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Post #119238

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Max Reebo Rocks
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Empire of Dreams on A&E last night
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Date created
28-Jun-2005, 6:53 AM
Didn't watch the whole thing as I've already seen it (rented from Netflix), but it just got me thinking again. It's actually a pretty good documentary that shows how much creativity was involved with making the OOT (i.e., model work, sound FX). One of the modelers actually fondly recollects being asked for an autograph outside of Mann's Chinese Theatre after the premiere. Now.....wouldn't you think that the average moviegoer, after watching this nice nostalgic documentary, would be outraged that those original, unaltered films are no longer available? I guess not, but it's crazy to think that much of the model work and other SFX discussed in that documentary is now obselete thanks to the Special Editions (e.g., Yavin space battle). Yeah, yeah...I know this has been discussed ad nauseum but it never ceases to amaze me that more people aren't pissed off about Lucas steadfastly refusing to release the OOT on DVD.

Another interesting part from the doc (albeit not surprising) is how one of the best lines in the entire saga (Han saying "I know" before being lowered into carbon freeze in ESB) had NOTHING to do with Lucas at all. Lucas had originally written Han responding to Leia's "I love you" with "I love you, too." (how boring would that have been?) Kersh and Harrison Ford tried it and tried it and realized it wasn't working, and it was finally Harrison who came up with the line! I think Kersh even said that if Lucas were on the set that day (which he wasn't), he probably would have objected to that line. Just goes to show that alot of the best moments from the OOT had nothing to do with Lucas. As many have said, it was a collaboration. I'm so sick of the media portraying Lucas as the sole "genius" behind Star Wars, and of course he just sits back in his chair and smugly acknowledges it as if it were true.