imperialscum said:
ATMachine said:
Kasdan on the other hand challenges Lucas all the time
Well these conversations prove that the notion that prequels failed because no one challenged Lucas is wrong. It is pretty clear to me now that he always had it his way. Luckily in OT he had relatively great ideas as opposed to the prequels.
No, it reaffirms what we already knew, which is that Lucas got to have it all his way on ROTJ and the prequels.
ATMachine said:
Lucas: Well, we have to deal with it so that a seven or eight-year-old kid will say, "Gee, isn't that too bad about that man." We have to elicit sorrow at this point, not repulsion. We want to make him as realistically screwed up at this point as possible without going too far. I mean, the truth of it is, we went overboard on the whole thing on the last picture. It wasn't supposed to be that grotesque; as a matter of fact you weren't supposed to see any of that at all, it was supposed to be a total silhouette.
The above statement from Lucas speak volumes, his dissatisfaction and bitterness on how ESB turned out is quite clear.