Originally posted by: Switch Radic
so he just lost hiss edge once ESB was done? hmm.... that's sad. I can think of ways he could have gone beyond what he had done. Well, that's not really true, at least not off the top of my head. But there is always something. There is always something out there that nobody has ever done before and whatnot. If I were him, I'd have turned to more experimental stuff to just try new things and expand, but i guess he never did. It's funny, since hitchcock, films haven't been the same in a way. the inventive spirit is almost nill right now. Sad...sad...sad...
so he just lost hiss edge once ESB was done? hmm.... that's sad. I can think of ways he could have gone beyond what he had done. Well, that's not really true, at least not off the top of my head. But there is always something. There is always something out there that nobody has ever done before and whatnot. If I were him, I'd have turned to more experimental stuff to just try new things and expand, but i guess he never did. It's funny, since hitchcock, films haven't been the same in a way. the inventive spirit is almost nill right now. Sad...sad...sad...
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Actually, this is where I'll give Lucas credit, he made Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, a year after ESB, but he didn't direct, he didn't write the screenplay, he just produced and wrote out the basic story, and let Spielberg direct it to be a classic, just like ESB. Hey I think Lucas is a great storyteller, and also with a director like Spielberg, Lucas is a perfect Executive Producer, but on the prequels he did everything, and that is where he failed.