Obsessed fans are using shot-for-shot blockbuster remakes as their personal film school
How do budding film buffs, lacking experience or funding, start making movies? Traditionally, there have been a few ways to pull it off. They can follow the conventional wisdom and go to film school, spending a few years writing and fundraising before taking on their own projects. They can go the vocational route and find studio work, taking tech roles on other people’s movies before doing their own.
But now, it’s also possible to be a nerd, pick up a smartphone, and cut together a film with no budget or training at all. Earlier this month, a group of eight New Zealand students filmed a shot-for-shot remake of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith over the course of five days. Thanks to its faithfulness to the original (and because…
