Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Dec 14, 2017 2:30:24 GMT
The initial appeal of Star Wars was A budget FX and art design put into a B movie story.
The last time it had been done was RKO's King Kong in 1933.
But the truth is the characters are poorly written and perhaps deliberately so.
The hero is a nebbish sort who needs a friend to shoot someone from behind and the guidance of a ghost to tell him when to escape danger (run Luke, run!) and fire a weapon.
It's the combination of FX and design and music that sells the movie.
If they had made sequels in the late 80s and into the 90s, Lucas could have cornered the market on innovative FX sequences.
But he waited too long, and other movies in the digital age stole Star Wars' thunder.
Gary Kurtz claimed the original sequels were to go like:
Return of the Jedi: Luke confronts Vader, Vader dies, Han dies, Leia becomes leader of New Republic, Empire (fleet?) destroyed.
Episode 7-9: Luke travels the galaxy, cleaning up remnants of the Empire, starts to rebuild the Jedi knights, seeks the Other, Episode 9 would be Luke confronting the Emperor for final showdown.
If they had followed that, it would have had more dramatic substance for 3 films.
But Luke was too traditional in that version and they cant have a strong white male being victorious.
So, he had to fail to convince Vader to turn from the Dark Side, he had to resort to anger, he had to be near death and begging for his father to save him (though I liked the moment when Vader grabs the Emperor, if you look at it from Like's POV he is weak--ineffectual).
Luke does little to drive the conclusion of the story. His only big hero moment is in the Jabba scenes.
Lando is the real hero. He destroys the Death Star and is able to do it without any help from the Force or someone covering his back.
The last time it had been done was RKO's King Kong in 1933.
But the truth is the characters are poorly written and perhaps deliberately so.
The hero is a nebbish sort who needs a friend to shoot someone from behind and the guidance of a ghost to tell him when to escape danger (run Luke, run!) and fire a weapon.
It's the combination of FX and design and music that sells the movie.
If they had made sequels in the late 80s and into the 90s, Lucas could have cornered the market on innovative FX sequences.
But he waited too long, and other movies in the digital age stole Star Wars' thunder.
Gary Kurtz claimed the original sequels were to go like:
Return of the Jedi: Luke confronts Vader, Vader dies, Han dies, Leia becomes leader of New Republic, Empire (fleet?) destroyed.
Episode 7-9: Luke travels the galaxy, cleaning up remnants of the Empire, starts to rebuild the Jedi knights, seeks the Other, Episode 9 would be Luke confronting the Emperor for final showdown.
If they had followed that, it would have had more dramatic substance for 3 films.
But Luke was too traditional in that version and they cant have a strong white male being victorious.
So, he had to fail to convince Vader to turn from the Dark Side, he had to resort to anger, he had to be near death and begging for his father to save him (though I liked the moment when Vader grabs the Emperor, if you look at it from Like's POV he is weak--ineffectual).
Luke does little to drive the conclusion of the story. His only big hero moment is in the Jabba scenes.
Lando is the real hero. He destroys the Death Star and is able to do it without any help from the Force or someone covering his back.