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Summary: Star Wars As A Radio Drama Was Stunning!!
Review: All the sound effects and music added much as well as having two members of the original cast from the movies(Mark Hamil and Anthony Daniels)was wonderful!! Anne Sachs was brillient as Leia and Perry King was magnifesent as Solo although getting used to King's voice instead of Ford's was a bit difficult.I enjoyed getting more background on Luke and Leia. Brian Daily wrote a wonderful script!! All in all this series should be re-brodcast.
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Summary: A Fantastic Abrigement of Lucas' Masterpiece!
Review: As well as filling in gaps that the movie doesn't, it explains things like the relationship between Leia and her father, Luke and Biggs, and introduces new characters such as Lord Tijon.All in all, this is definately worth a purchase!
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Summary: A Brilliant Tour De Force of the Force on Radio
Review: At first, the idea seems bizarre, even ridiculous. Star Wars, a movie best known for its vistas of alien worlds and epic battles, as a 13 part radio drama? No way would it work, right? Well, unless you have the cold heart of a Sith, Star Wars did indeed translate well from the silver screen to radio, thank you very much. Yes, Star Wars' visual effects are a big part of the magic of the saga, but the heart and soul of George Lucas' galaxy far, far away are the characters and the storyline. And while the movie is satisfying on its own, the radio dramatization written by the late Brian Daley takes us beyond the movie....beyond the screenplay...and even beyond the novelization. By expanding the movie's story beyond its two hour running time, the Radio Drama allows us to catch glimpses of Luke Skywalker's life BEFORE the movie. It tells us how Princess Leia acquired the Death Star plans....and what, exactly, happened to her during her interrogation aboard the Empire's battle station...(it is an interesting scene, but not for the squeamish, by the way). In short, by expanding the story to nearly seven hours, characters we loved on screen acquire depth only equaled by novelizations. The Radio Drama makes extensive use of material written (and in some cases filmed) for A New Hope's silver screen version but cut for editorial or technical reasons. Also, Ben Burtt's sound effects, John Williams' score, and the acting of Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Anthony Daniels (See Threepio) give the whole project its "true" Star Wars cachet.
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Summary: A Brilliant Tour De Force of the Force on Radio
Review: At first, the idea seems bizarre, even ridiculous. Star Wars, a movie best known for its vistas of alien worlds and epic battles, as a 13 part radio drama? No way would it work, right? Well, unless you have the cold heart of a Sith, Star Wars did indeed translate well from the silver screen to radio, thank you very much. Yes, Star Wars' visual effects are a big part of the magic of the saga, but the heart and soul of George Lucas' galaxy far, far away are the characters and the storyline. And while the movie is satisfying on its own, the radio dramatization written by the late Brian Daley takes us beyond the movie....beyond the screenplay...and even beyond the novelization. By expanding the movie's story beyond its two hour running time, the Radio Drama allows us to catch glimpses of Luke Skywalker's life BEFORE the movie. It tells us how Princess Leia acquired the Death Star plans....and what, exactly, happened to her during her interrogation aboard the Empire's battle station...(it is an interesting scene, but not for the squeamish, by the way). In short, by expanding the story to nearly seven hours, characters we loved on screen acquire depth only equaled by novelizations. The Radio Drama makes extensive use of material written (and in some cases filmed) for A New Hope's silver screen version but cut for editorial or technical reasons. Also, Ben Burtt's sound effects, John Williams' score, and the acting of Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Anthony Daniels (See Threepio) give the whole project its "true" Star Wars cachet.
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Summary: A great adventure brought to life.
Review: I have several copies of the NPR StarWars trilogy on CD-ROM. I listen to them on the road and love the continual discovery of the depth of the characters, the use of sound effects, the skill of the actors in portraying everything from stealth to hard work to pain to love. I do have a warning to early collectors of these CDs. The original limited edition of the trilogy had wonderful interviews of the cast and the alternate scenes that were recorded. But HighBridge did not use good CDs. The CD label graphics merged with the color laser technology that created the disk content, wiping out any audio on the CDs. My now useless set is numbered in the 9000s. HighBridge has the masters but declines to reissue to those whose numbered copies were produced on low quality CDs. So if you want to purchase a numbered copy with interviews, rather than the current copies, be warned.
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Summary: A great adventure brought to life.
Review: I have several copies of the NPR StarWars trilogy on CD-ROM. I listen to them on the road and love the continual discovery of the depth of the characters, the use of sound effects, the skill of the actors in portraying everything from stealth to hard work to pain to love. I do have a warning to early collectors of these CDs. The original limited edition of the trilogy had wonderful interviews of the cast and the alternate scenes that were recorded. But HighBridge did not use good CDs. The CD label graphics merged with the color laser technology that created the disk content, wiping out any audio on the CDs. My now useless set is numbered in the 9000s. HighBridge has the masters but declines to reissue to those whose numbered copies were produced on low quality CDs. So if you want to purchase a numbered copy with interviews, rather than the current copies, be warned.
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Summary: OH MY GOSH!
Review: I thought it could't get any better then the movie! Boy, was I ever wrong! I thought Star Wars would suck as a radio drama! Yeah, right... The Star Wars radio drama is the best radio drama I've ever heard! The sound effects are AWSOME! The Star Wars Radio Dramas are way better then any other radio dramas (Adventures in Odyssey, Chronicles on Narnia, etc...). The only thing I didn't like about it was that the Jawa Theme is used in nearly every fricken scene!
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Summary: The STAR WARS Series is still revolutionary radio drama.
Review: I was the Executive Producer of the original 13-episode STAR WARS radio series, created in association with National Public Radio, Lucasfilm, and the BBC. I conceived the concept of the series in 1978 as a way to demonstrate how I thought radio drama should be produced in America. I had the odd -- and looking back now -- revolutionary idea that radio drama was a highly visual medium, not a verbal "talking heads" affair. Why STAR WARS for this experiment? I was looking for a subject that could attract a large audience for radio drama again, like the audiences that listened as I did when I was very young to THE SHADOW, SUSPENSE, THE GREEN HORNET and other great radio series of the 1940's. The stunning first STAR WARS film had just been released and I was amazed by it from the opening credits on. John Houseman, the actor and producer, set me thinking in the direction that lead eventually to the "force" and all that went with it. I had asked him how I could attract a large audience again for radio drama. He thought for a minute and said, "Create a scandal." And what better way to create a scandal that to announce that we would adapt the most visual Hollywood film ever made for -- of all things -- radio. In radio drama, visual images and action are created by sound effects. Done well, there's no need for dialogue to tell us what's happening. Lucasfilm had given us use of all the sound effects created for the film. So I insisted that nearly every scene have underneath it the sound or ambience of all the movement and action taking place. This was not an idea that everybody loved at first sight, because it was so different from how contemporary radio drama was being produced. But the results told the tale: after it premiered in 1981, the original 13-episode series was credited with raising the audience for National Public Radio stations by 40 per cent. After that, the series was broadcast by public radio systems in Canada and Australia, and everywhere else by the BBC World Service. The first thirteen episodes cover the time period of the original film's story with material drawn from the screenplay, the novelization, and original material created specifically for the radio series. Luke and C3PO are played by the stars who created those characters in the film.
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Summary: Who says Star Wars has to be seen to be believed?
Review: If anything, the original Radio Drama is proof that one of the most visually-stunning movies of all time can be just as good, perhaps better, in an audio-only medium. The sounds and voices are more than enough to tell you what is going on. The story is expanded, lots of questions are answered, and the whole thing works perfectly. The different voices have different tones to them (For example, Solo's voice always has a more self-conscious, selfish tone), but that doesn't ruin it. They just add to the characterization. The original sounds and music score are used, and perfectly. This is a must for any Star Wars fan, whether on cassette, CD, or the printed screenplay.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: The CD is cool. I received this audio drama back in June of 1999 as a graduation present. The characters are great! including Liea, C3PO, Darth Vader, and the emperror. The characters sound different with different people playing their rolls. I also like the names of the 2 original actors like Mark Hammill and Anthony Daniels. The thing that is very unusual about this is when you hear Liea crying when that wicked Tarken destroyed her home planet of Alderaun. The reason why you hear her crying is because! they have to show her sadness somehow. I also have the original score from the films themselves that accompany the drama. Each of the episodes last a number of episodes long. A new hope is thirteen episodes long. This is a great audio drama. Buy it and enjoy for when you need entertainment.
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