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Hardware Wars (1977) is a short film spoof of the classic science fiction film A New Hope. The thirteen-minute film, which premiered in theatres only seven months after Star Wars, consisted of little more than inside jokes and visual puns that heavily depended upon audience familiarity with the original. The theme song is the famous "Ride of the Valkyries".
Tagline: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss three bucks goodbye.
Hardware Wars was written and directed by San Francisco native Ernie Fosselius. It was structured as a mock-movie trailer, and Fosselius even secured a voice-over from Paul Frees, the same voice talent who had narrated the original Star Wars teaser trailer. Deliberately low-budget effects and props were used, most notably ordinary household appliances such as toasters and irons as spaceships (hence the title), and an exploding basketball in place of a planet. The characters, played by actors who were just as low-budget as the props, were also parodied in name and appearance; for example, Chewbacca the wookiee was replaced by "Chewchilla the Wookiee Monster," an obvious Cookie Monster puppet with a brown dye-job, and Darth Vader's counterpart, "Darph Nader," wore a welding helmet that distorted his voice so much that no one could understand anything he said. Other notable characters include "Fluke Starbucker," "Ham Salad," "Augie Ben Doggie," "Princess Ann Droid," and the drones, "4Q2" (who resembles the Tin Woodsman from the Wizard of Oz) and "Arty Deco" (a antique canister vacuum cleaner).
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Agreed. :) http://www.technobuffalo.com/blog/hardware/console-wars-round-5-xbox-360-vs-ps3-gpu
SimonTheSn0wman (Simon Alparaz) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:32 -0000
Agreed. :) http://www.technobuffalo.com/blog/hardware/console-wars-round-5-xbox-360-vs-ps3-gpu
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Hardwarer (Hardware Lover) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:12:18 -0000
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Hardwarer (Hardware Lover) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:12:42 -0000
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EW.com: Hardware Wars - A short spoof of the film, reviewed by Dalton Ross. Includes user comments.
May Farce Be With You Again: Hardware Returns - Wired News reports how, eager to coattail on the Lucas empire's popularity, the creators dust off this low-tech spoof for re-release - and a comic book.
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