User Profile: yauming - Original Trilogy

Post: #82476
Topic: Director's Cuts?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82476/action/topic#82476
Time: 23-Dec-2004 11:39 PM

I think the bottom line is that we are unhappy over what Lucas inserted or added into the original trilogy. That is the main complaint. I don't think many pple would have complained about the deletion of the ridiculous Ewok "hallelujah-stylle" chorus at the end of the Jedi. Nor would any of us have complained if Lucas had improved on the death Star space battles in Star Wars (ANH whatever) by removing the pilots' crappy targetting displays or threw in more starfighters etc...

Heck maybe one day it might be possible to digitially remove Jar-jar binks and the silly little boy actor - but would any of us complain I wonder? Heck I'd be the first one cheering them on!!!!

Post: #82475
Topic: A response to the "They're His Movies" arguement
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/82475/action/topic#82475
Time: 23-Dec-2004 11:19 PM

IIRC, actually the original Star Wars trilogy was not entirely Lucas' baby. I mean, he didn't produce it all by his lonesome. Other pple had a big hand in writing the script, editing it etc... he just came up with the main story.

The first Star Wars movie - went for several revisions and editing- which was done by a team of editors led by Lucas' ex-wife - they even won an Academy Award for their work. In the 1997 release, Lucas took back all the crap they cut out - they re-inserted it back instead- and wah-lah! you see why they won the award. The scenes the editing cut out - was CRAP- poor acting or directing.

The same also goes for Empire... however by the time of Jedi, Lucas' power had grown so big and his bankroll so huge- that he could do whatever he damn well pleased- hence we see the Ewok-cong army.

It is unfortunate that Lucas has chosen this path. The Star Wars series could have gone down as one of the greatest space operas of all time. It had hopes of Wagnerian proportions. But now it seems a movie catered to 10 year old kids- who frankly aren't really interested in tragedies- (classical sense).

Its not just the story- its the way he directed the movie- he's an average director- even he admits it himself in the 1970s. But with so much cash and so much hubris up his ass, he's forgotten his own limitations.

I would feel sorry if Lucas came out with an altered version of the original series... but now... I couldn't really care less. Lucas has gone way overboard and thinks too much of himself these days it seems. So I'll burn my VCR copies into CDs- and buy pirate copies of the first trilogy.

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