Sevb32 said:
Points well taken for the most part. My point is this, some people think Lucas should have done test screening and polling and caved to whatever the audiences/fans wanted and change the story around what the fans wanted. I am glad we got pure George Lucas and not something he caved in to people for. Because not matter who directed or wrote Star Wars we'd still have people on internet forums and other places saying how it should have been done this or that other better way. I can only imagine what it would have been like if there had been an active internet when the original trilogy was first released.
You say the prequels will never have the lasting appeal that the OT but, I think that would be true no matter who wrote or directed the prequels, they came out in a different era than the originals, the originals were the first of their kind, and they had little competition when they first came out. Of course the prequels would not have the sense of "awe" the originals had. Partly because people never saw anything like that at the time of the OT, nowadays in this era they see stuff like it all the time. Honestly, if the OT were to come out for the first time evere in today's era would it have ever become the phenom it did?
Points well taken for the most part. My point is this, some people think Lucas should have done test screening and polling and caved to whatever the audiences/fans wanted and change the story around what the fans wanted. I am glad we got pure George Lucas and not something he caved in to people for. Because not matter who directed or wrote Star Wars we'd still have people on internet forums and other places saying how it should have been done this or that other better way. I can only imagine what it would have been like if there had been an active internet when the original trilogy was first released.
You say the prequels will never have the lasting appeal that the OT but, I think that would be true no matter who wrote or directed the prequels, they came out in a different era than the originals, the originals were the first of their kind, and they had little competition when they first came out. Of course the prequels would not have the sense of "awe" the originals had. Partly because people never saw anything like that at the time of the OT, nowadays in this era they see stuff like it all the time. Honestly, if the OT were to come out for the first time evere in today's era would it have ever become the phenom it did?
Well i have to have the last word on this, not only because its my thread but because this puts me on my 1000th post.
You say you are glad that we got pure Lucas for the PT and in fact you have hit the nail on the head. It was PURE Lucas. The OT was never pure Lucas and certainly not the Lucas that emerged after years of living in his little bubble created after he finished the OT. There were a lot more people involved in the original films that had their creative input. Even ANH. He may have wrote & directed it but the film we all know and love was down to editing. I wish that the "lost cut" would emerge so we could see what Lucas' original vision would have been like. My guess it would have been very similar to the PT in its approach. Surrounding yourself by "yes" men is the worse thing any creative person could possibly do. You need input from people who may not agree with your decision to keep a balance. This is what was lacking when he started the PT and boy does it show.
Now that it. No more PT talk in this thread unless its directly related to this edit. I did ask for this last time but it continued. Well no more. If you want to talk about the PT vs OT then please start your own thread. I'm pretty sick about talking about it all the time when i should be concentrating on doing this edit.
So lets all get back to talking about that now please.