A fun idea I'll probably never actually do

[pedanther]

The working title: "Life in Other Galaxies". The premise: Make a list of the actors billed above the line in Star Wars films, and then for each of them watch a film they starred in that isn't Star Wars.

(This idea via Sir Alec Guinness, who had been starring in films for three decades before Star Wars and reportedly got quite annoyed about the number of encounters he had afterward with people who declared themselves to be fans of his work but had never seen him in any role except Obi Wan Kenobi. I've seen enough of his other films that I could probably get out of that conversation with skin intact, but there are still significant gaps -- I've never seen more than the occasional scene from any of his work with David Lean, for a start.)

Then, presumably, some kind of review blog to keep track of where I was up to. The inspiration for this came from thinking about all the videos I've seen popping up on Youtube lately with people filming themselves watching Star Wars for the first time, but I have a feeling that kind of thing works better with "I'm watching a movie you the audience already know and love" than with "I'm watching a movie you the audience might not have heard of before" -- and anyway I would need first to acquire more equipment, editing skill, and comfort with the sound of my own voice before I could do a video blog well. So if I did do this, it would probably be in some kind of text format.

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[thisbluespirit]

Nothing wrong with text format! /hates all the podcasts and vidcasts because the extra effort is impossible for me. (I may be biased.)

It sounds like a fun theme, though. Why not? And it's easy enough to get a blog on Wordpress.

[pedanther]

I haven't given up on it yet: I've made the list of actors -- 52 of them, a good number for a weekly blog project -- and have started to research what movies they're in that I haven't seen yet.

There've been a couple of times already where I've looked at an actor's name and gone "I'm not sure if they've done anything suitable that I haven't already seen", but so far it's always turned out that they have and I just didn't know about it. So I'm learning new things already.

Of course, making lists is the easy part compared to making a schedule and sticking to it. I've been pondering whether it would be a good idea to find a collaborator, since I often find projects easier with someone to bounce off, but that would mean extra complications in matching schedules, and it would make it harder to find suitable movies if they had to be ones neither had seen -- or perhaps in that case the format might be that each week each person recommends the other a movie that one of them has seen and the other hasn't...

You can see that the more I think about this, the more thoughts I have!

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, wow, 52 ought to be enough to keep you going, yes! XD (Just one or two people's IMBD's have kept me pretty busy for years.)

Heh, it does sound like it could be interesting. Good luck with making Stuff Happen. Or not, as the case may be!