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It took someone 10 years to notice this, which means Lucas did a damn good job, as far as I'm concerned.

The movie(s) had bigger problems.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I've read about and seen "making ofs" where actors are told to do the same scene in varying ways, changing their inflection and tone of their voices and even movements to see what works best.

The preview trailers for The Dark Knight has the Joker saying "Kill the Batman" in a much more serious and dramatic tone for example, but in the actual movie he says it in a nonchalant, jokingly way.

Yes but that's not so incredibly common that it's a valid reason to call the performances lazy and/or wooden for being consistent between each take in a very deliberate scene where there isn't any relative room for variation. There a shit ton more reasons why the acting is wooden, however this is one of the examples of good acting. Yes there will be moments when ou're like "Can you do it this way? And this way?" But not for a scene like this.

 

[Aselith]

George Lucas even EDITS his movies? Is there no depravity that this man is incapable of?

 

[gabbo]

It's easier to tell if you isolate parts of his face. The eyes are more difficult to tell, but the mouth is obvious:

His left eye not moving with the rest of his face/shifting into his head is what gave it away for me. But it's well done enough that I'd never notice it while watching the actual film

David Fincher does shit like this. He'll use Ben Afflecks best take and merge it with Rosamund Pike's best.

That's different. It would be more like Fincher merging Ben Affleck with a slightly different angle of Ben Affleck and leaving everything else alone.

 

[thiscoldblack]

It took someone 10 years to notice this, which means Lucas did a damn good job, as far as I'm concerned.

Not really:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da8s9m4zEpo&t=45m39s

 

[Hatchtag]

David Fincher does shit like this. He'll use Ben Afflecks best take and merge it with Rosamund Pike's best.

David Fincher uses a lot of the same shit George Lucas does. He just actually makes a good movie with it.

 

[Shalashaska]

David Fincher does shit like this. He'll use Ben Afflecks best take and merge it with Rosamund Pike's best.

They mention this in some Star Wars behind the scenes featurettes. It's probably a fairly common thing these days with filming and editing technology.

 

[Warm Machine]

They also move kid Anakin's eyes in on shot during the dinner scene in Phantom Menace.

 

[Thorakai]

you star wars fans have plenty of material to bash lucas with

I don't think every tiny detail needs to be nitpicked

 

[CadetMahoney]

George Lucas. Is there no depravity that this man is incapable of?

As long as It's gonna be great, why would anyone complain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKeAAdjZYAs

 

[Nappuccino]

This is literally the least egregious thing Lucas has done to Star Wars in the past 20 years.

However, it does reinforce the fact that Lucas can't direct worth shit. Combine all the best takes into one and he still ended up with this drivel?

 

[vareon]

I have a hunch this happens all the time in many movies?

 

[jambo]

Nothing tops this, Batman & Robin reverse clip:

https://youtu.be/b7TwMZxApEg?t=174

One that always bugged me was The Two Towers, during the Ent attack on Isengard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8WyXv7hQvE&t=0m43s

You can clearly see Christopher Lee moving in reverse, especially his hair.

 

[Ithil]

It took someone 10 years to notice this, which means Lucas did a damn good job, as far as I'm concerned.

To be fair the viewer is looking at Palpatine in that shot, not Anakin.

 

[Cheerilee]

Wait, what did you just say? About Mein Kamph?

 

[Permanently A]

I don't like sand. It's coarse and rou

I guess this joke being ruined is simply the cost of using the superior dark mode

 

[ProfessorLobo]

Woah, that's really crazy. His eye goes derp for like half a second. That's really impressive and weird.

 

[GamingOblivion]

It took someone 10 years to notice this, which means Lucas did a damn good job, as far as I'm concerned.

That's because we had shitter DVD quality. This is obvious an HD source and it's clear as day.

 

[Staccat0]

That's because we had shitter DVD quality. This is obvious an HD source and it's clear as day.

Oh c'mon DVDs look THAT bad?

 

[flintstryker]

That's because we had shitter DVD quality. This is obvious an HD source and it's clear as day.

No its not, and DVD quality is just fine