As an adult my favorite scene in Jedi is when R2 throws the lightsaber and it lands in Luke’s hand and he ignites it and goes to town. This is the first time his friends and we as an audience see him in complete control of his powers and fully utilizing Yoda’s training. And the music just hits right too. ❤❤
Great video. George Lucas got VERY lucky, mostly by being talked out of his own terrible ideas. Marcia was there every step of the way to guide him through Star Wars. She was a filmmaker of true talent, and was revered by friends such as Scorsese and DePalma who recognised her as the much more talented one out of the pair. Lucas's films took a major dive in quality when she was no longer around to save him from himself.
Marcia was the best. People forget it was a team of people that influenced George Lucas and pushed him in the right direction. Marcia is as important as George himself. Nick & Coach get it. But I’ve been saying this long before most. Star Wars was largely luck in many ways. He was surrounded by geniuses.
David Prowse, the actor inside Darth Vader suit, said in a News Paper interview, that Darth Vader is the father of Luke Skywalker. This News paper article is published in San Francisco Examiner, July 24, 1978. It is probably a lucky guess by Prowse, but George Lucas never forgave him for this.
All of the original script versions of the OT are available online. You can really see the development of the story as more and more people gave George feedback. Like Gene Roddenberry, George needed a host of other people to take his concept and really develop it into something great.
As I always said. George Lucas is an "idea man", very similar to Steve Jobs. Idea man comes up with ideas that no one has thought about before. but they need many other very talented people to make the idea into tangible products. and they do also come up with some stupid ideas to, that fail miserably.
Watching THX 1138, it shows how George tells stories and directs. He’s never been conventional to the status quo. I think he needs editors in SW because of this but I don’t think it diminishes his creation and ideas as a visionary. The personal side definitely hurt Mrs. Lucas and George being private, we’ll never really know what he was thinking
Coach hit the nail on the head. Marcia hardly gets the credit she deserves. It really was a perfect storm, a collaboration of talent. She cried when she saw phantom menace realising it could've been edited better
Question: What successful director has made a movie by themselves?
I mean, it was the movie that made the empire go from scary bad guys to being beaten by a bunch of teddy bears
If anything else it was a great ending
Everybody knows the 4 main elephants in the room when it comes to ROTJ. The first act was too drawn out, Boba Fett dies an embarrassing death, the Ewoks are annoying, and a second Death Star was unimaginative. The speeder bike chase and Luke's scenes with Vader and the Emperor were great though.
Marcia really deserves credit and recognition for her input and contributions. It does make you wonder if the main reason why George Lucas did the 97 "Special Editions" purely to "re-edit" and basically remove all of Marcia's editorial contributions. I do believe that Marcia had an affair with the Architect of Skywalker Ranch though. And the reason why i believe this is so is because she has talked (in the past) about how she felt very unloved, and how George could be quite cold and shut off; totally immersed in his film, especially after Starwars blew up in 77. Marcia has said how she helped him and they were a team on Episode 4, but that George really was not spending enough time with her as a Family by the time it came to Empire. So i think like a good many people, when they're feeling unloved by their spouse, and especially when there's no real talking back and fourth and the partner is either too self absorbed in their successes and everything going well for them, that they fail to notice or pay attention to how the other half is feeling; this can lead that other half to go astray. So yes i think they both have to take some blame, but yes i think Marcia did have that affair, because she eventually went on to marry that Architect dude who designed and built Skywalker Ranch. But yes George did kind of cause his partner Marcia at that time to do what she did. But yes you can tell Lucas was really bitter about that, but i hope they have been able to reconcile cause i mean at their ages now, life is too short. What happened, happened but yes Marcia Lucas, she really did help make the Original Trilogy what it is. They do say - "Behind every great Man there's a great Woman."
The more and more I find out about George and Marcia Lucas, it makes me think of Bob Kane's original idea for Batman before Bill FInger redesigned him. There would have been a TOTALLY different Batman and it would have probably failed.
Which documentary are they referring to?
people didnt dislike return of the jedi at the time. thats all revisionist history.
over the last couple of months, every Sunday. My local multiplex has being showing the entire franchise in the Skywalker saga, including Rogue One. I didn't go and watch Episode 1. I hate that movie. I did go and see Episodes 2, 3, Rogue One, Star Wars, and The Empire strikes back. However, I won't be going to see Return of the Jedi this Sunday, because I actually despise that movie. I think its sucks sh@t compared to the first two movies of the original trilogy. I also won't be seeing the Disney trilogy.
Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch ultimately "helped" Lucas make the Star Wars film he wanted to see, they did NOT "save" Star Wars in the edit, which was a myth even Marcia herself, who was co-editor at the time, has debunked on numerous occasions by stating she "just did her job like George and many other people did."
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