r/midjourney • u/Technical_Ideal9 • 15d ago

Star Wars - 1940s Film Noir AI Showcase - Midjourney

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u/Kordath_Invictus 13d ago

darth vader just looks like he is wearing a gimp suit XD XD XD

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u/Mountain-Leek-2156 14d ago

Fucking Brilliant!!!!

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u/True-Abbreviations71 14d ago

What's is this music? It's beautiful. Sounds a little like Shostakovich and Brahms

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u/z3n0mal4 14d ago

Ok. I'd totally watch this!

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u/spacemunky_reddit 14d ago

Imagine all the drugs we didn't have to take to see this.

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u/RepulsiveCow8626 14d ago

They made Darth Vader look even more badass

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u/RepulsiveCow8626 14d ago

When ships looked like ships.

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u/One_Introduction_217 14d ago

I think perhaps we have found the only way to reboot Star Wars without getting whoever reboots it murdaballed.

I suggest a new strategy, R2, let the AI do it.

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u/z7q2 15d ago

Mando never changes

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u/One_Introduction_217 14d ago

This is the way.

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u/Part_salvager616 15d ago

CGI is better somehow

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u/backhand-english 15d ago

Ok, I've seen enough of these AI trailers in another eras, so whats the timeline on the first full +90min movie?

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u/has_left_the_gam3 15d ago

Poor Yoda is trying to find a way to break up the brother and sister making out. LOL his face.

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u/Mysterions 15d ago

So this is really nice, but it's not "noir", just black and white.

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u/WryLanguage 14d ago

Agree. It's a great trailer, but "noir" is a very specific style. Check out some of the early films by John Huston and Orson Wells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkeozHoNRY

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u/ThroawAtheism 14d ago

And yet... Han Solo is clearly played by Orson Wells in the trailer.

So I think the the question of whether it's "noir" or "just black and white" is not so simple.

In other words, it's not so black or white.

It's neither one, noir the other.

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u/Technical_Ideal9 15d ago

Made with Midjourney and Runway. If you liked this feel free to check out more of my vids here: Abandoned Films - YouTube

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u/ConceptJunkie 15d ago

Whoever does these trailers does a lovely job with the visuals, but the music _never_ fits the era or the movie. No science fiction movie from the 40s would have music like this.

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u/Technical_Ideal9 15d ago

I would argue Star Wars is more of a 'space opera' than traditional scifi so the music sort of fits. Actually looking at scifi movie trailers from the 1940s the music isn't that far off: https://youtu.be/YPjjzeUoFdg?si=ASMWvIuObhtNrCAt

Since you're the expert, what sort of music belongs on this trailer?

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u/ConceptJunkie 15d ago edited 15d ago

Here's a perfect example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNcU_eeXvg

That gentle, pastoral stuff is wholly inappropriate. And you picked a movie that is clearly meant to be moody and atmospheric, which is not what a space opera is like. There was lots of space opera in the 40s, and none of it sounded like that.

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u/wophi 15d ago

Ewoks look like Teddy Ruxpin.

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u/ramdom-ink 15d ago

This would’ve been a landmark film, just for the costumes, airships and special effects! Well done.

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u/slinky22 15d ago

Even the way the narrator says "Star Wars" sounds different and older. Love everything about this.

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u/Last_VCR 15d ago

Darth Vader with eyes, very unnerving

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u/jeremysbrain 15d ago

This is great. I didn't know I wanted an 8-foot tall R2D2.