Star Wars - Dual of the Fates. What were they singing?

[Cainanite (imported)]

You know, I didn't much like the Star Wars movie prequels. I always though they went too child friendly, and they stopped making any kind of sense the instant Jar-Jar showed up. However, all that aside, I did like the music a lot. I even had a CD of the music, just so I could listen to the music from the final fight scene between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul.

In my innocence, I assumed the choral part of the music was either in Latin, which I don't speak, or a made up alien language George Lucas invented. All I knew, was I liked it.

It turns out that the choral part is just plain old regular English and some slang. You can actually sing along if you like, in the following video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDY404lC_nI&feature=plcp

The lyrics are as follows.

Corn on... the cob

Cola, Grilled Kabob

Soda, Catalog

New truck, Chola

Ta-Daaa! Simba

Best of all... Williams

Total, Xena

Panda, Oh Yeah

Xena, Total, Panda, Cyborg

Jesus, Oh No, That's right

Corn Dog, Dracula

Oh No, Backgammon

Sallah, Thundarr

Conan, Shish-Kabob

Total Cereal

Oh No, Panda

Cyborg, Jesus

Not your principal

Slow Down!

Cola, Fanta

Bowl of Matzo Balls

Coral, Dial

Zorro, Prisoner

He-man, Xena, Frylock, Panda

Cylon, Xena, Gabrielle, Race Car

Corn Dog!

Go ahead. Sing along. I dare you.

I'll never hear this music the same way again. The last of the magic is gone now.

I'm going to go cry in a corner. Come join me. There will be ice-cream.

[Riverwind (imported)]

You know most people I guess did not like Jar-Jar however I thought without him there would be no movie, he was the glue that tied it all together.

River

[Cainanite (imported)]

Jar-Jar was completely superfluous to the movie. Couldn't two jedi detect, on their own, a city full of living beings beneath the surface of the water?

His entire reason for being in the movie could have been eliminated in just a few quick lines.

Obi-Wan - "What do we do, Master? The droid army is all around us. There is nowhere to hide. And we cannot take on an entire army."

Qui-Gon - "Quiet, Padawn. Do you sense that?"

Obi-Wan - "Yes, Master. I sense... I sense a city below the surface of the water. How is that possible?"

Qui-Gon - "You see, my young apprentice, If you quiet your mind, the force will provide an answer. Put on your re-breather. I think it is time for a swim."

There. I just saved you from Jar-Jar. The Jedi still find the Gungans. They still get the submarine, travel through the core of the planet. Everything remains the same. They could even find the Gungans and their army at the end of the movie, by sensing them in the same way.

Jar-Jar wasn't glue. But he certainly was some kind of disgusting sticky substance, most likely excreted from George Lucas' posterior.

[Riverwind (imported)]

NOW NOW enough of that, Jar Jar is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle going forward, without him nothing else works. Look at all three movies, without him its just hack and slash, he brought those moments of comic relief that is so needed in such a masterpiece. And the actor that played that part did a great job. Of all the different actors Lucas added to the star wars movies he is one of my favorites, and without him the whole movie set falls apart. Go look again at all the parts he plays and then replace him, BORING.

River

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

Odd, I was just thinking about the Star Wars movies. Like all movies, all the sequels and prequels released after the original just got worse and worse. It was like the writers were trying to make it even more politically correct, child friendly, earth friendly (or ecosystem friendly)... Honestly, the original was good, but they went down hill quickly with each new movie.

SUPPOSEDLY, the whole saga was clear in George Lucas's mind when he wrote and released the first book... But, there are a LOT of things that just don't add up, one or two for example....

IF Jedi knights are supposed to be some super disciplined order of super-beings, and they are all so well trained in the use of "The Force," why was the promising and up-and-coming Anakin Skywalker so easily decieved and turned by the Sith? I know, the typical teenager has bouts of traitorous thinking, questioning authority and all that, but in real life, the VAST MAJORITY of real traitors are senior levels elders (e.g. Robert Hansen, Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, etc. etc.), not fanatically dedicated teenagers who if anything, tend to be zealots for their chosen cause and are all but begging for a chance to become martyrs (and thereby teen idols) for their cause.

ANOTHER EGREGIOUS "just could not happen that way..." situation: in the first Star Wars movie, the evil Darth Vader captures the near perfect Princess Leah. On board the "Death Starr" she is tortured and coerced into giving away the secret location of the rebel base... Yet later we find out that she is in fact Darth Vader's daughter...BUT this super evil Darth Vader fellow, you know, the one who is so strong in the ways of "The Force?" Yeah, that guy could not detect his OWN DAUGHTER right there in front of him? But yet, when he had his little sword fight with Luke, he DID know, and so did Luke "know" that was his father who had just cut his hand off.... "Look into your heart, you know it is true." And later, as Luke escaped from his certain death hanging outside the "City in the Sky," and Darth Vader watched the Millenium Falcon evade the best shots in the Imperial Storm Troopers Air Force, Darth sensed his son on board the Falcon... All this "sensitivity" bullshit and he could not tell that Princess Leah was his own fucking daughter when he had her there on the Death Star... And yet when he was in the sword fight with his son, he was able to invade Luke's memory and found out "the IS another..." I am sorry, but the continuity and plausibility just got over loaded for me.

I know, I might seem a bit cynical, but really, so much "sci-fi" movies and TV is just such bullshit. Even when I was a child, watching Captain Kirk fighting the Klingons, I was saying to myself - "there can be no sound or noise in the vacume of space, so why so many sound effects when the Enterprise fires it's "phasers" and "photon torpedoes?" And just HOW IN THE HELL was it that all the "newly discovered" races and civilizations that Captain Kirk encountered learned to speak "Earth Standard English" so perfectly? Everyone, the Klingons, the Romulans, the "Talosians" and all of them, spoke clearly and without accents, no need for linguists or interpreters when zooming across the galaxy, but yet here on little old planet earth we have numerous different languages among our own human race. In all the Star Trek movies and series that I watched, I only recall TWO INSTANCES where linguistic differences where touched upon, both of them in "The Next Generation" involving Captain Piccard. Again, plausibility and believability are just pushed too far. While I do like to watch good sci-fi, I am continuously feeling insulted by the stupid "sounds" in space, the presumption by ALL sci-fi writers that aliens are so so so similar to earth humans and already know how to speak "Earth Standard English."

[luke1812 (imported)]

There are no "lyrics" to 'Duel of the Fates'

The choral voice parts are simply non linguistic sylables aranged to form an instrument of the human voice.

[Riverwind (imported)]

Odd, I was just thinking about the Star Wars movies. Like all movies, all the sequels and prequels released after the original just got worse and worse. It was like the writers were trying to make it even more politically correct, child friendly, earth friendly (or ecosystem friendly)... Honestly, the original was good, but they went down hill quickly with each new movie.

SUPPOSEDLY, the whole saga was clear in George Lucas's mind when he wrote and released the first book... But, there are a LOT of things that just don't add up, one or two for example....

IF Jedi knights are supposed to be some super disciplined order of super-beings, and they are all so well trained in the use of "The Force," why was the promising and up-and-coming Anakin Skywalker so easily decieved and turned by the Sith? I know, the typical teenager has bouts of traitorous thinking, questioning authority and all that, but in real life, the VAST MAJORITY of real traitors are senior levels elders (e.g. Robert Hansen, Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, etc. etc.), not fanatically dedicated teenagers who if anything, tend to be zealots for their chosen cause and are all but begging for a chance to become martyrs (and thereby teen idols) for their cause.

ANOTHER EGREGIOUS "just could not happen that way..." situation: in the first Star Wars movie, the evil Darth Vader captures the near perfect Princess Leah. On board the "Death Starr" she is tortured and coerced into giving away the secret location of the rebel base... Yet later we find out that she is in fact Darth Vader's daughter...BUT this super evil Darth Vader fellow, you know, the one who is so strong in the ways of "The Force?" Yeah, that guy could not detect his OWN DAUGHTER right there in front of him? But yet, when he had his little sword fight with Luke, he DID know, and so did Luke "know" that was his father who had just cut his hand off.... "Look into your heart, you know it is true." And later, as Luke escaped from his certain death hanging outside the "City in the Sky," and Darth Vader watched the Millenium Falcon evade the best shots in the Imperial Storm Troopers Air Force, Darth sensed his son on board the Falcon... All this "sensitivity" bullshit and he could not tell that Princess Leah was his own fucking daughter when he had her there on the Death Star... And yet when he was in the sword fight with his son, he was able to invade Luke's memory and found out "the IS another..." I am sorry, but the continuity and plausibility just got over loaded for me.

I know, I might seem a bit cynical, but really, so much "sci-fi" movies and TV is just such bullshit. Even when I was a child, watching Captain Kirk fighting the Klingons, I was saying to myself - "there can be no sound or noise in the vacume of space, so why so many sound effects when the Enterprise fires it's "phasers" and "photon torpedoes?" And just HOW IN THE HELL was it that all the "newly discovered" races and civilizations that Captain Kirk encountered learned to speak "Earth Standard English" so perfectly? Everyone, the Klingons, the Romulans, the "Talosians" and all of them, spoke clearly and without accents, no need for linguists or interpreters when zooming across the galaxy, but yet here on little old planet earth we have numerous different languages among our own human race. In all the Star Trek movies and series that I watched, I only recall TWO INSTANCES where linguistic differences where touched upon, both of them in "The Next Generation" involving Captain Piccard. Again, plausibility and believability are just pushed too far. While I do like to watch good sci-fi, I am continuously feeling insulted by the stupid "sounds" in space, the presumption by ALL sci-fi writers that aliens are so so so similar to earth humans and already know how to speak "Earth Standard English."

Ok I do admit it has a couple holes. However, its the movies that keep on giving, my youngest son gave the the 6 movie set on blue ray last Christmas, he said I needed them, what I noticed is that the first three, that's chapter 4, 5, and 6 have been reworked and stuff has been added to the film. Things that could not be done when the movie first came out.

One of my I don't believe this moments was in movie 4 (the first one) when they come on the moon that is on the far side of the planet and had to wait 15 minutes for it to come into range, SHIT blow the planet away, most likely will take the moon with it movie over.

But you must admit the beginning is the best ever, with it they could do anything and say anything and its OK.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, gives you a pass on so much.

I think its time to watch them all again.

River