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I always thought it was the height of indulgence for star wars to be a trilogy. Compress episode 4 down to 10 minutes, episode 6 down to 20, and slap them on ei
by akkartik 16y ago
I always thought it was the height of indulgence for star wars to be a trilogy. Compress episode 4 down to 10 minutes, episode 6 down to 20, and slap them on either side of Empire Strikes Back, untouched. I suspect the result would be startling.
I didn't realize Lucas contributed so little to this movie. That explains a lot.
- loganfrederick 16y agoI disagree. Having just watched Episode 4 when this story was posted, there is no way on the stories of Luke's origin with Obi Wan, development of the Force, meeting Han Solo, rescuing the princess, establishing the power of the Death Star and Darth Vader, having Vader fight Obi Wan with meaning, and have the Rebels fight the Empire all in 10 minutes and still have people understand and care about what's happening. tl;dr: You'd lose all the character development and be forcing plot into a film where no one cared about any of the characters.
- philwelch 16y agoThis isn't Reddit or anything--the quality of discourse is (hopefully still) high enough on HN that people can be arsed to read a three line paragraph without needing a tl;dr.
- zb 16y agoBasically there are only two stories. I don't mean in Star Wars; just in general. Let's call them The Iliad and The Odyssey. A New Hope was essentially just The Iliad In Space. So far, so good if you like that kind of thing (I personally never cared for it). The next two were basically The Odyssey. In space. Which was one more movie than was strictly justified. (I agree with the article that The Empire Strikes Back was the one good film in the series.) The three prequels probably cover about the first 10 pages of The Iliad, which was three more movies than was justified.