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Director Taika Waititi Forgot Natalie Portman Was in Star Wars

#jarjar#obiwan#starwars#jamesjones#trek
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0:00 [Music] do you guys know who tycho ytt is of course yeah yeah he's from new zealand was taika named after that taika yeah was he oh really named after him you know what titi is that's his last name dt so you guys named taika after tekoytd like in honor of him no not an honorable like we liked his name but that was a really cool name yeah and then so in the name list that we came up with like taiko just stood out so it was like oh let's see his ticket too taco ytt has been arrested for killing a family of seven that's a lot of people humor i'ma change his name to uh christopher nolan another good director ted steven spielberg can't trip him up i think it's the name of a japanese emperor or something too yeah that's what we looked it up it's a it's a name

0:51 that exists in like i think like 37 languages wow wow so if you could ditch this one you could probably say it's because of some other reason yeah i just can't believe you'd give up on that name so fast because i was lying i was lying actually yep yep that was a relief huh i didn't change it yet so tucker ytt had a bit of a slip up during a conversation with natalie portman about his upcoming gig he is directing a star wars film so he offered her he's like hey how'd you like to be in a star wars movie which is kind of wild because he's like hypothetically natalie portman was the star of the first three technically second first the first after the third the first three yeah but that's like when the cg got good three that is what it got really good in three i missed the ████ old school style of

1:41 like just puppets like yeah props and just set design so you're talking about episode four five and six yeah the first three yeah because that's when that's when the cgi came in for one two and three i don't like cgi dude jar jar binks was wasn't a puppet jar jar i'm a fan of jar jar binks by the way steve's gonna punch you in the ████ face too and you know what i what else woke up brother i missed the 70s idea of what the future is that's what star wars is is that ████ that's because back then the future had promise and hope yeah now it's all fun they made blade runner around that time like the 80s right a lot of dirt a lot of desert yeah the future is a lot of desert but it's their idea of the tech because then now like if you see all the cg and ████ it actually looks like the future because the 20 000's idea of the future

2:32 wait so you think that star wars is supposed to look like the future but then stuff but if you watch star wars like the millennium falcon looks like ████ like all the tech and stuff all the buttons just like little green that's why i like it no but star trek was the one that was trying to look like the future future where it's all like clean and nice and ████ the new star trek movies are tight though they're pretty tight hey the old ones were you like you like the new star trek movies you ever seen rather khan are you talking about the new structure no no the star trek two the wrath of con the great one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever yeah that's my favorite star trek movie but the new one the first star trek the first one was really good this pine was ████ bomb i like the new ones they're cool i don't think i watched the third one but i definitely watched the first two give me three right the first one was really good the second one was not as good the third one was not as good as are the jj abrams ones yeah yeah i like the first two on those i like the unmotivated lens flares so what do you got what are your guys takes on the on

3:22 the uh well on the prequels cause like natalie portman she took it in stride she was like yo i've been in a star wars movie dude what the ████ are you talking about and he forgot yeah he forgot because i think that happens to some people because the there was fans of the og star wars right and then there was the prequels which i think mostly our generation absorbed the prequels the our parents all thought was ████ wack i thought it was whack i liked it but it was because anakin star walker sorry skywalker ████ yeah but i was i was a kid i liked it as a kid because i remember i remember going to a movie theater with my mom to watch it as like at like seven years old and like seeing that on the big screen was ████ cool or i remember the idea of going to like uh was it mcdonald's happy meals they had the pod racers yeah you had that they had that toy that opened up and there's like a whole little thing like the lightsaber fight the population game you play the game the pod racer game i would only be able to demo in the

4:12 ████ game stores you know when you go to games i just played there but dude i thought i was a ████ jedi because i was like i'm going 600 miles an hour but i am in control that's impossible i feel like this is how you can tell like how just being a couple years apart can ████ it all up with the memories because then when you're a teenager you're just too ████ cool and then when you were a kid you remember the og star wars ████ and you're like that was the dope stuff and then when you're a kid and you're a stupid little kid and you like anakin skywalker and ████ and all that stuff and then you write you think that's cool the teenagers look at you and say you're lamenting i was a teenager though but i was like 13. so i remember watching the third episode in theaters and i thought that that was a little weird like i laughed at the part where anakin gets set on fire because it just seemed goofy to me but up until that point i think one yeah i hate you it was very dramatic you were my brother

5:02 but one and two i liked one and two when i saw them in theaters i remember seeing in theaters but now looking back at it i was like oh that was a little weird but you don't like this new generation of diversity and women empowerment princess leia was in power ████ why does everyone say that ████ it's so funny nobody watched the first star wars movies plus what's up what's the black dude in the most recent one huh i felt like the entire arc was about to be about him and then the second movie they just ditched him they ████ him so hard interesting character arc that we got the most interesting character arc in that oh yeah and that whole series yeah so what happened to the diversity there like was it like the force awakens because i was like okay it's kind of a reboot of the other ones that i've seen but like i remember being a kid and seeing in theaters okay so there's like something like five year old here that's gonna star movies in the last 20 years in my opinion rogue one period and that wasn't even like the

5:53 episodic arc that was like a side story to fill in some information and make some money i want to see more star wars movies that are like just war movies in space like yeah like when they were going in on the ████ you want to get back to the wars and get away from the start yeah yeah don't get me started on obi-wan kenobi hey let's talk about i'll be making him you want to go do you want to talk about obi-wan okay so i think my problem is i'm just such a fan he's my literally favorite character in all stars yes likewise same way yes right so more of a window guy oh ████ you bro [Laughter] jar jar beaks kind of guy dude apparently there's a lot of jar jar i love going around i thought johnny was saying although are you really saying that or is it because of what ahmed best went through because ahmed best like almost killed himself which is so sad is that the best guy who played jar jar yeah he played jared he almost killed himself he was such a genuine because everyone hated jar jar they gave him so much and like he's he was expecting

6:43 because like you know you're filming this movie and like you got george lucas who's like one of the greatest legends ever in filmmaking they even accused that of racism because they're saying like jar jar was representing minorities and that too yeah so so that's going on but you got george pumping you up gassing you the ████ up you got liam neeson laughing at your bits on set so you're thinking like this is going to be tight for me right now the movie comes out everyone s████ completely on one person and it was him right and so he took on all that scapegoat but the thing is kids love jar jar though right it was just the ████ fans and the ████ geeks hated jar jar yeah the people who were like too old for the movies obviously i don't ████ have a poster of jar jar in my room or anything i'm just saying i think he was like memorable he was lovable dude he was like ████ groot i'm just asking because because like obi wan obi-wan was my favorite who plays obi-wan oh you and mcgregor and alan guinness mcgregor

7:34 here you're at alexander said about star wars like bro bro i did so many ████ cool things in my career and all i remember before is being ████ this like space samurai yeah look at charles dude look at charlton heston right he did so many movies he's the most like a credit actor for his time he's remembered mostly for a meme where he's kissing a monkey okay well i mean with the apes is pretty iconic though kissing a monkey damn dirty you blew it all up the monkey kissing moment that's what he's known for she was pretty fine though you know calling mcbee that's all i got to say uh but yes obi-wan kenobi i thought i was so excited for this epic six episode reboot yes they're doing like that in between period you know what i mean after episode three before episode four type ████ they're trying to connect everything and then they do they choose

8:24 to do this whole bit where it's like about leia when she's a kid which i'm okay with the actress i'm not gonna say anything you know she's a kid i thought it was cute and all that stuff i'm okay with but i just felt like if you're gonna take that time you said that i just felt like you're gonna take that time and you're gonna bring back two of the most legendary and iconic stories or people aka literally darth vader and obi-wan and they come back and they brought hayden christensen back in order to do this it just felt underwhelming it felt like they were taking like what could have been the satisfaction that that die hard star wars star wars fans from two different generations could come to the table and like be like yo we're ████ about this and they like kind of like just went somewhere else with it they tried to fill in some other gaps and they didn't do it justice in a certain way as a fan where i wanted to see obi-wan and darth vader just have

9:14 either more depth or more and i think you got the whole thing right yeah i did yeah so they did have i mean they had it but yeah maybe they just had they put too much focus on like the the story of like leia and all that so that obi-wan's entire mission was again spoiler alert for anybody who didn't watch it for sure but she he just kind of goes around it's really just more about her and like figuring out and making sure that she's just laying a little spoiler dumb ████ it's been a while though no it just it just felt like it wasn't where i wanted it to be it's all and i get that i'm not gonna hate on it i'm just saying like oh man it was like obviously like full story but they made it more about like in my opinion that had problems like i totally know what you're talking about but i think my problem is i'm so biased because i like the character so much i was just like happy to hang with them again sure i still watched it yeah yeah yeah but and the way that they they closed it out i think episodes five and six were dope because they closed it out

10:04 like focusing on the relationship between the two like with anakin invader and like that even that mask open moment was tight right that was that you know that was lifted apparently from another part which i hadn't seen in star wars what's lucas's involvement in all these new ones like storytelling or anything because i think that's probably what ████ it up he gets a chance there's like a bud yeah so he's on set he was on set but he's not part of the creative house he's just there to eat the catering and hang out with his friends if they did i do enjoy that they busted uh another val kilmer with uh with taco maverick and they did that with james earl jones's voice yeah and then brought back him by the way it's flawless it's so good it sounds like james jones i thought it was like another voice actor who just was mimicking but then i was like luckily we had just did a whole bit on ████ val kilmer yeah talking about how they aid his voice so i had to look it up because i was like this is too ████ good wait

10:54 they ai had his voice on ████ james jones oh val kilmer on no because they play into that character if you watch it they play into like that character having this certain sickness or whatever and i was just like oh ████ this is crazy like you know uh they ████ made it work so valve's been in so much stuff like james jones they synthesized it and they created an ai that helps to just plug and play like whatever dialogue they want and it's like yeah very little though like most of it it was interesting how they did it without too much spoiling but then like he would type on the computer and then he would communicate with him like that yeah that's because he literally can't speak really so james earl jones um you know the voice of darth vader yeah he had nothing to do with obi-wan at all but they obviously pay him a royalty because they're using like an

11:44 amalgamation of all of his voices like from the past performances and like just splicing them together to create this ai that's actually making the voice like fill in the blanks it's crazy it's kind of like how they do defects they actually take an actor who looks similar to the actor that you're trying to make and then they put they put project that on top but they need that they need that base layer of like similarity in order and then they put this thing in he's like i could eat a peach for hours [Laughter] you know how there's a star wars fans right yeah and then there's star trek fans right so so and then there's a lot of people battling between the two but i'm so under i'm so underground i'm a star gate fan dude circus target sg-1 that's the guy who does the voice acting from god of war uh right oh oh you're talking about teal

12:36 teal the one that looks like he's always smelling ████ the guy with the the symbol on his head yeah he's good great voice actor yeah he's got that deep voice and he plays the main main character aka kratos in god one he got an award for it because he was so ████ good yeah he's really good yeah he always looks like he smells some ████ he could have been in my opinion he could have been vin diesel yeah because he has that ████ voice and that presence and ████ but he just got stuck on a s█████ tv show [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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