Star Wars a la The Battle of Britain

[Stevezom]

The agility yet awkwardness of the TIE fighter reminds me of a Stuka. BTW Henry, why are the Mon Calamari considered to represent the poles. I would think the wookies ......

[veteran2000]

X-wings are the Spitfires,

Y-Fighters are the Hurricanes,

TIE Fighters are the Me109,

[HenryvKeiper]

@veteran2000 The Star Destroyers are the Heinkels :)

[veteran2000]

@HenryvKeiper The Millenium Falcon is the De Havilland Mosquito. I know it was not used in the Battle of Britain but can you think of a better aircraft to represent it?

[veteran2000]

Come in Blue Two?

[bournemouth1964]

Just how many of the human casualties were 'Polish' as in the B of B? I hope they scored many 'kills' against the evil empire.

[HenryvKeiper]

@bournemouth1964 Actually the Mon Calamari were the Poles.

[RichardAndewSwayne]

May the Royal Air Force be with you!

[bournemouth1964]

The cockpit of one of those spacecraft looked like a Heinkel He 111, wouldn't have stood much of a chance against the 'spitfires' and 'hurricanes' of the RAF Jedi methinks.

[HenryvKeiper]

@bournemouth1964 Funny you say that. I recently heard that a lot of the original Star War models were a hodgepodge of pieces designers took from old World War II kits.

[BADALASS]

@HenryvKeiper One good example - cockpit of the Millenium Falcon based on the nose of a B-29 Superfortress!

[bournemouth1964]

Down there on the left velvet leader tally ho! tally ho!

Right here we go, attacking now, yellow section keep your eyes peeled for the ME109s. Don't let them get away!

[bournemouth1964]

Odd looking Spitfires and Hurricanes I must say. Not to mention the Heinkel 111s and ME109s.

[CaptainNomura]

Great editing. Unlike the UFO TV series, I didn't see the connection with Star Wars and Battle of Britain at first but 633 Squadron and Dambusters did. Great soundtracks helped a lot.

[bournemouth1964]

Scramble bandits at six o'clock, tally ho tally ho go get 'em. Red two this is Red leader closer I can hardly see you. Right here we go attacking now!

[jonnybottle]

Another Classic, Henry Old Lad!

[Briselance]

You should have added sounds of air combat (machine guns of different calibers, sounds of AA guns, hummings of planes' engines, and all)

That's just my opinion, though.

[pik93]

HenryvKeiper I've just found your video mate well done there great

[Bob65001]

Ewoks.... Who cares

HAHAHAH Dude lol this is epic. Both Good movies!

[spartacus1701]

That works really well, you should try a BSG mash up?

Good stuff

[rokuth]

LMAO!!! That was hilarious!

[punkrockxzz]

haha! thats amazing!

[Dragosaurus]

Love your work!

[NCTaikoDrumboy]

A nice juxtaposition of video image and appropriate music... I don't know how you do it, Henry.

Oh wait, I do now... your vid's end credits said as much. "Windows Movie Maker?"

[patsyd80]

I see you have not blocked comments on this clip. I allso see they are nearly all praising you. Do you get my point.??? Just a thought. Good day and greetings from London..........

[HenryvKeiper]

I generally don't edit comments unless someone's trolling, acting absurd, or is just repeating the same argument over and over again.

[opperbuil]

This is even better than the original scene. I nominate you 6 out of 5 stars!!!

[RobFear]

The British comedian Eddie Izzard used to do a great routine about how American movies tend to use Englishman as villians, with Star Wars as being the prime example.

"The Rebels are here, they have a flag!"

[HenryvKeiper]

Oh yeah, one of my favorite standups of all time!

"Yes, what is it? I'm just rearranging my matches."

[TheGroundedAviator]

That's because the bloody poms used to be there "overlords", until they kicked there butts!!!

[douglas18741892]

Well known that Lucas watched war films; many similarities between Episode IV and Battle of Britain/Dambusters.

This is good though.

[DarkAngel182]

Hmmm, wasn't too sure about the choppy editing at the start of the vid, BUT I thought the main battle theme worked quite well with the death star battle and I particularly liked the quote from Mon Momtha at the end. (The casualty totals caused me much amusement certainly).

Good work!

[HenryvKeiper]

Yeah some parts didn't come out quite as well as I would have hoped for, I admit.

[LukePhillipsWINS]

wow that was darn good!

[TK42100]

Brilliant! You outdid yourself with this one.

[Fartsurmonde]

another great one Henryvkeiper well done

[mpgingdl]

Good work. One story is fact, one fiction, but they have one thing in common: both are epic, backs-to-the-wall struggles for survival. That's why this fusion works so well.

[kingscriv]

which ones fiction?

[ModelFx]

The one with the Spitfires winning the Battle of Britain. Everyone who is a good WWII buff knows that it was the Hurricane that saw the most action.

[orangelion03]

Snap! Good one sir!!!

[jboehly]

Awesome! Best of both worlds!!

[rezcrash88]

Thats Great 2 good movies good job .

[MoviesvKing]

Haha awesome!:)

[kdum8]

I love the Battle of Britain movie. The sound track is terrific.... And this is great, good job!

[AmersfoortTristan]

A bit of a surprise for me- but I liked it :)

[HenryvKeiper]

Ha ha, thanks.

[arablade49]

Henry you are a fucking genius!!! Not laughed that much in years. I'm no geek but I must admit I am when it comes to WW2 Aircraft and Star Wars. So this is pure class. Great cut to the Falcon escaping after nuking the Death Star, but you could have filled the space. You got more planned? I was thinking just off the top of me head - Dambusters and the first Death Star, 633 Squadron and the Walkers on Hoth, Gladiator and the arena on Genosis (bit commercial, sorry). Possibilities are endless.

[HenryvKeiper]

I don't really want to try too hard with another one. These just come to be as random ideas, kinda like the Zulu/300 edit I did.

[arablade49]

Shame because it's dead funny. I was hoping you'd expand the franchise a bit by looking at other wars and other space films. Personally I think WW1 is just asking for it. 'Blue Max' or 'Aces High' a la Battlestar Galactica could be good. But I won't harass the creative process. All I ask is that you make sure you let me know if anything else comes off the production line!

[NavyPilot400]

jjajaja good job