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by Joe Nicolosi

10 months ago

My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from the top.

I then created some very basic animation in Final Cut to go along with her narration.

WINNER of the 'George Lucas Selects' award in the 2009 Star Wars Fan Movie contest.

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Pete Prodoehl 10 months ago

Wow, so close, yet... so far, far away... :)
Jenny E. 10 months ago

Ha!
sambro75 10 months ago

This is the funniest vid EVER!! haha.. loved it
BLACKTALONATION 10 months ago

GUESS WHAT? YOU GUYS ARE WEIRDOS? you guys are straight weirdos!! I LOVE WEIRDOS!! so hmmm... thats ah pretty basic vanilla scratchbox rundown of the history...now are you guys preparing the rest? like anakin? you know the dead george lucas facial fill in kinda would be ah better looking face than that fat random guy who was originally the actor! have no IDEA who that was kickin with ben at the end of that ewok rager they threw!! but looks like han really was happy to find out the relationship between LUKE and LEA!! boy you guys should have stuffed james earl jones face in DARTHY'S SUIT... NAH actually the actor who plays the ANAKIN GUY now that would be some good stuff..
Andy Tanguay 10 months ago

Fantastic. More than half the fun is in your editing. Well Done.
dre 10 months ago

A disgrace to star wars fans. Painful to watch. can I have my 3min and 43seconds back?
alextronic 9 months ago

@dre: oh come on...
Arlo 10 months ago

Loved it...

I'm so going to the dark side, or whatever...
Princess Punky 10 months ago

LOL!! that was hilarious, very close to the original BTW XD
Jonathan Mtz Roqueñi 10 months ago

there are no words to describe the way I L.A.U.G.H beyond ROFL. Good job fella!
Scott Curington 10 months ago

Awesome, I will laugh for a couple of days at this.

Later.
dagmarrr 10 months ago

haha amazing
daveybot 10 months ago

Oh, what a joy! Best animation of the year so far - thank your friend for us all!
Frederico Guimarães 10 months ago

Simply hilarious! Just love it! :-D Thank you for this.
Imran Ali 10 months ago

LOL, Hans Olo!?
Jim Haverkamp 10 months ago

The reveal of the crusty white guy in Vader's helmet is the best.
Chet Kuhn 10 months ago

Not only is this the best wrap-up of the trilogy that I have ever come across, but the girl who's telling the story sounds adorable. I think that she should do a "movies in 60 seconds" type of blog. It would be great!
Patrick H. 10 months ago

yeah, that's a cool idea …
Michael Parker 10 months ago

The only thing is she can't see the movies she is about to do
Ian Nicholson 10 months ago

No, she can't see the movies - or maybe she can only see bits of them....
alextronic 9 months ago

Typical exploiters!!!. Then the freshness of the idea would go away. This is a one-time thing. Don't exploit it.
magu 10 months ago

Yeah. Hans!
Patrick H. 10 months ago

You animation is great.

btw: I have never seen Star Wars either...
Dustin Robertson 10 months ago

poor being...
Tony Mazon 10 months ago

You don't belong on the internet.

j/k
Dave Velazquez 1 month ago

watch the original first, if you're interested
Dave Jacob Hoffman 10 months ago

Nice use of the Wilhelm scream!
Obscura 10 months ago

Indeed. :-)
kb^farbrausch 10 months ago

Had to laugh out too when I heard it. Great. :)
Nick Campbell 10 months ago

Yep. Nice Wilhelm screams indeed.
Soxiam 10 months ago

i think she got the plot confused with "10 things i hate about you".
Jared Flynn 10 months ago

My favorite moment: F=MA

The amazing Star Wars reference aside, I'm pretty sure we need to see more explosions revealing physics formulae. :D

Great storytelling, hilarious animation. I agree with the above posters that you two should do a video-blog of this kind of stuff!
Lucas Thurston 10 months ago

Oh man, that was hilarious. What a beautiful start to the day. Thank you!
Marko 10 months ago

You had me bursting out laughing at the office, THANK YOU!

... now to explain to my boss what's so funny about Photoshop.
Dustin Robertson 10 months ago

haha, nice!
Chris Enns 10 months ago

Hilarious! You made boingboing! boingboing.net/2009/01/14/star-wars-retold-by.html
Chris Enns 10 months ago

Oops... no html.

Hilarious. You made boingboing. But I guess I can't link there?
Chris Enns 10 months ago

Ooops. Guess you can. Maybe I should describe the plotline to vimeo sometime. Ugh.
Wim Leers 10 months ago

Hans! :D
Andrea Allen 10 months ago

Sounds about right.
Erick C. 10 months ago

oh, you girls.
Bradley Robb 10 months ago

Brilliant. Should not be watched while drinking coffee.
Chris Winn 10 months ago

^ Made that mistake.
Shell Gee 10 months ago

Ahahahaa that's brilliant! well done x
E to the M 10 months ago

I love this. Your friend and this other Star Wars reteller have the same hair.
Observe:
dears.tumblr.com/post/61572509/star-wars-according-to-a-3-year-old-via
naim alwan 10 months ago

wicked... bloody amazing... thanks for this, made me smile.
Thiago Calais 10 months ago

ahaahha nice!!!!
Cindy Crews 10 months ago

I love her giggle! Very amusing indeed.

Has she seen Lord of the Rings...would love to hear her version of that....hahahaha

Hans!
Ted James Butler 10 months ago

Fanstastic!
tj hanton 10 months ago

I sweat that could have been my wife telling that ... practically the same story from her. LOL!
funkaoshi 10 months ago

This is brilliant.
Alan Natale 10 months ago

Epic win! I love it, well done. Reminds me of Rick Park stuff but instead of claymation you did scrapb00kmation.
afro blanco 10 months ago

Wow, someone else has seen The Stuff. Weird.
Jeremy Sale 10 months ago

Words fail me, this is so brilliant.
grahams 10 months ago

This is genius.
Martin Moucha 10 months ago

nice story.. and funny
ematoma 10 months ago

hahahahahaha!
Excellent!
Adam Douglas 10 months ago

Nice.
alison becker 10 months ago

flawless. i'm blogging it: alisonbecker.blogspot.com/
ginga 10 months ago

this is absolutely brilliant!!!!! X)
Aaron Reason 10 months ago

She did a great job! Your animation was awesome and funny.
magsterTV 10 months ago

I agree! Your animation was awesome & furry! :)
Richard Merges 10 months ago

hans... HANS!!!!! LMAO

great work, love it!
M2 10 months ago

Fracking genius!!!!
Easy Bake Lovin' with Piper! 10 months ago

Sometimes I feel like a deformed Ewok...
Easy Bake Lovin' with Piper! 10 months ago

Sometimes I feel like a deformed Ewok...
Jennifer Morris 10 months ago

Lol look at the jump in views in one day. And well deserved! Hilarious and visually spot-on, I particularly love the random insertion of various pop culture analogies, e.g. Bon Jovi/Pink Floyd artwork.

Excellent!
Jonathan Ogden 10 months ago

LOL! That was awesome! Great job! and well done to Amanda for such an entertaining story xD
ISPhotographic 10 months ago

Great jeeeerb.
Robert-Jon Eckhardt 10 months ago

Hahahah I laughed my ass off! :D

I don't really know the story of the trilogy either, but that doesn't mind. The girl sounds so cute and the animation just rocks :D

Oh and =really= creative idea! Haven't seen anything like this ever!
Mordy Golding 10 months ago

I KNEW the cylons were in on the whole thing! Awesome.
Carl B. Richetti 10 months ago

Jesus Christ, I love this.
license2use 10 months ago

Nice! excellent job!
Chrizzle 10 months ago

That's the best video I've seen so far in 2009.
Daniel Haskins 10 months ago

lolzors and CHEESE
Heidi Moon 10 months ago

OMG, this made me laugh so hard, I cried.
Randal L. Schwartz 10 months ago

As someone who saw the original star wars (not star wars retitled as star wars 4) in the movie theatre about 50 times in 1978-79, I was laughing my hiney off! Good job on the animation. "Hans". Heh.
Erick Aguileta 10 months ago

I like Amanda ;D
urban bohemian 10 months ago

This would be funny enough to listen to without the enhancement, but the video had my entire office cracking up. WELL DONE... or something or whatever.
haveboard 10 months ago

This is the funniest thing I have seen on the internet in quite a long time. bravo for a brilliant idea. I will likely watch this over and over.
Mario Gonzalez 10 months ago

Pleas oh please get her to re-tell some more movies she's kind of seen. I'm on my knees begging. Maybe you could start with indie jones.

PS. Amanda is super hot.
Ryan C Davidson 10 months ago

Well done.
Kelvin Lam 10 months ago

Han who? =)
this is hilarious!!!
Sean Power 10 months ago

Haaaaans! This is so good! I love it!
Mike Moreno 10 months ago

OK this ruled!
you should have her re-tell other movies.
Damian Glasgow 10 months ago

HILARIOUS! Great work.
Steve P. 10 months ago

Wilhelm scream FTW!
Patrick Kirk 10 months ago

Simply beautiful.
Paige 10 months ago

I've watched it like 3 times already, and I'm still laughing. Hilarious Work! Great job!
Deryck Hodge 10 months ago

You mean that's not really what happens in Star Wars? :)
Al 10 months ago

That was genius!! Both the video and the audio :) Kudos to both of you!
zeh fernando 10 months ago

That's how I remember it.
Brad Kremer 10 months ago

HAHA.....thats great!
Alex Stone 10 months ago

THAT, my friend, was absolutely delightful. Today is a good day.
Matt Blum 10 months ago

Awesome, hysterical video!
Estoye 10 months ago

More! More! Prequels! Apocalypse Now! Godfather!
Big Sexy 10 months ago

Awesome interpretation! Reminds me of that Robot Chicken episode when Luke walks away from Darth Vader as DV is explaining that the force is really caused my microscopic organisms, and that DV built C3PO when he was a child etc.
E K 10 months ago

Awesome - Can she do LOTR?
Paulo Delgado 10 months ago

My head asploded... there is too much awesomeness in just 3 minutes..
Matt DL 10 months ago

Well done.
Makes you wonder about Oral tradition.
Maybe all those ancient stories are wrong.