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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kmart: [QB] None of this is worked out to any degree because it doesn't impact the story. GL treats space as background, just like a period piece where you frame your riders against a castle on a mountain. THAT is why the nebula/galaxy/globular cluster thing is out there at the end of EMPIRE, to make for a pretty picture. Lucas was asked what was the ship window made out of during JEDI (I think it was ackbar's ship) and he actually said to Muren or some ILMer that when that kind of info is a story point, he would address it. But it wasn't and he didn't. Now a different kind of storyteller would make a lot of the background stuff influence or contribute to the storytelling, or at least help form a framework for the storytelling. Those are the kinds of filmmakers I want to see doing period pics, ones who use the period for more than just window dressing. That's one reason I have high hopes for Asimov's FOUNDATION, now that the ELIZABETH director is involved. That is the kind of thinker who can deal with various aspects like visuals and intrigue in a way that works for modern audiences without trivializing the period being portrayed. And one thing I found amazing was that the PHANTOM MENACE script kept referencing LASER SWORDS in the descriptive passages, not light sabers. I guess that was the case on the original SW script as well, and I wonder if it was looped in post. LASER SWORD would have sounded ludicrous even in the 50s ... But GL wouldn't have cared unless he felt it distracted/detracted for a hunk of the audience (which kind of brings us to the kessel/parsec shit, or to the fact that Alan Dean Foster offered GL different approaches that would not require KA-BLAMS in space but that GL demurred, saying audiences expected to hear these things blow up in vaccuuum, so he catered to that.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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