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zombie84
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The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (book)
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20-Oct-2010, 9:56 PM

In some ways, there needs to be redress to give Marquand back his due. Most sources, including the official ones sort of put Lucas up front and then Marquand either beside him or behind him, but everyone was more interested in Lucas. And of course, subsequent to this, it's become the sort of standard POV that Lucas directed the film through Marquand. I'm guilty of propogating this myself. While its mainly true, it also de-emphasizes the very real contributions and controls Marquand had.

That he died in 1987 surely contributes to this. I wonder how Kershner would be regarded if he had passed in 1987? No voice to continue to speak about the film with. Because after the films came and went, no one took interest in either of them until the mid-90s, when all of a sudden people were looking back at their contributions differently.

That's one thing I absolutely loved about the documentary made here, Returning to Jedi. It really put Marquand up front and it was really bizarre to hear so many of his thoughts on his own film, it's the only real time I actually got a sense of him as a director.