Congrats on v1.1, Nev. Truly an incredible accomplishment. Thank you for sharing the labor of your passion with us. đ
Really loving this show! Yesterdayâs episode was really incredible, think I prefer S2 to S1, but theyâre both so great.
But⌠but⌠it was Favreau who wrote it⌠and wrote every episode in the Mandalorian universe so farâŚ
I know youâve probably gotten this question plenty of times before, but have you given any thought to a Rebels: Refocused? Rebels is probably going to become much more relevant with the Ahsoka series on the horizon. Unfortunately, I think Rebels is harder to reshape because the progression is significantly more linear, but Iâve had friends that have complained that the first season in particular is hard to get through.
Funny, the first season of Rebels is my favorite season out of all SW animated shows, I think.
I thought this was an improvement over the first video, with the only complaint being that he was a bit too flippant about Lucas adding and then removing Lukeâs scream. (However, this again wouldâve been a great time to note that according to Matthew Wood, it was an error that Lucas never approved of in the first place and that Ben Burtt put it in himself and mustâve forgotten to ask.)
According to Matthew Wood, the scream was added at Georgeâs request for the '97 Special edition. It was when it came around to doing the mix for the 2004 DVDâs that Mathew , who hated the scream, removed the sound effect and George didnât notice it had gone, so it stayed that way.
No thatâs incorrect. He said George didnât remember approving it for 1997 so they removed it for 2004.
Congratulations on finishing this and thank you for sharing, Eddie. This towers as one of the great achievements our little community has produced in my books, and itâs all thanks to your unstoppable efforts. Once again, congratulations and thank you.
Star Wars Creator George Lucas Had A Simple Reason For Not Directing The Empire Strikes Back
âOne of the more common misconceptions about âStar Warsâ is the idea that creator George Lucas directed and wrote the entire original trilogy. That idea leads people to wonder how the guy who created something as good as âThe Empire Strikes Backâ could later go on to make something so terrible with the prequels. How could Lucasâ films have fallen so far in quality so quickly?
The answer, of course, is that it was Irvin Kershner who directed âEmpire,â and the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan. (âReturn of the Jedi,â meanwhile, was directed by Richard Marquand.) Lucas oversaw the production and provided the stories for 5 and 6, but as a whole, the âStar Warsâ original trilogy seemed to work as well as it did because of Lucasâ limited involvement. Even with the first film, which Lucas did write and direct, he was dealing with a lot of limitations that prevented him from getting too self-indulgent. Actors pushed back against his clumsy dialogue, and the editors made major cuts and changes to help with the filmâs pacing.
Time has shown us that the less directly involved Lucas is with a âStar Warsâ film, the better, but his decision to let Kershner direct âEmpireâ had a much simpler reason behind it. âI hate directing,â he told Rolling Stone in a 1980 interview. âItâs like fighting a fifteen-round heavyweight bout with a new opponent every day. You go to work knowing just how you want a scene to be, but by the end of the day, youâre usually depressed because you didnât do a good enough job âŚÂ It was easy to let go of directing.â
Probably shouldâve kept letting go
'Not to pile on George Lucas even more than heâs already been, but considering how successful the approach for âEmpireâ turned out, one canât help but wonder what the prequels wouldâve looked like has Lucas stayed on as the story advisor and let someone else take over the script and direction. Instead, Lucas had complete control over both throughout all three prequel films, and unlike with âA New Hope,â there were far fewer constraints holding him back from his worst creative instincts.
Itâs hard to hold this all against him too much though, because âStar Warsâ as a decades-spanning franchise wouldnât exist without him. Even beyond the surprise success of âA New Hope,â so much of what allowed âEmpireâ to surpass its predecessor was the creative freedom Lucas gave Kershner and the rest of the crew. Rather than cater to studio demands, Lucas made the bold choice to fund the movie himself, a decision that couldâve easily ruined him if things turned out differently.
âThey were supposed to shoot [the Hoth scenes in Finse] in two weeks and they shot it in months,â Lucas later explained in a 2020 interview. âSo it created a lot of havoc. We were projected to go way over budget and Iâd already borrowed all the money that I could.â As the production continued to go over budget and behind schedule, Lucas borrowed even more money from a different bank to keep things running smoothly. It was insanely stressful, but no one today can say it wasnât worth it. Lucas may not have directed the franchiseâs best film, but he was a vital part of what allowed it to be so great in the first place.â
Awful article, and full of misinformation.
Funny you say that when Paul did re-record several Beatles tracks in his Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), which got pretty bad reviews and even amongst Beatles and Paul fans is seen as a pretty bad entry in his canon.
Thereâs this: https://youtu.be/ZE9ZaAvhMhg
Cindy Williams, Laurie in one of Lucasâ masterpieces, American Graffiti.
I despise Whiplash (2014).
I was wondering how he did it!
Great stuff Ady, Iâm a big fan of the original but I gotta say Iâve fallen for the more subtle approach youâre going for here. Congrats, it looks so great!
Check this twitter thread, very thorough: https://twitter.com/pabl0hidalgo/status/1427722793647427591?s=20
Youâre very unpleasant.
Hey Arcbagel, could I please get a link? This sounds great, I sent you a PM a few days ago asking if you were sending out the edit but I donât believe you saw it. Cheers and thanks in advance!
+2 for the cinema.
Did they show Empire at the cinemas for the 40th anniversary in the end with Covid going on?
ÂIt would be fantastic to see this on the big screen again:
but I would reluctantly settle for watching one of the later âSpecial Editionâ versions at the cinema if that was our only choice.
ESB had a drive-in run in 2020, IIRC. It was the new 2019 Special Editions.
Everything Everywhere All At Once is massively overrated.
I like Halâs âI wantedâŚâ but I think it gives Ben a bit too much agency, perhaps more than he should at that point. Though it probably works better even than the original in the context of the Kenobi show, if youâre into that (Iâm definitely not but what can you do).
Would it be possible to have Obi-Wan say âYour father wouldâve wanted you to have thisâŚâ? If so, it could be a simple solution to the whole thing.
Welcome, all.
I couldnât care less about âLucas canonâ and so should everyone, thatâs my point.
But he clearly cares, and thatâs my point. Itâs fine to have an opinion on whatâs the âbestâ version, but the OP came in with a clear request, and I responded accordingly. You canât expect to just force everyone to have the same taste that you do.
Clearly? Heâs looking for a fan edit. He said he didnât want Disney stuff and to my knowledge 1997 is GLâs official version as well, so not sure what your problem is. If I was forcing my taste then I wouldnât recommend any SE version at all, I havenât seen those in over 10 years. So stop dissing othersâ opinion if they differ from your own. Thank you.
Georgeâs last official version was 2011, technically 2019 since he oversaw the very few changes to that as well. 2011 and 2019 Blus introduced very few new changes, theyâre essentially just the 2004 versions with very small extra stuff, but amongst that extra stuff is the âNOOOOOooâ that the OP doesnât want. 2004, on the other hand, introduced many many new things when compared to 1997, all approved by George, so Starkiller is correct in assuming itâs what the OP is looking for. Theyâre saying they want all George-approved SE changes minus the Nooooo, which is close enough to the 2004 versions that itâd be correct.
OP, Iâd recommend schormanâs HDTV preservation as itâs the 2004 versions in 1080p.
Very exciting. Andor pumping life into everyoneâs veins, haha đ
Iâm rewatching it with my brother - I loved the first arc way more on a rewatch, and it also gave me further appreciation for the last couple episodes, since Iâd forgotten pretty much who everyone was in Ferrix by the end. Great, great show. I think the flashback stuff would probably have worked better as a cold, pre-title opening and then just have the rhyming bits with Maarva & young Cassian and Luthen & present-day Cassian in their respective places, but it still works. Canât wait to rewatch the rest of the stuff.
I initially thought that too, throughout those first three episodes. âThey messed up the line!â Well, in retrospect, seeing the arc that heâs gone through, he now realizes that all of the fights in his life have always been the same fight - the anti-fascist fight, the anti-oppression fight, and that you canât run away from it. Thatâs what that line means now and, even if not what we mightâve initially expected it to. I quite love it. Leninâs Nemikâs manifesto played a big role, and itâs when I really got the angle they were going for. Great show.
