Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
I think he means that Anakin's story is the central theme, and that Luke is part of that story. Lucas sees Luke as merely a step in redeeming his father. I really don't think he thinks the OT is about Luke, that would be silly to pretend, as it's not.
I think he means that Anakin's story is the central theme, and that Luke is part of that story. Lucas sees Luke as merely a step in redeeming his father. I really don't think he thinks the OT is about Luke, that would be silly to pretend, as it's not.
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As I said, read the May 2005 Vanity Fair Article, for one time, Lucas was very forthcoming. He finally admitted that he didn't see the OT as the redemption of Vader til years after ROTJ. (Hint: Sounds like right around the time he thought he was going to make the PT)
It is a great selling point, the story of Anakin, and many younger fans eat it up. Go on theforce.net boards, every fan who loves the prequels, says it is one saga now, and it has always been about the story of Anakin. They even say they see so much of his struggles in ANH! He wasn't even Luke dad when it was made in 1977, in that movie he is just a really cool bad guy.
Lucas had to sell the PT as Anakins story because he knew he had to tie the OT to everything. Check out the SE VHS cases from 1997, it doesn't say Episode IV: A New Hope, it just says Star Wars as the original movie. He didn't start putting Epsiode #'s to sell the movie until the PT, before it was Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. Now everything is Star Wars this, Star Wars that, except they forgot the original movie was called Star Wars. Look how he marketed ROTS, Vader here, Chewbacca here, Vader there, they both got about 5 minutes of screentime between them out of 2 hour 15 minute movie.
Lucas knows the OT was about Luke. Just look at every ending of the OT, Luke receives a medal in the ceremony with Han, in ESB, Luke & Leia watch as Lando pulls away, and ROTJ, Luke looks out at the force ghosts of his father, Kenobi, and Yoda. Every ending he was the central figure, not Vader.
Lucas can get away with his lies to the new fans, cause there is a simple fact, they're new. But older people know the history of SW and how it has changed and evolved. The typical Lucas answer is the media is the problem, he didn't seem to have a problem with the media when they did a countdown for TPM in 1999 as the most anticipated movie of the century? But you sure had a problem when the media and fans started burying it for being a mediocre movie. Who is the hypocrite?