Star Wars Influences #14: Part 2: Visually Enhanced

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🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We are proud to present the second part of this month's Star Wars Influences with new visual enhancement! Paul Bateman provides a follow-up to Sheldon Norton's RFR report on "21-87" and it's impact on a young George Lucas. The spotlight then shines on Original Trilogy concept artist and all-around utility player extraordinaire Joe Johnston. Paul give us the lowdown on Joe's career, artwork, technique, and inspirations. Listen to the show or follow along with our visual accompaniment on your mobile device, laptop, or desktop computer. And be sure to listen to Part One if you haven't already to get the full Influences experience!

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0:00.0	Let's get back to our fanboy moment and that's talking about Star Wars.
0:15.6	There's something else I want to follow up with you on and that was a discussion we had
0:20.4	on the show, courtesy of our friend, Sheldon Norton and that was an exploration into the
0:25.1	usage of the number 2187 in Star Wars and kind of like where George Lucas got the inspiration
0:34.2	from then. Sheldon tracked it down. He narrowed it down to this artsy film from the 60s, a short
0:40.9	film, 2187. I forget who the filmmaker was who created that. But I actually watched the film.
0:50.5	You can see it online if you just do a simple search for it. You can find it. And it's 11 minutes
0:56.9	long. It's black and white. And it's just a montage basically of different clips, you know, things
1:06.6	taken from history. I don't even know where he got all the source material from. But it's sort of
1:12.6	is it creates this almost like a big spider web of film clips that he just throws at you. But
1:21.9	the amazing thing about it is there is a rhythm to it. And within this film 2187, there's a blatant
1:27.2	reference to the force. And we have the clip. Many people feel that set in sort of the contemplation
1:37.4	of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of
1:50.2	force or something behind this apparent mask, which we see in front of us. And they call it
2:03.9	God or the, you know, depending on their particular disposition to the question and feeling for
2:08.6	thoughts of some aspect of it, of some aspect of it. To me is not the same thing as a world full of
2:15.8	human beings. There's something going. There's something missing. And then the people say, well,
2:21.3	this is good. Let's have more of it. Somebody walks up and you say your number is 2187, isn't it? Why
2:27.8	does that person really smile? All right. Well, you heard the reference to 2187 and the reference
2:33.9	to the force within that film clip. So, shelled and kind of turned us on to it. But I think you
2:41.3	wanted to dig a little bit deeper, Paul. Now, this whole knowledge of this number having some sort
2:50.2	of significance on George Lucas and Star Wars kind of gets by a lot of Star Wars fans.
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