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Remember watching those awesome Pod Races in The Phantom Menace at the Theatre ?
Here is my ink drawing of Sebulba smoking a spliff ....
There are Two things I remember about Phantom Menace ...
The Pod Race and the Awesome THX Surround Sound ... I remember thinking to myself I can’t wait to play the Pod Racer Game when it comes out.
George Lucas was a game-changer using sound in ways that had never been seen or heard before. By the time the director made “The Phantom Menace,” he wanted to advance the sonic format further. Lucas and sound designer at Skywalker Gary Rydstrom wanted to be able to move sound through the room and around the audience.
They wanted to move the sound from front to back or maybe from the screen to the side of the room, something that wasn’t possible to do with Dolby 5.1. The audio requirements of “The Phantom Menace” necessitated the development of a 6.1 sound format, which allowed filmmakers to realistically, acoustically create things like the Pod racing scenes.
Rydstrom explains, “‘The Phantom Menace’ came out after many years of no ‘Star Wars’ films. My thinking was that if we had a new one, let’s push technology and the movie-going experience. Long before we finished the movie, there were talks between our engineers, and THX engineers and me, and a lot of cross-pollination between the companies. It happened later on again with what became Dolby Atmos. It’s a symbiotic relationship with Dolby because we don’t compete. They don’t make movies, and we don’t make sound systems. The two companies really support and benefit each other.”
Source : https://variety.com/2020/artisans/awards/george-lucas-dolby-sound-star-wars-1203487459/
SEBULBA was an awesome Villain.
Everyone in the Theatre wanted him to crash.
A crafty, vicious Dug, Sebulba became one of the Outer Rim's most successful Podracers. Whether roaming the streets of Mos Espa or piloting his massive orange Podracer, Sebulba was aggressive and arrogant. He was not above cheating to win a race, and would even resort to illegal weapons in an attempt to defeat his opponents. Sebulba was Mos Espa's reigning Podrace champion until he entered the Boonta Eve Classic, where he was defeated by young Anakin Skywalker, much to the Dug's frustration.
