FrederikOlsen said:
It’s never been a particularly well-written franchise, IMO.ANH is considered one of the best scripts ever written. It’s still being studied in film school for ts achievements, thanks to Lucas rewitting it to perfect it numberous times. TESB is simply the continuation of this high quality standard rooted in the foundation of a perfect script. Only what came after wasn’t as good and was sometimes even quite terrible, such as this tv show.
The original Star Wars was saved in editing by cutting great chunks out of that script.
I see the consequences of an interesting YouTube video… you confuse the script quality and the final movie. SW wasn’t saved through editing : editing made it better.
I can’t believe on this forum that we need to explain why ANH is a tremendous script 😅
Well, it is true that the script devoted a lot of pages to duff scenes like Luke and Biggs at Anchorhead, Luke and 3PO in the speeder, redundant lines that would draw out dialogue (“Right now I don’t feel too good…”), dialogue that was so awkward that even the actors lobbied for its removal, and even some dialogue scenes that were paced really oddly until being rearranged at the 11th hour, like Obi-Wan and Luke in the former’s hut. I don’t think it’s heresy to say that the script has its problems. That just makes one appreciate all the stuff it gets right.
What I really do admire Star Wars for, script-wise, is how perfectly it uses The Hero’s Journey to tell its story, and how Lucas starts the film in medias res to make a galaxy that feels huge and could only really become smaller from that point on.
We’ve never seen the franchise doing something that brave since, though with what he’s saying in interviews, Taika Waititi may also go for that approach.