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Episode 516: Willow (Patreon)

Published:
2023-02-20 08:00:03
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2023-02

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In 1988, as the Star Wars fields lay fallow, George Lucas gave us a fantasy epic he assured us he'd been dreaming up for years: Willow. This tale of magic and mystery spun the story of a humble hobb—er, Nelwyn—and his incredible journey to deliver a thing to a place in the manner of J.R.R. Tolkien. Needless to say, Willow didn't amount to the next Star Wars, and after a few video game adaptations, the book on Willow seemed forever closed... until very recently!

With the recent Disney+ series freshly behind us, there's never been a better time to look at the legacy (if any) Willow left behind. So join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, and Chris Baker (of Willow Talk) as they dress in their finest Renaissance Faire gear to discuss this blast from Lucas' past that's gotten a new lease on life.

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Michael Castleberry

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of the Ewok movies as kind of a proto Willow

Ryan Atkins

I believe Galloping Ghost in the Chicago burbs has a Willow arcade cabinet...I had never heard of it until my first visit there in 2015.

Michael Castleberry
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I ran into it ONCE in the wild in the early 90s at a pizza place. One of those things where I almost started to wonder if I imagined it for years lol

Paul

The Willow limited series with subtitles on is the first time I realized his name is Madmartigan, one word. He is not Mad Martigan. One of the buildings in the series has Star Wars language writing on it btw

Drew Mackie

Am surprised to hear that this arcade game was rare because it showed up at two different pizza parlors in my crappy hometown. I think I played it once, but the attract screen was part of the background noise of every birthday held at these places. It would just periodically say “WILLOW” and remind us all that this was a movie that existed.

John Learned

The arcade game was in the lobby of one of the dorms I lived in while I was in college. Ohio is a weird place

Anonymous

The holiday inn in Skokie, Illinois had the willow arcade game and I played it… in 1995? Until the very end boss when I ran out of quarters. Having never seen willow but knowing what it was, and knowing Capcom and their games. I remember enjoying it, but couldn’t tell you anything about it.

Shaxbert

I was never into superhero comics as a kid, so for years whenever I'd hear about how genius Chris Claremont's run on the X-Men was, all I could think was "Oh, that dude who wrote those absolutley dire Willow sequel books? No thanks!"

Robert Denby

I’m surprised how much you glossed over the morphing effects, and didn’t mention The Abyss and T2 at all as examples of what came after. The morphing sequence in Willow wasn’t just done with CGI. There’s several horrifying puppets built for the seconds when Fin is in between forms. The CGI morphing is smoothing the transition between those, actual animal footage shot against bluescreen, and the actress. A similar effect was done a year later in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for Julian Glover’s death scene, where the morphing is used to very quickly go between three puppets of the actor aging rapidly.