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Post by MooseNugget on Nov 8, 2018 5:45:31 GMT
When I watch a remastered version of the film today on Blu-Ray there's a lot of clutter and unnecessary CG in the movie that obviously wasn't there in 1977. I heard people say Lucas is more interested in World Building over the plot of a movie. I don't know how true it is. But throwing a bunch of different random BS visuals doesn't really help the film. I get he probably couldn't do everything he wanted to do in '77 but like I said a lot of the things added in doesn't make it a better film. In fact I think it makes parts of the film look too busy.
But the first example doesn't have much to do with Fox.
I read on a blog that Lucas didn't want to blow up The Death Star so he could save it for another film. While that makes sense for a series of films I think not having the ending we got would have really diminished the film. The whole film builds up to the Death Star sequence and not having it blow up would have been a real let down. Honestly I don't think the movie would have been seen as the classic it is now if we didn't get that. I don't know for sure but it's fun to speculate.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Nov 8, 2018 9:58:04 GMT
not true. Lucas always intended to blow up the DS in the original SW. Lucas had one lengthy script he had to cut down. So he cut all the training and character development we saw with Luke and put it into Empire.
Problem was after the film's success when he moved farther with the movies he had no climactic end battle - so the rehashed the Death Star concept.
Parts of fandom say that it would have been better story telling to not blow up DS 1 instead of rehashing it with DS II in Jedi. I agree, but this would not been possible back then as it was not even clear that the first film would get sequels.
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Post by Archelaus on Nov 29, 2018 21:48:36 GMT
20th Century Fox had very little influence in helping Star Wars be what it is. I know Alan Ladd Jr., the head of 20th Century Fox, approved Star Wars to go into production after George Lucas hit it big with American Graffiti, and defended him when executives were complaining the film was going overbudget. In fact, according to a George Lucas biography by Brian Jay Jones, Fox actually did pressure Lucas to cut the Death Star battle sequence because the visual effects would cost too much money.
In the end, they did not anticipate Star Wars to be a success so they placed more promotional backing on a little-known film titled The Other Side of Midnight.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Nov 30, 2018 18:19:35 GMT
OMG that remastered Blu-Ray monstrosity is terrible. The thing is so sliced and diced, resequenced and so much added it is unbelievable. And seeing as dialogue between C-3P0, R2, Vader, Stormtroopers etc. can be changed as much as they wish since they don't have mouths, they have really changed a lot. And the whole things looks terrible too. Everything including C-3P0 and R2 is all CGI - with the regular human actors just still existing in the background.
Watching the despecialized edition, then the new Blu-Ray, then the despecialized edition again will really make it obvious as to how much is wrong. I normally watch the despecialized edition when I am in a Star Wars mood. I was watching the Blu-Ray version at my friend's house the other day, and I felt like I was on acid. The whole thing is messed up.
Consider what they gave us as prequels, what they did to the originals, and what they are giving us now - Star Wars is a casualty.
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