How Can Star Wars Be So Good Even Though It’s So Deeply Flawed And Narratively Inconsistent And Was Created By A Dumbass
[picture of Marcia Lucas in the editing room]
Seriously, stop everything you’re doing for the next twenty minutes and watch this video:
Although “George Lucas” has become synonymous with “Star Wars,” it’s really his collaboration with – and occasionally intervention from – the creative team surrounding him that helped launch the first movie into the stratosphere.
As the video points out, the movie that won all those Academy Awards – including, critically, the one for editing – was sculpted into its best-known and deservingly praised form by the editing team of Marcia Lucas (seen above), Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew.
If you’re at all interested in filmmaking or specifically the making of Star Wars, I can’t recommend “How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit” enough.
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For reference, this book is just as much about the original trilogy as it is about the prequels, so when they use “Jedi”, they often mean Luke’s era of post-ROTJ “JedI” and just ANY Force-users.
But the bigger point–and why I think this is an interesting point to make, as something we’ve seen a lot of in canon–is that this is why control of one’s emotions is so important. Not to suppress them or deny them (because the Jedi have explicitly said that’s not what they’re teaching) but to control them.
And we see why–just a couple of examples here!–Ezra’s fear causes the fyrnocks to attack:
A powerful Force-user like Darth Vader is able to straight up KNOCK AHSOKA TANO OUT, who has been trained and is strong in the Force as well:
And there are loads of examples of how we see people leaving their feelings–both good and bad–in the air and world around them. The Force isn’t just something that allows the Jedi to lift rocks or catch glimpses of the future–it’s how they connect to the entire galaxy. It’s how they see the world around them, the people around them, the life around them. It’s how they feel, it’s how they parse things, it’s how they think.
It puts them in psychic connection with those around them (to varying degrees, of course) and this is why you need to have control. This is why getting drunk off the Force and the emotions around you is a genuine danger and could allow you to hurt yourself and others very badly.
Feelings linger–Luke still feels Rey in the stone seat she sat on, thoughts and feelings imprint into the kyber crystals and become part of the blade, Luke can feel the anger roiling off Kylo Ren into the Force around them, this is how a Sith bleeds a kyber crystal–and echo and amplify everything.
If a Jedi were to let themselves run wild, if they stopped having control over themselves, it’s like getting drunk off the Force and thinking you’re still totally in control. And that’s what Depa and Mace and Obi-Wan are all teaching.
Headcanon that Luke and Leia both have some super rare (midichlorian involved?) blood type and at some point one of them gets Real Hurt TM on a mission and needs a transfusion immediately on base and Han is like STICK THE NEEDLE IN ME GIVE THEM ALL MY BLOOD I’M LIKE A UNIVERSAL DONOR FILL THEM WITH MY CORELLIAN BLOOD QUICK!!!! and the medics are like OH NO THEY HAVE SUPER RARE BLOOD TYPE TM!!! YOU ARE NOT A MATCH AND WE, THE UNDERDOG REBELLION WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, DON’T HAVE THE BLOOD LEIA/LUKE NEEDS!!!!!!!
And everyone is 😨
And then whichever twin isn’t bleeding out is like TRY ME!!!!!!!! (If it’s Leia extra bravery and angst points because AfraidOfNeedlesTM; if Leia is hurt extra angst points because Han desperate to give his blood to her but not a match but Luke is, wow very angst)
And after the successful transfusion Han is like wow real lucky you guys both have this super rare crazy blood type huh!!!!
And they’re like yeah 🙂
And Han’s like “and don’t you guys have the same birthday too???”
And they’re like yeah 🙂
Han: and you’re both orphans huh?
And they’re mhmmm 😦
Han: wow talk about coincidences. Anyways real lucky!!!!!!!! 🙂
wow incredible stunning talented showstopping… 10/10. even more powerful when paired with desert chic bucket hat and goggles 30/10
desert #2:
good i like it. powerful pose. baby gay in search of adventure but he knows you gotta be cute. solid start i like the loose shirt… artistic AND practical. 10/10
yellow jacket:
he’s clearly copying the brown pants + boots look from han but he’s using the yellow jacket to make it his own! revolutionary 10/10
beige brilliance:
this is the gayest possible way to hold a gun i love him…. 10/10
dagobah more like gaygobah:
toying with tasteful twunk looks…. look at those biceps. 10/10
return of the jedi aka
i just.. just look at him. go out and buy a new gucci suit just to face down your estranged dad what kind of gay goals.. icon. 10000/10
best pilot in the galaxy:
can you believe he invented the colour orange? wow. thank you. 10/10
dramatic like my father before me:
the moody gaze off into the distance… 10/10
forest frollicking:
the caption for this was “mark hamill as the wonderful luke skywalker” and i am inclined to agree. ponchos were literally invented to be worn by this man. 10/10
depression robes:
he may be in exile but that doesnt mean he cant look good!! 10/10
bonus: ooooh he fucking did that you know he did!!!
okay i cant find a pic of it but you know what im talking about!!!!! the haircut harking back to his days as the galaxy’s most iconic twink ever to wear a bowlcut… the 600 thread count black suit.. you KNOW before he went to that battlefield he astral-projected into the runway at space fashion week and pirated the latest ralph lauren number in a tasteful matte black. incredible. i love luke. 1000000000/10
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