Originally posted by: zombie84
If you look at American Graffiti and Attack of the Clones you would never know that they were written and directed by the same man--the difference is that Lucas' lack of direction was perfectly suited for the contemporary comedy-drama but not at all for a melodramatic space tragedy.
If you look at American Graffiti and Attack of the Clones you would never know that they were written and directed by the same man--the difference is that Lucas' lack of direction was perfectly suited for the contemporary comedy-drama but not at all for a melodramatic space tragedy.
Not to defend Lucas on his directing, but I think the biggest problem with the PT, and mainly AOTC, is that Lucas tried to have this serious greek tragedy in space and still try to make it a 2 hour fun SW movie that was successful like the OT movies were.
The OT movies were perfect for Lucas's style and this quote say it all:
"In the kind of movies I make, I tend to stress the plot side of things. The nature of the characters are pivotal to the way they react to things. Usually the characters are archetypes to such a degree that it's not necessary to go into a lot of detail because I am not dealing with deep psychological problems. My films are storytelling movies, not character movies. So with that in mind, I try to get to the cleanest, to the most simple way of portraying things."
-George Lucas, The Annotated Screenplay, pg 168.
That quote goes against every thing he tried to do with the PT movies as that was clearly the character study of Anakin Skywalker and how he becomes bad.
Hey George, you said it, I didn't.