walking_carpet said:
TheBoost said:
He probably doesn't rationally know why his films were genius anymore than he knows why his other films are so dissapointing.i think he knows. he ended the Making of TPM book by saying "for every perosn that likes star wars, 3 people will hate it". WTF!? then he did all those 'interviews' preceding the premiere saying how everyone hates him, etc. it was all cover because he knew the movie was bad.
the problem is - for a great deal of classic moments, characters, designs etc - he wasn't actively and as intimately involved in the creations, so he cannot recreate it even if he knows what he is seeing. The score is I think the greatest example. Credit him for wanting a symphonic score as opposed to synthesized music that was trendy in the 70s. but he didn't expect in a million years for john williams to come up with THAT. any symphonic score would have been fine and thats why we have all those annoying cut/paste jobs in the PT :(
plus the fact he almost certainly does not care and will continue to infantilize SW and just aim for lowest, easiest common denominator :(
I think he actually wanted Williams to use either classical pieces a la 2001, or Korngold's music from stuff like Captain Blood. And then Williams said he could do something like that but original and better and he came back with the SW score. I'm probably mixing up the details but that's sort of how that happened. And it's an important point you bring up. The same thing applies to guys like Ben Burtt and McQuarrie--Lucas can be credited for recognizing their talent and giving them a good direction to go in, which is why his early stuff was so good, but he never in a million years expected what they came back with. Star Wars is largely a film of serendipity that could never have been forseen, which was why no one at the beginning, including Lucas, expected it to be good. If you played them Williams score, showed them ILM footage with Ben Burtt's sound effects and McQuarrie's designs, and of course the human actors who had such chemistry, I bet a lot more people would have said "this is going to wow everyone."