After watching the 2 hour video I am still not sure how a video (in this context) can be “Literally a Lie”. Literally…
I remember watching that video awhile ago and actually thinking it was cool and informative and it’s used all over the place to try and prove the whole “George Lucas bad” campaign.
There is a ‘George Lucas bad’ campaign? If it is indeed used by others as some sort of ‘proof’ of something… that’s not really on the people who made the video, is it? The RJ video isn’t a gospel, or claims to be ‘the definitive video on the editing of Star Wars’ etc, or anything like. I’m still not sure how Nerdonymous views the RJ video as “simply an attempt to discredit George Lucas”.
Then I came across this video. This really well-researched and thought out video that actually has credible sources and shows them really well… and it basically proves that RocketJump’s video is a bunch of lying, bias nonsense with misdirection and misinformation across the board.
It is? How so (other than a couple of mistakes in the RJ video)? Please don’t point me to watch the Nerdonymous video - what are the lies, bias, nonsense, misdirection and misinformation you claim there to be in the RocketJump video.
So uh, yeah… Goerge Lucas didn’t suck and it wasn’t the editors that created Star Wars.
Sorry.
Did the RocketJump video state that ‘Lucas did suck’? And that it was ‘the editors that created Star Wars’? Huh… I’ll have to give the RocketJump video another watch. I did re-watch it, and no, they didn’t say anything of the sort.
They did indeed explain how ‘Star Wars editors recut and rearranged Star Wars: A New Hope to create the cinematic classic it became’.
Some of the RJ video you may disagree with, some of it may indeed be incorrect (or there are other sources / recollections by people used in that could be seen as conflicting with each other), or some of it ‘from a certain point of view’… YMMV.
Yet there really isn’t a need for the type of hyperbole or attitude used in in your OP - which, to be honest, reads like a an advert for a 2 hour video designed to deconstruct the RJ video / profit on the back of the popularity of the RJ video… that some ‘pro-George Lucas’ fans obviously and vocally don’t much like - which is ironic as the RocketJump video doesn’t actually criticise George Lucas (Special Editions / further tinkerings apart).
As it literally says in ‘summing up’ of the RocketJump video - “I think George’s ‘ace in the hole’ was that he surrounded himself with an incredible team of people to work with, and listening and collaborating with them to help refine his incredible vision.”
The 2 hour video guy could have easily made his own ‘How Star Wars was made in the Edit’ video as an alternative - whilst also pointing out differences or conflicts (or any mistakes) with the RJ video… instead he attempts to simply deconstruct it - in an abrupt, mocking and somewhat patronising manner - whilst taking much of the RJ video out of context or making strawman-type arguments.
So in summing it up… even after watching sitting through that 2-hour video linked by G&G-Fan, the RocketJump video is not “literally a lie”, or anything like it.
If anyone is looking for a quality read on how Star Wars was written, evolved, and was made… then ‘The Secret History Of Star Wars’ book by Michael Kaminski, is well worth it.
Or watch the three Original Trilogy ‘Filmumentaries’ by Jamie Benning.