimental about instruments of death though. And in 1977, they weren’t actually that old.
What WAS a bit creepy, was going to a museum/war re-enactment place in Co. Louth a couple of years ago. As a kid I would have loved seeing so much Wehrmacht and Nazi stuff on display—but now, I find it quite creepy. Remember the film ‘Falling Down’?
“This was used man… this was actually USED.”