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Now, if you get a chance, pull up some behind the-scenes videos of how Lucas made the prequels. Here’s a few of them, watch:

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Whatever you think of the finished product, they’re hammering out new scenes and new locations, they were working out the details of the podracing scene and all the sound effects that would play throughout, they wanted to get the lighting of the palace just right - they weren’t preoccupied with recreating the original trilogy, they wanted to make something new. And that’s what they did. Was the dialogue kind of stilted, yes. Were many of the characters weak, yes. Was a lot of the acting not great, yes. Was the opening crawl about a trade war, you know, pretty boring, yes. But no one can accuse the prequels of trying to rip off the original trilogy - the choreography was different, the set pieces were different, and if you happen to be a fan of trade wars and political debates, you know, which is possible—and now tariffs are all the rage again—then, you know, there’s something here for you to watch that wasn't in the original films.

By contrast, take a look at the making of documentary for “The Force Awakens” - the entire time, they're fixated on what happened before, on nostalgia. Can’t go five seconds without talking about the older films, and how badly they want to emulate them. They come across like people who are desperate to figure out what made “Star Wars” appealing, so they can copy as much of the original films as possible. They never talk about any of their bold new ideas, because they don’t have any..

Watch:

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MAN 1: “What we would do is we would have sort of weekly check-in meetings with J.J., where we’d have a conference call, you know, video conference call. And we would go through the art.“

MAN 2: J.J. is very adamant that we kind of go back to the core aesthetics that made the original trilogy so great, and a lot of that was driven by Ralph and his sensibility. And for us, it’s kind of going back home in many ways, both for the visual look and the style of the movie…”

J.J. ABRAMS: “There was a feeling when I was a kid, when I saw Star Wars for the first time, that it was all practical and real. I mean, there were things like being outside the sand crawler and seeing those treads, those massive treads right there, it was a physical, tangible, real thing, you knew it when you saw the movie.”

PRODUCER: “So we wanted to go back and embrace the LOOK of those original films, which was all part of the feeling of how they were able to transport you into that universe…”

KATHLEEN KENNEDY: “There are things that are relevant, things you’re identifying with - certainly for all young kids when the movie came out, they either wanted to be Luke Skywalker, or they saw themselves as Han Solo. And I think that was a part of our challenge, was how are we gonna bring new characters into this series that had that same kind of power?…”

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