70s fanfilm "Paragon's Paragon"...partly found?

[Maurice]

The long-thought-lost 70s fanfilm "Paragon's Paragon" seems to have been located, at least in some form. Check out photos from it on the My Star Trek Scrapbook blog (click me!)

There's an older post about the film here as well.

The story is, apparently, a fan adaptation of the James Blish novel "Spock Must Die" with different characters.

 

[Kelso]

Man, that looks great. I hope that guy gets permission to put it on youtube.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Oh wow, this is great!

Reading about this guy and this movie in the old Cinemagic was the first thing that got me thinking about making such movies.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Amazing work.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Reading about this production is what inspired me in December to begin work on Potemkin! I'm stoked, and look forward to it!

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I don't know, my experience with franchise-based novels has been traumatic, to say the best of it. A fandaptation doesn't seem like a recipe for fun and adventure to me

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Judging from the link I think every facial hair in that film is win.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Do we want to talk again about Minstrel Uhura?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I was holding out hope that that was a badly developed picture.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It was more of a badly underdeveloped sense of what was appropriate.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Different times, different sensibilities. Wasn't it about the same time that Peter Sellers played Fu Manchu?

 

[Barbreader]

I'm 55 years old. By the 1970s, black face was in very, very bad taste.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Different times, different sensibilities. Wasn't it about the same time that Peter Sellers played Fu Manchu?

People in the 1970s knew that blackface was completely unacceptable. No "different times" about it.

These kids were just a bit clueless in that regard.

It's true, however, that whites would continue to play asian characters for quite a while, though. Nimoy did something like that in "Marco Polo" in 1982, didn't he?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It's true, however, that whites would continue to play asian characters for quite a while, though. Nimoy did something like that in "Marco Polo" in 1982, didn't he?

Joel Grey did in "Remo Williams: The Aventure Begins" in 1985.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Lawrence Olivier played Othello in blackface in the 1965 film.

Sadly, even today Asians are portrayed by white actors.

 

[Captain Robert April]

David Carradine.

Nuff said.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

David Carradine actually got that role over Bruce Lee, iirc.

 

[Captain Robert April]

More like Bruce Lee was pushed aside on a concept that he pitched himself!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

And Robert Downey did it a year ago in a big-screen comedy. Your point is...? 'Cause if it's "the 1970s were a time when blackface/minstrelsy was not widely recognized to be offensive as it is now" you're still as wrong as the first time you posted it.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I think the offensiveness of the idea was the whole point behind Downey's part in "Tropic Thunder".

"What d'you mean, 'you people'?"

"What do YOU mean, 'you people'!?!"