New Star Wars Film Movie Trailer - "There's been an awakening. Have you felt it?"

"There's been an awakening. Have you felt it?"

The first line of dialogue from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser released online Friday morning is wonderfully meta; have we felt it? Of course we have — what else explains the excitement surrounding the release of the trailer so early on the day after Thanksgiving, or the frustrations of social media filled the realization that everyone has to update Quicktime? But it's a joke that is readily forgiven, considering what immediately follows.

It's not just the sight of John Boyega popping up from the bottom of the screen that thrills; it's seeing him do so in a Stormtrooper outfit, against a sandy landscape with both the intercom crackle of Stormtrooper discussion and a John Williams score blaring out; it feels like Star Wars, immediately. That's something that's true of everything that follows; everything is familiar enough that it registers as "the real thing," but with enough novelty to get our attention: An R2 unit with a ball for a body! A carrier filled with Stormtroopers ready to deploy! Daisy Ridley on something that looks like a cross between a speeder bike and a land-speeder! X-Wing pilots shot in the same framing as the original movies! It's Star Wars, everybody!

And then, of course, the money shot: the one that no fan could resist — in theaters or online. The Millennium Falcon, flying in space as Williams' beloved theme plays. And TIE Fighters are attacking, with that sound! (The sound in this teaser feels very important; it's the music, the sound effects, as much as anything that give it legitimacy as Star Wars; the roar of the engines, the sound of the laser blasts, these are things that fans have held in their heads for decades; if those weren't present, and weren't exactly right, the entire enterprise would be doomed to failure.)

Again, it's both familiar and new; that shot of the Falcon and TIE Fighters in the air, with the audience quickly realizing that we're upside down, is far more kinetic than anything we've seen in Star Wars before, born of a cinema that became mainstream after George Lucas' original movies (It is, indeed, very J.J. Abrams, in terms of framing; a nice way of his claiming ownership over the franchise subtly here). It's dizzying, exciting — and, like the R2-ball or the slightly different Stormtrooper helmets, or the mysterious Sith with the new lightsaber, a sign that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is very purposefully the same-but-different, informed by the same nostalgia that it very intentionally plays on here, but not beholden to it. It's the perfect shot to end on.

In so many ways, there's nothing really revealed here, as such. We knew the cast list, we knew the Millennium Falcon was going to appear in the movie already. That there's a bad guy with a lightsaber isn't a surprise, and no plot gets revealed beyond, "The Force is back and it sounds like Benedict Cumberbatch is doing the voiceover."

And yet, watching the teaser, all of it feels new in a way that it hasn't before, perhaps because Star Wars, at its best, has always been about the visceral, childlike thrill of the visual spectacle. (Who can forget seeing the Death Star for the first time, or Darth Vader?) This is a teaser that, undoubtedly, was put together cynically to provoke both nostalgia and excitement for the future in equal measure, but there's no denying that it works.

December 2015 suddenly seems just that little bit further away.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-force-awakens-teaser-752743


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Casper Update - November 28, 2014

CASPER SAYS: 11.28.14

​In the latest PROOF that there is really no difference between the Democrat and Republican pawns of the Cabal, a Senate Committee has finally released their report, completed months ago, saying there was no ‘Stand Down’ order in the Benghazi debacle. Three marines, on site at the time, have testified on national television, in prime time, that they personally received the Stand Down orders not once but twice. Just long enough for our Ambassador to be tortured in ways you can hardly imagine. This, after he begged and begged for more security which Hillary refused on three or four separate occasions. This was the night of the anniversary of 9-11.

Do you remember our reports about where Obama was as this horrible incident went down? He was in the residence with ’Do Not Disturb Under Any Circumstances’ orders handed out all around. Who ya gonna believe, the marines on site or those Senators who constantly lie to the American people? What’s more, in the ‘footnotes’ to the report the committee acknowledges something WE reported to you two years ago, Benghazi was a way station for arms moving from Libya and Turkey to the rebels in Syria who now call themselves ISIS. Washington D.C. is a sewer.

40% of the American people are so uninformed they don’t understand or care. They vote. They offset your informed vote. This week Chuck Hagel, Obama’s third Defense Secretary in six years, is forced to resign. He made the deadly error of telling Obama and Susan Rice and Valerie Jarret their foreign policy is a total failure and further disarming our military is a terrible mistake. So, like the 200 military officers whose resignations Obama demanded under threat of losing their pensions. Hagel now learns that only ‘ yes men’ survive. As this “Greatest Enemy America Has Ever Known” arranges his preplanned mass migration from South America on the one hand, he is simultaneously disarming our military at a time of utmost concern (ISIS, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.).. Is he stupid? Or insane? Or simply a puppet of those Satanist/NWO freaks who are determined to destroy America to clear the path for their New World Order. As far back as the 1970’s CFR/NWO publications referred to the need to ‘bring America down’ as it would not be possible to bring other countries up to our standards and ‘all must be equal’ don’t you see.

Federal Reserve Confirms Biggest Foreign Gold Withdrawal In Over Ten Years

Federal Reserve Confirms Biggest Foreign Gold Withdrawal In Over Ten Years

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/29/2014 11:10 -0500

A week ago, when we reported that in a stunning move, the "Dutch Central Bank Secretly Withdrew 122 Tons Of Gold From The New York Fed", and when looking at the NY Fed's monthly reports of gold deposits by foreign entities, we observed that "we can see that while the 5 tons outflow in 2013 was most likely Germany, the recent surge in gold repatriation from Liberty 33 was the Netherlands. That said, only 77.5 tons of NY deposits gold has been officially repatriated through September, which means the October update, when it comes out, will be a doozy." Yesterday, the long anticipated October update of "earmarked gold" held on deposit at the NY Fed was released, and sure enough it did not disappoint. Declining in dollar value from $8.305 billion to $8.248 billion, this was the equivalent of 42 tonnes of gold being withdrawn, in the process reducing net gold located in the vault of JPMorgan the NY Fed to 6,076 tonnes. The 42 tonnes withdrawal was also the biggest single monthly redemption from the NY Fed since 2001.





So with the 119 tonnes of gold withdrawn so far in 2014, it is now abundantly clear that the "logistical complications" excuse used by Germany to halt its own gold repatriation program was nothing but a lie to cover up what, as Deutsche Bank explained earlier this month, was an escalation of "diplomatic difficulties" between the US and Germany, one in which Germany has folded, if only for now.


 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-29/federal-reserve-confirms-biggest-foreign-gold-withdrawal-over-ten-years