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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Who was George Lucas before Star Wars? While directing the original Star Wars, Lucas was just this guy who had directed fucking "Diner", "THX1138" and a buch of demi-abstract student art-films. He fervently believed that this was going to be something more than schlock, but it was apparent to just about everyone that he needed some help to make that happen. And fortunately he got it. He was a visionary and the concept behind the entire Star Wars saga is really very VERY cool. He benefitted from excellent production designers, art designers, costume people, and actors. Alec Guiness didn't think this film was going anywhere. Carrie Fischer was embarassed to go to the premiere. And then it paid off and everyone got rich and lazy. No, but Lucas still has one of the best (if not the best) production teams anyone could ask for. And technologically he's still pushing the envelope more than anyone else (more than anyone else can probably). But I suspect that now that he is George Lucas� that maybe things have changed at the Ranch. Now when he wants something, it isn't questioned like it would be if he were still fresh-faced from making "Diner". And I'm saying that things ought to be questioned. I'm a admittedly small-time writer and director myself, and I've got to tell you that getting good feedback is a critical part of good storytelling. If people aren't willing or able to look at his story or his post-production whim on that particular day and say, "I don't think that's a good idea" or "That's not going to work, because..." or "Maybe a human being should be involved in writing the love scenes, droid-George", then it tends to become mastubatory. It's very solitary and self-interested and the possibility of making a real connection becomes horribly muddied. Someone [i]should[/i] have told him at some point that those love scenes were just awful. Someone should have told him that rather than charming and humorous Jar-Jar was distracting and time-consuming. Someone should have told him that quantifying The Force with midichlorians pretty much ruined the whole supernatural (and therefore compelling) concept of it. It seems to me like a lot of Episodes I and II have been written in the editting room, like that's where the emphasis has been placed (They say you write a movie three times, once as a screenplay, once while you're shooting, and again while you're editting) And I think the concept of the stories is terrific, I just think a little more polish at the beginning would really go a LONG way towards making the sort of films that we've come to expect from Star Wars. Which isn't to say that I didn't enjoy Episodes I and II. I did. I think the light-saber battle at the end of Ep I is probably the coolest sword fight I've ever seen. And the arrival of the clone army in Ep II is just spectacular. Still good films, but not great films like they could or arguably should have been. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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