POURQUOI LE FAUCON MILLENIUM EST UNE POUBELLE ?

Have you ever wondered why the Falcon Millenium is a garbage ship? It's good for the break! When we see the very first episode of the Star Wars saga, we notice a big aesthetic difference between the Falcon Millenium and the cruisers. And of course it's done on purpose for three reasons. In fact, when George Lucas started working on the Star Wars saga, he was interested in the technical aspect to know how to reproduce space battles at the time. Here we are in 1974, so necessarily more limited technical means than today. The Kubrick Space Odyssey released in 1968 was of course a very good example and he was interested in critics to know if models were well enough done at the time for the public to believe it. And what stood out mainly was that it was well done, but that the public had a hard time believing it. The public had a hard time believing it because the ships were all white, immaculate. The ships were a bit the opposite of the real world, being much too clean. In this regard, I refer you to my future video on First Man, which will talk among other things about the collective imagination and how the cinema must conform to it. George Lucas therefore said that for the public to believe in the reality of this ship, he needed a story. A ship out of the factory has no story, it is too clean. So we're going to hurt it. Add a whole bunch of details to it that makes you believe he had to live. This ship had to be riddled with injuries and defects, like the skin of a human. The starting point of one of the essential aspects of the saga, his story that goes well beyond the movies. Everything in this new hope is there to remind us that everything had a story, an experience. These three PO and the different androids are all in pitiful condition and found in a box. The machine of the scrapers is covered in rust. For the costumes of the Stormtroopers and the Rebellion, same thing. Everything in the picture is there to tell us welcome to this universe that existed before the film and will continue to live after. And this is one of the essential problems that there has been in special effects for 15 years when we want to reproduce faces. Since technology was not yet up to giving this myriad of defects that there are on the skin of a human. Which often gave this wax face aspect and therefore artificial. Fortunately, today it is changing. Another example that I blame today's movies that take place in another era. You take the movies of the 80s, like Rocky. There are still garbage trucks in the streets. Whereas today, if we take the movie Air, supposed to happen too in the 80s. Well, all the cars, all the cars seem to come out of a restoration contest. Which I find makes the exteriors very artificial and feeds some ideals of an era when everything was more beautiful, cleaner, pinker. In fact, makes a machine fail with three advantages. The first, as we have seen, is to make it less artificial. And the second to make it attractive. You take Bumblebee, which is presented in the first movie as a trash can that emerges when it wants. I don't think Bumblebee would have had the particular affection of the public if it had appeared out of the factory like the other Transformers. Same for its coccinelle version, or even all the coccinelle movies, which by the way are nice to see. And whose Bumblebee movie pumps elements to death. For the DeLorean, the same, it starts when it wants. Or the Impala from Winchester. The reliability and the history of the car makes it appear like a character. On the contrary, the Empire's ships are nickel, whether outside or inside. Which gives an aspect of a soulless war machine. Which corresponds well to the Empire. And this kind of operation is very often found in science fiction, take Oblivion. The evil machines are clean, sparkling, with no relation to nature. On the contrary of humans who are dirty. And it's something they also wanted to reproduce with Destiny in Starlet Universe or the Stargate of Starlet SG-1. Last reason, it allows to include humorous overtones or to accentuate a situation of urgency and stress. Which is always the case with the Falcon and the DeLorean. In episode 5, it's really the hyper propulsion running gag that never works. This kind of good script is very often used in cinema now. With always vehicles that don't want to start when they are in an emergency situation. That's why everyone loves the Falcon and the DeLorean. But it's not limited only to the ships. Everything is dirty in this first opus. They even end up in a discharge. And they do the opposite of all the representations of the future and of the science fiction of the time. Where everything was represented clean and flawless. We can find as an example in real life the two towers that were hated by the New Yorkers. It's only after the crossing of Philippe Petit in 1974 that they will start to love it. These are no longer two huge metal towers all new. They now have a story. I advise you to watch The Walk with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's the only film that really pays homage to what the two towers were. Let's finish with Han Solo's dice. In fact, this is a reference to a habit taken by the Americans. During World War II, American soldiers all had dice that they suspended in the rearview mirror of their jeep or in their fighter jet to give them a chance. Because, as it was war, everything could be played on a dice roll. On the return of the war, the habit remained to remember that, as in war, the road could also be deadly. At first made of plastic, they then became mummy, because those in plastic tended to melt in the sun. And I think that George Lucas could see that spaceships would be the logical evolution of cars in the future. That's why this little detail exists. 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