Movie Marathon!

[thefinaljedi]

Who: Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Arsene Lupin III, Ami Mizuno, Adele Leblanc, Leonardo, Gambit, and anyone else who has the desire to show up.
What: Star Wars Movie Marathon
When: February 21st to whenever its done
Where: Luke and Ben's place
Summary: Luke and Ben have decided to just end the constant cycle of confusion and actually WATCH the Star Wars movies. There is soda (gasp!) popcorn, canned tea, and all sorts of other movie related nonsense.
Rating: PG, same as the movies (Could get PG13? doubtful)

Comments

[tailasoldastime]

[Beast... will just be staring in awe... no, amazement... sheer mindboggled amazement... at the screen. N-never mind what's happening, there are pictures... real, live pictures... and they are moving. How... how are they doing that? Where... this can't be a giant magnifying glass... i-is it like how the journals work, how you can see the other person? Like his mirror? How... why is no one else amazed by this?!

Y-yes, um... there's nothing else for him to do but stare and be downright confused until someone consoles him.]

[thefinaljedi]

Beast, are you alright? Do they not have films where you are from?

[tailasoldastime]

F-film? [He completely forgot that was what Obi-Wan was talking about.] That... th-this is a film?

[thefinaljedi]

Yes, it is indeed a film, Beast. Are you enjoying it?

[tailasoldastime]

I... I, uh... [He's a little too busy staring to properly answer it, but at least it's obvious how entranced the movie's making him.]

[fleurdesel]

[Adele peeks over to Beast during the beginning of the movie, just to check on him. She didn't think anyone had shown him movies, but now she was certain.] It is amazing, no?

[tailasoldastime]

It... [Still gaping.] I-it's impossible!

[fleurdesel]

My being in this place is equally impossible, and yet it is so. [Her voice is gentle, and not at all unkind.]

[tailasoldastime]

[... Good point.] B-but it... h-h... h-how does it...?

[fleurdesel]

Hm. That will...take quite a bit of explaining, actually. You do not have electricity where you are from, do you?

[tailasoldastime]

[He shakes his head.] B-but I know it.

[fleurdesel]

True enough. [A quick smile.] There are disks where video much like what you see in the journals is recorded, if a little more elaborate. They are played using the slim box just under the screen that was designed specifically for it. [Very, very, very pared down and simplified, but. If he wanted to know it in more detail she'd get into it after the movie.]

[tailasoldastime]

B-but... where... wh-what is it r-recording? [Where is it coming from? What are these things? What is he even looking at?]

[fleurdesel]

It is a...it is like a play, or an opera. It was made, in my world, for the purpose of entertainment. The more fantastic aspects were added in with a computer after the actors and their scenes were filmed. [How else to explain a 'computer' and digitally adding in effects?]

Ah...they were. Painted in? Later. Using another piece of technology.

[tailasoldastime]

A-a play... an opera... [Even that is long ago for him... oh dear, so much of this is so much to take in...] A-added in... l-like a trick...?

[fleurdesel]

Like...an illusion, yes. Like a trick. So they can make things they do not actually have appear. In my world, where these were made? Lightsabers are impossible to build. So they make long sticks that the actors actually use look like lightsabers after they film the actors with the sticks.

1/2

[tailasoldastime]

Oh... a-a... alright... s-so it's... l-like an illusion... a-a play o-on a screen...

[He's saying this to himself more than anything else to get him to finally calm down enough to continue watching the film.]

[tailasoldastime]

[...

... Until...

Is... is that...?]

O-O... Obi-Wan...?!

[No. This is a play. Obi-Wan isn't an actor. He must be seeing things.]

[fleurdesel]

It is. This was made in my world, where we thought it to be fiction. We had no idea that one universe to the left or so, it actually happened. The first time I met Ben I thought I was seeing things.

[tailasoldastime]

B-but... but how... h-how can it... b-but you said it...! [Gaaaah his head hurts!]

[fleurdesel]

I am equally baffled. It is a fictional depiction of true accounts made filmed with actors that bear an uncanny resemblance to the real individuals involved in the...

[She trails off, blinks, and shrugs.] My train of thought. It has left me at the station, yes?

[tailasoldastime]

[Beast just stares at her. After getting lost in trying to figure out all that she just said, he has no idea what just happened.]

[fleurdesel]

It. It is a very pretty movie.

[tailasoldastime]

[... Beast is left to look back at the film.] I... I-I guess...? [Oh mon Dieu it's moving...]

[fleurdesel]

The. Music, is nice?