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There's something not right here. I feel cold, Death.

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When I was 3 I saw ANH. Don’t remember much, but it was the first film I ever went to. My dad took me. At age 6, I saw Empire and flipped out. NO WAY is Darth Vader Luke's father. NO WAY!! At 9, I and about 5 of my friends/family saw Jedi, and we bugged out again. That’s one of the most precious moments I had as a child. Classics masterpieces, on a big screen. Popcorn and candy, friends and family. It was great. I was a kid, and I didn’t care about plot, effects, who did what to who. We all went in the theater and lost ourselves in a painting. A 2 and half hour beautiful work of art.

Maybe I’m just rambling. I don’t know. This is just my opinion. But what I do know, is that I don’t ever want to forget the way I grew up. I don’t ever want to forget the light saber battles in my backyard with my friends, or the toys, or the lunchboxes, or whatever else we did when we were young. That is a precious time to me. I want my children, and my grandchildren, and so on and so on, to be able to experience the joy I felt as a kid. It’s a right of passage. It’s an air loom. Call it what you want.

But I want it the way it used to be. I want it real. I want it with its SOUL

Mr. Lucas:
I think you are one of the greatest artists to ever live. Shakespeare, Escher, Mozart, Van Gough, Hemmingway, da Vinci. You’re up there man.

But you’ve harnessed the power of hindsight. And I don’t think that is an ability that anyone should have, especially, WHEN IT COMES TO ART. Leonardo da Vinci painted one of the greatest paintings in the world, THE MONA LISA. It has been viewed, and discussed, and fought over, and studied, and it is still the benchmark. UNTOUCHABLE.
But if da Vinci were alive today, I know in my heart, that if given the chance, to add to that smile, he would have left it alone. Even with all the brightest new colors, and the most expensive new paint. He would have left it alone.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, we all just want to be behind that velvet rope. We all want to gaze at that smile, and just lose ourselves again. Just one more time.


You can't touch up a masterpiece, or it loses its SOUL.
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Gotta revive this thread, because I think that some of you guys would enjoy it.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

I keep saying Lucas isn't nearly as proud of the original versions of the OT as he should be.

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It was a very old thread that I just looked at for no apparnet reason.  Was originally posted there.

A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em

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delivers a good point though. i felt the same way when i went to go see ANH and Phantom Menace the first time when i was like seven and eight years old. I was just excited about the space battles, lightsaber duels and podracing!. i still remember how i had stopped breathing when i saw darth maul send his blade through Qui Gons stomach. Great memories.

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As the saying goes "Great art is not finished, it is abandoned" and "art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth."

Both true statements for the OT. Completely false for the PT. That is why the PT lacks soul in my opinion. It's a film made in a jelly mould factory, not a film from a passionate heart. I do not want to belittle the skilled craftspeople behind the PT because technically there is some redemption. But to get a wooden performance from A-list actors, I don't know how Lucas managed that. Actually, I do. When an actor can "see" and "feel" a set the performance is more behavioural and less about acting to nothing. Great actors, don't act, they behave like. It must be tough spending long days in front of a greenscreen in a smelly old Rolls Royce factory.

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i've heard that before. if star wars was invented in this present time, we wouldn't like it as much as it was when released in 1977.