| Re: Phantom Menace
Agreed - but also the fact the film-makers change is important here. In Star Wars (no, not "A New Hope" - the film is called Star Wars!) the actors apparently made important changes to the dialogue at least - Alec Guinness certainly spoke about doing so. In fact, Lucas was under lots of commercial pressures and had to work within restrictions, and be as creative as a possible to tell the story.
Nowdays, though, people have been too busy worshipping Lucas to seemingly dare criticise him - thus he lost a very important formative pressure. Add to that the fact that he's not so much concerned with telling a story - as much as trying to plug his computer games in the process.
Star Wars was an attempt to tell an epic story - a modern myth and legend - but revisiting the project seems to have made it a cash cow first, and a loose creative effort second. Which is perhaps why luck is required for Anakin to actually destroy the droid control vessel by accident (and what happened to all the other droid control vessels from the blockage and invasion shown on all the previous shots, anyway?). |