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George loves editing. It's his favourite part of the creative process as he gathers a lot of footage then creates in the editing room to find the stories he wants to tell. It's not a very common practice but it works.

My thoughts exactly. Alec Guinness despised the movies even though they made him quite wealthy.

Except for Lucas.

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p Mark Hamill also tried to convince the crew that the film will be good.

@@ici123-r2e But he didn't really believe it would be hit. He said he gave script to his friends to laugh.

@@BenderMohawk Wrong. Sir Alec never despised the film. One thing, George Lucas gave him 2.5% earnings from the film besides his acting fee/salary. He even had a great time filming. Mark Hamill told in an interview that Sir Alec did a prank on the crew. He had fun with Mark between takes & he respected George Lucas so much. Sir Alec indeed admitted that the script he got from Lucas was "ropey" but very interesting nontheless. He couldn't stop flipping the pages until the end of the script. One thing that Sir Alec despised was the typecasting. He didn't want to be remembered only for playing 1 specific character, no matter how iconic the character turned out to be.

Watched it for the 1st time in 1997. Ep 4 was on TV. Didn't finish watching because it was at night & my mum told me to go to sleep. But I could never forget what I saw for days. 8 years later in 2006, I had a friend at school who loves Star Wars & that memory from 1997 came back to me. Made me a big fan ever since.

+cjms08 It was probably only shown in the UK.

*the originals, and some to the prequels :D

@@cubesquared2291 *the originals & the prequels. not so much for the sequels because they sucked.

Ben BamBoo But all the ships in the Prequels were actually a small scale ships! Along with almost all the backgrounds and locations in the Prequels were also mini sets! It was never a lost art because it was always used by Lucas's company! Abrams is not making or bringing back anything! He's working with the same guys that made the Prequels and hundreds other films and using the same technology!

And Abrams didn't use one model or miniature. He even had cgi pilots in the cgi ships

Don't get all the hate for the Prequels, I loved all three of them, and I grew up around the time of the originals!! Saw Empire and Jedi in the theatre!!

The Prequels use more practical effects than the entire Original Trilogy combined. The Phantom Menace also had less visual effects than The Force Awakens. J.J. Abrams lied to you, my friend.

TrOllinM4sTEr King Arthur=The legend of Gilgamesh set in England.

Probably just too much stuff to cover. He might have been unavailable for an interview as well. :{

+Gabe B CHEWBACCA! WHAT A WOOKIE!!! DUN DUN DUNNN DUN DUNN DUNNNNN

Chief, but it’s still his world he created.

Chief Rabbi Avner Echoberg-Shekelstein Actually I believe than young George Lucas would have been a better director for Empire and ROTJ. However after SW ep IV the people that would challenhe his opinions abandoned him, and he got surrounded by those who would say yes to everything that ocurred to him, including his directors.

Not sure but his hair kind of has a late 80's early 90's style to it.

Michael Bowman Yeh as a matter of fact I do have a problem with Kirk, wise guy, you wanna throw hands over it? I'll box your damn ears proper capital.

Oodlepoodle Puke American money gets all the credit

Prroduced, written, financed, directed & distributed by Americans. I would call it a co-operative American / U.K. movie. Nobody wants to take away anything from the Brits that worked on it, filmed it, & acted in it. But since George Lucas is an American film maker & he conceived the idea & created the script, directed & produced, not to mention special effects house ILM, I am comfortable calling Star Wars "an American film". Sure.

+clownyxthexclown A fruit Cake my son, a Fruit Cake.

You never heard of ambrosia salad? Don't knock it til you try it :)

WHO Doesn't

It's boring for the viewers too. Big sets are visually impressive. CGI backdrops impress no one.

Dont forget that CGI FX is a tools for director's imagination whithout limitation and low budget to build incredible things. For me only the result count. In another words, there is no bad CGI movie,There is only bad movies. For sure i love the model's build on the the V episode R2D2 or dead star etc but if the technologie can made some more imerssive the story tale's i agree with 2 and's. Sorry for my approximative English

Franck S. The human eye can detect full CGI sets a mile off. Whilst that's fine in some stylized features, like 300 for example, in the star wars prequels it was jarring and took you out of the immersion. It was also dreadful for the actors to work with, CGI is best used as an enhancement tool, not a replacement tool.

They can't build a set of space. They HAVE to blue screen some things.

Oodlepoodle Puke CGI growing extremely speedly months after months.I worked as a CGI artist between 10 years on a good french company (my bro work at ILM). And no there is no more borders between realities and CGI from few years a go for good production like news ILM ones for examples.But not for the too old STW FX. But there's a lot of badlest FX companies making CGI without success for bad productions or producers.This is only about skills not technologie.

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QuarterlifeCry6 Well, Obi-wan was still a padawan when Qui-gon died so maybe Yoda completed what left of his training! Or maybe he meant when he was still too young before being assigned to a master to teach him, like the age of the padawans you see Yoda instructing when Obi-wan visit him to ask about the "invisible planet" in Ep.2! Or maybe he just didn't see it necessary to tell Luke about a dead master and focused on the alive one! Or maybe Obi-wan just forgot to mention it just like he forgot to mention to Luke that... you know.. VADER IS HIS FATHER! Lol! About the Force, it is still a mystery and no one knows what it is! The Medo-chlorian only explained why certain people are gifted with the Force but never explained the Force itself!

Dookou was the master of gui gon and dookous master was yoda

Dylan Zwart oooh wait dooku is without the o

+Duderide Yeah, the prequels ruined some things.

+bigmouthShortlegs The prequels did quite some things wrong which made these holes. In Rotj, Leia seemed to remember her real mother. But she died at childbirth in Rots.. Then there is Obi-Wan in ep4, not remembering R2 while he was with him all the time in the prequels.

+TheEditor Actually comes more easy over my tongue.

I always forgot which it was, when I was a kid.

That's my Dad :D

They had their issues but Harrison would later say to Time Magazine months after it came out, "I told George you can type this stuff but can't say it but I was wrong. It worked." They had their issues at the time but once they saw the full picture of what George was doing with it they came around to it. The dialogue is also consistent across all six films. Check out Everytime Star Wars Quotes Star Wars on here. George uses dialogue more as an anchor for conveying tone and to show you where you're at. It's like a silent film. He's a pure filmmaker versus a literary filmmaker.

I done the math. The originals add up to 4 from 2+2 which is correct √, but the prequels add up to 5 which is totally wrong.

I think it was "Where is mah fookin' medal?!?"

It's influence can be felt on the Prequels as well.

Viney209 So by that logic, Star Wars is about a whiney little shit with daddy issues who becomes a space wizard.

Viney209 I must say I love LOTR... not as much as Star Wars of course. But your comment is so fucking brilliant I can't help but agree with you :D

Not entirely true. Tolkien borrowed from real world myths, too. Or do you think he invented Elves, Dwarves and Goblins?

Seabass Cribel Boring? Do you even read books?

Nigusi1985 XD! Whats so brilliant about it?

+Noah Caboose No

Dennis Vance godamn it

HavenElric 1980 I bet . Luke says 25 years old when he is dead. I think he was 21 or so when making of Star Wars ?

1997, from what I can find on the inter webs

@@justinb954 Lol thanks it’s amazing how you can answer a question of mine that was asked when I was a completely different person :)

Is that a masturbation pun?

If Im not mistaken its all came from the mind of George Lucas.

How many movie ideas did they approve that were ruined by directors and actors? It goes both ways. You cant hate them for weighing the risk of millions of not hundred millions of dollars on a project. A bust can close a studio up for good. That means lots of people out of work. They only ever get hate, they never get credit for when they get it right. This is why original ideas are few and far between and if they do get approved. They do not get a big budget. Exec's have seen that people are going to see established franchises these days. Comic book movies, movies based on popular book series, reboots, sequels, prequels. These are safe bets. They know they will get return. It's the movie goers fault really. They have shown that they spend there money on those existing IPs rather than showing up for fresh original ideas. At the end of the day. Movies are a business. They need to make the decisions that will keep the doors open. Aliens was a idea that nobody wanted. They thought no one would see it. Terminator was another. Many great movies were turned down by someone at some point. Sometimes a script can only show so much. Some of the best movies ever didnt find their footing until everyone started working on the project and injected ideas and changed things up did some movies come together. Hell even Star Wars would have been a massive failure if it wasnt saved in the editing process. So dont blame it all on movie execs

My dad Nick Harrison, who is in this video, worked on episode 1 in Elstree. He had multiple pieces of set and ships that I got to sit in as a kid.

​@@Criam That's so cool! Tell him thank you for being part of something that brought so many of us joy!

I feel for you.

I think it's been good ao far. TFA was alright, TLJ was awesome

Haven't seen TLJ yet, but I loved TFA!!

@@BagzAndPresident You've seen their IQ test scores? How does a regular schmoe like you get such information? Asking for a friend.

This didn't age well lol