Ep 083 : Martin Kunert - CLASSIC CLIP - The filmmaker & fashion photographer talks mythology & Star Wars
Steele Wars : Star Wars Podcast
Steele Saunders
4.5 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Martin Kunert is a LA based fashion photographer who has recently returned to filmmaking. We chat about how Chinese mythology relates to Star Wars and how would A New Hope be viewed today if it stayed as a single film.
Plus will Luke Skywalker leave the Island and is he more like Rocky Balboa or Sylvester Stallone?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Steel Wars. |
| 0:02.7 | I am comedian Steel Saunders and I do love Star Wars. |
| 0:07.5 | Please enjoy this classic clip which is available in full at patreon.com forward slash steel wars. |
| 0:19.8 | I always marvel at how much a lucky accident Star Wars was, that it actually, like, there |
| 0:27.7 | was so many things that it almost didn't happen. |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.8 | Is that incredible to you that it like, it's just sort of like a series of happy accidents |
| 0:35.8 | and almost like things like, you know, |
| 0:38.9 | Tatawine, the setbacks that made it smaller also like helped it in a way have that magic look. |
| 0:47.7 | I think that's the filmmaking process. |
| 0:49.3 | I think filmmaking is you have these beautiful dreams and the first day of production is when you start, |
| 0:54.1 | you know, ripping up your storyboards make settling on your dreams and trying to make |
| 0:58.1 | do with what you have there was actually great interview with copa we're basically saying the same |
| 1:01.6 | exact thing every day he walks up on set he's going to go well half my stuff i was expecting to |
| 1:05.8 | happen is not there so hopefully i can survive the day and get something decent and and that's |
| 1:10.4 | the history star wars Wars, you know? |
| 1:12.3 | So what is it? |
| 1:13.1 | Like they got their sets blown down, like, you know, after the first day of production? |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah, I think both times when they're in Tunisia, like in, like for Star Wars, in whatever that would have been, 75 or 76. |
| 1:27.1 | And then when they went back for Phantom Menace, there was like a really big storm. |
| 1:32.0 | And George Lucas took it as a like a positive omen. |
| 1:36.4 | Right. That's funny. I guess that's what you got to do. |
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