George Lucas wrote some stuff, and his ex-wife worked with him in some capacity. There were some that said George Lucas was a visionary genius and he also had a wife and so of course she was involved. There were some that said that George Lucas was a big self-important orangutan who couldn’t write for shit, and his ex-wife fixed it all up and turned it into an epic story because she had some apparently pretty significant screenwriting talent. And who’s to say? Surely there would be no way of going back in time and examining this intimate process in retrospect and finding out.
And then, the wife having left, he wrote the prequels without her involvement, and the world got its answer.
And then, the wife having left, he wrote the prequels without her involvement, and the world got its answer.
With the caveat that I haven’t watched the prequels for a good several years, the overarching storyline is actually pretty good, but the special effects were too heavy on CGI so they dated quickly and a lot of the writing of individual lines was too much toned for a younger audience.
George Lucas would be silly to not make the next trilogy that was released 20 years later something fans of the original trilogy could take their kids to, but unfortunately it went a bit too far into trying to be kid friendly. Plus it definitely had sequences designed specifically to be recreated in video games, as any family movie did in the early 2000s (heck one of the 101 Dalmations movies even featured some gameplay of the tie-in game in the film!)
Chewbacca was supposed to be more like Jar Jar Binks but at that point he still had people around him to push back on that.
Look at some of the CG segments injected into the rereleases of the original trilogy, which Lucas used to bring it more in line with his original vision: cheap slapstick and goofy aliens.
George Lucas wrote some stuff, and his ex-wife worked with him in some capacity. There were some that said George Lucas was a visionary genius and he also had a wife and so of course she was involved. There were some that said that George Lucas was a big self-important orangutan who couldn’t write for shit, and his ex-wife fixed it all up and turned it into an epic story because she had some apparently pretty significant screenwriting talent. And who’s to say? Surely there would be no way of going back in time and examining this intimate process in retrospect and finding out.
And then, the wife having left, he wrote the prequels without her involvement, and the world got its answer.
Also see: Stan Lee’s writing when he didn’t have Jack Kirby around.
With the caveat that I haven’t watched the prequels for a good several years, the overarching storyline is actually pretty good, but the special effects were too heavy on CGI so they dated quickly and a lot of the writing of individual lines was too much toned for a younger audience.
George Lucas would be silly to not make the next trilogy that was released 20 years later something fans of the original trilogy could take their kids to, but unfortunately it went a bit too far into trying to be kid friendly. Plus it definitely had sequences designed specifically to be recreated in video games, as any family movie did in the early 2000s (heck one of the 101 Dalmations movies even featured some gameplay of the tie-in game in the film!)
Chewbacca was supposed to be more like Jar Jar Binks but at that point he still had people around him to push back on that.
Look at some of the CG segments injected into the rereleases of the original trilogy, which Lucas used to bring it more in line with his original vision: cheap slapstick and goofy aliens.
Lmao well said.
Shit, we gotta get that ex-wife back in charge of star wars to fix it again.
Fuckin gottem