Ok, before you beat me up, I just wanted to see if anyone has heard of this? I have the soundtrack and it's so bad it's hilarious, like a b-movie, you can't not watch.
i knew of a star wars disco number with R2-D2 chirping away to a bad techno beat, but never heard of a musical
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this is some kind of joke isn't it? Has anyone seen the Gamecube games based on star wars? The "Lucas" man does something different in each start up' I'm told...
[quote:51534639f8="shadowgirl"]this is some kind of joke isn't it? Has anyone seen the Gamecube games based on star wars? The "Lucas" man does something different in each start up' I'm told...[/quote:51534639f8] No, it's not a joke. It was an acctual Broadway Musical. It was crap and didn't last. But the soundtrack, as I've said, is very funny. Come to think of it, I bet the play was hilarious too.
OmKranti wrote:[quote:13571dbf0b]No, it's not a joke. It was an acctual Broadway Musical. It was crap and didn't last. But the soundtrack, as I've said, is very funny. Come to think of it, I bet the play was hilarious too.[/quote:13571dbf0b]I bet! I like Star Wars alot and have been reading a book called Eragon, which is meant to be based on Star Wars....
[quote:ed51fa4c00="shadowgirl"]OmKranti wrote:[quote:ed51fa4c00]No, it's not a joke. It was an acctual Broadway Musical. It was crap and didn't last. But the soundtrack, as I've said, is very funny. Come to think of it, I bet the play was hilarious too.[/quote:ed51fa4c00]I bet! I like Star Wars alot and have been reading a book called Eragon, which is meant to be based on Star Wars....[/quote:ed51fa4c00] Now that you mention it, I can see elements of star wars in eragon.
I haven't read Eragon, but I know it was written by a teenager. My friend who is a bookshop manager says it rips off just about every major fantasy work that a 15 year old would probably have come across. She says it's incredibly derivative, not quite to the point of plagiarism, but close. So I'm not surprised if it contains elements of Star Wars.
*Shrug* Wheel of Time, which we're discussing in another forum, is quite derivative, and now that i think about it I'm pretty sure you could find a few star wars-esque things in it. the problem with fantasy as a genre is that almost all of it is going to be derivative, to some degree, from human history and mythos. it's not just ripping off tolkien, for example, it's ripping off the norwegians and swedes! or maybe the germans and polish. go far enough back through any cultural mythology and eventually you hit... ARCHETYPES! dum dum dum!!! think of these as the building blocks from which any story is built... or derived. i'm workin on a setting for a role playing game and fantasy stories of my own. it's insanely derivative, but it's still an original work as far as i'm concerned.
update: There's 'derivative', and then there's 'ripping off'. if you take, for example, and akira kurasawa film or two, set it in space, and turn the bumbling samurai comedy characters into a couple of gay robots, and replace the katanas with light sabers, but keep the beautiful princess and the evil empire....
My understanding is (and do bear in mind that this could be completely unfounded and erroneous, since it's only hearsay) that the boy who wrote Eragon deliberately set out to write all his favourite stories into one book for himself and his friends to enjoy. A kind of ultimate AU crossover fanfic, if you like. Then adults got hold of it and said, "Oh my, what a gifted teenager you are!" And then it got published. But, according to this friend, it still reads like a crossover fanfic written by a gifted teenager.
[quote:cf5d6e096d="OmKranti"]Grace, did you get to have a listen?[/quote:cf5d6e096d] I didn't get any file at all now you mention it... :? How big is the file ?
