I always get a kick out of the fact that Princess Leia has a British accent in a few scenes in Star Wars: A New Hope, and then it is discarded. Maybe because she was in scenes with Peter Cushing, Carrie Fisher just couldn't help herself? I wonder why they didn't re record those scenes with her American Accent once they decided to go that way. Her accent wasn't bad - certainly more convincing than Amber Heard's Mera in Zack Snyder's Justice League!
Considering that when Luke finishes blowing up the Death Star and lands back at Yavin IV, and the first thing he says as he leaves his fighter and cries out "CARRIE!" when he sees Leia, I have to assume the sound crew were focusing more on how the light sabers sounded than what the people holding them were saying...
ReplyDeleteJim, that's what editors and voice over recordings are for.
ReplyDeletePeople talk about the 9 parsecs it took Han to travel. They don't know it was a distance of 12 parsecs but Han had found a short cut. Not easy to do. That's why he was so proud in doing it.
Too bad Barry wasn't still around from yesterday. Speed could then get 'there' in a Flash.
Tobor's right. The best "Speed" young Mr. Racer's can manage...is Mach 5.
ReplyDeleteNowhere near fast enough to break the time barrier! Unless, of course, one has a modified DeLorean sports car.
@Tobor and Cary: maybe that's where Nova and the Flash come in. They're literally racing to the rescue! But, even if today's cover isn't part 2 to yesterday's part 1, I wouldn't be against someday seeing "Speed Racer Goes Back To The Future."
ReplyDeleteWally West met a version of Speed Racer, who ---with his help --- did manage a time-jump, in one of the crossovers that DC published a few years ago. (Yes, I'm back: Restrictions during the pandemic kept me mostly offline since late in March 2020. I hope that all here have come through the crisis with no serious illness, or loss of friends or relatives.
ReplyDeleteOops! The above post was by me...
ReplyDeleteBTW, Speed Racer DID do time-traveling in the 1990's series, where he met a death-race-exploiting-character from the city named Caligula Barnum.
ReplyDeleteAnon 4:27: I meant CB was from the future.
ReplyDeleteI was pretty sure CB wasn't from the radio. ;-)
ReplyDeleteKind of looks like the chase scene from Fifth Element.
ReplyDeleteWhich would be more fitting if that was Jim Kirk (from "Star Trek: TOS") at the steering wheel. Considering both that series and "The Fifth Element" were set in the 23rd century.
ReplyDeleteShe was just mocking his accent.
ReplyDeleteBased on that Anonymous comment, a ST:TOS/Fifth Element crossover cover might be fun.
ReplyDeleteFor similar reasons, maybe also Buck Rogers with ST:TNG or DS9.
That sounds good to me, too!
ReplyDeleteI can see it, now. Buck is trying to get back to the 20th Century via the Guardian of Forever. But, he's stopped four hundred years short by yet another attempt, by the 27th century Vorgons, to get hold of the Tox Uhtat on Risa. Considering how much of a ladies' man the Gil Gerard version of Rogers was depicted as being (on that two-season NBC wonder), he would probably see that particular planetary resort as 7th Heaven!
That's assuming, of course, that Ross is lucky enough to latch on to a photo-capture of Gerard as Buck Rogers.
ReplyDeleteBut, if he can, I'd rather see him team-up with his 20th century ancestor: Steve Rogers!
@Anonymous157: That was already done @ STF #2471.
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