Luke's X-34 landspeeder in StarWars-Indonesia
May 16, 2010, 04:16 PM
by erlang
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- erlang (May 16, 2010, 04:17 PM) wrote : X-34 landspeeder Scheme :From the Movies
When Luke Skywalker's beloved T-16 skyhopper wasn't functioning, his
only escape from moisture farm drudgery came from his beat-up brown
landspeeder. Hovering aloft on a cushion of antigravity, the speeder had
three thrusters for maneuverability and a curved windscreen for
protection from Tatooine's blowing grit. To raise the credits needed
to purchase passage off Tatooine, Luke was forced to sell his speeder.
The popularity of the newer XP-38 models cut into the speeder's resale
value, though Luke and Obi-Wan were able to finagle 2,000 credits out of
the deal.
From the Expanded Universe
The purchase of a second landspeeder was the cause of many heated
arguments at the Lars homestead. The curmudgeonly Owen Lars was against
wasting credits on frivolous expenditures, but his nephew reasoned that
with his increased workload, he would need a speedy way to reach the
moisture vaporators in the outlying ranges. As usual, the calming
influence of Beru Lars straightened out the disagreement, and Luke was
able to purchase a worn and dented brown X-34 for 2,400 credits. Though
Luke did use the speeder for joyriding, Owen at least respected that his
nephew's constant tinkering on its power plant and thrusters was
teaching the lad valuable mechanical skills.
Behind the Scenes
The full-size landspeeder prop was a functioning car with wheels tucked
beneath its frame. Hiding those wheels and making it look as if this
speeder could really soar was quite the challenge for A New Hope's
production crew. The easiest methods involved creatively
photographing the speeder from angles that obscured the wheels, or
hiding the wheels behind foreground rocks and scenery. In a few
instances, the speeder was mounted to a lateral crane that suspended the
vessel and gave it an appropriate "bounce" when Luke jumped in or out
of it. For long shots, the speeder was fitted with a mirrored
skirt that reflected the sand beneath it. The judicious use of gelatin
globs smeared on the camera lens to create a blur helped this effect, as
did the post-production addition of a dense shadow beneath the speeder.
George Lucas was never satisfied with the end result, feeling
that the addition of blurs and shadows only drew attention to a
lackluster effect. For the Special Edition of A New Hope, the use
of digital compositing and image manipulation simply erased the mirrors
and wheels beneath the craft and seamlessly painted in the underlying
desert.
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