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Post #610738

Author
Fang Zei
Parent topic
Very Old George Lucas movie shows same talent as Star Wars trilogy
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Date created
28-Nov-2012, 11:28 PM

The original trilogy (or, at the very least, Star Wars and Empire) works so well because the first film, written and directed by Lucas, had the challenge of a limited budget and a controlling hollywood studio. Empire was controlled by Lucas, but he kept himself resigned to simply writing the story and executive producing. Finally there's Jedi, where Lucas controlled things a little more, but you've still got Marquand and Kasdan.

In all three cases, Lucas' influence is offset by other factors. Those other factors were pretty much absent in the prequels.

At the very least, we should've had a Jedi scenario where maybe Lucas co-wrote the script and even directed a few scenes himself, but we still had another director to give input Lucas wouldn't have considered on his own. Ideally, we should've gotten an Empire scenario.