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Knightmessenger
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Original Trilogy DVD Article in Total Film
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Date created
5-Aug-2006, 1:32 PM
McCallum was very annoying on the RotS commentary but this just shows how out of touch he is. Are they just sick of the fans. Because they sure are acting like it. I've made my own videos and I would be estatic if so many people fell in love with something I did and gladly would pay for a copy. I made a highlight dvd for my high school hockey team. I was just learning to use my editing/dvd software and I only had a week to do it in time for the awards banquet. I didn't have much time to carefully scan through all the games and I thought the video ended up being too short with a lot of great footage not present.
It ended up selling like crazy at $25 a copy. Everyone loved it. I think the pressure I felt to finish it and the fact that it wasn't too long gave it a real intensity. The fight that broke out during the handshake line was also a big draw.
I think my struggle to just make something that I thought was half decent and ultimate success was similar to Lucas' struggle to make Star Wars (on a much smaller scale of course). The difficulties turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Later, I did get a chance to go through all the tapes and capture the other interesting plays. But you know what. I didn't try to add new scenes or extend it. I just made a separate video of additional scenes.

I'm reminded of what Terry Gilliam said on the Criterion dvd of Brazil. He was willing to include the "Love conquers all version" despite having fought so hard for his cut to be shown. He said something like how he saw plenty of things wrong with his film today but he wasn't going to touch it because that's the way he made it.