Re: [HoE] My manitou made me do it.

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

Humpty Dumpty ran for the wall
He took a bullet, never got there at all
All of General's 'bots
and all of his men
Make certain no ever leaves Denver again.


>-- taken from "The New Mother Goose"
>    c. 2093, Salt Lake City Press.





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Allan Seyberth
darious@darious.com
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Why did the chicken cross the road:

George Lucas (3): 
The first chicken crossing scene was underbudget and rushed, so I've used
ILM's digital editors to add several more cars and also a school bus, which
has nothing to do with story, but I thought looked really cool.  The sound
effects have been bolstered by the folks at my THX studio, and now, for the
first time, you can hear the chicken scream, even though chickens don't
really scream, but the sound, I find, helps set the tone of the scene.  The
chicken itself has been recreated from old footage.  We had to edit out the
original road and replace it with an updated digital road.  It looks
nothing like the other roads in the film, but that's okay because I wanted
to show the hustle and bustle of a real superhighway, full of the action
and of the grand scale that the fans really deserve.  
The chicken's blaster effects have been improved; now you can clearly see
that the Dodge shoots first, making the chicken look less like a
cold-blooded killer.  That the Dodge missed by about seven feet, even
though they were only a lane apart, and that the
Dodge had the draw and plenty of time to aim, merely demonstrates the
chicken's skill.  All in all, the scene is about ten minutes longer, which
is still shorter than I originally envisioned, but I felt that adding any
more might break the flow of the story.  Now the fans can see the chicken
cross the road the way it was meant to be seen, on the big screen.