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#124800
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Did George actually have an "original vision?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124800/action/topic#124800
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I have to say you're right, with one exception, The Bizzle...

Anybody remember the K-Mart commercial in 1999 promoting Phantom Menace merchandise? It had this little boy going off to school for the first time, comparing his journey to Anakin leaving his mother. I nearly had a fit when I saw it! They were selling the idea that Anakin was a hero that kids should look up to and try to emulate! So say what you will about the '70s and '80s marketing. Yes, it was just as silly as anything else, but at least they didn't try to convince kids to be like a mass-murdering villain in order to sell a few backpacks with Jake Lloyd's face on them.
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#124724
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Harry Potter *Spoilers* (Serious Discussions Only, No Flaming)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124724/action/topic#124724
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No, Sessler, I'm not on the forums there. I haven't been frequenting the site very long. I might join up eventually.

And, yeah, ADM, Dumbledore might have been asking Snape to kill him in order to keep Draco from being a killer. I'm not exactly sure why it would have had to have been in front of Harry, though. I mean, obviously, he was there, but I don't see why you think it was Dumbledore's plan to have Harry watch him die.
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#124706
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124706/action/topic#124706
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It might also be because Lucas is from an Indy film background, which are traditionally low-budget and require the filmmakers to think around problems creatively. Even when he was working on American Graffiti for Universal, elements of his background showed up. That film had a small budget, and he filmed it in less than a month. And Star Wars had a modest budget as well. So while neither of those films were independent films, he had to work under similar Indy constraints. So it's rather ironic that now that his films are independent again, what he makes seems less and less so.

To refute my own theory, though, control is also a huge element of being an Indy filmmaker. You can do whatever you want to and are in control of most aspects of production. And we all know the hassles he had on Star Wars at not being able to control certain elements he was used to controlling. So now he is back to independent films and is able to control everything again.
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#124695
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Harry Potter *Spoilers* (Serious Discussions Only, No Flaming)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124695/action/topic#124695
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Yeah, I read an editorial on Mugglenet about what you're saying. That Dumbledore was just trying to protect Draco and knew that, because of the Unbreakable Vow, that Snape would die if he neither he or Draco killed Voldemort. So Snape and Dumbledore decided that it was for the best that Snape kill Dumbledore because Snape was too valuable for the Order to lose.

But then he refuted his own point by saying that, if it had been planned, that there should have been some indication given to somebody in the Order, because Snape can no longer be an effective spy (if he ever was really spying for the Order) if no one in the Order trusts him, which is how Book 6 ends.
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#124674
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124674/action/topic#124674
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Well, I wouldn't call what I said Lucas bashing. Bashing, as I see it, is taking the negative side of the issue and beating it into the ground without reason or argument. In my post, I said what I thought Lucas was good at and what conditions I think would improve his abilities to do his job, and then I went to the other side and gave my opinion on what I think he lacks. Of course, it's all theory on my part. I have in interest in film making, but I have never actually worked on one, so I'm not the resident expert. But I like to believe that my opinions have some grounding in reality.

This is bashing...

"man lucASS sucks! the prqeuels sucks! he is so dooing rick mcalum up the butt!"
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#124650
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124650/action/topic#124650
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But still, let's face it, George is much better as a story man, an idea man, but others should execute it. There's no one around who would say that the actual stories (not the dialogue, but the ideas, the concepts) belong chiefly to anybody but George Lucas. Many other people have designed spaceships and creatures and then created them, but the concepts, for the most part, belong chiefly to him.

That being said, if he is the one to execute his ideas, experience is shown that he works better under pressure. That is, his products end up being better when he has to work his ass off to get it. As was said in Empire of Dreams, the making of Star Wars was hell. His cast and crew balked, a lot of his ideas took forever to turn into reality, the studios were threatening to shut him down, and Lucas ended up getting severe health problems. I'm not saying that health problems are good, but he was forced to think creatively to solve his problems as there were many, and Star Wars is now a classic. With the prequels, he has everything he wants right there in his lap and can do anything he wants with the snap of his fingers. Just film it on blue screen and fix it in post. It's the solution to every problem. See the difference?
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#124409
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Rankings
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124409/action/topic#124409
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Welcome aboard, Vader.

Here are the latest rankings. Nobody new in the top 10. But both Gundark and Dayv have been bumped two spots each...

Top 10 User Listing
14506 Bossk
10810 motti_soL
6833 Shimraa
6592 Darth Chaltab
6556 PSYCHO_DAYV
6473 GundarkHunter
3947 ricarleite
3943 Luke Skywalker
3891 TheSessler
3477 sean wookie

When Motti gets bumped from second place, that might be my cue to retire.


Why would that be?
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#124518
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Was Lucas Just Lucky?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124518/action/topic#124518
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Once again, welcome to the boards. Yeah, your post did have a lot of things that have been hashed, rehashed, and even re-rehased by many people (myself included). I agree with TheCassidy that it's nice to have decent sentence structure to go along with it. I don't agree that it was simply fanboy rhetoric because you presented it in an intelligent manner with evidence without resulting to petty, unbacked insults.

Anyway, the reason I replied to this post at all was to say that your ideas for Jedi kick ass. I don't mind the Ewoks, I'm talking about Luke. Luke seems like the perfect little hero in Jedi, and, yes, at the end of the story, hero is what he should be going for. But there's really nothing going on with the character, if you think about it. He's just the stalwart, "I have to save my father!" guy. I think there should have been more insight into his personal life (i.e. Leia), and I've always thought the whole twin thing just seemed to come out of nowhere and that, since it was there, there should have been a bigger payoff to it since you could have the exact same story without it. I think it would have been better if, even though Luke has matured as a Jedi, he was still a young man, and he still had feelings and was still able to carry on, even though he had lost the woman of his dreams. In other words, he just needed more, like the Luke of Empire had. He had several motivations in that one: to become a Jedi, to help his friends, to avenge his father and Ben. And those desires very often conflicted with one another. Much more interesting than, "I have to save my father," with nothing else.

So, to sum up, I enjoyed your post. It really made me think about things I've never thought about before.
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#124516
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Did George actually have an "original vision?"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/124516/action/topic#124516
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Originally posted by: Shimraa
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Originally posted by: Jedikev
The prophecy is a bunch of fucking bullshit.

Everything about LucASS' prequels are.


thank you for your well though out and knowledgable post kev. would you like a medal for being hte first person in history to portray such veiws. would you like a nobel prize for being so smart in your analysis of the PT. seriously if you were to go to any university literature prof and asked them if the STORY of the PT was bad they would tell you otherwise, the script may have been badly written but the STORY of the pt was very well done.


This is not bashing the prequels, but I think if you asked a literature professor about the story of the prequel trilogy, unless he was already a Star Wars fan, he would most likely laugh at a person considering it "literature."