Cinefex Blog: What’s your favourite movie starship? If Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon isn’t on your shortlist, there’s something wrong with you. And if you haven’t yet enjoyed the crazy aerobatics of the galaxy’s most iconic hunk of junk in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, there’s something really wrong with you.
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It’s simply fascinating to see all of the ways that we have found to make movies easier to produce and beautiful over time. However, I love looking back through time to see the evolution of our modern CGI elements. It adds a grounding to the work being done today and sets the bar high for modern artists to surpass. Working on Star Wars is something I’ve dreamed about ever since deciding I wanted to work in the entertainment industry. Something about the nitty gritty details in the original films captured my imagination and to have a chance to do the same would be an experience I would sacrifice a whole lot to have. I am extremely jealous of the crew who got to design and build the current millennium falcon. Maybe someday I will get the chance to work on a Star Wars film but until then I guess I just have to live vicariously through those who have the chance to.
This was a great insight, not only on the Millennium Falcon, but also a bit on the evolution of props, models, CGI, and special effects in the film industry. But on to the main point of the article, The Millennium Flacon is fricken awesome. I can’t imagine the Star Wars universe to be anything recognizable without that component and when you see it fly in the new movie (if you haven’t, I’d say go even for just that scene) it’s the kind of hair raising awesome that is hard to describe. Yeah, maybe that’s hyping it a little bit, but it’s true for the most part. If a fictional inanimate object could deserve an applause, that scene would be one of the first that comes to mind, which is why I loved the article so much. It gives in pretty amazing detail the history and design of the falcon and how it was represented on screen through the years. The falcon is a prime example of the cross section of visual artistry and mechanical ingenuity that makes this industry so appealing to me
I had the opportunity to see the new Star Wars movie the day that it was release. If I am honest I never really had an interest in see the old one when I was a kid, so I was going in with very few expectations for what the film was going to be about, or even if I would understand without watching the prequel. I was more than happy when I left the movie, I had a smile on my face for the majority of the movie and was dumbfounded by the special effects and practicals that this movie had in it. Although I didn’t exactly watch the first six movies I did have an idea of what the millennium falcon was, the theatre practically lit up when the ship came to life and couldn’t help but wonder how J.J. Abrams when about incorporating the old ship into the new movie. I can now appreciate that it was not done with a green screen or some other method that would take away from this historic movie prop.
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