Here they come! (04)
Last Updated (Monday, 01 April 2013 10:27) Written by Administrator Monday, 03 October 2011 00:00
Art Notes: the Dada movement
Luke Crawls a long way on long legs along a long tunnel all the day long.
Along-along,
ding-dong.
Cor... here they come! Han and Luke run toward one of the the Millennium falcon's staircases.
That's a very low railing. Maybe when Lando owned it, it was crewed by Ugnauts?
Here, can someone enlighten me on the layout of Solo's ship? In my version, Luke crawls through a sort of tunnel and sits with his back to it. And - there it is in the trading card below. In the film, they climb up and down a vertical tube. But when Solo shouts over his shoulder "Don't get cocky!" at Luke in the film - Luke seems to be at the other end of that tunnel - on the other side of the freighter. We see their guns over their heads. I'm confused!
Cor - brill!
Is it just that there's no up or down in space? - and that the ship's artificial gravity can be flipped depending on what part of the ship you're in? You can see why I wasn't quite sure when the guns were located. Hmm. Maybe I should just stop caring about this.
Music
Oh, yes - the music in this scene. Wonderful. the opening phrases are delicate and sparkling and but the suspense builds. It almost reminds me of John Adams' "The Chairman Dances" or his "Short Ride in a Fast Machine". Funnily enough, during the improbable night-time speeder chase in 'Attack of the Clones', John Williams is clearly borrowing from Adams. Perhaps he was repaying the compliment - or George was using Adams' music as a temp track during the editing. Did you enjoy humming this one to yourself when you were a kid? Seth McFarlane certainly did - and does - during Family Guy's brilliant parody of this scene. I still remember, 9 years old, walking back to my house across the big field, on a Sunday evening, the sun setting; the weekend drawing to a close, after playing soldiers or Star Wars with John S. all day long in the fields and woods - and humming 'Ben's Death and TIE Fighter Attack' from the soundtrack album. Amazed at myself that I seemed to have the whole London Symphony orchestra in my head and at my command.
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