"As shooting lagged further behind, Lucas and Marcia arrived back in london. 'Paul Hirsch, the editor, had put together a rough assembly, and it was pretty slow', says Kurtz. 'George didn't like it at all'. In a fury, he attacked Kurtz, Kershner and Hirsch, raging, 'You're ruining my movie!' Over the next two days, he recut the whole film. throwing out the early wampa sequnce shot by Kurtz, and discarding almost all the love scenes. the result was a confused mess, going for action at every cut. 'It was awful', says Kurtz. 'It was chopped into tiny pieces, and everything was fast.'"
that last line is so relevant to the prequels it's almost unreal. i reckon without lucas' influence on everything from directing to editing, the prequels would've been great films, you can see it in that paragraph alone. in this case, kurtz and the editor Paul Hirsch told lucas to calm down, and convinced him they'd make another cut - the one you see today. I wonder how ESB would've turned out had lucas got his way in this one like he has in the prequels etc.
This post has been edited by Garth Vader: 25 March 2005 - 10:57 AM