The Dambusters a la Star Wars

[seneca65r]

I was concerned this might be disrespectful! but no I think the guys from 617 would appreciate this. It illustrates the boldness of their accomplishment, even by the standards of fiction!

[Ceaaa22]

That was beyond brilliant !

[theblitz8]

2:23 i LOLD hard

[LorrieBrian946]

Bravo! Well done.

[RMSBoston1]

This is awesome....thank you so much!!!!! Haven't laughed this much in ages!

[thisismyname007]

Luke, your your floss!

[dirtydonki]

Clever rebel dogs

[OzNormandy]

THAT is seriously funny....!

[southlondon63]

joking apart, guy gibson had bollocks

[HenryvKeiper]

@southlondon63 He did. Anyone who denies it, I'll challenge him to fly head on into flak and then do it again so that your buddies don't get shot down.

[warwatcher91]

@southlondon63 Its true. Shame he was killed not too long after the attack. At least he had a worthy successor in Leonard Chesire.

[WorserThanYouX]

lol @ 0:50

[bearus08]

hehehe..good one :)

[SteveSabbai]

...this movie and the 633 squadron was where lucASS got the idea for the deathstar run...this guy put the Star Wars sound back into this movie...AWESOME job!...

[knightstorm16V]

hilarious :D the R2 scenes are perfectly timed

[aaronwhite3000]

Yeah! Great work!!!

[TwistedSpinsta]

Hahahahahaha!,,,,,,,,,,,, Bloody good job....... jolly well done old chap!

[Silmacar]

29 people are German Imperial Stormtroopers.

[HenryvKeiper]

@Silmacar And when they saw it, they gave the Wilhelm scream :(

[Tschugge]

@Silmacar I am german and I really liked it!

[spudy1216]

To amazing films put together!!!! Is your sername Spielberg!

[HenryvKeiper]

@spudy1216 Ha, no. And in some regards I'm happy about that :P

[starwarsgm]

Genius, love it

[spudcat007]

Spiffing show old boy!

[tangopapatp]

Superb.

And I love the comparison between R2 and the navigator/bombadier

[malcs0]

Actually, it's not just clever, some of it is quite inspired. The bit where Obi Wan Kenobi is telling Luke to "feel the force" is conveyed quite brilliantly with Richard Todd's facial expression beneath the mask changing as he hears the voice. Indeed, it is quite amazing how so many films have that type of premise and the same types of scene. Didn't Lucas admit that the Deathstar attack was somehow inspired by the Dambusters?

[lizardkingsajrs]

very cleaver! good work man

[whoareyouvegas]

Yep I think I love you. My history teacher showed us this in class. :)

[HenryvKeiper]

@whoareyouvegas Oh wow! That's rather flattering actually. Thanks :)

[blindandwatching]

If YouTube had Oscars you should win one.

[busterpiggle]

I can't believe you left out the lines of dialogue taken straight from The Dambusters and used in Star Wars!

"How many guns do you make it?"

"I make it twenty guns."

Great job otherwise!

[vbm206s]

I think this rates as the best thing I've ever seen on youtube

[AndyHanger18]

Ruddy brilliant

[jmm1233]

if only i had a timemachine

[xoxojdavenport]

Absolutely beyond brilliant!! I laughed so hard I cried. Sooo funny! Fantastic editing job.

[woodenz]

@xoxojdavenport Easily pleased then ????

[naughtypersian]

This is great man. EPIC WIN! awesome job dude!

[SD78]

'Nigger' had become one with the Force and was guiding him.

[MadHobbit]

brilliant stuff

[CaptainNomura]

Better than Family Guy spoof.

[DavyTom71]

Star Wars borrowed heavily from old British war movies. Back in the 70s, George Lucas showed Spielberg a rough cut of Star Wars which had no special effects. Instead it had scenes of dogfights or raids from Dambusters, 633 Squadron or The Battle of Britain to represent the attack on the Death Star, etc

[TheOriginalEAGLE]

Yep, that's exactly where Mr. Lucas got all his ideas. It was told way back just after release of "Star Wars" in '77 that all his ideas came from old cinema he watched as a kid.

Enjoyable vid. Thanks!

[rgr666rgr]

Hahahahahahahahaha awesome!!!!

[rlawton01]

one of the coolest videos i have ever seen...great editing.

[zedzedzed2]

superb! epic!bloody brilliant piece of editing work!



[southlondon63]

fuck knows how you worked out or even thought of combining these 2 great movies but the result is brilliant

[HenryvKeiper]

@southlondon63 A really really bored evening.

[HairyMart]

@southlondon63 I think you'll find Mr Lucas "borrowed" a few ideas for the Death Star battle from A New Hope, from several classic war films, mostly this one and ,633 Squadron

[HugoRune1976]

@HairyMart Just like he borrowed the whole plot from Kurosawa

[MrSunlander]

@southlondon63 It was Lucas' inspiration for the trench attack.....

[tooichan]

@MrSunlander Nah,it was copied from the movie 633 squadron.

[MrSunlander]

@tooichan sorry, but Lucas said so in several interviews.....

[pronto355]

THAT WAS BRILLIANT

Loved both movies

[Chex2331]

Anybody remember the World War 2 star wars style vids?

made by some dude who had that grape lady vid

Miss those, should have download em

[HenryvKeiper]

@Chex2331 Oh yes!! I remember those! Where the fellow took news reels and stock footage from WWII and put them together to Star Wars music in three videos, like the three movies. Those were awesome, especially the last one with MacArthur's speech. I had all of those favorited, and then they got taken down. I should have downloaded them myself.

[TheGBSharp]

proud to be british, good old lancasters

[RebelFleetCommander]

Hell yeah! RAF Lancasters baby!

Really nice work.

[DonMikimax]

LOL, great!!!

[montybasset]

George Lucas did say that the Dambusters where his insparation,

[charade97]

Well done. Tremendous job of work!

[pinklady7371]

This is marvellous, i like both films, it must have taken you ages to do.

[HenryvKeiper]

@pinklady7371 No, just three hours. And only because Windows Movie Maker kept crashing on me. If you want my "commentary" in the responses, I explain a bit on how I did it.

[debowli]

@HenryvKeiper yes please , this was genius!

[micropod]

Very good, it made me giggle :-)

[knausspiano]

I love John Williams music but I also love Eric Coates music too, and missed it here ("The Dambusters March"). So Peter Jackson has started work on his Dambusters remake. Jackson is a vintage plane enthusiast so this should be colossal. The British War Office have also released information to Jackson that was not available in the original movie as it was still classified. Great work here on this video by the way :-)

[HenryvKeiper]

@knausspiano I agree on Eric Coates. The Dam Busters March is a wonderful one.

[NVanWendy]

@knausspiano Yeah, a request for a quote on a crashable scale Lanc' came to our shop the other day. Don't know if the job's coming through, though.

[GarlicPudding]

These special effects are incredible, considering how old this movie is.

[MechaGojira00]

Man, just a single question: Did you just overslap both sequences the audio track and the scene or did you edit something? Because, no doubt, that scene in Lucas' film was too much inspired on that in the British one. 'The Dam Busters' is a master piece, whereas 'Star Wars Episode IV' is... well quite nice, hehe. Good work man. Also don't forget to include Kurosawa's 'The Hidden Fortress' in the George Lucas' influence batch.

[HenryvKeiper]

@MechaGojira00 Basically I put the trench run sequence into WMM, then cut it up by each individual shot, separated the audio, and put in video from The Dam Busters over each shot. If you watch (or listen) to the "Commentary" I did for it in the video responses, I explain a lot of how I did this.

[dublo7jamesbond]

PART 2: ...Then there's Lucas who isn't 'half-full' or 'half-empty' - despite his creativity, he's asked 'why does the glass have to be twice as big as it is? I can make do with a smaller one if I steal some ideas from the brits and save some money!" (he also took the 'Thunderbirds' special effects guy to work on his Starwars FX!).

[HenryvKeiper]

@dublo7jamesbond Really? The Thunderbirds guy did Star Wars? That's awesome, and wouldn't surprise me if it was true. The Thunderbirds had some awesome effects for the time period.

[dublo7jamesbond]

PART 1: Absolutely Brilliant - I'm the 'half-full' person who saw it as brilliantly humorous and showed up the plagiarism. The 'half-empty' folks see it as disrespectful without noticing that the original Dambusters film was meant to be inspiring and respectful, and this new treatment doesn't change a thing about that... (see part 2...)

[womble38286]

well done, a fine piece of work and no way detrimental to the bomber crews

[lumbago12]

I always thought that 'Star Wars' (as much as I love it) was a Battle of Britain/Dambusters hybrid!

[StephenDeMille]

Very good. A excellent homenage to this men.

[p1ckerings]

well done you have just made a mockery of men's lives and actions to help bring peace to us all.

[HenryvKeiper]

@p1ckerings Read the comments I've made before on that subject. This isn't making fun of the real men who flew the planes, but the similarities between two films. If I did a spoof of Lady Butler's "Charge of the Light Brigade," it would be a take on a well known work of art, not the real soldiers in the charge.

[thistimeitmatters]

@p1ckerings Pay attention! Watch the scene from Star Wars then this scene from Dambusters. If anything it is pointing out Lucas' cheeky nicking of the dialogue from this film. Dim wit.

[ThreeDeeRider]

Brilliant parody, well worth the effort - made me laugh

[waraloga7x]

This is more than cool it's inspiring

[wilmanric1]

This is GREAT. Thanks for getting the clip from this classic old movie. And BTW, just in case anyone complains about the tracers from the light flak looking "Hokey" I have it on VERY good authority (a guy who flew Lancs in WWII) that light flak looked exactly like that....

[jgberndt]

This was fantastic. Great job kid!!!!

[pik93]

well done mate this was great, how could we fail when we had the force will us ;) you get a big thumbs up from me mate:)

[CHANNELOMD]

whats not to like ,how the FUCK can you give this a thumbs down

[HenryvKeiper]

@CHANNELOMD People are allowed their opinion.

[CHANNELOMD]

@HenryvKeiper indeed mate,just seemed harsh to give it a thumbs down

[HenryvKeiper]

@CHANNELOMD Let them give their thumbs down. The fact that 25+ people gave it thumbs down doesn't hide the fact that 530+ people have given it a thumbs up :)

[CHANNELOMD]

@HenryvKeiper its tops with me mate,stunning work

[jamhamster]

Dambusters Vs. Trench scene has been talked about lots but I'm glad you're the one that actually did it, you've done a truly quality job there, nicely done man! ;-)

[blueskies404]

Nice. In fact, very good. But it's a different war film, "633 Squadron" that George Lucas based the trench run scenes on.

[SlabsTheFuckinBaby]

Of course Nigger didn't show up until Empire

[cefis]

: ) Good job guy!

[Trek001]

Can you do this the other way? So you have the Dambusters playing over the top of the Death Star attack?

[HenryvKeiper]

@Trek001 The thought entered my mind, but I think some parts wouldn't work. We'll see, though, we'll see...

[waratah08]

An absolute ripper of a video. The editing is great and the dialogue fits perfectly. Bloody well done.

[philld8279]

There are are a lot of these so called 'funny' mixes on youtube but this is the exception. It's well edited and very funny. Excellent job.

[bluemax14]

Nice montage, but I think we know which was the 'original'. Thumbs up for 617 squadron methinks.

[SWAT6111]

this is on fake!!!!

[HenryvKeiper]

@SWAT6111 What?

[CHANNELOMD]

@HenryvKeiper yes thats what I was thinking ,nice vid ,the truely startling thing was that 20 year old men really did this

[MsFreedomGundam]

@pete6256 hahaha 1 fight they lost? what about the British? how many fights they lost? I mean perhaps remember of your lovely D-Day... it couldnt happened if it wasent for USA nor the invasion of Italy... so think twice and stop speculating

[AbuAvital]

Two great movies combined, great job, thanks.

[MatlockJack]

One of my neighbours was an RAF navigator during the war and had friends killed on the Dambusters Raid and on the successive raids the survivors were sent on thereafter. Real war, where soldiers don't get up when someone shouts 'cut'.

[MikeFright]

Absolutely freakin AWESOME!

[myvideosshared]

Nigger was the code name in WW2 once abomb had bee dropped. The dog was also called Nigger. I wonder if the new film tells the truth

[dampbluefish]

Haha, that's brill! Well in my son :) I'd seen the likeness to, just never put them together.

Conspiracy theory: The Red Arrow's call signs are RED ONE through to RED EIGHT, and RED LEADER. The X-Wings in star wars use RED ONE - RED SEVENTEEN and RED LEADER, as well as GOLD ONE - GOLD TWELVE, and a GOLD LEADER....

Do us British have a secret army of GOLD SPACE JETS :O

[harrier21]

i love it in the original film when the aussie in the nose blister says "this is bloody dangerous!"..looking forward to the remake from the bloke who did lord of the rings....per ardua ad astra.....

[7222Brit]

woo! A+

[thespoogemonster]

like it! very good

[lionheart270866]

Also this was 617 Squadron after the original "X" special name was given. My father trained with 626 Squadron Wickenby near the end of the war in Lancasters but never saw combat.

Question: Does that Wallis "Obiwan"?

[lionheart270866]

That was good! Been a Star Wars fan and Old War Film fan. Its true that Lucas stole alot from other films to get the scenes he wanted. The process was pretty much filmed the same. I guess Darth Vader could be Manfred von Richthofen or Erich Hartmann. They must have had access to a few Lancasters as there are only two flyable types today. "Nigger" not appropriate in today's codes. A bastardized version of a Germanic word like "Schwartzenegger" means 'Black Plough Man.

This was 617 Squadron

[blackbear231]

WOW! I'm impressed. The only thing missing is the line that Lucas actually lifted from the Dambusters: "I'd say about ten guns, some in the fields, some in the towers." (In Star Wars it becomes Gold Five's line "I'd say about twenty guns, some on the surface, some in the towers.")

This is a truly awesome, fun video.

[HenryvKeiper]

Who says the Americans are taking credit? :P

[TowedHaulProductions]

Spraycando

[MrZombiestomper]

i love it lol

[douglas18741892]

George Lucas took much from the Dambusters and the Battle of Britain.

Uncanny.

[channynnahc]

makes star wars watcherble

[Spraycando]

Yanks trying to steal our glory again... Balls of British Steel. 1939-1945.

Dunkirk Spirit Lads!!!

[HenryvKeiper]

Wha?

[skbarton13]

@Spraycando Not exactly stealing when showing how the same scene was done by a British filmmaker ages before, eh?!

[ROBLOXROX007]

Awesome! :D

[imanglo]

that was nicely put together, just finished reading the new book about this raid. " Dam those guys had guts" pardon the pun.

[Connorrules1]

that went together way to good and it was epic and funny with the R2 D2 scenes

[haveagoodweek]

Brilliant!

[pnzrmk4]

Absolutely Brilliant !

[603mac]

"Luke,you've switched off your targeting computer!!" yeah that would be the stick with two nails in each end would it?Brilliant!

[NVanWendy]

Very well done, padawan! The R2D2 bits had me laughing out loud - that was inspired!

[lee249087]

too funny, nice one :)

[Beecus]

HAHA Awesome!!

[Fireclan1997]

COOL

SWEET

[Dragonrdh]

Very well done!

[ockovanguard]

Brilliant!

[hanscombe72]

tally ho chaps whose up for spot of bulls eyeing womp rats????

[redjameskidd]

This is pretty funny. I like the guying playing R2-D2.

[Fireclan1997]

same here

[robby762]

brilliant ;)

[tn21beer]

It really is like beggars canyon back home

[TK42138]

Nicely done! Great editing!

Ironic considering when Lucas was promoting Star Wars to distributors he added extracts of British war film themes tunes and classical pieces to an early edit of the movie to 'sell it' to the studio executives. This was before John Williams was commissioned to compose the music for the movie.

[wilymopena]

Holy shit.

[davidjradich]

SWEET!

[draconisgubernator]

genial!!...que arte

[MrGaptech]

Absolutely first class!

makes you wonder where Hollywood gets its ideas from!.

[sirben2]

Lol 0:53

[gigacz]

That's great! It is almost the same xD

[DanNolan1983]

Nice one!

[paulpasadena]

As the say at the steakhouse: Well done!

[masivman]

great job it was class haha

[paulcan38]

Good effort but poor in relation to the 633 Squadron version.

[floatsup]

Very Kewl Bro

[Brommes]

nice work :)

[1976GEME]

L M F A O!!

NICE WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueStarCadet08]

Jeez, everybody's a "dam" comedian

Very clever

[kg2ar]

I was laughing so hard my eyes were tearing..

This is the film that Pink was always watching in the Pink Floyd WALL movie a Trip....

[cywiringwlad]

That is bloody brilliant! :)

[orange8apples]

hilarious - well done

[sokaykid]

Good job!! Total grin the whole time.

Excellent. That was fun.

[ncl47]

Excellent.

[WeissVogel]

Dam it indeed...Nice splicing! Can't stop smiling!

[videowilliams]

A critic once called Star Wars "a masterpiece of synthesis". You've nailed where much of the Death Star attack came from all right. Bullseye!

[Woodspring1976]

Excellent work! Just a thing though, by all accounts when Lucas was selling the idea of Star Wars to execs at Fox, he spliced in dogfight scenes from war films and actual encounters to vamp up the presentation and provide continuity. They loved it and the rest is history! Not such a strange idea afterall. :)

[DarkAngel182]

Ha ha ha haaaa!!!!!

[jhm1365]

Most clever!

[ShawnLevasseur]

Love the unexpected "beavis & butthead" moment in the opening scroll.

[LukePhillipsWINS]

"and retard german production"

lolwut?!?!?!

[gumball20000]

*sighs*

It means to slow down the production...

[LukePhillipsWINS]

yep just strange choice in words lol

[HenryvKeiper]

It begins with p and ends with un :)

[jbezorg01]

Now, take the dialog from the this scene in Dambusters, and place it in Star Wars :-)

[Trek001]

oh that would be worth doing

[V92stormriders]

well done... good work

[godzilla74114]

this is funny.

[quikpencil]

Brillant editing. I always remembered the visuals/clips were inspiring to Lucas for the big finish but its something how close you can get with a little slice her and there. Real enjoyed how you could make the tailgunner into R2D2...and it made perfect sense !!

[asngulol]

Lol!!!! NIcely Done

[anisete46]

also known asBucky bombs I believe

[anisete46]

good show mate... air battle never changes much in 1000 years...

Man... even hearing the audio from this SW scene makes me smile, even after so many viewings. This video is dead-on though.