KMC Forums - Who would you have preferred to direct one of the Prequels?

I'm glad that GL directed the PT. It's his saga, and his story.

Don't get me wrong, I love ESB the best as well, but it's foolish to think that the film was good ONLY because of Kersh.

In alot of ways, Kersh and Marquand were in fact glorified second unit directors. They were doing everything under Lucas' say so. Lucas was the boss of the whole show. The fact was, Lucas got so tired of having to deal, directly, with actors and crew members who, daily, questioned every single diecision he made, when he was shooting Star Wars, that for a long time he no longer wanted anythign to do with iot, and decided to reserve hismelf for the things that he actually love the most about making movies: pre-production design, and more importantly, editing.

Editing was always Lucas' strongest thing. It's his greatest talent as a filmmaker. And all the adored beloved Sw movies the geekoids can't get enough, were all edited by Lucas, with all the anmes on the prints being mere empyers doing work under his strick comands.

And not just the SW movies. Many people rush to praise Spielberg for how great Raiders Of The Lost Ark is. But the truth is, Lucas is the real boss of that movie.

Again, Lucas didn't direct it because of his bad experience making SW, so he gave that boring upsetting stuff of the shooting to one of his most trusted friends, spielberg. In fact, in Raiders, Speiblerg is a hired hand (an extremely talented and imaginative one, of course), but in the end, the movie is Lucas'.

Lucas edited Raiders. If you dig Raiders, it's because of how Lucas decided it should look in the end, with final cut and all. That's all George Lucas.

And the fact is, in truth, there is not any greater difference between the style of ot-SW and the prequel movies. The differences are technological, but not in style.

Lucas used the same "semi-documentary" style for all those movies. and yet, for Sw it's great and for the prequels it's trash. There's a name to that type of thinking: unfullfilled expectations.

Thing is, nobody in the whole universe would ever match up the expectations of the SW geeks for the prequels, and that's the truth.

That the SW geekoids are so blindly dogmatic in their obssessions that turned Lucas from hero to zero for the most pathetic of reasons presented, is one of the reasons why i have lost much respect for the geeks. i used to dig them a lot, and found them kinda like heros, and antidote of professional movie critics, but now, my disapointment of them is as big as their so-called disapointment at Lucas.

Lucas is still a good director, and he's still an excelent editor. He's still one of the best working in movies. And any of the geekoids that thinks the SW prequels are not better edited movies then the vast majority of the stupid action trash bs (Michael Bay and the like) they love to hype so much, they are just stupid.

As for the PT, it's stupid to say that Lucas can't direct actors. Candy Clark was nominated for Best Suporting Actress for her job in American Graffitti.

It's a well known fact, except for all those that love to be ignorant on porpose, that Lucas in the Star Wars movies wanted, ON PURPOSE, a more theatrical style of acting, even stilted, as hommage to the old Republic serials he so loved to watch when he was younger, and which are some of the major inspirations for the whole Star Wars saga.