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JadedSkywalker
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Unpopular Opinion Thread
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7-May-2022, 4:59 PM

I love Lucas films. I’m a Lucas diehard. I also think the prequels aren’t all that good. And it has tarnished his reputation as a filmmaker. The original Star Wars, American Graffiti and THX 1138 are great films. I wish Lucas loved his films as much as i do. He would release the originals for all of them and they’d have catalog releases like every other Hollywood production in a modern HD format.

I also can’t believe the lies he has told since the 90’s about it always being the story of Darth Vader, or that it always was a family saga with a father, son and a daughter. It wasn’t, none of them were related in the beginning. And it was Luke’s story.

The information is there in Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first two films where Leia wasn’t a Skywalker, the original film where Obi Wan didn’t lie and Vader wasn’t Luke’s father. The Leigh Brackett Star Wars II script etc.

He did have great collaborators, Walter Murch on THX and Graffiti, Haskel Wexler on Graffiti. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck. On Star Wars, Graffiti, And Temple of Doom. Gary Kurtz should be given credit, as well as Marcia Lucas, And Charley Lippincott. David Prowse should have been treated better. We now know how much credit is due to Howard Kazanjian and his efforts. You could write volumes of books just on the effects artists and concept artists and how they made those Star Wars movies. An auteur no doubt, but surrounded by genius talent like John Dykstra, Ralph Mcquarrie, Joe Johnston.

Lucas didn’t do it on his own. He was the general, but the rest of the people did all the things to make his vision come to life.