Chat corner 133: A New Hope

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week, the topic is the movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, aka The First One. Is there something you’d like to chat about? New idea, old idea, interesting tidbit or piece of gossip…?

 

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[annathecrow]

I'm sort of collecting recs for air combat movies that inspired ANH. So far I've got Dambusters, 633 Squadron and Bridges at Toko-Ri. Does anyone know any others?

(I mean, I know that if I googled I'd find someone's full list, but then there's nothing to chat about...)

For an interesting tidbit, I submit: Lars farm patio plants! I feel like every successive story (the movies included) made Tatooine into more of a death world, so it's funny to see that in the first movie, it looks more like... idk, a Space Arizona.

[yourlibrarian]

Heh, space Arizona! One of the things I always find curious is that it's supposed to be the hind end of nowhere but everything seems to happen on Tattooine. Even regular transports!

[atamascolily]

IIRC, Tora! Tora! Tora! was also an influence, although I haven't seen it myself.

I love the Lars patio plants so much! It's so strange to me that the shots of the courtyard and the house are an entirely different location from the rest of the property IRL, but that's the magic of cinema for you.