There’s something about this girl that people around her can feel. There’s something about her that’s going to broaden the story. And she is the last man standing, as it were.
Daisy Ridley, Blueprints of a Battle: The Snow Fight
How Can Star Wars Be So Good Even Though It’s So Deeply Flawed And Narratively Inconsistent And Was Created By A Dumbass
[picture of Marcia Lucas in the editing room]
Seriously, stop everything you’re doing for the next twenty minutes and watch this video:
Although “George Lucas” has become synonymous with “Star Wars,” it’s really his collaboration with – and occasionally intervention from – the creative team surrounding him that helped launch the first movie into the stratosphere.
As the video points out, the movie that won all those Academy Awards – including, critically, the one for editing – was sculpted into its best-known and deservingly praised form by the editing team of Marcia Lucas (seen above), Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew.
If you’re at all interested in filmmaking or specifically the making of Star Wars, I can’t recommend “How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit” enough.
“As
you watch Anakin slide down, how about if you take one step forward,” Lucas suggests. “For a moment, you think about it. Your first impulse is to save him –
but then you realize you can’t”. As the
takes multiply and the actors find their rhythm and emotions, the scene becomes
more and more powerful. Christensen yells “I hate you!”.McGregor
says, “I love you. But I will not help you”. Lucas explains that what Obi-wan’s
really saying to Anakin is: “Your were our only hope and you blew it.
Now we don’t have any hope”.Take. After Anakin implores Obi-wan to save him, George asks Ewan to say “I will not…”
softer, almost to himself. Take. “After he burst into flames,” Lucas directs, “it’s
as if you’re talking to a dead person. To a piece of toast”. He
suggests, to drive home this point, that McGregor change the words in the
script to the past tense, “I loved you.” – The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
I do love that 41 years into his life, having fought in the messed up clone Wars, this happens to Anakin and his responce is “I have no fucking idea what just happened.”
Hey, with Obi Wan, you always gotta double check. Slippery old fucker.
Do yall realize how monumentally pissed Vader must have been?
The last time him and Obi-Wan met, Obi-Wan left him as a quadraplegic being burned up on Mustafar. Obi-Wan doesn’t even give him the satisfaction of losing a hand. He DARES Vader to strike him down, which he know Vader couldn’t resist, and he just fucking poofs the fuck outta there, depriving Vader of any sort of satisfaction that he could have possibly gotten from the encounter.
Obi-Wan could not have sent a bigger “fuck you” if he had it spelled out with Star Destroyers.
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