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09-24-2000, 04:50 AM | #1 | |
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Eruve, SD or juntel, translation needed! Urgent!
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09-24-2000, 04:53 AM | #2 |
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Re: Eruve, SD or juntel, translation needed! Urgent!
Is this a joke!!!?
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09-24-2000, 06:09 AM | #3 |
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First part...
[I'll try my best. I first use AltaVista translator, then I perform appropriate corrections. Evidently, this english text was already translated from another language... Some parts I can't figure out!]
Ten years ago, Anakin Skywalker was in a bad situation. Admittedly, he enjoyed a planetary glory, but his creator, George Lucas, was more perplexed than ever. In fact, he did not have any idea of what he was going to do with him... Since the day when the once wonderboy of Hollywood had decided to unite his forces, his tastes and his talents, to produce and direct the adventures of this new hero of cinema, he made himself a promise: if the first film " worked ", he would put in the work for a sequel. Lucas thought of a trilogy. One still remembers how, once he appearance, in 1999, in " Phantom Menace ", the saber-man had become an instantaneous myth. One did not forget either with which impatience the "Obi" fans had watched out for his return, in 1977, in "A New Hope": in the United States, the film had made forty-two million dollars in six days! But, on arrival, the second episode had disappointed its author. Too much violence, too dark, too many horror scenes and an obvious lack of humour; Lucas himself had the feeling of taking the wrong road. The hero had lost his magic, and the director his enthusiasm. So, the third episode was a long time compromised " the project was almost abandoned, for lack of good a story", recognizes George Lucas today. And then, a beautiful day, the spark occurred... IF a GOOD IDEA IS RARELY ENOUGH to make a good film, the one which started "Return of the Jedi" is enough to close the trilogy in beauty. First of all, the romantic frame of this "idealistic crusade " is a return to the first cinematographic exploits of our hero. He now has to deal with the Siths which he must, at all costs, prevent from taking not the Ark of the Covenan,t but rather the Krystal Kaiburr [absolutely no idea what this is!!!]. Same sacred mission punctuated by breath-taking adventures at the four corners of the planet. This time, however, it is not only to the henchmen of DarthSidious that Luke [why does he talk about "Obi"???] must confront, but also his father, Darth Vader, a separatist as erudite as cumbersome, completely out-of-context [archaic?] when in battle, armed only with his light-sabre, and who, moreover, does not take very seriously his playful adventurer of a son. It would have remained only a good idea if the interactions of the father and the son was not echoed, on the screen, by a face-to-face between two actors that provoked sparks: for example Gabriel Byrne and Christopher Walken. And also if, in that meeting, one did not discover, finally, some indices on the true personality of the hero, his motivations, his past. In short, instead of imagining a simple continuation, Lucas gave a some hint of a soul to the character he had created. One can call that an apotheosis... Sixteen years. It is the time that it took for George Lucas to arrive there. In 1973, the young director was twenty-nine, had just directed "American Graffiti ", and he starts dreaming of an adventure film characters. This hero does not have a name, a vague silhouette but alot of resemblances to these film heroes of B-series movies which was his treat on television as a kid. Lucas then writes a first draft that it presents to one his friends, the scenarist Jonathan Hales. In the script, the hero is already a Jedi; [at the academy, with the Force, it was the preferred matter of Lucas;], but he has an annoying tendency: between two ground missions, he attends night clubs and platinum blondes. After fifteen working days, Hales made disappear both of these. On the other hand, the subject was made more precise. The nameless hero was hired by the Coruscant government to steal from Sith the fabulous Ark of the Covenant containing the Force, and which they are on the point to discover... From there on, script will remain four years in the drawers of George Lucas: it has another project at the head, monumental a saga of science fiction which would be called "Star wars"... [this was the first part...] |
09-24-2000, 06:54 AM | #4 |
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Second Part
[this AltaVista is so lame!!! But also usefull...]
The day before the first of "Star Wars" in the United States, Lucas went to rest in Hawaii and invited his buddy Rick McCallum to spend a few days with him. It is there, on the beach, that he speaks to him for the first time about his adventure film project. They are well atuned to each other, to say the least. They have known each other for ten years. The movies they make is what makes them both vibe as spectators. They fed from the same references, react to the same codes, and understand each other even without saying anything. Four other years, however, still pass before the hawain dream of Lucas is concretized. They each have personal projects. Four decisive years, in fact. When they put "Return of the Jedi" in motion, Lucas is already the most powerful producer of American cinema, due to the phenomenal successes of "Star Wars" and of "The Empire Strikes Back" Created in the closest of collaborations, the film will be done without any external interference. A large studio, Paramount, was involved, but it was Lucasfilm which was calling the shots. Besides, it is said that Lucas left twenty-four hours of reflexion, not one more, to the owner of the studio to decide... WHEN THE SHOOTING BEGAN, in spring of 1999 [???], the budget was fixed at twenty million dollars and the shooting schedule is spread over eigthy-five days, from the Tunisian desert to Hawaii, in Sydney, in Italy, in the Elstree studios of close to London. Finally, not only the budget is respected, but Lucas end shooting with twelve days of advance on his planning. He will admit: "It was hard sometimes. [The article was cut-off from here???] At the beginning of the summer of 1999, when, finally, "The Phantom Menace" rolls on the American screens, it is a shock. Spectacular, indeed. One hour and fifty six minutes of non-stop action. What succeeded in doing was an ideal and efficient blend between the art of story-telling and of technical know-how. One can see there a homage to the big movies of the Forties and Fifties, but if "Raiders of the Lost Ark" borrows from all the prototypes of the kind, those are recreated by a highly talented directing. There are scenes of anthology in this movies: do you recall the opening scene in the Indian temple full of traps, the truck pursuit But there is more: the hero himself. He has enough weaknesses to remain human and enough humour to make us forget the most incredible situations. [It seemed that this was an abrupt short allusion to Raiders... Difficult to put it seemlessly with the rest of the text...] Ewan McGregor has become a star for his interpretion of Obi-Wan in "Phantom Menace". At thirty-eigth years old [he's that old?!!!], he's a star who asserts himself in the role of ObiWan. With his smile as tired as his leather jacket, his attitude of adventurer-in-spite-of-himself, he is Anakin Skywalker [??]. For the first time in his career, he really carries a movie all by himself [or "on his shoulders", litteraly]. And his charisma is wonderful. A posteriori, one can always wonder what would have happened if the Sidious and Tyranus [who???] roles had been entrusted Chris Walken, as they had initially thought... |
09-24-2000, 07:14 AM | #5 |
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Third and Last Part
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The fact is that Hayden Christensen didn't just limited himself at incarnating the character, he more or less "molded it" for himself [that young actor wasn't THAT good! C'mon!]. Which Lucas himself underlined: "Anakin Skywalker is vulnerable. When he's hurt, he shows it, and that, it is Hayden who invented it. In shooting, when I had an idea, he proposed three of them. He took a significant share with the majority of the decisions. I flaired his exceptional narrative sense, his intelligence, his smoothness, and I often appealed to them. He really was, for me, a collaborator at full time." [Well ok, if the big guy himself says so...] For George Lucas, this Count Dooku [who???] is one of these eminent professors who, having spent their life in books and esoteric searches, do not have any proper existence. George Lucas, "visualizes" exactly the opposite: the father of the hero must have a strong presence, to impose himself while opposing Anakin. And, to play it, there is only one name that comes to mind: Mace Windu. In this choice, there is a little nostalgia and much realism. He told it to few, but, in the mid-seventies, Lucas' dream was to carry out Jabba the Hutt...[???] Now, it is a question of effeciency: "Without a great actor opposite Ewan, explains it, I was afraid the father would not exist on the screen. There had to be a challenge for him. And who other than Mace Windu himself could compete with Anakin Skywalker?" [what is the original language of that article, IP? and where does it come from?] |
09-24-2000, 11:14 AM | #6 |
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Re: Third and Last Part
heh heh heh
I've used the Alta Vista tranlator to see what you French speaking folk write to one another! Nuances are utterly lost, and it's not much good. Sadly, it's better than my translation skills! |
09-24-2000, 12:26 PM | #7 |
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That article made no sense......were they trying to say that Raider's was somehow influenced by SW during the time which GL conceived of SW? Hehe, that didn't make much sense either. The dates were all out of wack. Not to mention that Ep.2 was discussed like it was last years movie. Man, I am lost and want to know more about this crazy article. Surely not that much confussion could be attributed to the translation. Which BTW, was nice of Juntel to take the time to do.
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09-24-2000, 03:31 PM | #8 |
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As I mentionned above, I'm sure this article is itself a translation from another language.
Maybe Japanese? That would explain "Obi" appearing in unexpected places for our language. Anyways, I may return to make some corrections later tonight. I have things to do right now. I hope IP will give the source to this, so that we can know what the writer was talking about in some instances... |
09-24-2000, 05:51 PM | #9 |
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Nice of juntel?!
It was Herculean! |
09-24-2000, 09:35 PM | #10 |
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!!!! I guess it was a bit of an understatement!
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09-24-2000, 10:51 PM | #11 |
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Heh, nice work, juntel... turns out it was an old article about a possible Indy 4 or something with some edits made here and there. Not a "hoax" but rather a joke on the part of a fellow JCer.
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09-25-2000, 10:35 PM | #12 |
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Oh, forgien languages. Hehe. I was playing this online game, and then just for the fun of it, translated "I am stuck in the Ocean" into Icelandic, and then someone translated it back but the translator said "I am stuck up a river" and everyone thought she was calling me stuck-up, and started shouting nasty things at her, and almost got kicked outta the game.
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