My Obsession

Those who know me well, understand that I have quite a few obsessions. One of them being -- STAR WARS! The Denver Art Museum has had an exhibit since January called the Power of Costume - featuring Star Wars. It was so neat to read about how they came up with the different pieces of clothing and then why they chose certain materials for each character.

The coolest thing we saw was the cooling system under Chewbacca's costume. That wasn't even made until the prequel. The first three movies (4 - 6) the man wearing it suffered greatly under many pounds of yak hair - that's what they used to make his costume. So cool!

Even though I've seen the Star Wars movies a thousand times, it didn't occur to me that C3PO was a costume. Not sure why. Maybe because I knew that R2D2 wasn't a costume - it was remote controlled. The man wearing that, hated it! It was so unnatural for him and I could see why. In all the movies, he could only move so fast and remember to move like a robot. On top of being out in the desert for a lot of it -- made it worse I'm sure just like the man inside Chewbacca.

Sometimes we watch movies and just don't think about what the actors are going through. I'm guilty of that too. Since volunteering at WIN-TV, I have become more aware of camera angles and room panning -- things like that. The characters though, I don't really think about it nor their clothing/costumes. I can clearly see why Star Wars was and is such a phenomenon. Everyone, from the director to the actors did such a fantastic job making the movies believable.