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Originally posted by: Cetera
When did Lucas actually get divorced? I think that episode, coupled with looking at life differently now that he has kids, may have also changed his views a lot. Spielburg has also mellowed a lot with age, and he makes different movies now.
I honestly think that George is not a good director. I think ANH is the lowest quality film of the OT, and not because the effects were more dated or anything. I just don't think George can direct. He's got a decent vision, but he needs someone else to bring it out of the actors, out of the sets, and out of the editing. The best movie of the OT is Empire, and that is because of the director. He was able to adjust, to get what he wanted, to get the best take even if it wasn't what he wanted, to allow the characters to evolve.
In my opinion, the best scene in Empire is Han being put into Carbon freeze. Leia yells to him that she loves him, and Han just looks back at her stoicly, and answers with his brief, "I know." That wasn't in the script. That was Harrison being irritated at having to redo the same take so many times, and yet still being in character, being pissy, and ad libbing something Han would actually say, and in doing so, advancing his character so much with just two words. George would never have taken that take and kept it in the movie. He'd have taken a less good one, edited it to something he wanted exactly, and the character of Han would be shallower, and less interesting. Thank God GL didn't direct Empire and Jedi. If he did, Star Wars would never have been as big as it was, I don't think.
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Originally posted by: jimbo
You seriously like Return of the Jedi more then A New Hope. A New Hope is a classic masterpeice. Its excellently acted, writen, and directed. Its a classic and it always will be. Return of the Jedi features huge plot holes, walkthrough acting, and its just plain weak in comparison.
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK, here's the thing about George Lucas. First of all, I've seen only one non-SW movie directed by him, American Graffitti, and I enjoyed it. I've noticed that he had the actors decide how the scene would be made by themselves, you can notice that on how Richard Dreifuss acts in this movie. The writing is pretty ok but no sheakespeare. The thing is, he had a great idea, and executed it well.
For Star Wars, he had a terrible idea which slowly developed into something good. After some script re-writes, he got into something that would be interesting to see. In order to do that he had many influences that actually "worked" the script for him, Kurosawa as an example. He also had a great team and great minds working with him. In 1977 he had a visionary mind and a great criative vision.
Suddenly he becamse a multi-millionaire, and became distant to his creative mind and decided to focus on his business. He got old and lost all his experience. If you ask a 15 year old kid to tell you a story, and then ask that same person, 30 years later, to do it again, he'll not be as imaginative and creative as he used to be.
SFX, big budgets, bad luck, out of touch with today's world and a ego problem all contributed to what he is today. He might do some interesting non-SW films if he wants to, I'm sure he would do great drama films, or maybe a romantic comedy, but he has lost his touch for something as visionary and insanely creative as Star Wars is.
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Originally posted by: Cetera
When did Lucas actually get divorced? I think that episode, coupled with looking at life differently now that he has kids, may have also changed his views a lot. Spielburg has also mellowed a lot with age, and he makes different movies now.
I honestly think that George is not a good director. I think ANH is the lowest quality film of the OT, and not because the effects were more dated or anything. I just don't think George can direct. He's got a decent vision, but he needs someone else to bring it out of the actors, out of the sets, and out of the editing. The best movie of the OT is Empire, and that is because of the director. He was able to adjust, to get what he wanted, to get the best take even if it wasn't what he wanted, to allow the characters to evolve.
In my opinion, the best scene in Empire is Han being put into Carbon freeze. Leia yells to him that she loves him, and Han just looks back at her stoicly, and answers with his brief, "I know." That wasn't in the script. That was Harrison being irritated at having to redo the same take so many times, and yet still being in character, being pissy, and ad libbing something Han would actually say, and in doing so, advancing his character so much with just two words.Quote
Acording to the docu on the Indy DVD, Lucas was going through a divorce when the were making Temple of doom, hense the reason why it's so dark.
As for the Carbon freezing scene, one, it's one of my faves too, and two, it was more of a case of Ford and Kershner redoing the whole scene, from what Fett says to what Lando says and Vader etc. According to the Making of Empire novel can't remeber what it#'s called even though I own a copy) they needed to justify why Han was in chains, and what he would say to Lando..blah blah.
Actuall this months copy of Empire magazine (nothing to do with SW, just a film mag for the UK) has a whole load of pages quoting the exact converstion between the actors and director regaing that scene. Makes great reading.
ps...I'm so wasted so forgive me if it's full of typos, and makes no sense whatssoever
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Somebody should remind Lucas of the old saying: "Don´t judge a book by it´s cover". No matter how glossy the cover is, the colours rich and how fine the paper is, it can´t hide what´s inside!
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Star Wars was not based off any book it all came from the mind of one man.