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...confused about the hype. Yes--it's about time I came out. I'm a Star Wars fan. I can tell you who Salacious Crumb is. I can tell you the name of the actor who played Chewbacca. I can tell you the name of the ice creature of Hoth. I know Boba Fett's third cousin twice removed...
...back and enjoy the ride. Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan '02, a Crimson editor, is an English concentrator in Holworthy Hall. Salacious Crumb is the small cackling being who tries to rip out C-3PO's eye in Return of the Jedi. Peter Mayhew played Chewbacca. And the ice creature of Hoth who attacks Luke in The Empire Strikes Back is a Wampa. As for Boba Fett's third cousin twice removed, she recommends you ask Melissa...
Flight sims and air-combat games like LucasArts' new Shadows of the Empire: Battle for Hoth, shown above, use force feedback to the fullest. Gamers can feel the resistance as planes pull out of dives, the recoil from missile and machine-gun fire and, for those less fortunate, the shattering impact of an unexpected crash...
...Benjamin Cavell's substantive mistakes mar his aesthetic evaluations. I would agree with his assertion that computer-generated scenes seem jarringly incongruous with the charm of the original Star Wars movies. However, Mr. Cavell's main source of disappointment--the new footage of the wampa creature on Hoth--is actually not a computer-generated (CG) creation. Rather, just as in the good old days of film-making, an actor got dressed up in a wampa outfit to shoot the new scenes...
While the computer-drawn landscapes are a disappointing, amateurish touch, the changes in the Hoth creature positively hurt the scene. They ruin the once-excellent pacing and remove much of the suspense by making concrete the details about the creature's appearance and activities which were once left to our imagination. Unfortunately, nothing we see the creature do is as frightening as what we imagined it to be doing...