Star Wars Episode VII Cast Announced

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the_dengle said:

shikamaru317 said:

I actually think that Lucas is a good director, it's just that he's not a very good writer, he should never have written the prequel trilogy mostly by himself. The fact that the Clone Wars tv show has better writing than the prequel trilogy says alot about his writing skills. He is especially weak when it comes to writing romance, which is why the Anakin/Padme romance scenes are so terrible in the prequel trilogy.

Lucas is (or was) an alright director. I like American Grafitti. The original trilogy didn't have such a great romantic subplot, either. Take, for example, the scene on the Falcon after the narrow escape from the Death Star in Episode 4. It's a painfully slow, awkward moment. It's probably only a few minutes long, yet it feels downright tedious to watch. The scene in the Hoth base after Luke recovers is no better (even ignoring the accidental My Twin Sister Can't Be This Royal incident). These aren't only the fault of the writing: I think Lucas has no clue how to direct the actors during these quieter, more personal scenes.

Thankfully, whenever the screenplay wasn't dwelling too strongly on the romantic subplot, Ford and Fischer did a good job building their characters' chemistry. One of the reasons the prequels were such a catastrophe is because they were giving far more focus to the romantic relationship. I don't even necessarily think the relationship was better-written in the originals, it was just developed a lot more subtly.

Also, the actors changed a lot of the lines. IDK if they had that in the prequals, in the prequals lucas was followed by yes men. In the original trilogy everyone was giving him a hard time (Which was good since it made the cheesy scenes less cheesy imo).