Pure Genius Star Wars Ultimate Remix is the perfect example of how stupid SOPA/PIPA are/were.

[tzikeh]

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake Star Wars: A New Hope into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted.

And so they did, lovingly and unbelievably accurately, in almost every format imaginable: poorly-costumed live action; spectacularly-costumed live action; Star Warsaction figures; Star TREK action figures; hand-drawn animation; digital animation; LEGO; stop-motion models; PEZ dispensers; Playmobil; SIMS; cats....

Here is the Star Wars Uncut project official site, which gives more details on how it all came together....

And here is the result.

(Can also be viewed at Vimeo.)

I whole-heartedly endorse watching every single second of this magnificent piece of crowdsourced delight.

And whenever you see someone online moaning that the people against SOPA/PIPA "just want to steal stuff," point them to this and explain that, had those acts passed, anybody involved in this this joyous film/homage/interpretation would have been under threat of arrest (or flat-out arrested), and any website that hosted it would have been brought down, and the owners of the website prosecuted.

(JAWA CATS FOREVER)

Comments

I'm in love!

[neotoma]

That is a wonderful fan-made production. I'm only 20 minutes in or so, but the *papercraft* Star Destroyer! The little kid who played electroshocked R2D2 so well! The completely different but easily comprehensible variations on Darth Vader! Legos in variation forms of animation!

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[ratcreature]

And of course I can't watch it because youtube had to block it in Germany because of potential music rights problems. Well, maybe the Vimeo will work.