The Secret History of Star Wars
#1
Posted 19 March 2007 - 06:53 AM
http://secrethistory...s.com/book.html
420 pages of dirt!
Anybody read it?
#2
Posted 21 March 2007 - 06:54 AM
#3
Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:18 PM
#4
Posted 23 March 2007 - 01:12 PM
I didn't realize how bad things were in Lucas's life during and after Empire Strikes Back. It's no wonder he wanted to wrap things up with Jedi instead of it going on another 3 episodes after that. Also I did not realize how close to the brink of financial ruin he was if Empire had failed. Very interesting stuff.
#5
Posted 25 March 2007 - 02:12 AM
I haven't read the whole thing yet, just mostly the appendices and a few pages into the beginning.
#7
Posted 07 May 2007 - 04:04 PM
#8
Posted 10 January 2008 - 09:31 PM
I haven't gotten through it all yet, but his general critiques of GL's statements are quite accurate from my research for my re-write of Shimmering Sword. It is no surprise that GL is a revisionist in his proclamations about the origins of SW as he is a revisionist of his movies.
I haven't had a chance to go through the several essays in the appendix, but they look interesting.
#9
Posted 19 January 2008 - 03:45 PM
#11
Posted 02 February 2008 - 04:44 PM
Printing out 583 pages at my university library would cost me $23.32 (and that's a big stack of paper, even if I print on both sides).
I see he makes a mistake (the common misunderstanding of the Catholic "Immaculate Conception"... which incidentally has NO PARALLEL with Anakin's virgin birth in Episode I).
This post has been edited by KurganX: 02 February 2008 - 04:47 PM
#12
Posted 03 February 2008 - 04:49 AM
I did not read the e-book on this thread, but since clones I had this notion that he just make it as he goes.
If you have access to the Attack of the Clones Bonus DVD, you'll see that a Yoda CGI was in tests by the ILM team. How come, if the story was already written, would they do Yoda fighting if it was a puppet like in the previous movies? Lucas gave the OK to the Yoda CGI and so the script was, in the very least, changed to accommodate Yoda fighting.
Also if all the prequel story's were all written in advance, would it not be strange that Jar Jar was such an important character in the first movie, and simply written off the script for episode II and III? Same goes to the midichlorians stuff, besides the first movie, they are never stated in Clones , and just brought up in the last movie for the Anakin dark side plot device. (here Lucas most likely read the reviews of phantom in the net )
IMO Lucas had a general idea of the prequels story line line, details, and some important ones, like Yoda fighting where added as the production and shooting of the movies went.
#13
Posted 03 February 2008 - 10:55 AM
This post has been edited by Prequel dialogue coach: 03 February 2008 - 10:58 AM
#14
Posted 08 February 2008 - 08:12 PM
It's a lot of paper for sure. I've set my printer on eco-mode. And so far it's been worth the ink.