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Adamwankenobi

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#163465
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Best movies of 05
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It's just that I believe that a film should be called what the creator of it intends. For instance, Lucas intends for the first released Indiana Jones film to be called Raiders of the Lost Ark. I refuse to call it "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," because first off he himself never intended it to be called that, and the film itself is not titled that. And he could have easily changed it if he wanted, but he didn't. If he actually changed the title to fit the overall Young Indy series, I would accept that. But simply changing thepackaging is not changing the name of the film.
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#163452
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Best movies of 05
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Right there with you, Warbler. It's a completely different situation than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the given title of the book, and Star Wars was the given title of the movie. The front of Lucas's scripts even said Star Wars or The Starwars.


"The Star Wars" referred to the entire six-part movie. OK, now we shall move this to the general thread.
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#163447
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Easter Eggs and Deleted Scenes
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Originally posted by: Kaal-Jhyy
Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
Yeah, that was actually a clip from Return of the Ewok, a film of Warwick Davis's.


a film WITH Warwick Davis, not OF, sorry...


Yes, I know. It was written and directed by David Tomblin, ROTJ's 1st assistant director. I guess I should be more specific next time. I meant a short film that Warwick Davis starred in.
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#163445
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Expanded Universe NO RETCON
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None of it has really been retconned for AOTC. It was the Essentials Guides that retrconned all of those Boba Fett stories, saying that they were all "false stories Fett spread about himself to keep his past a mystry." The Essential Guides then say that AOTC was his actual history. But, of course, you can take it any way you want. Sense you don't like prequels and probably don't consider them part of your personal canon, you can simply ignore the Essential Guides, and enjoy the old Boba Fett stories for what they used to be.
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#163444
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EU
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Lucas never said he didn't consider the EU part of the story, he said he didn't consider it part of his story, of the specific story he was trying to tell. I mean, he never completely ignored it, he inserted the Outrider and the speeder bike from Shadows of the Empire into the SE of ANH, he put Aayla Secura into AOTC and ROTS, he got the name Coruscant from Heir to the Empire, he also took the name Kashyyyk from the books. I don't think that he ignores it, he just isn't comfortable saying that someone elses writing is part of his story. I mean, he even wrote the story for the holiday special, and wrote the story for and executive produced the Ewok movies.

I really really like the EU. It makes it the majority of the SW story. It takes the SW universe to new and exciting places. And it is typically written by very talented authors (Timpthy Zahn, Matthew Stover) who know exactly what they're talking about. I see no reason to avoid the EU. It basically keeps continuity both with the films and within itself. There are sme good books coming up soon. We've already had Dark Lord Rise of Darty Vader. In January, Outbound Flight will be out that will tell the mysteries of the Outbound Flight Project, which was introduced in the Thrawn Books. In 2007, Steve Perry is co-writing a novel on the early days of the death star, we've got the live-action and animated series. Basically, the EU is what will keep SW alive. To me, the films are only a small piece of the overall story.