Irvin Kershner vs George Lucas ...Empire Strikes Back Shot as Written

[RevengeOfTheKaizer]

Humor without gags, spot on. George should have learned long ago that having a retarded-sounding duck-lizard step in CGI doodoo wasn't the kind of humor that Star Wars needs.

[zenmachinefilms]

Too bad Kershner wasn't around for the prequels. Same goes for Kasdan, and the late Richard Marquand and Leight Brackett.

[bigstick9993]

could those subtitles have been any more inaccurate?

[ricarleite]

Can you imagine Episode 1 written by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Irvin Kershner? How AWESOME it would be?

[pinoi78]

LOL...and yet George Lucas is STILL making more changes for the Blu-ray release.

[ZodiacDragon1014]

Hot damn. Greatest of the Star Wars films in my opinion. I only wish the prequels were even close to the greatness that the original trilogy was.

[Bakhshish1000]

Leia : " I Love You"

Han : " Fuck Off"

[woollybully100]

Lucas is a genious, he just needs people to help rain him in and keep him on a leash.

[Regenmacher175]

@woollybully100 that is NEVER going to happen. You don't teach an old monkey new tricks.

[woollybully100]

@Regenmacher175 Well ya NOW thats never going to happen, its kinda of a weird cycle, before he had people to tell him no which allowed him to make the original series. But beause he was the creative force behind those films everyone around him now probably just says yes Mr. lucas and no one challenges his ideas.

[gordonmcdowell]

@woollybully100 I'd agree he has that capacity. But having only "yes" men around is a great way to negate one's own capabilities. Since starting on the prequels, he's fallen out of directors I give a shit about. There's just too much talent out there to worry about surrounded-by-yes-men Lucas.

[WarVideo]

@woollybully100

he's a terrible director.

[MysterioMaximus]

@woollybully100: You're really displaying the brilliance of George Lucas by spelling genius wrong. George Lucas was a genius...and considering we don't truly know how much influence other people had on the original trilogy, even that's debatable. George Lucas no longer is a genius in any field save business. Fact!

[squamish4244]

It's too bad Kershner - or better yet, Spielberg! - didn't direct Jedi.  It had the potential to beat Empire.

[walmartpimp2]

Too bad kurtz didn't direct the prequels.

[NeecHMonkeY]

@walmartpimp2 - Well, he's not a Director... he never has been. He was a Producer.

Kershner may have been a great Director for them but even he had career missteps (Robocop 2).

[niggly54]

@walmartpimp2 True but it's kind of hard to direct artificial actors behind blue screens.

[pathx21]

He felt he needed that and that... but in the end he got what Lucas came up with and had to work accodring to that. Plus the overall look of the film was defined by Lucas trough Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston anyway.

He was basically hired hand to make someone else's film and realized someone else's vision. But don't get me wrong he did that extremely well. It is only pitty that his slow methods pushed the film far overbudget and ruined Kurtz's promising career.

[DrunkenTomTom]

@pathx21

george lucas is a hack. he's lucky guys like irvin were around to fix his shitty ideas

[Khultan]

@DrunkenTomTom You....know....nothing. Imbecile.

[SithRage]

RIP Irvin!

[hieu1994]

hi reddit

[Greg211242]

@hieu1994 HI!!!!!!