{"id":8370,"date":"2010-06-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8370"},"modified":"2010-06-18T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T17:25:30","slug":"premakes-the-empire-strikes-back-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8370","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Premakes&#8221; The Empire Strikes Back (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the Original Empire Strikes back, before Lucas got his hands on the series and ruined the whole thing with his fancy special effects and technicolor glitz:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmTpOQrqoO0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmTpOQrqoO0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t believe he cast Harrison Ford as Han Solo! WTF? I mean, did he even SEE the original?!? And don&#8217;t get me started on how Princess Leia&#8217;s costume looked NOTHING like a stewardess.  <\/p>\n<p>Kidding aside, this is a very interesting arrangement of clips.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/whoiseyevan\">The author<\/a> has a whole series of these &#8220;premake&#8221; trailers, and it&#8217;s amazing how well he&#8217;s made them fit.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kAboGO9MDsQ\">Ghostbusters<\/a> one (starring Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis!) is also good for a grin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked the Original Empire Strikes back, before Lucas got his hands on the series and ruined the whole thing with his fancy special effects and technicolor glitz: Link (YouTube) And I can&#8217;t believe he cast Harrison Ford as Han Solo! WTF? I mean, did he even SEE the original?!? And don&#8217;t get me started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370","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=8370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}