Hey, that was one of the best matches ever. :beam:
I loved it, it made football interesting again. :2thumbsup:
11-08-2007, 16:59
Louis VI the Fat
Re : backroom video thread
Chabal is a professional French rugby player, who's been playing and living in England since 2004. Here's a video of him at a press conference before a France-Ireland game.
buahahahaha, man in the sky says stop calling me for nothing
I got the impression that they called him because they feared this would happen. :laugh4:
11-18-2007, 16:57
Fragony
Re: backroom video thread
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I got the impression that they called him because they feared this would happen. :laugh4:
Hmm that I didn't consider. Now if only he reincarnates as a teacher at a kindergarten so he can spread the word that 72 virgins isn't necesarily fun it would be perfect.
Three cut scenes from episode IV inserted into their proper place! I had never seen them until ten minutes ago. Am very excited about it.:jumping:
It puts a new perspective on Luke's adolescence and life on Tatooine. Basically, he spend his time hanging out with druggies with seventies hair. The best part is Biggs, Luke's best friend. Biggs is the pilot who sacrificies his life for Luke during the attack on the Death Star. It gains a new and much deeper emotional impact.
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Anchorhead Story of Star Wars
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anchorhead Story of Star Wars refers to a subplot from the original script of Star Wars that involved Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. The sequence was filmed, but edited out of the final cut. The scenes offered a glimpse into Luke's life and friends, and also introduced the character of Biggs Darklighter, who still appears in the released version of the film as a doomed X-Wing fighter pilot in the Battle of Yavin.
George Lucas has stated that these scenes were deleted because he wanted to portray the first section of the film through the perspective of the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, and to have their encounter with Luke be the first time we meet the protagonist. These cut scenes were never restored in any of the subsequent revisions of Episode IV. However, these scenes can be viewed in the Star Wars: Behind the Magic CD-ROM.
Synopsis
Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Fixer (Anthony Forrest), Camie (Koo Stark) and Biggs Darklighter (Garrick Hagon) outside of the Tosche Power Station in a cut scene from Star Wars.The scenes begin in the desert of Tatooine. The audience is first introduced to Luke Skywalker as he and the Treadwell droid WED-15-77 repair a moisture vaporator on the outskirts of his Uncle Owen’s moisture-farm. Luke observes the battle between the Tantive IV and the Star Destroyer through his macrobinoculars and tells the droid that he has to go to Tosche Station to tell his friend Fixer of this discovery. Luke jumps into his landspeeder, leaving behind the malfunctioning droid. This scene would have played after the Tantive IV was first boarded by Stormtroopers, but before the introduction of Darth Vader.
The next scene in this series of cut scenes show Luke’s landspeeder racing into the city of Anchorhead, nearly hitting an old woman. Luke runs into Tosche Station, where he finds his friends Fixer, Camie, Deak, and Windy. He also discovers that his old friend Biggs Darklighter has returned unexpectedly from the Imperial Academy for a visit. Luke enthusiastically tells his friends of the starship battle that he saw in the sky, but is met with skepticism. Biggs, Fixer and Camie follow Luke to the roof of Tosche Station to observe the starship battle through Luke’s macrobinoculars. However, by this time the battle of the Tantive IV has finished, and Biggs declares that the two visible ships were probably only docking, due to the fact that Tatooine lacks any orbiting docking-stations. Biggs and Fixer both tell Luke that not only is the rebellion far away, but that Tatooine is too remote a location to ever interest the Empire. Camie is particularly antagonistic, shoving Luke’s macrobinoculars into his chest. These scenes would have originally followed the scene in which R2-D2 and C-3PO flee the Tantive IV via their escape pod, but before the capture of Princess Leia.
The final scenes of this sequence involves a dialogue between Luke and Biggs alone outside Tosche Station. While the two old friends reminisce, Biggs informs Luke that he plans to desert the Empire and join the Rebellion. Biggs has become disenchanted with the Empire while studying at the Imperial Academy, and plans to go AWOL from his first assignment as First Officer of the Rand Ecliptic. Luke has also desired to leave Tatooine and attend the Imperial Academy, and Biggs' admission shocks Luke. The two say their farewells, after Biggs tries to convince Luke that people need to take a stand against the Empire. This scene would have been placed following C-3PO’s initial sighting of the Jawa sandcrawler, but before the Jawa's capture of R2.
Character development
Luke Skywalker
The Anchorhead Story first introduces the audience to a young Luke Skywalker, whose enthusiasm and interest in the events taking place in the universe stands in stark contrast with the apathy of his friends. The antagonism of Luke’s friends towards his starship battle-claim belie their myopic view of life -- a view constrained to Tatooine.
Biggs Darklighter
The subplot also effectively introduces the character of Biggs Darklighter, who, in contrast with Luke’s other friends, represents a positive role model (a type of big brother), and symbolizes the hope that exists outside of Tatooine. Biggs later plays a small but important role in the battle of Yavin, serving alongside Luke as an X-Wing fighter pilot. In the hangar bay before the battle, Biggs commends Luke’s ability as a pilot to a superior officer. Later, during the final run on the Death Star, Biggs heroically sacrifices his life in order to enable Luke’s X-Wing to get in position for his final torpedo launch.
11-24-2007, 04:58
Vladimir
Re: backroom video thread
Yea but who's the cutie who steals the binoculars (can't believe I spelled that right on the first try)?
