Star Wars vs. Saul Bass

If Star Wars was filmed two decades earlier and Saul Bass did the opening title sequence, it "might" look like this...

This was part of a school project. The song is "Machine" by the Buddy Rich Band off the album Big Swing Face (1967).

The typeface is called "Hitchcock" by Matt Terich. It seems to be currently unavailable on the web, perhaps due to licensing issues.

Note: I'm aware of the errors in the video (spelling, Max Rebo), but I chose to leave them because the video is still enjoyable. This was just for fun and NOT a serious artistic endeavor!

Oh, and you MUST watch the video response by brooksy362436. Brilliant!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• star
• wars
• opening
• credits
• saul
• bass
• buddy
• rich
• machine
• big
• swing
• face
• jazz

[CoolbreezeB]

Very nice job. One suggestion, you should look up a CD by The Trotter Trio called Sketches of Star Wars. Jazz trio interpretations of the John Williams themes. The main title arrangement would fit this montage like a glove, though you'd likely have to re-edit. If you're interested and can't find the recording, feel free to Email me.

[bhilmers]

@CoolbreezeB Had I known this at the time, I might have used it. I won't go back to edit this project, but I'll look for that music. Thanks.

[agnernai]

the fun question here is: If you played this on a giant CRT projector with standard separate R, G, B lenses, and the Blue was broken, how would the images above change?

[bhilmers]

@agnernai Is that a serious questions? All the white would be yellow, and probably some loss of overall luminosity. That's pretty much it.

[musicom67]

STARING ALEC GUINNESS???

ohhhhh Typos can so make a great production look amateur... :(

[bhilmers]

@musicom67 Well, I'm an amateur, so this is about what is should look like.

[taffysaur]

@bhilmers hahaha, brilliant!

sick burn.

[bhilmers]

@robotdevicehuman Insutling? Gee, I wouldn't go that far. It's just a fun mash-up I did one afternoon. Silly me for thinking a premier art critic such as yourself would understand it's not a serious investigation of his work. The mood is all wrong (I know the mood is wrong because I know his work). Did you even catch the horrible spelling error in the video Mr. Smarty-Pants? Thanks for watching anyway, haha.

[noidea26]

never heard the song before, but i could tell it was buddy rich from the first second.

[phuturephunk]

This still puts a smile on my face.

[highergroundcreative]

Nice work! Saul Bass & Star Wars, you can't go wrong!

Gets a huge thumbs up from us lot here at Higher Ground Creative.

[tjustleft]

that was excellent :)

[AirJanzen1]

LOL, nice!!!

[IbenStark]

Cool, reminded me of Cowboy Bebop.

It made me laugh though when the Millenium Falcon appeared looking like someone giving a two fingered salute.

[roboshuffle]

Too bad you spelled "starring" wrong.

Otherwise a great video. I love Saul Bass!