Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was first released onto the big screen in 1977 and since has spawned a series that has entertained millions of devout fans and earned hundreds, upon hundreds of millions of dollars. Despite fan disapproval of re-releases and those dreadful “bonus scenes,” Star Wars has retained its classic film appeal.
Back in 2009, Casey Pugh decided to start a crowd source film project with New Hope. He and his team cut New Hope up into thousands of 15 second scenes and allowed internet users around the world to sign up and film scenes. Casey then edited all of the best scenes together to form a new, amateur version of New Hope.
Star Wars Uncut won a 2010 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media – Fiction and with good reason. The entire movie feels choppy and every fifteen seconds, you have to deal with new lighting, actors, audio, or animation. However, the hilarity of most of the scenes more than makes up for that. The creative community members of Star Wars Uncut all came up with unique and imaginative ways to film their scenes. Some had R2-D2 and C-3PO cast as pets, friends wrapped in colored tin foil, or crudely animated CGI. Some of the scenes are laughably bad while others attempt and succeed in capturing the original emotions of the Lucas film. As an example, during the escape from the Death Star, the Millennium Falcon is represented by a hamburger being removed from a microwave, a poorly animated sports car, a paper airplane, and a vintage Millennium Falcon toy.
The style, while jarring as it cuts from scene to scene, really impresses upon the viewer the amount of work that hundreds of people put into this production, and more over, that there is still a force for good in what has become a galaxy populated by tired re-releases of a once noble franchise.
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