George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | The Perfect Film
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- This shouldn't have taken as long as it did. I started this at the end of May 2022 but only really started taking it seriously by the start of the year and have been on constant day in and day out struggle to keep myself motivated because I felt like I needed to say what I had to say. There was nothing I've thought about more than getting this video out and now: here it is.
I love Star Wars. Always have, always will and just wanted to make a video talking about how much we should love or at the very least respect about the movie that started this all.
I promise the next video won't take another 2 years make. We can only hope :'(
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To anyone who will argue about the Special Editions or that it was “Saved in the Edit”, as stated in my video: “We, as the audience, should have no say with what filmmaker does with their work during or after it’s released.”
I highly recommend you watch both these videos in order to understand/learn some of the behind the scenes and recounts of what happened during the making of the original trilogy:
Nerdonyms - ruclips.net/video/olqVGz6mOVE/видео.htmlsi=mxOoZWifmxfDzXsR
Rick Worley - ruclips.net/video/xaeTOMvf67c/видео.htmlsi=gbcszqfg1ggXepJd
Fuck your Childhood and that includes mine.
Making things can be hard right now and you should be glad you finished this. I hope you keep making things.
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Wow. Especially for a first video, this is amazing. The research, writing, editing, and visuals all combine to make something great. Your passion comes through in every word. Here before this goes viral.
A bit of a late response, is there anything you think I could improve? I know I faulted in some areas but that’s what creating is all about. Thank you for the comment.
@@TheSoIdier404 No problem. The one thing that comes to mind besides things like not great audio quality (which is totally understandable since you're just getting started) is the opening. For the first two minutes or so I thought the video may have been just a compilation of interview clips instead of the video essay I wanted. On retrospect that's a good start, but in the future I would say to cut that down a bit. Again, the whole thing was great and you might want to take my opinion with a grain of salt.
This was so entertaining and so well made. Keep it up! 🙌🏻
Lucas did it right the first time. There was never a need for sequels, but what do you do when investors show up with a dump truck full of money to make more?
Just subbed ! Great job my friend
Thank you for a very entertaining and interesting watch. Your love for the movie is evident and it took me back to my 11 year old self in 1977 watching in awe as that Star Destroyer went overhead after the introduction, and taking me into the galaxy of what would become my favourite film - and a film series - that still holds my devotion to this day. It was so interesting to get your perspective and see behind the scenes elements I've not watched before in the creation of this true epic. Looking forward to more of your content.
Nice video so far, dude. Just a bit of audio advice - go easy on the noise gate; your voice sounds a bit unnatural, because the gate is ducking out your breath and other vocal micro-sounds that make speech sound normal. It's also clipping off the starts and ends of words. But yeah, great content otherwise.
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EDIT: to represent the original version (which I saw in 1977, aged 5), it would have been great if you'd used Harmy's Despecialized edit (Google it if you haven't heard about it); a labour of love that recreated the original theatrical release which is sadly no longer available. So much in the reissues wasn't in the original, including the massive Death Star explosion at the end - it was just a bunch of cinders with a camera pointing upward, underneath it. Didn't make the film any worse, in my opinion!
EDIT#2: I noticed your audio clears right up further in, and also read how long this took you make. Apologies!
Thank you for the advice on the audio. Seems like an issue a lot of people have. As for the de-specialization, I see it as vandalizing on Lucas’ film and the original versions are nothing but novelty/historical curiosity. Everyone has done it, will continue to do and it’s the way it should be.
I recommend watching Rick Worley’s “How to watch Star Wars, Part 2: The Special Editions are the movies, Get Over it” It’s where some information came from for Artist preferred version section. It has a great section about film preservation (that I’ll be honest don’t know a lot about but want to) and it should be taught more about in our culture. The “Special Editions” were just used as Marketing for the 1997 rerelease, it’s the ones I grew up on (and honestly the better version in my opinion).
@@TheSoIdier404 Hey, thanks for the reply man. On the subject of the original theatrical release (later known as The Despecialised Edition'), it's what I, and the original Star Wars fanbase witnessed, and what we grew up on. I understand your view that the director's vision is all, but when the revised versions came out, everyone of my generation was horrified; not because he changed anything per se, but because the changes altered the tone - Han _did_ shoot first. This counted for a lot at the time, in terms of the grittiness and realism, which later was retconned into something more 'family friendly'. You have to remember that at the time, the idea of sci-fi in a real, lived-in world was entirely new, and this was something that was largely contributory to the success of Star Wars. To see it all airbrushed, santitized, and made kid-friendly seemed against the very ethos of what everyone fell in love with.
Anyway, I like your delivery. You narrate very well; sensitive, nuanced, and well observed critique are more rare on here than you think. Or maybe you already know that! I know it's difficult (or maybe impossible) to see an old world through young eyes - but keep going, sir!
Lucas says here that he had no intention of making such a successful film. That most science fiction films of the day made under $10 million and there was no reason to believe Star Wars would be any different. That seems terribly dishonest since the budget for Star Wars was… $10 million. So, it would be pretty silly and underhanded to produce a film with the intention of it losing money. The truth is that he literally engineered a blockbuster. He had every intention of making an uber successful film. And he succeeded, much to his credit. Why he propagates the myth that Star Wars’ success was unexpected is a mystery to me.
It's not a perfect film. There's no such thing. It may be a favourite film, but that doesn't equate with perferction.
Jeez Louise, dude. Calm down
I was with you until I realized that you were analyzing that abomination brought into the world since 1997, the Special Editions. The 1977 Theatrical release, virtually lost media, is the only real version.
The Theatrical versions were not and have never been what Lucas envisioned the film to be. I don't care about your childhood, hell, mine doesn't matter either. This is about George's movie, him alone and his struggling journey to get this movie out while still managing to make an ever-lasting modern myth that isn't just space lasers swords, rubber costumes and miniatures. This is about how he took ownership of that work when a lot of other people can't, couldn't or whatever is stopping them (mainly the fact they don't own the work sadly, the studios do). Artist have changed their work because they felt like it and be damned the eye of the beholder and they're the still the films. Nothing has been changed to the story, characters or anything that's important to bring out the theme of perseverance and love, the things I care about for this movie.
I recommend watching this if you need someone to go through each of your points in excruciating detail: ruclips.net/video/xaeTOMvf67c/видео.htmlsi=hhdesth15wFhhM4U
@@TheSoIdier404 "The Theatrical versions were not and have never been what Lucas envisioned the film to be." I mean, that's technically 'true'. While George had the initial idea for this fantastic universe, much more of the credit for the actual film should go to Ben Burtt, Richard Chew, Gary Kurtz, the entire art department, and the amazing Marcia Lucas. The film as we know it was practically saved in editing by her. The way George wanted it to be edited was static and boring. Marcia's re-editing of the ending where the Rebels are trying to defend themselves from obliteration was masterful and heightens the dramatic tension. In George's cut, the rebels are just sent to attack the Death Star, Yavin is never threatened. Not to mention that when George went back and edited the assault on the Death Star again for the 1997 Special Editions, the CGI shots he added robbed the artists and craftsman of their hard work and achievement.
"Nothing has been changed to the story, characters." Uh... Han shot first.
To the whole first paragraph: ruclips.net/video/olqVGz6mOVE/видео.htmlsi=OWpUqUw2dF8EJ5Mg
And secondly, it was meant to be gunslinger stand-off. Greedo literally has his blaster and is taunting him with the fact he’s a dead man and Jabba is going to take his ship and Han says “over my dead body” and Greedo being cocky and confirming that he’s gonna shoot him right then and there, so even without George going back to make it abundantly clear visually (KEYWORD: VISUALLY BECAUSE THEYRE MEANT TO WORK AS SILENT FILMS) it’s also an homage to Westerns like A fistful full of dollars when Clint Eastwood’s character confronts the guys that scared his mule. In that scene, Eastwood is the Greedo, the antagonizer but the difference between them is the fact that Eastwood was faster and more definitive in what he was gonna do like Han, to his gun when the other guys were the cocky ones, making fun of the power they had over the town and that no one was gonna care if Clint got shot.
George is intentional with how he makes his movies. You seem not to have done the research.
Edit: Fuck your childhood and, by extension, fuck my childhood too.
@@TheSoIdier404 I think you misread the tone of my comment. I'm not part of the "George Lucas ruined my childhood" crowd. More that I don't understand the dogmatic mythos other people imprint onto George. My point was that the movie we both enjoy very much was a collaborative affair brought to life by many talented people who made decisions that George disagreed with, but ultimately led to this grand cinematic masterpiece. George has some great ideas, I love the guy for creating the Star Wars universe, but he's not some infallible demi-god who turns everything he touches into gold. He's bad at dialog, he communicates poorly with his actors, his cinematography is static, things he himself has admitted in interviews. Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford agree, there are multiple interviews of them languishing over the dialog they begged Lucas to remove.
“We, as the audience, should have no say with what filmmaker does with their work during or after it’s released.” That's true, it's their work, they own it and they can change it as they see fit. But this completely disregards artistic integrity and the fact that Lucas was not alone in this endeavor. Adding completely re-done CGI shots scrubs the original artist's work from history. Should one man have the power to effectively annihilate another artist's creation?
You’re not a fan of his style. I am. I love all his flaws and to think I don’t have criticism of the guy is very misleading. I think George, while a visual filmmaker at heart, does focus on the frame rather than what the actors are delivering from their voices. These are highly skilled and highly regarded actors but sometimes even they sound robotic but that’s not only a choice I very much love but also indicative of how he tells stories of mythic archetypes but letting them have human desires. I think another take or two surely would’ve elevated some of your criticism but that was the intent. And I love that intent or appreciate it.
And YES! A director is 100% the one who gets final say on what’s out there. In fact, dozens of the special effects people who worked on the film back then worked on the 1997 releases. People like Denis Muren, Ben Burt, and so on. To act high and mighty, that they’re upset at the fact George went back to scrub their work, when these men have never in the nearly 30 years since the release of the special editions said anything about it is so disgraceful and dishonest to what these men were able to accomplish in their entire career. They applaud and respect what George has done because that’s what they were hired to do, fulfill a directors vision.
George is very generous on giving credit to people who didn’t do all that much in the long-term, people like Leigh Brackett, who George added to the credits even though they didn’t use a word of her script but he liked her enough to let have writing credits because she unfortunately passed away before the movie came out. That’s a fault on him because now when he gives credit, people are quick to remove him from the conversation when he’s the one making sure it’s to his liking, his vision.
I love this movie and it's my second favorite Star Wars movie. But I don't think it's perfect.
We'll have the take this video down then if you don't deem it perfect