skyjedi2005 said:
All i can say is it is the weakest of the 3 scripts on paper. Speaking of the original trilogy of course.
I have always thought the strongest script was Empire.
I don't know if that's the case...
ANH's script wasn't right at all but luckily Lucas' wife and her colleagues saved it in the edit by choping out all the bad bits. You watch all the boring, waffling extra scenes involving Biggs and those are just the bad bits that were shot. Every piece of deleted material that has surfaced (Even 1 or 2 second clips) reveal very bad dialogue. And as for the very early drafts they were dire, truly dire (Have you heard the sh*te they read out in screen tests?).
If it's true that Kirsch rewrote bad dialogue in ESB (As is often said) then that doesn't speak well of that film's script either. Plus I've said before about the 'Dues Ex Machina' of the Falcon having engine trouble just long enough for Luke to train with Yoda is very poor/lazy plotting. It's only Kirsch's superb and witty direction of his characters/actors during that sequence that allows us to enjoy the asteroid interlude enough to generally not notice how badly thought out it is.
If it's also true (As is often said) that Marquand didn't have the same clout as Kirsch to rewrite/change things, then ROTJ must be almost undilluted from script to screen and therefore the best!
One can argue what the best finished product was (It's ROTJ) but surely ROTJ clearly had the best script.
(Playing a little devils advocate here)