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John Dykstra Interview Circa July 1977
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5-Jan-2011, 10:59 AM

Thanks for the post, this is a nice look into the tensions post SW. Dykstra's loyalties to Trumbell and Universal against the allegiances with ILM and Lucas. Dykstra lays out his apprehension towards the type of film he just worked on. Silent Runnings had a larger moral while SW was this feel fun fest. Also possibly viewed as the harder Sci-Fi verse Fantasy conflict. Nowadays that whole middle quarrel would never have made print. Great to see full transcripts.

The shooting date of the Making of SW special is good to know.

Identifying similaries between the separations from the LFL camp by Dykstra and Kurtz might make for a good article. Both have money as the over arching factor, but their comments could point to some other issue.

 

*EDIT*

going through Dkystra's wiki entry, now know that all of the American Cinematographer SW articles are online:

http://www.theasc.com/magazine/starwars/index.html