QUOTE (jxw @ Jun 3 2005, 04:37 PM)
Personally, I would have taken the quick and easy way, as Lucas did in 1980. I'd have given the script to a competent director and said, "get on with that". The competent director would have removed most of Jar-Jar from the script and moved the story along in an orderly way. What we got was a dull, overblown story full of irritating characters and bad acting. TPM was a good film very badly made.
its so easy to say what you should and would have done but the thing is you arent in Lucas' shoes and you haven't lived his life. Have you seen the Empire Of Dreams documentary? This guy went through hell to get the first movie made, then when TESB came out he had people going over budget and all types of other stuff going on that stressed him out to no end. Can you blame him for wanting to do things by himself this time around? Im not saying the prequels turned out perfectly, all I'm saying is that I understand why he decided to be Mr. Everything.
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AOTC would really have benefitted from a proper director. The story was so aimless and the action sequences so poorly conceived that the film is barely watchable. A competent director would have recognised that the script was unfilmable and demanded changes. These would not have occurred at hte editing stage, when Lucas realised that there was no connection between Anakin and Obi-wan, or Anakin and Palpatine.
I agree with this one though. AOTC was just a complete mess. Edited to hell. And that damn Droid Factory video game level! Ugh.
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Anakin's turn to the dark side in ROTS was totally unbelievable, but yet it needn't have been. Vader's conflict was well handled in ROTJ and it could have been done equally well here. There are many other faults with ROTS, but that is the centre of the story, and it fails. Somebody else should have had the chance to direct it.
Some people bought it and some people didnt. For all intents and purposes, Anakin's turn was understandable, just not executed competently. He didnt want to lose the woman he loved (I was with him all the way....when I was in love I would have done some super stupid shit for that girl, anybody who's ever been in love would most likely have done the same). He knew the Jedi Council didnt trust him, especially Mace. The only person who befriended him was Palps, so taking all that into consideration, why
shouldnt he join the dark side and aid Palpatine when he tells him the Jedi were planning to take over, which may have been true after all. Mace tells Yoda in one scene that if Palpatine wont give up power, they will have to take control of the senate by force, and Yoda tells him that this could only lead them to a dark place. But like Palpatine said, people with power are only concerned with one thing; maintaining that power and I have no doubt Mace would have eventually fallen to the dark side.
but yeah....it's a believeable reason to fall, just not done properly.
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