Was it not for his aversion to numerous varieties of poisonous bugs - and the thought of travelling to anywhere that might contain said creepy crawlies - George Lucas may never have created the Star Wars franchise that so many of us know and love; and the world as we have known it since 1977 may have been a very different place indeed. You see, George's friend and fellow film school student Francis Ford Coppola had earmarked him to direct an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, transplanted into the still raw setting of the Vietnam War by writer John Milius.
George, however, passed on the offer and instead went back to tinkering with his long gestating space opera, leaving Coppola to pick up the directorial reins on the movie that took top spot in Shadowlocked's Top 100 Movies Of The 1970s, the incomparable Apocalypse Now.
Ironically, had Coppola had his way,...
George, however, passed on the offer and instead went back to tinkering with his long gestating space opera, leaving Coppola to pick up the directorial reins on the movie that took top spot in Shadowlocked's Top 100 Movies Of The 1970s, the incomparable Apocalypse Now.
Ironically, had Coppola had his way,...
- 6/6/2011
- Shadowlocked
One of the biggest categories at CES last week was 3-D tech in TVs and computer monitors. And with news from the Adult Entertainment show, running simultaneously in Las Vegas, here's a fun question: Will porn drive 3-d's success?
3-D really did seem everywhere at CES, and with so much worthless technology "spam" appearing at the show too, it's interesting to note that it's one of the few gizmos that really impressed gadget blog Gizmodo's editor Brian Lam (a man totally attuned to the whimsies of gadget fads.) We've known for ages that HDTV makers are pushing the design forwards, that there's an Hdmi standard already in place to support 3-D signals, that more and more movies are using 3-D as an audience attention-grabber, and that 3-D monitors are coming to the computer-gaming scene. Even though the advantages for gaming are immediately obvious--and the graphics rendering technology is easily improved...
3-D really did seem everywhere at CES, and with so much worthless technology "spam" appearing at the show too, it's interesting to note that it's one of the few gizmos that really impressed gadget blog Gizmodo's editor Brian Lam (a man totally attuned to the whimsies of gadget fads.) We've known for ages that HDTV makers are pushing the design forwards, that there's an Hdmi standard already in place to support 3-D signals, that more and more movies are using 3-D as an audience attention-grabber, and that 3-D monitors are coming to the computer-gaming scene. Even though the advantages for gaming are immediately obvious--and the graphics rendering technology is easily improved...
- 1/11/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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