By saved in editing I mean exactly that, it’s no longer an ambiguous idea since now we’ve all seen what a slog the original structure would have been and how bad the deleted scenes are.
Yes, the original edit of Star Wars was bad, but the original edits of most movies are bad, too. That’s why editing exists. Star Wars wasn’t “saved by the edit” more than any other movie.
Yeah but what I’m saying is that we know what it looks like when George has 100% control, without these award winning editors, and it’s the PT. Those films were edited. But he needs those other more creative people to save it from his “vision” which is usually awful when dozens of yes-men are involved.
George is the common element of every good movie he was involved in.
The Hyucks were not involved in ESB or RotJ. Kasdan was not involved with ANH.
Lucas had no co director for ANH. Or American Graffiti. Or THX 1138.
And by the way, Marcia Lucas didn’t like THX 1138, but Stanley Kubrick did. And Stanley Kubrick also liked Graffiti and SW, so he didn’t THX because of Murch or whatever the meme might be to discredit Lucas’ work on that film.
And again, John Milius said himself that George was the good editor of their friend group.
Ylu are being willfully ignorant.