{"id":636,"date":"2006-09-16T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=636"},"modified":"2006-09-18T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T14:04:21","slug":"lightsaber-duel-ryan-vs-brandon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Lightsaber Duel: Ryan VS Brandon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past <a href=\"?p=312\">I&#8217;ve mentioned<\/a> the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanw.michaelfrisk.com\/ryan-w\/index.html\">Ryan Wieber<\/a>.  He&#8217;s a hobbyist who makes lightsaber duel movies.  His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S4jcofiu7xQ\">last one<\/a> was very well done and showed a lot of polish, but since then he&#8217;s gotten even better.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XrG6JdJgBFE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XrG6JdJgBFE\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I like that they avoided the mistakes common to a lot of fan-made stuff.  They don&#8217;t engage in any dialog or try to establish setting or motive.  While a total lack of acting ability and clumsy fan-written dialog can really give a film the authentic Episode III feel, these short movies don&#8217;t have enough time to build a story. So, they wisely left it out and focused on the dueling, which is why everyone watches these things anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The fight shows a lot of imagination.  They keep it varied and interesting, and don&#8217;t just try to re-hash what we&#8217;ve seen in the movies.  They are also really fast.  The speed of this battle is similar to that of the fight between Obi-wan and Annikin in Episode III.  It must take a lot of practice to get their routine down to the point where they can perform it this cleanly. <\/p>\n<p>Nicely done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past I&#8217;ve mentioned the work of Ryan Wieber. He&#8217;s a hobbyist who makes lightsaber duel movies. His last one was very well done and showed a lot of polish, but since then he&#8217;s gotten even better. I like that they avoided the mistakes common to a lot of fan-made stuff. They don&#8217;t engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}