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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Dude, first off, this information has been available for decades because Lucas himself put it out there. There were multiple drafts and different iterations of Star Wars but all that matter is that Star Wars (and later, A New Hope) were released. They were the final product. Whatever it took for him to get there is just part of the journey.
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I believe you are missing the central thesis of my argumentation. I am not using these early drafts to condemn Lucas' early works
whatsoever. There are a wide variety of people who wonder how Lucas' somehow created some of the best works of all time before released three (commercially successful) thuds.
Illuminating some of his original ideas demonstrate that he's always had some pretty wild ideas and seems to underline my reasoning that the prequel trilogy did not feature enough peer edits or rewrites before seeing the screen.
You're not honestly going to defend Jar-Jar and the entirety of AOTC, are you?
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This is actually completely untrue. George has stated time and time again that this was a nine part series and that the technology didn't exist in the 80's in order to complete it. There was absolutely no way he was going to turn his empire over to a screenwriter, for better or worse.
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Can you clarify this statement? I was saying that Lucas
should have hired more "script polishers" not that he did and it took them 20 or so years to produce a somewhat coherent work.
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You know, I see a bunch of you guys bitch about the prequels yet somehow, they earned over $2.5 billion at the box office.
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FTR, I'm not arguing that the prequels weren't massive commercial hits. However, that does not mean that my arguments are invalid. I do not really care for this line of reasoning, as it would mean that any Michael Bay extravaganza would be immune to legitimate criticism.
It's also worth pointing out that despite it's
immense success at the box office, I seem to recall that you possessed a fair amount of disdain for
The Avengers