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I actually prefer the DVDs and can't wait for more edits, seriously. — Page 4

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Well, I just got done watching a MovieFone "unscripted" video interview where George and Hayden answer viewers' questions (take THAT SuperShadow! ha!). Lucas spells out that he meant to show that when you come back in the Force, you get to retain your physical appearance of how you were before you turned to the Dark Side, and that Anakin's "inner self" is of him as a young man like that. So that's how he wants it to be now. Of course in the same interview he says he "always intended" for the entire Star Wars saga to be about Anakin (cough, revisionism!). He admits that the fans didn't like him starting the trilogy with TPM having Anakin as a 9 year old, but it was what he wanted to do and that's that. He portrays his films as being "completed" and truly owned by him on DVD (the original trilogy) because that's how he wanted the films done. He explains he had to let others direct and work on ESB and ROTJ because he had to spend time building up the companies (of LucasFilm, etc) in order to build his independant company, and when he put the films on DVD he could "make them the way I wanted." Even with a few bits of Lucas revisionism in there, this was a pretty good interview, as it clears up some things in Lucas's thinking and finally gets him to admit certain details.

I still don't like what he did with Anakin, but at least he tells it to us straight. So if Obi-Wan or Yoda had turned to the Dark Side when they were young, and then turned back before death, they'd have gotten to appear young too as ghosts!

PS: The interview apparently was aired before the movie came out, since Hayden announces that the movie is coming out May 19th in theaters. It's about 15 minutes long in Quicktime format (at least the version I saw).
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Well, that's fair. If you want to keep your youth, turn evil at 19. Makes it all better.

But someone posted an interview from Rolling Stone in 1977 where Lucas said he wanted to have several Star Wars movies, each one directed by a different director to bring his own perspective to the story, a la a kind of James Bond series. So the building up the company excuse is obviously bullshit.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Actually I believe Lucas truly never remembers what he said in the past.

I guess I can see what he means, but does that mean coming back to the light side doesn't matter? At that moment of death, wouldn't Anakin see himself as the Jedi that saved his son and renounced the error of his ways, rather than the desperate, uncertain youth that got him into this mess in the first place. He didn't become the "most powerful Jedi" he wanted to be until after he let go of Darth Vader.


Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.

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Jesus, I can't believe people here are trying to make sense of those abominations GL now calls the OT.
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The very fact that this discussion is going on shows that it doesn't make sense in the way that it should. Patbuddha's rationale is the best I've heard and it really does make sense, when you think about it - but it's still a rationalisation. The point is you shouldn't need to think about it - it should make sense instinctively, which the Shaw ghost does and the Christensen ghost doesn't.

This was clearly done just because it could be, and cannot possibly be excused under the "original vision" banner. There was no technological limitation preventing the use of a young actor to play Anakin's force ghost in 1982.

This is actually the worst crime against the OT - even worse than Han shooting second - as it makes the OT not able to stand alone without the PT.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. It was done solely to put some of the "new school" PT influence into the original movies. I wonder how many older fans who'd really been into the original trilogy when they were younger but had not been interested in the PT got the DVDs without knowing what they were getting into and wondering who the hell that ghost was?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Right, that's just it. Anyone who now watches the OT for the first time and hasn't seen the PT is saying "Who the hell is that guy - did I miss something?"