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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 1:29:14 GMT
If this took place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, why are they speaking modern English? How can this be explained?
1. Characters from this galaxy, using the hyperdrive, colonized Earth. But if that were true, why did the English language evolve into what they were already speaking?
2. Humans from the Earth's future created the hyperdrive and discovered time travel and went back and colonized the galaxy that Star Wars takes place in?
3. It's just a movie.
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Post by Harmless elf on Sept 4, 2018 1:38:30 GMT
Because it would suck if we had to read the whole movie. this can be said about the Marvel movies also it's funny these things from other planets speak the same language yet on Earth we don't all speak the same language.
It's the only thing that's allowed to make no sense in movies.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 4, 2018 1:40:08 GMT
It's a bloody movie mate.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2018 1:44:24 GMT
It's a bloody movie mate. I hope you realized I wasn't being 100% serious, just being a smart aleck. |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 4, 2018 1:48:42 GMT
How does Han Solo understand Chewbacca?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 4, 2018 1:48:45 GMT
I think when Star Wars came out (when I was 7) I did ponder about the fact that it was set in ancient times and yet they were Earth-like.
I remember thinking-they are older than Ancient Egyptians! They have been dead forever.
I also thought that when you got hit by a light saber, you popped like a balloon.
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Post by darksidebeadle on Sept 4, 2018 1:57:19 GMT
3.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 4, 2018 2:08:16 GMT
How does Han Solo understand Chewbacca? Ya know that part in ESB when they are approaching Bespin and those sentry ships are escorting them while Han is trying to find Lando? Then Chewie grunts something and Han replies, "That was a long time ago. I'm sure he's forgotten about that by now." I've been thinking of that today for some reason. Anyway, and Chewie understands him. Just once it would be fun to see Han conversing with Chewie in Wookie talk. |
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Sept 4, 2018 2:13:11 GMT
All three answers are correct.
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Post by WarrenPeace on Sept 4, 2018 2:15:55 GMT
It's a bloody movie mate. I hope you realized I wasn't being 100% serious, just being a smart aleck. Oh good otherwise I would have gone into my fan theory which would have taken you at least 27 minutes to read and a slide rule and decoder ring to understand it all. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2018 4:12:35 GMT
just being a smart aleck. as is apparently the usual M.O. of this prolific OP |
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 4, 2018 4:26:44 GMT
I never saw it as necessarily taking place in "our" past, just the past of whoever the narrator telling the story is, if that makes any sense.
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 4, 2018 19:27:19 GMT
Well, English was spoken in ancient times, but was a lost language. Chaucer re-discovered it. I thought everyone knew that Stonehenge was actually what was left of Mos Eisley Cantina?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 4, 2018 19:58:54 GMT
The characters speak un-accented English in movies where the characters are all Russian or German or Japanese or French etc
so why all the fuss about Star Wars ?
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 4, 2018 20:26:23 GMT
It was originally conceived as taking place in our future, and the Empire was a future version of America. That got changed and everything else stayed.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 4, 2018 20:48:20 GMT
The spoken language doesn't bother me at all - it's no different from English being spoken in The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur or The Gladiator. Seeing written English (or anything else written with the Latin alphabet) would be a problem - but if I remember correctly we never see any Latin letters or Arabic numerals on the screen in any of the movies, so that's consistent with the "galaxy far away" detail.
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