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Post #501270

Author
toho-scope
Parent topic
Anatomy of Star Wars Masterclass w/ Gary Kurtz & Sandy Lieberson
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Date created
21-May-2011, 5:06 PM

Anchorhead said:

Tobar said:

Two excerpts from the review none linked to:

He thought that a certain amount of history revision had taken place (either intentionally or not), and legends and lore about Star Wars that most fans know are not necessarily accurate. He believes some names involved with Star Wars have unfairly been forgotten or diminished (Marcia Lucas for one) and he wanted to highlight the collaborative work the incredible crew did with limited time and resource. Gary Kurtz asked that we try to forget about what Star Wars became after 1977 and think about what it was like in the mid 70’s and the creation of a modest budgeted, unpopular genre film that had relatively low expectations. 

His main issue with what Star Wars has now become was to do with the creation of filling in back stories and the explanation of peripheral characters and plot points that were mentioned in the original trilogy, which up to 1983 were filled in by our imaginations. He would prefer new stories to be told rather than have detailed explanations of The Force or the origin of Boba Fett.

Gary Kurtz is awesome.

You guys call me the case study, but it's not just me.  Star Wars was something entirely different in 1977.  It was poorly handled once Lucas got the creativity & idea folks out of his way.

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