Everyone has at least one friend who has seen parts of the Star Wars original trilogy but can’t quite tell you every plot point in order. Joe Nicolosi recorded his friend Amanda as she retells the story from the tiny amount she’s seen with hilarious results. Starwars.com chats with Joe about why he decided to illustrate his friend’s retelling of Star Wars.
What made you decide to record your friend Amanda about her ideas of what happened in the Star Wars trilogy and then illustrate it in video form?
Amanda seemed very confident in her knowledge of the Star Wars saga despite never having watched any of the Star Wars films. That was the first good sign. When we sat down to watch them, she started telling me what she thought the plots were going to be, so I told her to hold steady while I went to get my voice recorder. Aside from watching the original trilogy in a single sitting, that was the best decision I made all day.
What was the funniest part of the retold story for you?
The bit where she thought that Chewbacca was a mutated Ewok is the highlight for me. It’s the farthest thing from accurate in the whole video, and it implies that she’s given the subject some real thought. Like she had seen pictures of both and added them up together in her own mind and created this backstory of Chewbacca being ostracized from his own race and then guilted into helping the Ewoks. That’s just good drama.
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That video was priceless! But I’d love to know what Amanda’s thoughts were as she watched the saga unfold.
That was so hilarious! haha
I think the amazing part about Amanda’s wookie mistake is a little different than Joe’s.
In so many, by this point, famous interviews with George Lucas revealed the origins for Ewoks were chopping Wookies in half. He always wanted a planet of Wookies, but they were too expensive for the first movie, so since he’d already established Wookies by Jedi, he changed the idea into something else.
Somewhere, somehow, Amanda knew this basic idea. And then the behind-the-scenes became twisted up in the reality of the film and there’s this brilliant amalgam of fact/fiction/truth/just plain wrong.
That’s why I like the Wookie/Ewok part. Oh, and the “brown muppets” line is classic.
-Patty Zim, a heart like a window
I want her to explain “Heroes” next!
Hahahaha! Hilarious… And the video edition is priceless
@bonniegrrl: but she mustn’t have seen the series or it wouldn’t be fun
I like the fact that the goal of the entire series is destroying the singular death star. and she doesn’t have them going to the cantina until the 3rd movie.
Hahahahahah! That was awesome! I watched it 3 times
What a great idea, really! I loved the original trilogy and I love Amanda’s version even more 
Hahahahahahaha! That was funny! She should try and due the newer movies now!!
woow..this is an awesome video…….
shes got good imagination and the animation rocks!!!!…..
That was hilarious!!! IT WAS WEIRD! one thing I thought was weird was Luke and Han (Hans!) kissing!!! HA HA!
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