Originally posted by: C3PX
He has claimed to have it all worked out since the beginning. He said that about Luke and Leia, that he had always intended them to be brother and sister. If that was true, what was up with the kiss? I didn't say I was the authority on what goes on in Lucas' head, I am just saying that Kurtz would have known more than you give him credit for, and Lucas have a bit of a record of contradicting himself. Also, why would he have released the GOUT against his own wishes? That is perhaps the dumbest statement I have heard in a long time. Who exactly put the gun to his head and told him he had to release the GOUT? Nobody. He did it because he wanted to release his stupid trilogy on DVD for the third time in three years. Anyway, this conversation is stupid. The gun under the table thing was something people could understand pretty well. It is quite typically the type of thing you would see in movies around that time, and in the movies Lucas was imitating. You're never going to get that, to you Lucas always envisioned Han as a retarded git who has managed to survive with a death mark through sheer Jar jarish dumb luck. I love revisionist history. Sometimes I forget why I never post in the General SW Discussion thread, but there is always somebody in here to remind me to steer clear.
Could you possibly direct me to any quote of Lucas' where he claims to have had the "Luke and Leia being siblings" plot point set in stone from the get go?He has claimed to have it all worked out since the beginning. He said that about Luke and Leia, that he had always intended them to be brother and sister. If that was true, what was up with the kiss? I didn't say I was the authority on what goes on in Lucas' head, I am just saying that Kurtz would have known more than you give him credit for, and Lucas have a bit of a record of contradicting himself. Also, why would he have released the GOUT against his own wishes? That is perhaps the dumbest statement I have heard in a long time. Who exactly put the gun to his head and told him he had to release the GOUT? Nobody. He did it because he wanted to release his stupid trilogy on DVD for the third time in three years. Anyway, this conversation is stupid. The gun under the table thing was something people could understand pretty well. It is quite typically the type of thing you would see in movies around that time, and in the movies Lucas was imitating. You're never going to get that, to you Lucas always envisioned Han as a retarded git who has managed to survive with a death mark through sheer Jar jarish dumb luck. I love revisionist history. Sometimes I forget why I never post in the General SW Discussion thread, but there is always somebody in here to remind me to steer clear.
Because if I took some time to dig around, I could come up with quotes where he explains he came to that conclusion sometime during the post production of ESB, and that choice was able to kill two birds with one stone by both explaining the "other" that Yoda spoke of, and giving Luke a reason to lose it during his final confrontation with Vader.
I agree that Kurtz would know a lot, I just think that Lucas is the higher authority on what goes on in his own head.
Lucas told us back with the THX release that it would be the last time he would release the O-OT on home video. We started petitions like this one to get him to reconsider. Lucas reiterated several times that he wasn't interested in re-releasing the O-OT and that he would just make his newer versions available. When Steve Sansweet talked about this release at Comic con, he said that the main reason they put out these single releases of the classic trilogy was to cater to people who hadn't bought the box set, who only wanted one or two of the movies, or perhaps for people who wanted to spread out purchasing them all over time. He went on to say it was another opportunity for them to go back to Lucas and ask him again to put the O-OT on DVD for the millions of fans just like us who have been relentlessly begging him for it.
He doesn't need a reason to release further pressings of Star Wars, because there is constant demand for those movies.
As far as not understanding the simple elegance of the way the Han/Greedo sequence played out before, I do understand that. I didn't mind it the way it was, but at the same time I can see why Lucas wanted to change it and in the end it's not that big of a deal to me. I personally don't think it changes anything about Han, he was always in a position of self-defense.
And it's too bad that you have a hard time accepting opinions that differ from your own.