Originally posted by: AdamwankenobiI think he means that Anakin's story is the central theme, and that Luke is part of that story. Lucas sees Luke as merely a step in redeeming his father. I really don't think he thinks the OT is about Luke, that would be silly to pretend, as it's not.
Originally posted by: AdamwankenobiI think he means that Anakin's story is the central theme, and that Luke is part of that story. Lucas sees Luke as merely a step in redeeming his father. I really don't think he thinks the OT is about Luke, that would be silly to pretend, as it's not. Whatever, Neophyte. Believe what you want. You are being lied to.
Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi Hold on a second. The film's title was officially changed on the opening crawl in 1981. PLUS, ESB and ROTJ were only advertised with their subtitles, they ALWAYS had their episode number in the opening crawl.
Originally posted by: AdamwankenobiWhy were they called that, anyway? Didn't people ever reallize that they were episodes of a series, even if they were 4, 5, and 6? I mean, why in the hell did people once refer to Episode IV as simply "Star Wars?" And then people called the next two by their subtitles. Huh?
OK, I’m gonna try and talk real slow so maybe you finally understand. Stop me if I’m going too fast. Ok, here we go – The original idea for Star Wars was to make a space opera similar to the ones Lucas grew up with and loved as a kid. In order to give the viewer the feeling that they were watching a space opera and had been thrown right into the middle of a story of galcatic war, George decided it would be cool to call the film episode 4, of an imaginery serial. When George was a kid he would go to the cinema on a Saturday morning and watch whatever happened to be showing, and he wanted the viewer to feel like that when watching Star Wars. That is the one and only original reason for the ‘Episode 4’ subtitle. The problem is, when George told the studio he wanted to call it episode 4, they were like ‘episode 4? But this is the first movie!!’ They just didn’t get it, and they feared the viewer wouldn’t get it either, so they prevented him from doing it. A few years later George is rich and powerful, and still thinks it will be cool to add the episode 4 subtitle, so he does it. People then start asking questions about episodes 1-3, and George thinks it might be neat if one day he actually made these missing episodes. So basically, the episode 4 thing was just a novelty, a throwback to the old serials, but the idea gradually developed into the 6 part saga we have today. That IS how it happened, whatever bullshit we are getting fed these days about a grand vision. Adam, I would have thought that you of all people wpuld have come across this explanation at some point. You seem to love searching out facts and watching documentaries and makings of and stuff, and this explanation appears in so many places. In one documentary they even show a title crawl from an old black and white sci-fi serial that is pretty much exactly the same as the star wars crawl, complete with episode number, and shows what George was shooting for.
Originally posted by: AdamwankenobiYeah, that makes sense. But, now, with all six finished, I can't believe that there STILL are people who don't call them by their episode titles. It is no longer a "serial referencial joke." It actually is a six-part serial now.
You make it sound like all six were planned from the start, and now the grand task is complete. Are you listening to anything we’re saying???? Read this post again:
Originally posted by: COAt least you guys understand that Lucas has changed him mind of 28 years, because alot of newer fans think this was always his vision. Now I dont' have a problem if Lucas only wants to do 6 episodes now, I even don't blame him, I mean who wants to do SW for the rest of their life? But don't keep lying and saying everyone is lying, except himself. Just say, "you know what it was always about Luke, and in 1980, I had the hunger to do maybe 12, 9 episodes, cause I saw this huge galaxy out there, but I had to raise my kids, and I got older, and to be honest I just have the hunger to do SW for the next 20 years, so I paired it down to six movies, and just gave a backstory to the OT, focusing around Vader/Kenobi and Luke & Leis Mom, and if you want to watch it 1-6, it may work, but since it was filmed 4-6,1-3, it will probably work better that way. People change, I may have said alot of things that contradict now, but I have changed too."
I would be fine with that, cause it is at least honest, now gives us the damn O-OT on DVD, so we don't have to read any of this crap about you hoping in one sentence you're gonna say you're releasing the originals!
