Originally posted by: The BizzleLOL. Wow, I know you're biased, dude, but at least PRETEND to be fair
Lucas had QUITE a bit of editorial override on ANH, and directed from editing just as much as he did on later movies. Sure, there were some times that Marcia and Richard just chopped together whole sequences and presented them to him for approval, but a LOT of the time Lucas was RIGHT THERE in the room with them directing them and helping edit right along with them. This isn't to take away from the Oscar they won or the time they put into it, but to act as if Lucas had nothing to do with the editing is disingenous
And on ESB, Lucas had a LOT to do with that story AND the screenplay. Kasdan himself admits a lot of what he did was simply dialog replacement. The story beats, the structure--that was all Lucas. He also helped oversee the editing there near the end. And considering the only part of ROTJ that EVERYONE universally declares as great are the throne room scenes--and those are the parts Lucas pretty much personally directed and edited together himself? C'mon now.
Lucas wrote ROTS, with SOME dialog punchup (mostly Palpatine's lines only) by Tom Stoppard. The rest of the script is entirely him, as well as the direction, which is possibly the most fluid and dynamic camerawork he's ever done.
In my mind, Lucas is the reason the saga's suffered, not esb.
Except he's also the reason the Saga has soared, so whaddya do?
Originally posted by: The BizzleLOL. Wow, I know you're biased, dude, but at least PRETEND to be fair
Lucas had QUITE a bit of editorial override on ANH, and directed from editing just as much as he did on later movies. Sure, there were some times that Marcia and Richard just chopped together whole sequences and presented them to him for approval, but a LOT of the time Lucas was RIGHT THERE in the room with them directing them and helping edit right along with them. This isn't to take away from the Oscar they won or the time they put into it, but to act as if Lucas had nothing to do with the editing is disingenous
And on ESB, Lucas had a LOT to do with that story AND the screenplay. Kasdan himself admits a lot of what he did was simply dialog replacement. The story beats, the structure--that was all Lucas. He also helped oversee the editing there near the end. And considering the only part of ROTJ that EVERYONE universally declares as great are the throne room scenes--and those are the parts Lucas pretty much personally directed and edited together himself? C'mon now.
Lucas wrote ROTS, with SOME dialog punchup (mostly Palpatine's lines only) by Tom Stoppard. The rest of the script is entirely him, as well as the direction, which is possibly the most fluid and dynamic camerawork he's ever done.
In my mind, Lucas is the reason the saga's suffered, not esb.
Except he's also the reason the Saga has soared, so whaddya do?
Yo! You were the chosen heavyweight!