I remember the first two Star Wars movies (by release date, not episode number) having some good lines.
Yeah, well...I have very strong opinions about storytelling and Lucas' legacy to scifi/fantasy *and* film.
I love Irvin Kershner, who directed "Empire Strikes Back" - and I lay all of its success at his feet - and Leigh Brackett who took Lucas' wackadoodle notions and turned them into a script.
I think "Star Wars" (bah - "episode 4 - A New Hope" was NOT in the credits when I saw it 4 times in 1977) is remembered and loved so much because it was NEW. Now, in contrast to "Empire..." and some other well-done space opera films (and TV shows), it's a little thin.
But does have some very good lines. :)
bah - "episode 4 - A New Hope" was NOT in the credits when I saw it 4 times in 1977
Hah! I've had long arguments with SW fans about this issue - no one seems to remember this.
And I saw it four times in 1977 as well. Plus once in 1978, at a theater where I'd seen it in 1977 (it played for more than a year there).
I love Irvin Kershner, who directed "Empire Strikes Back" - and I lay all of its success at his feet - and Leigh Brackett who took Lucas' wackadoodle notions and turned them into a script.
SH, I was just about to say, Everyone BACK OFF Leigh Brackett. Love her work to itty bitty bits. Can I high-five you or is there some more ceremonial (or possibly more space-operatically pulpy) gesture you'd prefer?
I remember the first star wars. When the airlock blew and Darth Vader came through, I screamed and hid under my seat in the theatre. I didn't come out until about halfway through the movie.
I remember the first two Star Wars movies (by release date, not episode number) having some good lines.
That's because your brain has blocked out the first 45 minutes of New Hope where nothing happens.
(no one likes my geek cred)
I remember the first star wars. When the airlock blew and Darth Vader came through, I screamed and hid under my seat in the theatre. I didn't come out until about halfway through the movie.
How old were you?
That reminds me of a story that amuses me (and apparently no one else) about the kid who saw
Return of the Jedi
for the first time on acid. When he first saw Jabba, he started screaming and screaming as he hid behind a chair... I think they kicked him out of the theater.
That's because your brain has blocked out the first 45 minutes of New Hope where nothing happens.
That's because it's from the 1970s! In Superman, Richard Donner tried to outdo Lucas by having nothing happen for the first 90 minutes!
I can remember waiting in line to see Close Enocunters with my dad and the guy in front of us going on at some length regarding the travesty of Chewbacca not getting the recognition for valor or whatever that Han and Luke did at the end of Star Wars and being absolutely sure that, no, of course he did. And so, I don't trust my memory of Star Wars at all.
(Dana has too much geek cred in geeral for me to comment on this particular aspect, really, but I imagine that if her Italian pronunciation is good from singing, her Elvish must be as well)
