So Han’s walking down the halls of Bespin with his old friend Lando. Leia’s there, and lookin’ good. Han thinks he’s off to dinner - maybe some wine, a little flirting, and then back to the ol’ guest quarters with Her Hotness.
But the door opens, and there’s Darth Vader.
Han doesn’t look incredulously at Lando; he doesn’t duck or run away.
What does Han do?
He starts shooting at the motherfucker.
He starts shooting.
Be like Han.
A few things I love in movie:
- Wide-angle lenses
- Wong Kar-Wai style romance
- Hand-held camera
- Thunderstorms
- Realistic, shockingly loud gunfights
- Flying
- Grain
- Gong Li
- Location shooting
- Driving fast
- Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight
- Digital cinematography
- Cities at night
- Skies at night
- Practical Effects
- Smuggling
- Mogwai
- James Newton Howard
- Tragedy
- Men with facial hair
- Standoffs
- Characters who are the absolute best at what they do.
A language is a dialect with an army and navy
a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot
