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On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:26:19 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
wrote:

>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>>On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:05:40 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:38:14 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:46:50 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> looked up from reading the entrails of
>>>>>>>the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On 24/03/2013 11:34 PM, Xocyll wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Han not only didn't shoot first, he did a Tap number before shooting
>>>>>>>>> back.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>This would for sure happen if he'd sold the rights to Bollywood instead 
>>>>>>>>of Disney.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Well it wouldn't have been Tap in that case. :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I now have a perverse desire to see a Bollywood Star Wars.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Plot : Han Solo's work as a freelancer becomes more difficult as he
>>>>>>finds himself underbid by offshore scrub labor :)
>>>>>
>>>>>Doesn't work so much. 
>>>>>In the Star Wars universe he was primarily a smuggler who did some other
>>>>>work to cover bills and even that was dependant on him having a very
>>>>>fast ship.
>>>>>
>>>>>The cheap "offshore labor" probably has shit unreliable ships and
>>>>>typical third world maintenance levels - not who I would be hiring to
>>>>>deliver something that had to get there much less ride on the damn thing
>>>>>myself.
>>>>>
>>>>>Bollywood:
>>>>>Somehow I don't think Bollywood would view offshore the same way
>>>>>Hollywood would.  And Han in a Bollywood production would be Indian too
>>>>>- what exactly would be cheap offshore scrub labor in India?
>>>>>
>>>>>Somehow being Bollywood I'd think it more likely the plot would revolve
>>>>>around some runaway princess who hires Han to fly her away to avoid an
>>>>>arranged marriage and who then falls in love with him - the remainder of
>>>>>the movie would be the trials and tribulations of them trying to stay
>>>>>together - the princess and the commoner in the face of opposition from
>>>>>both sides.
>>>>
>>>>I was thinking when you said Bollywood Star Wars, it  meant what it
>>>>meant as written, staying true to the Star Wars universe (meaning
>>>>nobody but Harrison Ford plays Han Solo on film).  
>>>
>>>He's a bit long in the tooth these days.
>>
>>Well it did all happen a long time ago in a galaxy far away :)
>>
>>
>>>>It sounds like you were thinking more along the lines of "This Being
>>>>Bollywood Space Conflict Universe", which would be a non-Lucas
>>>>approved cheap knock-off of Star Wars Universe, with lots of music,
>>>>colorful costumes and traditional dance and AT-AT Walkers replaced by
>>>>actual camels.  In this case, resemblence to the actual Star Wars
>>>>franchise might start to become difficult to spot.  Like maybe Space
>>>>Balls would seem spiritually closer.
>>>
>>>I was thinking more a sort of Star Wars prequel (right before the events
>>>of the original movie,) with the Bollywood singing and dancing, but
>>>otherwise canon.  It could end with him landing on Tatooine, broken,
>>>alone and looking for work to pay off Greedo.
>>>They'd have to recast simply because Harrison is a bit ancient to play
>>>the dashing young leading man these days.
>>
>>If Bruce Willis can keep the Die Hard thing going I don't see why Han
>>Solo has to be young or dashing :)
>
>Well cause if this is happening _before_ he shot Greedo, having a 70
>year old Harrison playing the part would just be laughable.
>
>Could he even do the singing and dancing routines a Bollywood production
>would require?  Methinks not.

Don't be so sure.  The confidence he has in his own shake-that-ass
ability portrayed herein is not something that fades with time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DcWeCE9yaYQ#t=10s