https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zd_khk6zXo
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKhV_X6-cg
apparently George Lucas addressed the matter in the DVD commentary to one of the prequels.
― sofatruck, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay and Silent Bob are not in Clerks. Well, ok, except for kind-of.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I can understand the confusion there, certainly.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't it Lobot? As in lobotomy?
― Yes! Yes! Hammerheads! (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
You're right! Poor lobot! Why they gave you a lobotomy? Maybe you wanted too much freedom.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard they almost got him to star in death of a salesman
― real eyes realize real truffle fries (dyao), Friday, June 4, 2010 1:52 PM
more like Death Star of a Salesman
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 June 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, but C3PO is a "protocol droid", i.e. built for a white collar job. Can you imagine him doing manual work?
"My last job was programming binary load-lifters, very similar to your vaporators!"
the original trilogy doesn't really show any of the Empire's supposed oppression.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/1/14/OwenBeru_dead.jpg
― I guess for copraphiles this is gonna be awesome (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 4 June 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
c3po just bragging how l33t his coding skills are, but whenever they need to hack empire security, notice it's always R2 who steps up.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
3po would have sold his droid bros out -- total class traitor -- did you see how quickly he maneuvered himself into exploiting ewok religion to make himself queen of the ewoks? don't weep for 3po.― Philip Nunez, Friday, June 4, 2010 1:40 PM Bookmark
― Philip Nunez, Friday, June 4, 2010 1:40 PM Bookmark
But 3PO initially demurs, claiming it would be against his programming to impersonate a deity. He gets browbeat into this idea by, if I recall correctly, the princess.
Thread probably needs some distinction between "has blue collar character in it" and "blue collar sensibility." Like, it's hard to find ANY Hollywood picture where every character is a rich snot who only occasionally tips at restaurants.... whereas Alien is really interested in imagining what the bold new future really looks like to the delivery people and Marine draftees.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Me at every job interview ever.
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, 4 June 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
which one is Aunt Beru and and which one is Uncle Owen?
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xxxp
― Jarlrmai, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Posted this thread as a response to Star Wars, as a sense, which is space opera only in a scruffier universe. Ridley Scott took that look and mixed it with the 70s bits of trucker films, Dark Star, Silent Running, et al, and did his own.
― Don Homer, I have baked a special donut just-a for you (kingfish), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Friday, June 4, 2010 3:28 PM Bookmark
LOL
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"They Live" is the ultimate blue collar scifi film.
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - i.e. Richard Dreyfuss' character.
― Chooglin'alCarbon, Saturday, 5 June 2010 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Non blue collar sci-fi = Wyndham
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 5 June 2010 13:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't seen it since it aired in 1993, but I remember Space Rangers as going for an Alien inspired blue collar atmosphere
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Space_Rangers_cast.JPG
― GENE PITNEY'S SWEATER BY KANDAHAR (los blue jeans), Saturday, 5 June 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Does 12 Monkeys ever tell you what Cole's job was before he was put in prison?
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 5 June 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Starcraft 2 fits in this category. Interesting mix of backgrounds, too, as you have the hero with his southern/hick/redneck drawl vs the lambchopped mechanic with a strong NY accent
― Don Homer (kingfish), Thursday, 5 August 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
You can't have a white collar/blue collar distinction in slavery
In the pre-Civil War U.S. south, there were house slaves and field slaves.
― Charlie Chaliapin (j.lu), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose someone should mention the Planet Express delivery team.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, true, tho the vibe I always got from them is more white collar/90's corporate/kinko's/fed-ex like
but I guess Scruffy would have harsh words for that
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Scruffy_2_9337.jpg
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5cAwTEEGNE
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
this was a solid thread, well done everyone
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
"the island", while indefensibly shitty, was ultimately pretty working class
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
"indefensibly shitty, was ultimately pretty working class"haha that's all of michael bay's movies.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Playing Borderlands 2 this weekend and realized that both this game and Guardians of the Galaxy(much like Starcraft I & II) had great depictions of sci-fi rednecks/hillbillies. Yet again, I posit that Michael Rooker will probably never get the full credit for what he contributes to GotG.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Ha, and I completely forgot this thread had this exchange:
Yeah, but C3PO is a "protocol droid", i.e. built for a white collar job. Can you imagine him doing manual work?"My last job was programming binary load-lifters, very similar to your vaporators!"
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
I guess we can add Elysium / Total Recall(remake) to this list, and also Edge of Tomorrow, which pointedly highlights the contrast between grunt & pretty-boy officer
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Saturday, 23 August 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm watching Snowpiercer right now. Definitely counts.
― Scary Darey (dog latin), Sunday, 24 August 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
that repo men flick from a few years back. terrible, but working class, even trying to say something abt it.
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Sunday, 24 August 2014 07:51 (nine years ago) link