Originally posted by: zombie84
Hence, all you need is Star Wars. And yeah--the back story was not necessary. Star Wars became the biggest hit ever made in 1977 without that story, and as Lucas has admitted on many, many occassions--"the back story was never meant to be a movie."
Hence, all you need is Star Wars. And yeah--the back story was not necessary. Star Wars became the biggest hit ever made in 1977 without that story, and as Lucas has admitted on many, many occassions--"the back story was never meant to be a movie."
Oh, I just thought that needed reiterating.
(And to clarify that not only was the Anakin-as-Vader backstory not necessary, it was not even invented yet. That's how 'not needed' it was. Aside from one great moment in The Empire Strikes Back, this piss-poor excuse for a backstory has resulted in nothing but hackery, hokiness, and craptacular retardation for the subsequent quarter-century.)
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