Words. Words. They're all we have to go on.
Via Low Culture comes good news that I hadn't heard yet:
[Hayden] Christensen also confirmed recently that Lucas got a helping hand with the script for Revenge of the Sith. In an interview with Playboy, he said the rumours about playwright Tom Stoppard working on the dialogue for the film are true.So unless Darth Vader comes off as "pithy," this development could make a huge difference. Lucas can't direct actors, but the movies have been chock full of good actors with nothing good to say. With something good to say and lots of rock-'em-sock-'em action, I may actually have a reason to get my hopes up.
Stoppard, known for stage works like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, gave the Lucas-penned screenplay a more 'human' dimension, Christensen said.
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From the SW:EP3:ROTS Trivia Page at IMDb: "Francis Ford Coppola suggested 'Christopher Neil' to George Lucas to be the dialogue coach. Lucas said that given the emotional intensity of Revenge of the Sith, and the fact that he rarely has time to converse with the actors, it would be ideal for someone else to be there to get the strongest performances possible."
Rarely has time to converse with the actors? This sounds like a man who should take an Executive Producer credit so he is isolated to play with the ILM toys and hire a director to tell the story.
At least he has appointed someone to deal with bothersome things like emotional score and subtext. To bad you can't just CGI a good performance. Eh, George.
I intend to Boycott this installment. I reccommend you do as well.
dj. boycott star wars. right. Bush will go green before that happens.
It's not an Executive Producer's job to say, "Yoda spins here and jumps off of this column." It's the director's job.
I'll also make another argument to you, though I don't mean to aggrandize Lucas:
Jackson Pollack relied on art critics, gallery owners, and his wife to extol the emotional gravity of the paintings. All he wanted to do was get drunk and splatter and dribble paint on a canvas. He was playing with toys.
Good scripts with good actors are usually good movies. I'm not getting my hopes up -- if the movie sucks, I won't be surprised -- but these developments don't surprise me or debase the director IMHO.
Okay. Maybe he needs Director control. So at the very least, he should have shared it with someone the way he did with Speilberg on the Indiana Jones trilogy.
This has all made me so upset that I have grown tired of Science Fiction in general. I am throwing all of my DVDs away and plan to quit playing Halo immediately.
Arlo, you are overly dismissive and dead wrong about Jackson Pollack.
empty threats...
Check this out.
A "Jackson Pollock" is what happens when I have too much to drink. Perhaps a "Star Wars" movie is what happens when Lucas has too much to drink.
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