The Empire Strikes Bwahahahahahaha!

15 January 2009 | 2:23 PM

A few years back, when Joel and Ethan Cohen were making their excellent movie O Brother Where Art Thou, both freely admitted that they had never even read The Odyssey of Homer, the epic poem upon which their film was loosely based. I’ve always admired the Cohen brothers for this: because they weren’t constrained by the various intricacies of plot minutiae, it freed them up to use their Cliff’s Notes understanding of the source material as merely a frame to drape their own story over. Similarly, this recounting of the (original) Star Wars trilogy has a bit of the Cohen’s magic going for it, along with a healthy dash batshit-crazy tossed in, just because:

Now I ask you: wouldn’t you rather watch this short film than any of the three prequels George Lucas pumped out?

[Via Geekologie]

Posted by Andy in Comedy = Tragedy + Time