What to do The empire returned and Jedi's return Looks like if they were shortened to 14 total minutes and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind The substance? You will know.
Letterboxd Got its hands on a Star Wars fan film made by writer and director of The substanceCoralie Fargeat, when he was 17 years old. It combines footage from movies, stops motion, and live-action-complete actors with homemade costume-showing Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and his rebel friends who have fallen to the Death Star.
“Thirty years ago, when I was 17 years old, I made a little Star Wars Movie, ”wrote Fargeat. “With my family's camcorder, I have analyzed my toys by frame to stop motion, met my friends as ewoks and stormtroopers, and edited in a VHS video recorder (which is the leading device on Time!). Self it was after I made this little movie that I knew I wanted to be a director … Now as I was nominated for the best director, I couldn't help but remember this little Dreams! “
Here's Coralie Fargeat's Star Wars Fan film (real people enter almost half, which is actually kicking in a notch.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbygqwpl3g
Some things jump here. First is the cameraork around the toys. You can see that even with a camcorder and some at-an, he understood that moving the camera is an important part of film making. A way to make things more dramatic. There are also establishments of shots here. You need to think that most teenage fan films have no establishment of shots.
You can also feel his childhood amazement and excitement in each frame. For example, choosing to use not only John Williams' Star Wars music, but his Indiana Jones Music and Nino Rota's Godfather The score is super fun. And it's very, very much -he'll watch the actors running in these homemade costumes -all of which are very simple but good to work with.
Finally, the fingers crossed Lucasfilm seeing it for what it was: an Oscar nominee claiming him a long love Star Wars. Because we know how the company feels about anything Star Wars That's not from special editions … and the stunning use of “Yub Nub” Fargeat in the end is both glorious and very out of Canon.
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