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Re: A couple stupid SW questions...
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Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:37:03 GMT
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Aaron West wrote:
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> In lugnet.starwars, Greg Majewski writes:
> > In lugnet.starwars, Jason Maxwell writes:
> > > In lugnet.starwars, Eric Kingsley writes:
> > > > In lugnet.starwars, James Simpson writes:
> > > >
> > > > > > > What about Chewbacca?
> > > > > > > Although, I must admit, Chewie speaks better English than some of my co-
> > > > > > > workers.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Jeff J
> > > > > > He is cleverly pushed aside by the commie (not that there is anything • wrong
> > > > > > with that) Rebels, and never receives praise or a medal for his hard • labor.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's always bothered me that Chewie didn't get a medal placed around his • neck
> > > > > by the Princess. He risked his his life also. What's up with that!?
> > > >
> > > > This one has been debated repeatedly ever since the movie origionally came • out.
> > > > I personally think he should have received a medal and I can't really give • you
> > > > a good answer as to why he didn't.
> > >
> > > The only "good" excuse (and I use good lightly) I've heard was that it
> > > was "undignified" for the Princess of alderann to get up on a chair to • present
> > > Chewie his medal (due to his hight) and he recieved it at the party • afterwards
> > > in a less formal setting.
> > >
> > > In real-life Lucas originally intended for Chewie to have a much smaller part
> > > and be much less tech-savvy. In fact the Ewoks were originally going to be
> > > Wookies, but Lucas ended up doing so much with Chewie that having the other
> > > Wookies with sticks and stones didn't mae much sense. The lack of a medal • was
> > > probably something left in from the time when the script had Chewie as a more
> > > minor character. A mistake, but probably not intentional.
> > >
> > > As for the racial overtones, those that want can chose to see them, I however
> > > do not.
> >
> > Bleah. I learned a technique in English class this year called "Willful
> > suspension of disbelief." All that it says is not to be critical of the novel
> > you're reading or movie you're watching, etc, or you will not enjoy it at all.
> > Star Wars is just a movie. It has nothing to do with the real world. If you
> > nit-pick all of the movies to death looking for every minor detail that
> > doesn't seem quite right, the movie won't be enjoyable anymore. Why don't we
> > all just watch the movies and not think about what racial or religious
> > undertones are in them and just enjoy them for what they are?
> > Greg "Fwoom" Majewski
> > http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/abs.html
>
> Blast it, this conspiracy to make everyone speak English goes further than I
> had thought! WE are all communicating in written English!!!!! Oh, no. I too
> am a part of this plot to subvert the known universe to English!
> It is certainly possible that Chewie just has a bad hairball and can do
> nothing but grunt... Or mabey he ate his medal before the ceremony, always
> thinking with his stomach, you know. Akbar may have had a bad sense of humor,
> trying to imitate Vader's breathing during an important briefing. He was
> always such a clown in his high school days, you know. Remember, they can
> only get you if you start using subtitles, then they will know you are not
> speaking English...
> And now for something completely different,
> Aaron
Heheh..When I saw the first of the films in theater (it was 1979 I
think) all the characters had subtitles and all of them speaking a
language that I had no idea about at that time..:-) you know, I was only
7-8 years old at that time..:-) When I saw the special edition again at
theater, most of the characters speaking a language very very familiar
to me..Oh god..most of the universe speaking Turkish..:-) (during the
last years, movies aiming children almost always shown as dubbed in
Turkish..:-)
Selçuk
P.S. Turkish is the second most spoken native language on earth, second
only to Chinese. I'm not comment on "widely known" issue, though..:-)
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