Lucasfilm
The first six Star Wars flicks aren’t scintillating paradigms of virtuoso screenwriting. There’s no labyrinthine Mamet-style plotting, no idiosyncratic flair a la the Coen brothers, none of the twisting, thought-provoking narrative you’d get from a Christopher Nolan movie.
These are fairly standard adventure stories for a family audience – good, clean, uncomplicated fun, and the majority are written by one George Walton Lucas Jnr., a man not known for his way with words. He’s a canny builder of worlds, like J.R.R. Tolkien, and he’s clearly invested a huge amount of time and energy in the creation of this fabulous, chaotic sci-fi setting a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… but he’s a born producer, not a writer. He’s always found the craft of writing a slog (hence farming out The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi), and it shows.
The first six Star Wars flicks aren’t scintillating paradigms of virtuoso screenwriting. There’s no labyrinthine Mamet-style plotting, no idiosyncratic flair a la the Coen brothers, none of the twisting, thought-provoking narrative you’d get from a Christopher Nolan movie.
These are fairly standard adventure stories for a family audience – good, clean, uncomplicated fun, and the majority are written by one George Walton Lucas Jnr., a man not known for his way with words. He’s a canny builder of worlds, like J.R.R. Tolkien, and he’s clearly invested a huge amount of time and energy in the creation of this fabulous, chaotic sci-fi setting a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… but he’s a born producer, not a writer. He’s always found the craft of writing a slog (hence farming out The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi), and it shows.
- 9/29/2015
- by Ben Cooke
- Obsessed with Film
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