George - The original film was basically subtitled The Tragedy of Darth Vader

At this point, his delusion is just plain disturbing.  He seems to have absolutely zero understanding of how easy it is to prove that statement is complete bullshit.

???

theprequelsrule said:

What the fuck happened to the guy?! What kind of people does he surround himself with to allow him to make such claims?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Tall Cuboid said :

He no corrupted, he crazy.

I less than three what you just said.

I was listening to the commentary on the ROTS DVD last night, and just sighing when he launches into that "Tragedy" spiel.

Do current printings of the SW novelization and Splinter of the Mind's Eye still have the "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker" subtitle?

Baronlando said:

Ah, interesting. He says the cyan strip was out of synch, so that's why the separations were no good.

 I can't see the video--do you have a quote from this section? This news would change the preservation game if it is correct.

Bad news.

Robert Harris recently said words to the effect of, "I'm not worried about Lucas' crusade, because I know the films are preserved. No matter how much time goes by, when the go-ahead is issued to transfer the films it doesn't matter what state the negative is in." He was referring, I think, to the fact that there were 3-strip dupes.

But, I think in ILM:Into the Digital Realm it states that they used some of the 3-strip sources for ANH:SE, so now I don't know what to think. You could digitally re-sync one of the layers, as Harris said he had developed his own methodology for re-constructing 3-strip dupes. I think it's common for 3-strip dupes to have one layer or more out of sync because of shrinking and swelling that is common in old films. In 1995, maybe it was impossible to fix but hopefully now it is.

Risky business in any case...

That's the trouble with so many of the Kodak-era separations- they were made, but not tested. Since they were for the purposes of preservation and not print-making, any errors were not discovered until they attempted to use them for a restoration. That's exactly what happened when they started the "Spartacus" restoration.

There must have been some viable separations of SW at some point, though, otherwise there never would have been any Dye-Transfer prints. I wonder what happened to those seps when the British Technicolor lab finished with them..?

There are some interesting quotes here, from Robert Harris about the possibility of restoration, and the reasons he believes the OOT should be included in the blu-ray release (starting w/post #129):

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/307588/tcfhe-press-release-star-wars-the-complete-saga-blu-ray/120

Thanks for posting this.

I haven't watched it yet. I'm normally savy enough to rip these sought of videos but I'm not having any luck with this. Was anyone able to or have any suggestions?

If Lucas is claiming that Star Wars was originally titled:

Star Wars - Episode IV - The Tragedy of Darth Vader

Does he also have the original, and not totally retconned, titles for the final two films?

Star Wars - Episode V - Darth Sidious Strikes Back

Star Wars - Episode VI - The Return of Anakin Skywalker

Watched the vid...

and all throughout I was wondering what that thing was under his neck.

Perhaps that's actually alien possessing him a la Star Trek TNG's 'conspiracy'

and as soon as he said 'The Tragedy of Darth Vader' I half expected to see Nolan get up and punch him

greenpenguino said:

and as soon as he said 'The Tragedy of Darth Vader' I half expected to see Nolan get up and punch him

Like this.

Thank you photoshop!

none said:

but if you want to stare:

http://georgelucasneck.tumblr.com/

A website about lucas' neck? That's hilarious.

SilverWook said:

I was listening to the commentary on the ROTS DVD last night, and just sighing when he launches into that "Tragedy" spiel.

Do current printings of the SW novelization and Splinter of the Mind's Eye still have the "From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker" subtitle?

Splinter does not.   Star Wars says "Formerly Titled Star Wars: From The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker"