Happy 30th to one of my favorite films, and here's the very ad I clipped in my local newspaper, The Times-Picayune, on May 25th, 1977.

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I give you a C+ for cutting on the lines Ralph!

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Aloha, Ken


“I have developed significant attachments to several members even though I wouldn't recognize them if I sat next to one on a park bench. I'm often tempted when in an airport to walk around, hollering "The Løpe", to see if anyone other than the Homeland Security people will acknowledge me. ” - The Løpe

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us." Justice Robert Jackson

Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

Oh, and you are missing a "." in your subject line.

Always bugged me that the movie had a 4-dot elipsis ;)

Nice penmanship, though. Is that your handwriting or someone else's?

Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

What a surprise.

But hey, even Mark Hamill doesn't look like Mark Hamill now.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

R2-D2 and C-3PO haven't aged at all.
Maybe a tiny bit of tarnish ?

My handwriting from when I was almost 10.

Always bugged me that they redid a lot of publicity and cover shots for STAR WARS after Hamill had that surgery.

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Nice!!!!

I wish I was at Celebration IV which starts today, but they moved it to LA this year.

Saw it during an afternoon matinee on the first day (and a bunch more times that summer).
Saw films 5 & 6 as well, but the original 1977 film is still the best. Still haven't seen movies 1, 2 or 3.

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Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

Oh, and you are missing a "." in your subject line.

Always bugged me that the movie had a 4-dot elipsis ;)

That poster only has 3 dots...

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Jem
Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

Oh, and you are missing a "." in your subject line.

Always bugged me that the movie had a 4-dot elipsis ;)

That poster only has 3 dots...

Ah yes, but in the movie, with the aqua blue text on black screen, there are FOUR dots in the elipsis.

Someone once explained it as "three dots for the elipsis, and one for a period to end the sentence." But that sort of seems like an oxymoron.

When they redid the films in 97 I checked to see if they'd fix it, and they didn't.

Look for it the next time you watch the movies.

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Jem
Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

Airbrush!!!

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Very cool, Ralph. I put up a bit on the anniversary myself:

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Ah yes, but in the movie, with the aqua blue text on black screen, there are FOUR dots in the elipsis.

Jem's 100% right -- I'm watching the 90's retread on "Background Theater" and I just saw it; four dots.

Here's a cap:

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Jem
Funny... that doesn look like Mark Hamill or Carrie Fisher in the artwork.

That's because that ad depicts the original Hildebrandt artwork developed for the movie. The Luke and Leia in that poster are the artists' conceptualization of the characters and are not based on the actors who played the characters.

I had that poster as a kid and always felt that Hamill didn't quite measure up to the Hildebrandt conceptualization of Skywalker.

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It is what it is.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2007 05:24PM by N-OS X-tasy!.

I had just arrived back in the US from my second "tour" of English boarding school (think Hogwarts, but no magic and much draughtier) and my family had moved to Miami. I had a REALLY rough time adjusting to US schools when the film opened at a cinema just down the road from the school.

IIRC, the film played at that cinema for at LEAST a solid year. I must have seen it at least 20-30 times. As far as I and most people were concerned, nothing even REMOTELY like it had ever been presented that way. Photo-realistic, convincing effects? A futuristic scenario that looks futuristic? Characters with imagination and style? Real sci-fi you could suspend your disbelief for?

(before any old fogeys pipe up, yes I now KNOW films like that existed before Star Wars, I just didn't know it THEN, and anyone under 30 was too young to have appreciated earlier efforts. So there.)

Every so often you get a movie that redefines the genre and business. Star Wars was that movie in 1977.

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