For your amusement here are some pics from the Celebration...
It really was a blast. I just recovered enough for the midnight
showing of Revenge Of The Sith. It was incredible. I started crying when I saw
the young kids hiding in the Jedi temple. And my heart totally broke
at the end of Anakin and Obi Wan's duel when Obi Wan was saying his
final words to Anakin. Then Friday night I "had" to see the movie again
because I had some friends who couldn't make it to the midnight show.
Other thoughts from Celebration III...
Warwick Davis showed "Return of the Ewok" with live commentary. It's
the short film Davis and folks made during Sunday lunch breaks in
Return of the Jedi that tells a fictional version of how Davis got into
the film. He's just brillantly funny and the film's adorable, if you
haven't seen it you should find a copy.
Star Wars: Musical Edition was hilarious as well. Two words: Dancing
Stormtroopers. Simply priceless and incredible how the writers of it
managed to parody so many famous broadway songs in one hour. They had
Jar Jar in the Mos Eisley Cantina scene and Obi Wan mowed him down.
Everyone burst into applause at that. During the scene where Luke
intially sees Leia's message, the actress repeated her lines/actions
for three or four times and then just did the actions while Luke and
the droids talked. That was too funny. Really wish we could have
video taped it.
It was just an absolutely fabulous experience. I'm so happy it was
here in Indy and I was lucky enough to have the days off of work to go.
Overall the atmosphere was just incredibly warm. We met people in
line from Iowa who noticed my friend's Iowa State jacket and talked to
folks who'd driven for a day or more to get there and listened to folks
in front of or behind us speak in Japanese or Spanish or German. Just
amazing.
If they ever have another I would totally recommend going!
Keep up the great work on the strip,
--Mikki
