12 thoughts on “One More Unbelievable Thing About Star Wars”
Leia’s coiled buns were goofy. I recall that Amidala’s hair, makeup, and outfits were absurd in the extreme.
As much as I enjoyed the original and ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, the remaining four seemed to get worse with each iteration, no matter how much CGI Lucas had at his disposal. Congrats on his success, kudos for solving a lot of technical challenges for visual effects and sound quality, and future moviemaking owes a lot to those technological contributions. But there is no substitute for quality storytelling; at several points in each of the final three movies I couldn’t help but think “with only a half hour more thought and effort this story could have been profoundly better”
Her crazy hair-dos are great and helps highlight a point — nothing sticks out so much as fashion. Just look at do’s and, hell, clothing from not a galaxy far, far away, but from right here in the US a couple generations ago. Kooky fashion creates verisimilitude.
In here Carrie Fisher said it took 2 hours to do that hair. Oh and she hated the look of the side buns too.
You guys just don’t get it. That’s not hair. Those are helmets. People in the future all shave their heads. Sheesh. I thought everybody knew that.
Princess Leia’s hairstyle actually dates back to the Middle Ages. Not implausible at all.
Nanobots crawling around in your hair could snag onto adjoining strands (of Ewok hair) and hold them together in a myriad of programmable styles.
Leia’s side buns did serve one purpose: they gave background for a sight gag in “Spaceballs.”
“Leia’s side buns did serve one purpose: they gave background for a sight gag in “Spaceballs.”
Who knows, think of some future time when you are floating around in a space hotel just waking up. Attaching a morning pastry to your head just might be the logical place for such a thing, at such a time, and in such an environment.
spaceballs… hair helmets… I knew you’d catch up…
the bunman?
the bunman?
Any relation to the eggman?
Goo goo ga joob.
Hair, schmair. Watching every episode I was occupied with trying to figure out just what it was that was wrong with her front teeth.
Leia’s coiled buns were goofy. I recall that Amidala’s hair, makeup, and outfits were absurd in the extreme.
As much as I enjoyed the original and ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, the remaining four seemed to get worse with each iteration, no matter how much CGI Lucas had at his disposal. Congrats on his success, kudos for solving a lot of technical challenges for visual effects and sound quality, and future moviemaking owes a lot to those technological contributions. But there is no substitute for quality storytelling; at several points in each of the final three movies I couldn’t help but think “with only a half hour more thought and effort this story could have been profoundly better”
Her crazy hair-dos are great and helps highlight a point — nothing sticks out so much as fashion. Just look at do’s and, hell, clothing from not a galaxy far, far away, but from right here in the US a couple generations ago. Kooky fashion creates verisimilitude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rbwPjYIhxA
In here Carrie Fisher said it took 2 hours to do that hair. Oh and she hated the look of the side buns too.
You guys just don’t get it. That’s not hair. Those are helmets. People in the future all shave their heads. Sheesh. I thought everybody knew that.
Princess Leia’s hairstyle actually dates back to the Middle Ages. Not implausible at all.
Nanobots crawling around in your hair could snag onto adjoining strands (of Ewok hair) and hold them together in a myriad of programmable styles.
Leia’s side buns did serve one purpose: they gave background for a sight gag in “Spaceballs.”
Who knows, think of some future time when you are floating around in a space hotel just waking up. Attaching a morning pastry to your head just might be the logical place for such a thing, at such a time, and in such an environment.
spaceballs… hair helmets… I knew you’d catch up…
the bunman?
the bunman?
Any relation to the eggman?
Goo goo ga joob.
Hair, schmair. Watching every episode I was occupied with trying to figure out just what it was that was wrong with her front teeth.
The walrus says they’re cousins.