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Post #247463

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CO
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The Merits of the Prequel Trilogy and the "Saga"
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23-Sep-2006, 12:28 PM
Jumpman, George Lucas in the Annotated Screenplay pg. 168:

"In the kind of movies I make, I tend to stress the plot side of things. The nature of the characters are archetypes to such a degree that its not necessary to go into a lot of detail because I am not dealing with psychological problems. My films are storytelling movies, not character movies. So with that in mind, I try to get the cleanest, to the most simple way of portraying things."
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What trilogy does that sound like? That is the OT to a tee, basic, yet more depth than most fantasy movie, but not to indepth. The PT is not the way Lucas makes movies, cause SW is more of a macro thing that people love. People love the character, the lightsabers, the action, the mythology, the special effects, they don't go to see it as a character study like the movie Raging Bull, that is a dramatic movie that needs time to flesh out the true motivations of the character for the audience to truly understand it.