• Original 'Star Wars' editor: JJ Abrams and Kathleeen Kennedy "don't get

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 21 19:15:35 2021
    No surprise to anyone ...


    'Star Wars' Editor Marcia Lucas Slams Kathleen Kennedy,
    J.J. Abrams and Sequel Trilogy: 'They Don't Get It'
    -------------------------------------------------------
    Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original "Star Wars,"
    wasn't very happy with Disney's sequel trilogy. She said producer
    Kathleen Kennedy and director J.J. Abrams "don't get it" and "the
    storylines are terrible" in an interview for J.W. Rinzler's book
    "Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life," which examines the prolific
    producer's life, including his time on the "Star Wars" franchise.

    "I like Kathleen. I always liked her. She was full of beans. She
    was really smart and really bright. Really wonderful woman. And
    I liked her husband, Frank. I liked them a lot. Now that she's
    running Lucasfilm and making movies, it seems to me that Kathy
    Kennedy and J.J. Abrams don't have a clue about 'Star Wars.' They
    don't get it. And J.J. Abrams is writing these stories - when
    I saw that movie where they kill Han Solo, I was furious. I was
    furious when they killed Han Solo. Absolutely, positively there
    was no rhyme or reason to it. I thought, 'You don't get the Jedi
    story. You don't get the magic of 'Star Wars.' You're getting rid
    of Han Solo?'" Lucas says in the book.

    She served as an editor on "Star Wars," for which she won the
    Oscar for film editing in 1977, and "Return of the Jedi," and she
    was an uncredited editor on "The Empire Strikes Back." Lucas was
    credited with editing the thrilling Battle of Yavin and Death
    Star assault sequences in the first film of the trilogy. Her
    other editing credits include "Taxi Driver," for which she earned
    an BAFTA nod, "American Graffiti," which nabbed her an Oscar nom,
    "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York." She
    was also married to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas from
    1969-1983.

    Having worked on the original trilogy, she criticized the deaths
    of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa and Rey, played by
    Daisy Ridley in Disney's trilogy of sequels.

    "They have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed
    Luke Skywalker. And they don't have Princess Leia anymore. And
    they're spitting out movies every year. And they think it's
    important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main
    character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers,
    but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks.
    The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful. You can quote
    me - 'J.J. Abrams, Kathy Kennedy - talk to me,'" Lucas says in the
    book.

    <https://variety.com/2021/film/news/star-wars-marcia-lucas-kathleen-kennedy-jj-abrams-1235069465/>

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  • From Wolffan@21:1/5 to Your Name on Tue Sep 21 08:58:12 2021
    On 2021 Sep 21, Your Name wrote
    (in article <sic0qn$6pi$1@gioia.aioe.org>):

    so now their main
    character is this female,

    so?
    who's supposed to have Jedi powers,
    but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is.

    We do know. It was in the last movie. She’s the Emperor’s granddaughter. This explains both where she got her Jedi powers and who she is.

    And, oh... the last line of ‘Rise of Skywalker’: “I’m Rey.” Pause. the Force ghosts of Like and Leia look at her. “Rey Skywalker.” The Force ghosts beam. Roll end credits.

    Whether or not Marcia Lucas likes it, ‘Rise of Skywalker’ tied up the
    loose ends. And Rey is now an adopted Skywalker, having killed the Emperor
    (for good, this time; we saw the dead body. You ain’t dead in Star Wars if
    we don’t see the body or the Force ghost.)

    I liked 'Rise of Skywalker’ a whole lot more than ‘Last Jedi’ or
    ‘Force Awakens’. It’s my #3 Star Wars movie, behind ‘Empire’ (#1)
    and ‘Rogue One’ (#2).

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 21 08:29:52 2021
    On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:15:35 +1200, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
    wrote:


    No surprise to anyone ...


    'Star Wars' Editor Marcia Lucas Slams Kathleen Kennedy,
    J.J. Abrams and Sequel Trilogy: 'They Don't Get It'
    -------------------------------------------------------
    Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning editor of the original "Star Wars,"
    wasn't very happy with Disney's sequel trilogy. She said producer
    Kathleen Kennedy and director J.J. Abrams "don't get it" and "the
    storylines are terrible" in an interview for J.W. Rinzler's book
    "Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life," which examines the prolific
    producer's life, including his time on the "Star Wars" franchise.

    The storylines are pretty much the same as IV, V, and VI. With
    variations, of course.

    <snippo further nonsense>

    She served as an editor on "Star Wars," for which she won the
    Oscar for film editing in 1977, and "Return of the Jedi," and she
    was an uncredited editor on "The Empire Strikes Back." Lucas was
    credited with editing the thrilling Battle of Yavin and Death
    Star assault sequences in the first film of the trilogy. Her
    other editing credits include "Taxi Driver," for which she earned
    an BAFTA nod, "American Graffiti," which nabbed her an Oscar nom,
    "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York." She
    was also married to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas from
    1969-1983.

    I noticed some years ago that Kathleen Kennedy was in the credits of a
    /lot/ of movies I liked. I have no idea if she actually influenced
    them, or just made some very good choices of film to work on.

    Having worked on the original trilogy, she criticized the deaths
    of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa and Rey, played by
    Daisy Ridley in Disney's trilogy of sequels.

    "They have Luke disintegrate. They killed Han Solo. They killed
    Luke Skywalker. And they don't have Princess Leia anymore. And
    they're spitting out movies every year. And they think it's
    important to appeal to a woman's audience, so now their main
    character is this female, who's supposed to have Jedi powers,
    but we don't know how she got Jedi powers, or who she is. It sucks.
    The storylines are terrible. Just terrible. Awful. You can quote
    me - 'J.J. Abrams, Kathy Kennedy - talk to me,'" Lucas says in the
    book.

    IIRC, Dumas wrote a novel in which each and every one of the Four
    Musketeers -- died.

    Audiences in his time believed that how a person died was as important
    as how they had lived.

    So another way of regarding a trilogy of films in which the three
    principals of an earlier trilogy of films die as a revival of an old
    cultural tradition.

    Which audiences today may well have no desire to see. But some of us
    appreciate the effort.
    --
    "I begin to envy Petronius."
    "I have envied him long since."

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