Book Description
Bringing the world-acclaimed visual DK Style to the Star Wars galaxy, this fascinating book reveals the characters and creatures of Star Wars: Episode III as they appear nowhere else. From the secrets of the volcano planet and buzz droid weaponry to the transformation of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader, this book explains every important feature in the final Star Wars prequel.
Customer Reviews:
visually stunning.......2007-03-10
My son is using this book as a reference for his drawing class and we all find it very helpful. There are facts here which are quite detailed and wondered how the author know all these stuff! Anyway, we love the book!
Revenge Of The Sith Visual Dictionary Rocks!!!!.......2006-03-23
This Book has a lot of glear crisp pictures in it. Since I make Star Wars movie props (Lightsaber hilts, Helmets, Costumes) this book helped a lot. darth vader lightsaber is totally sweet and the moment I saw it in the book I said I gotta make that, so right now I'm in the process of making his and many others.
Again this is a great book so please don't hesitate a second. buy it!
RYAN J.
Best book for any fan!.......2006-03-10
This is the best book for any fan of the movies. It explains things you'll never learn about on screen. From their weapons, to their clothes and why they need and have them, it makes sense of things that don't make sense. Good book!
Well written, and accurate.......2006-03-07
This guide was accurate, except for one thing: Solah is Padme's sister, and Jobal is her mother. This book portrays it as the other way around. But otherwise, a good reference book for the best movie ever!
Visual = Star Wars.......2006-02-25
As a fan and someone who loves the props and weapons of Star Wars, this is a fun book. Star Wars the movie is a visual marvel and this book captures close up images of all your favorite characters and machines. The price is right so this book is a must have for any serious fan.
Book Description
Packed with breathtaking visuals created by a team of world-class artists, The Art of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith charts the visual genesis of this epic saga’s climactic finale. For years, George Lucas’s handpicked group has created characters, costumes, droids, starships, planetary vistas, digi-matte paintings, and sculptures–every type of visual imaginable.
This extraordinary volume unveils never-before-seen images–thus taking readers on a fascinating journey from the first concepts to the final movie. While marveling at hundreds of brilliant pieces of art, readers will experience
• Darth Vader–a look at the sinister chamber where he is created
• stunning conceptual visions for the climactic lightsaber duel between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi
• the evolution of General Grievous–the new face of evil– from initial sketches to ILM animation art
• fantastic full-color renderings of costumes, weapons, landscapes, and spacecraft
• intriguing insights from exclusive interviews with the artists, whose groundbreaking work helped bring Lucas’s ideas to life
New to this edition–the one and only Revenge of the Sith screenplay, revealing every beat of the action.
For Star Wars fans everywhere, this treasure trove of images from the final, fateful Star Wars movie will provide a visual feast that promises hours of endless excitement.
Customer Reviews:
What a great book!.......2007-04-21
I've loved the "Art of Star Wars" books since childhood, but the Revenge of the Sith book stands above all the others. The paintings and sketches make me wish The Saga could continue indefinately! Aliens, monsters, battleships, fighters, Jedi Knights, droids, pilots, politicians and damsels are covered in great detail. The colors are suberb. The sculptures and models highlight everything, portraying how much effort went into these films.
Good art, publication desing suffers........2007-02-11
This book is a worthy completion of the three-volume concept art series. The only gripe I have is the sudden change of publication design - a change for the worse from the first two volumes, because the captions in this book are set in a ghastly unreadable typeface, randomly mixed from capital and small letters. The content is still good, and annotations are (fortunately) readable; but whoever came up with this caption style ought to be punished.
Great Book, Ghastly Paper.......2007-01-26
Since when is beautiful art presented on crappy, low-grade glossy paper. These artists are incredible and deserve so much better than this stock chinese manure. It's like listening to Beethoven on a 1990's era cell phone. And sadly, the great Doug Chiang had departed the ranks of Lucasfilm by Episode III.
Art of Star Wars.......2006-11-17
This book is beautiful. I saw a copy of this in the library and I had to own it. I enjoy reading oversized books that are soft covered (some people might prefer hard covers). I would recomend this book for anyone who likes fantasy art and Star Wars.
Excellent resource for inspiration.......2006-03-09
I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I got this book for its outstanding artwork. This book is full of amazing illustrations that were very inspirational to me.
Book Description
Peeling back layers to reveal cockpits, engines, hyperdrives, construction secrets, and much more, the Star Wars: Episode III Incredible Cross-Sections is a must-have for any Star Wars fan. From the smallest detail of the Trade Federation Cruiser to the thundering of a Republic Battle tank, this is the most definite guide to the vehicles and spaceships of Episode III.
Book Description
This is it–the climax of the greatest science fiction movie epic of all time, and Star Wars fans can venture behind the scenes for all the fascinating details. From the first story discussions to the final stages of post-production
, The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is an exclusive, unprecedented look at the crafting of the most anticipated and perhaps the most important Star Wars film ever.
Packed with hundreds of never-before-seen photos and interviews with the visual-effects teams, cast, and crew–including writer/director George Lucas and producer Rick McCallum–this outstanding volume offers a rare insider’s look at the complete creative process. Granted unprecedented access to all those involved at every stage of the film–from Skywalker Ranch to the sets at Fox Studios, Australia–author and Lucasfilm senior editor J. W. Rinzler captures in riveting detail the intense drama and cliffhangers that occurred as production worked day and night for three years to bring their monumental undertaking to conclusion. Readers will uncover
• details on how the art and animatics departments teamed up with ILM to create the spectacular opening sequence, perhaps the greatest Star Wars space battle ever produced
• revelations on the genesis of archvillain General Grievous within the Episode III art department
• accounts of how George Lucas and Rick McCallum
reached critical decisions in often pressure-laden situations
• exclusive interviews with Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor on how they prepared for their thrilling lightsaber duel as Anakin and Obi-Wan
• an eyewitness account of the reappearance of Darth Vader on the set in Sydney, Australia
Finally, there’s the film editing–Lucas’s favorite part of the moviemaking process.
This portrait of the legendary director captures the down-to-the-wire tension encountered in getting to the final cut. Fueled by his imagination and his beginnings as a documentary filmmaker, Lucas makes films the way some painters create canvases, building layer upon layer in each frame of the film. And this book takes the reader along for the ride.
Customer Reviews:
Star Wars.......2007-08-02
It is very interesting to look over. You will learn more about how everything is set and look at the clothing concept. You learn more about the setting and sketch of things.
Buy or buy not. There is no maybe.......2006-07-11
I was hoping this book would provide information on the various 'film codes' used in the film (such as colour and shot symbolism, style of music, frame composition, costume etc) and how they enhanced the actual story. There is none of that in this book; however, it does provide 'a fly on the wall' insight into the production of the film. It relays conversations between Lucas and his producer, as well as recreates dialogue between Lucas and his actors as they move through the filming process. Glorious pictures, but you can get the same images from the net if that's what you're after. The book didn't provide me with what I wanted, but the Star Wars nerd in me liked it nevertheless.
A Heck of a Lot Better Than You Would Expect.......2005-12-23
This book is jam-packed with information on the making of the movie, from Preproduction to Principal Photography to Digital Shot Production. Really, this book has it all!
In "Part 1" it shows original drawings and rough drafts of the script. In "Part 2" it shows what they filmed every day, and even has quotes straight from Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, and Ewan McGregor. You can read about the problems they would go through on a day-to-day basis.
In "Part 3" it mostly talks about adding in those special effects that make the movie what it is today. Plus, there are a few pages about those Wookiees!
If that isn't enough, almost every page has 3-6 crystal clear, candid photos. And I just want to mention that there are more than 220 pages. Small font is used in order to fit in more information.
This book tells a whole lot more than the special features on the DVD do. I'm serious, this is a must-have for any Star Wars fan. Even if you're not obsessed like some people, I think everyone will enjoy this book.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS.......2005-11-03
Well, it's been about 30 years in the making but the Star Wars saga finally came to an end with the release of Revenge of the Sith. This book is about all the hard work, both in front of and behind the camera, that made the final film possible. As with the DVDS I felt that too much time was spent on the "technical" aspects of the film and not enough was spent on the actors, the scriptwriting process, and the themes of the work as a whole. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Star Wars films and this book's problem is that there is an obsession with "design" instead of the emotional content or the plot. Instead of obsessing about the look of each and every laser gun, Lucas should have filled us in about plot holes and told us why Qui-Gon couldn't have communicated with Yoda and said "Palpatine is the Sith Lord"! and saved the whole universe with those words. There are some entertaining and insightful looks into the psychology of the characters, especially in the 1st drafts of the script in which Lucas envisioned Palpatine as the person that conceived Anakin through his control of the Force, which would make him Anakin's father in a way, and Luke and Leia's grandpa! The other negative thing about this book is that you become more conscious of the trickery used in Episode 3. When you read about all the digital head-swapping, especially of Palpatine and Christopher Lee, when you view the film, you start to notice the slightly different looking heads during the duels. It also made me disillusioned to find out that at the beginning of the film when Anakin and Obi-Wan face Dooku, Christopher Lee was not even on the same set with them. So I don't know, this book really revealed all fakery that I believe is so responsible for people's unease with the prequels. Movies like Sin City which were completely digital made no pretensions to look real, but Lucas tries so hard to make Episodes I-III look authentic that somehow everything seems bogus. If you read this book, you will probably never view the film the same, and I mean that in a negative way.
An Inside Look to the Making of a Movie.......2005-09-06
I thought that this was a very well done book! I liked how it showed what they were doing each day while filming, and how they prepare for making the movie. I learned alot about making movies, and now know alot of what the technical terms mean. It also had a nice format, with behind the scenes pictures on most of the pages. I am a HUGE Star Wars fan, and I thought this was a great book. A must read for all fans, or "wanna be" movie makers.
Book Description
Young and old Star Wars fans alike will find everything they want to know about Star Wars: Episode III in this fact-filled book, packed with full-color photos from the movie as well as details about the new and old characters, creatures, vehicles, and imaginative locations.
Customer Reviews:
STARWARS REVENGE OF THE SITH SCRAPBOOK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-10-01
THIS BOOK IS THE BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I ORDERED IT.
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT IT IS I LIKE TO READ ABOUT ANAKIN SKYWALKER/DARTH VADER! I CAN NEVER STOP LOOKING AT IT! AUTHOR WINDHAM IS THE BEST BECAUSE THIS BOOK HE WROTE IS SO POPULAR!
Oh yeah!!! Kashyyyk! The holiday special!!!.......2005-09-20
They did it! Lucas actually allowed The Star Wars Holiday Special to be mentioned! That is the greatest variety show ever to be conceived!! And.. that's not saying much. But I love the holiday special, it rocks, and, oh, by the way, we here at x-play give it a five... out of five!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
star wars for ever.......2005-08-18
Greatings, to everyone!
What can i say! I am a big fun of STAR WARS and i was looking to buy anything that ivnoles IT.Luckily the book was very intresting about the world of star wars in everything.I learn about the characters,wipons,etc.That's why i bought another book:The movie storybook. So,that are you waiting for!BUY IT NOW!!!!!!
Basic, basic material; buy the souvenir guide instead.......2005-05-12
Instead of purchasing this book for $8, why don't you go to starwars.com, click on the link at the bottom of the page for the RotS souvenir guide and then...buy it?
It's a worthy cash exercise (the souvenir guide), if you're a fan of this movie. Granted that you do not know if you are already, but if no mental deficiencies, then you will be.
Anyways, (back to) the scrapbook is alright, but it's nothing the die-hard or even casual adult fan won't know; it is great for a child, especially if a parent wants to forego the more graphic side of the movie. In fact, if you have more than 15 posts on a SW board, then you may have been able to make this book yourself (minus the photos, which aren't all that unique).
Although the book gave me a similar feeling that the storybook did (another RotS product you could go without), it is not arranged chronologically: so if you want an outline of the movie, you should remember that this is a scrapbook.
Want the nice spice? Get the Visual dictionary.
Want more coverage and interviews? Get the souvenir guide.
Want to just get through the story quickly on paper format? Get the comic book.
Want a better way to spend $8? Get the Anakin on Mustafar action figure when it comes out. You'll be glad that you did.
This sleak Star Wars Scrapbook is worth owning - Buy it!.......2005-04-23
This brilliant glossy "Revenge of the Sith Scrapbook" is a fascinating sneak preview of the most anticipated movie of 2005. It's full of stunning teaser photos, colorful graphics and many titilating factoids & antidotes about Episode III, plus several Classic Trilogy insertions. This book was available at Toys 'R Us on April 1st 2005 and DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS - The planet section offers a brief, concise breakdown of Mustafar, Utapau and Kashyyyk (Chewbacca's homeworld), and there is also personal information about actors Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Christopher Lee, etc.
Book Description
In 2005, the most successful film series of all time came to a close with Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith. Not only did the movie break countless box office records-and hit a first-ever $50 million opening day-it also impressed critics worldwide.
The fan frenzy led to a record $3 billion in consumer spending on related products. With its $850 million worldwide box-office gross and glowing reviews from fans and critics, the final prequel ended the saga in brilliant fashion and gave George Lucas a hearty measure of revenge against his detractors.
Revenge: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith explores every detail about the movie, including the film's production, political messages, fan excitement, historic marketing and merchandising campaigns, and box office success. Written by die-hard fan Jonathan L. Bowen, Revenge is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to know anything and everything about the worldwide phenomenon of Episode III.
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Title: Anakin y Luke, dos modelos educativos: el cine nos puede servir para comparar el ideal de juventud de finales de los años setenta y el actual. Pongamos frente a frente a Luke Skywalker, de La Guerra de las Galaxias, de 1977, y a su padre, Anakin, el futuro Darth Vader, de La venganza de los Sith, de 2005.
Author: Miguel Ángel García
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Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 27, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1054
Page: 54(2)
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Title: Star Wars VI: Naboo, Dooku, and a mission to the Wookiees.(Books & Arts)(Movie Review)
Author: John Podhoretz
Publication:
The Weekly Standard (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 23, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 10
Issue: 34
Page: 37(2)
Article Type: Movie Review
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In this urgently relevant, wholly enlightening discussion of modern moral decisions, the Harvard theology professor Harvey Cox considers Jesus's contemporary significance. Moving far beyond the simple question "What Would Jesus Do?" Cox shows how we can extrapolate moral guidance from the parables of Jesus. As he did in his undergraduate class "Jesus and the Moral Life'a course that grew so popular that the lectures were held in a theater often used for rock concertsCox holds contemporary dilemmas in the light of lessons gleaned from the Gospels. Delving into centuries of theological exploration, he "pulls off a near miracle as he gathers disparate scholarly and religious views of Jesus, while demonstrating respectful, deep knowledge of Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist traditions, and various Christian teachings" (Seattle Times). Invigorating and incisive, this book encourages an intellectual approach to faith and inspires a clear way of thinking about moral choices for all readers.
Customer Reviews:
book version of popular harvard course.......2007-01-18
One of the many things I learned in my eight years as a campus pastor at Stanford (1995-2003) is that, contrary to a common but powerful misperception, religion is alive and well on university campuses. True, you can find rock-ribbed secularists, and political-correctness codifies what passes for acceptable discourse, but among the graduate students and faculty that I worked, and far beyond in other religious communities at Stanford, many people enjoyed lives of vibrant faith. Professor Harvey Cox has written a book that documents his similar experiences based upon over forty years of teaching at Harvard Divinity School.
In the early 1980s Harvard created a Moral Reasoning division in the undergraduate curriculum, and stipulated that every student had to take one course in moral reasoning as a graduation requirement. They asked Cox to teach what became known as Jesus and the Moral Life, a course which met with overwhelming success and overflowing classes for the nearly twenty years that he offered it. Before then, the last course that Harvard had offered with "Jesus" in the title that Cox could find in old catalogs had been taught by George Santayana who had left in 1912. After the first three years, with burgeoning enrollments of seven to eight hundred students every year, no wonder the president took Cox to lunch to discover how and why the course was so popular.
Cox has written this book for those whom he describes as "dissatisfied seekers" who have a genuine interest in Jesus and religion, but who rightly despair of conservative, self-assured, and smug literalists on the one hand, and "wimpy 'well whatever' laxity" on the other (pp. 8, 319). Most of his students, he observes, were "benevolent but uncomfortable relativists" (p. 3) who clearly longed for a different alternative. The plan of the book allows us to eavesdrop on his course, and look over his shoulder, as he took the students through the life of Jesus, his death, and the resurrection accounts as they are contained in the four Gospels. His goal is to make the Jesus of "back then and there" relevant to moral choices to us "here and now." Central to his entire method is placing Jesus in his first-century cultural context as a rabble-rousing, boundary-breaking rabbi who announced that in His own person God's reign of shalom was coming to earth.
Critical questions and intellectual scrutiny play an important role for Cox, as well they should for any believer. To his credit, he never felt like he had to answer every question his students raised, or eliminate all their (or his) gnawing uncertainties: "They were in the process of growing up, as we all are, as long as we live. And growing up means learning to live with unsatisfying and incomplete endings, with people whose lives are cut off before they should be, or spin out in unexpected directions and sometimes crash in flames. No matter how ordinary they are, all our lives end with a kind of question mark as we reach the threshold of the final mystery" (p. 168).
Cox's love for his students and for the Gospel shine through on almost every page. His candor is disarming. He recounts how at times he dodged difficulties like Jesus's healings or the resurrection accounts, only to have a bad conscience for doing so and consequently addressing those matters, and many others, head on. Unlike many intellectuals, he is comfortable talking about his own Christian faith story, beginning as it did in a small town in Pennsylvania where his non-church-going parents sent him to the Baptist church next door. He writes not only about what he thinks his students gained from the course but what he learned.
Perhaps the best compliment I can pay to this book is to say that with two college-age kids, I found myself wishing that they might be fortunate enough to have a professor like Cox, whatever the subject.
Wonderful, marvelous.......2007-01-16
This is a wonderful book and I would recommend to every christian. Instead of throwing out empty slogans, this book drills deep down to the inside of Jesus's ministry. It is insightful. It does not show you the five habits or eight principles to be a faithful christian. It encourage you to think and yes, that is what Jesus wants us to practice. There is no book that can cover every message from God. This one is no exception. But it surely brings Jesus closer to us. Jesus is no longer a character existed then and there. Jesus is also living here and now. For non-Christians, please forget about the images of tele-evangelists and believe that is what all christians look like. Read this book and you will find Jesus is departed from the common image portraited in the mass media and his messages are closer to you than you ever imagine.
Good perspective on the Bible and Jesus' teachings.......2007-01-09
This book gives new insights into the scriptures and a fresh perspective. There is good food for thought in understanding the New Testament. Makes you think.
Thoroughly Enjoyed This Book.......2006-09-20
Actually, I couldn't put it down! I found it extremely interesting, and it definitely helped me refine my ideas on who Jesus was, His teachings, and the Bible in general. I have never read anything that approached these topics in the same way (or that approached Jesus in the same way).
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in learning about the life of Jesus, His teachings, and the writing of the Bible in a new way. I can't wait to read other books by this author!
Intelligently Presented Portrait of Jesus the Teacher.......2005-08-02
As a teacher, I rarely come across summer reading as interesting and theologically provocative as Dr. Cox's image of Jesus the rabbi. He begins where he finds his students, with a vast array of relgious backgrounds. He is not deterred by the skeptics, but relentlessly develops an identity of Jesus among his students. He has cultivated a wonderful course and brings the historical Jesus to bear on today's current moral issues. I only wish I could take the course!
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Title: Jesus Christ superfluous.(Book Review)
Author: Colleen Carroll Campbell
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 152
Page: 45(4)
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