generalfrevious said:

imperialscum said:

generalfrevious said:

SilverWook said:

To believe Lucas had nothing to do with the creation of Star Wars is a whole new level of loathing and denial.

That's buying into the revisionist history of the franchise. Lucas wants to be seen as the father of SW but does not deserve that title. Gary Kurtz and Marcia Lucas are the real people behind SW.

Don't be ridiculous...

ANH was saved in editing. That is a fact. Marcia Lucas was one of the editors to the film. That is also a fact. Kurtz managed to rein in George's overindulgences during ANH and most of ESB's shooting. This yet another fact.

With ROTJ George Lucas was trying to remake ANH the way he wanted to before common sense saved the day six years earlier, before he contemplated remaking the whole trilogy in the form of the SE back in the 90s. The silver lining to Jedi is that Kazanjian, while no Kurtz, was no sock puppet like Rick McCallum would be during the making of the PT. So the movie ended up not being an unwatchable disaster like the prequels later would.

Surely editing was important (as well as other aspects) but the fact is also that Lucas pretty much had a complete creative control over all 3 films of original trilogy. Even in ANH because the studio didn't care too much and gave him free hands. I mean he probably got more feedback from producers and hired directors than in PT but in the end he had the final word over everything. So saying that he did not have creative control is ridiculous.