tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post8058863010285941019..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: Star Wars (1977)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-23832274393006424412023-11-18T21:14:55.171-08:002023-11-18T21:14:55.171-08:00I’ve been a fan of Star Wars since experiencing it...I’ve been a fan of Star Wars since experiencing it as a 10-y/o Gen-X’er, and the high horse belongs to “Dan the Man.” The movie will remain by its two-word title that it exploded with into the 1977 culture scene, and forever, no matter how many sequels, prequels, and revisions it suffers at the hands of both Disney *and* George “I know better than anyone else” Lucas. (This is the guy who championed film preservation, and then refused to give an original cut of the film to the National Film Registry. What a hypocritical ass.)<br /><br />Remember, his initial opening crawl was about four times the length of the new and improved distillation penned by buddy Brian Depalma, and listed all the main characters and some others not in the picture (who knows why). Left to his own devices, Lucas’ crawl for the Phantom Menace began, “The issue of trade routes is in dispute.” What? And in the shooting script, Luke had not one, not two, but *three* trench runs. JFC!<br /><br />All I have to say is thank goodness for cooler heads, such as DePalma, his then-wife editor Marcia Lucas (who took all the redundant footage to make some kind of sense of the crucial finale), spfx chief John Dykstra (who clashed with Lucas on his over-meddling), and John Williams (who gently refused to use lifted classical music “like 2001!”).<br /><br />Listen, SW begins and ends with Lucas. But it takes a village, and Lucas’s legacy is a complicated one. So let’s not deify anyone, least of all someone with not the greatest track record outside of this franchise.TashTishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02421789363425340366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-34409081937324421032019-08-28T00:45:13.022-07:002019-08-28T00:45:13.022-07:00The Greatest Movie Ever Made, in my humble opinion...The Greatest Movie Ever Made, in my humble opinion, and a watermark and a ground breaker in film special effects.<br />MovieLover1964https://www.blogger.com/profile/07040659870720979427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-89709001236606333202015-01-25T19:05:05.802-08:002015-01-25T19:05:05.802-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16119460294150204051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-17858821343331252732014-07-18T08:18:14.554-07:002014-07-18T08:18:14.554-07:00The other impact that "Star Wars" had wa...The other impact that "Star Wars" had was to make Dolby Stereo popular. It wasn't the first film in the process, "Tommy", was but it failed to impress audiences since it sounded no different than the vinyl record in stereo. In contrast, "Star Wars", featured a very elaborate and gimmicky stereo track that called attention to itself with ships zoomed past the viewer in the rear channel and lots of left/right laser sounds filling the theater. It was so successful that a few years later, most movies were released in Dolby Stereo which remained the standard until digital sound was offered in the nineties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-65501600562006119192014-02-07T16:53:20.142-08:002014-02-07T16:53:20.142-08:00Wrong. Episode IV was put into the title crawl in...Wrong. Episode IV was put into the title crawl in the 1981 re-release.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-8709102702333145232013-10-20T10:26:52.291-07:002013-10-20T10:26:52.291-07:00It's been A New Hope longer than just Star War...It's been A New Hope longer than just Star Wars so let's get off that self-righteous bromide. It was changed after it was a huge hit. Lucas felt he wouldn't be able do sequels; he thought maybe the film would gross its budget back at the most... but once the re-releases came about, he changed it to ANH which was there in the 1979 release, so seriously... give it a rest.<br /> My favorite movie of all time. I saw it at the drive-in when I was 5 in 1977- WOW! Even in such dire presentations, it made a huge impact. I could hear cheering from the cars parked that night...Dan The Man https://www.blogger.com/profile/00092678589834510757noreply@blogger.com