Irvin Kershner vs George Lucas ...Empire Strikes Back Shot as Written
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Too bad kurtz didn't direct the prequels.
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RIP Irvin!
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@gordonmcdowell It is not like he could say "no" to any of Lucas' final decisions (well he could but it wouldn't matter). Lucas still had final word about every little detail. Even the Ford's "I know" change was meet with resistance by Lucas. If Lucas hadn't accepted it on his own in the end it would simply be rejected.
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@walmartpimp2 True but it's kind of hard to direct artificial actors behind blue screens.
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@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!
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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.
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Too bad Kershner wasn't around for the prequels. Same goes for Kasdan, and the late Richard Marquand and Leight Brackett.
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could those subtitles have been any more inaccurate?
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Can you imagine Episode 1 written by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Irvin Kershner? How AWESOME it would be?
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Well the fact is that Lucas was the main creative force behind the ESB. He controlled the pre-production (story, script, casting, characters, planets, defined overall look through McQuarrie and Johnston) and controlled the post-production (SFX, editing, final cut). Kershner was basically just a hired hand to work with actors during the principal photography. Aside from the ESB (which is Lucas' film), Kershner directed around 10 films which range from very poor to average at the best.
MrPathx 2 days ago
@MrPathx I'm sure Kershner brought some interesting creativity to the process, but likely the most valuable thing was a bit of friction against Lucas bad ideas. The shot-as-written sequence is a perfect example of prequel quality. Kershner doesn't yes-man it, he sees a problem and fixes it. I can only assume Lucas was surrounded by yes-men while creating the prequels.
gordonmcdowell 2 days ago
Lucas is a genious, he just needs people to help rain him in and keep him on a leash.
woollybully100 8 months ago
@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.
gordonmcdowell 8 months ago