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I thought it was interesting that, according Victoria Bennett @ the 19-minute mark, about eighty-percent of the final draft was written by Gloria Katz and Willard Hyuck. I'm not surprised though.
Moderator: Vympel
Tell him "no" to what, exactly?
Lucas had Jonathan Hales co-write the screenplay for AOTC. He got Carrie Fisher to polish TPM and Tom Stoppard to do likewise for ROTS. I don't know much about Hales (there isn't much on his IMDB page), but Fisher was a very much in-demand script doctor and Tom Stoppard is a screenwriting legend. So it's not like he didn't invite others to fine-tune his scripts. And quite frankly, I'd take Stoppard or Fisher over Kasdan or the Huycks anytime. I dare you to watch Best Defense, and don't get me started on Solo.Formless wrote: ↑2022-08-01 04:32pm Things like lines of dialogue that sound patently silly? Its well known that in the original trilogy he not only had other writers come in and edit his dialogue because he understood how bad he was at making dialogue sound natural, he even let the actors improv if they thought they could do even better. From my understanding, he either had no such editor on the Prequels, or they found Lucas's fame so intimidating they didn't understand that he needed an editor to become famous in the first place. So effectively, they felt like they couldn't tell him his dialogue sucked, even though back in the day he knew. They didn't do their job, which is how we got lines like "I don't like sand", and the whole rant that follows. The point of it makes sense; the delivery isn't even bad. But the rant itself needed another pass by an editor to make the conversation sound... natural.
Having him massacre the Sand People in general was a mistake. It makes it look like Anakin was ALWAYS a villain (heroes don't kill children, and Anakin is still supposed to be a hero at this point). A gang of thugs would have been better, since you get the same outcome (anakin starts down the dark path) without the "killing children" part. Hell you can easily have Sebulba as the leader of the thugs, with the kidnapping being his twisted form of revenge (what little we see of the guy is that he's a vicious bully, and those guys HATE loosing. He might hold Anakin's victory against him even years later.)