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Post #160336

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Tim Lehrbach
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Found this quote from Lucas about the Fans from May '05
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3-Dec-2005, 9:00 PM
It seems Mr. Lucas has an excuse for everthing, no matter how much he has to stretch the truth to do it.

1. Why do the Prequels suck Mr. Lucas?

"Because the older generation controls the media, and they are mad they aren't just like the originals. They refuse to accept that I had this whole backstory planned out in detail, and it was always my vision to have Anakin create C-3PO, the midichlorians where always the origin of the Force, I wanted everyone in the OT to sound old and vague by never explaining it in detail, when I filmed ROTJ, Hayden haden't been born yet so we had to wait for that, in the meantime we grabbed some old guy named Sabastian Shaw, who we thought might closely resemble Hayden by the time we made Sith, unfortunately shaw's peformance wasn't good, so I decided to CGI Hayden's head onto Shaws body for emoting purposes."

2. Why did you make so many changes to the OT Mr. Lucas?

"It was always my vision to have these films look this way, we just didn't have the technology back then to do it, for example, back in 77' we never could have made Greedo shoot first, or Luke scream when he's falling in Cloud City, or make Des Webb act like he was in pain properly after Luke cut the Wampa's arm off, and that noise Obi-Wan makes to scare the sandpeople off...that is a noise only just now we are able to create, and Luke was supposed to have a green saber in ANH..and, and, and...."

3. You know there are alot of fans out there that would like the unaltered OT released in DVD, why is it you don't wan't to release it?.

"Because as I said before the Special Editions are my original vision, and cuz I don't wanna, I need to be a prat, and refuse to acknowledge that those films exist anymore, I don't really give a shit the vast majority of fans that grew up on that stuff, helped make be the rich famous person I am today, which in turn help me develop the technology to sufficently screw with these films.....what was the question again?...Oh and by the way, due to fan demand we have decided to release Ewoks, Caravan of Courage on DVD."

4. Do you plan to make more changes to both the prequels and OT?

"Yea, well I suppose I will, because the more I sit and evalute the OT film effects the more flaws I find, when I compare them to the PT effects...I may eventually have to CG the entire OT so that it matches more closely. originally we where goig to make more changes to the 2004 OT DVD boxset, but becuase It took so long, I decided to release it incomplete anyway, and deemed it good enough at the time, most fans will understand that it has a few minor issues, such as the sound is off, the color hues, Luke's green saber in ANH...no, that was intended...my bad."

5. Is it possible that the Original Trilogy fans are just uptight, and want to complain.

"Yes, I think that's the case, there's no valid reason they shouldn't like all the changes I've made to these films...They need to get a life, then someday when they create a successful film, they can take their own films and fuck with them all they want, and arrogantly snub their noses at the people that made me, I mean them so rich and succesful."