{"id":11199,"date":"2014-08-07T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=11199"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:35:17","slug":"artoo-vs-the-degobah-swamp-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2014\/08\/07\/artoo-vs-the-degobah-swamp-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Artoo vs. The Degobah Swamp Creature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Artoo vs. The Degobah Swamp Creature” animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n

The Daily Create<\/b> for August 7th tdc942<\/a><\/strong> asks us to riff on an image from the Spielberg-Lucas “congratulations letters” which were written each time one director’s film surpassed the other’s at the box office. (The Daily Create for August 6th asked us to re-write one of the letters to suggest what might have actually been in the director’s mind.)<\/p>\n

The source image<\/a> in question shows Lucas’ R2D2<\/strong> catching Spielberg’s Jaws<\/strong> on a fishing line. My riff shifts the setting to Degobah and invokes the scene from Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back. We never get a full view of the creature which swallows and then spit out Artoo — but its above-the-surface profile and movements are basically shark-like — so who knows? Maybe it was<\/em> Jaws, getting payback.<\/p>\n

There is also a static version on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Attributions:<\/p>\n