The Ghost of RubangB said:
superchunk said:
stof said:
Um. It was only called "Episode 4" long after the movie came out. It originally released as "STARWARS" no episode, no part, just a movie that started an amazing trilogy. A trilogy that started a huge phenomena. A phenomena that led to 3 CGI laden headache inducing movies. |
As soon as Empire Strikes Back was released, it was retitled as Episode IV. Obviously that was Lucus' original idea. It wasn't their on its original release simply because it was really unsure if there ever would be th sequels that Lucas wanted.
Here's the wikipedia exert:
"When originally released in 1977, the first film was simply titled Star Wars, as Lucas was not certain if he would follow the film with a sequel. Following the release of Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, the film was re-released in 1981 with the subtitle "Episode IV: A NEW HOPE" to match its sequel's crawl. The original version, without the subtitle, was not released until the 2006 limited edition DVDs."
Lucas has maintained many times that the story was originally about Anakin and as the story became too large he then decided to focus on part 4, the middle and that of Luke.
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I bolded your mistake. George Lucas doesn't have original ideas.
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In his defense, he never claimed to have new ideas. His 70s brilliance (which it was, I dare you to challenge that) was to recreate old ideas and present them to a modern audience.
Unfortunately, he lost that sometime in between Empire and Jedi (though I think Speilberg saved him by making The Last Crusade a complete not piece of shit).
Lucas was a visionary, though not in the "new idea" sense. He recreated stories, though it can be argued it went for the worse (though there were many factors, transitioning of studio heads, 70s crisis, etc) after he started it.
Either way, you can't watch THX, American Graffiti, and the unaltered Star Wars (and even Empire, for that matter) without a sense of awe. The man is/was immensely talented. *cue SickBoy Trainspotting rant about "losing it" here*
