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But it is the same. Most folks - even though who love Star Wars in general and the prequels in particular - did not bother getting the Art of Star Wars books or any (now) legends books. The movies themselves had all of the worldbuilding within the lines given to the actors, and the visuals, of course. Those movies captured the imaginations of millions of people, because of the layered approach within the screenplay.

You want to make fun of Lucas's dialogue, go for it. He knew he wasn't good at it and had to have other writers punch it up. But don't confuse clunky wordsmithing for a bad script.

ESB, the movie most Star Wars fans agree is the best, was written in a hurry by Lucas because he so hated what Leigh Brackett gave him. Yes, she died of cancer a month after completing it and he gave her the screenplay credit with Kasdan, but it's well documented that he discarded it and started from scratch. Her screenplay, by the way, is readily available on the internet, and although she had story meetings with Lucas and had his treatment, so it has the big moments we know from ESB, she veered off wildly. So he produced the screenplay that then Kasdan fixed up, but the original Lucas draft is available and is obviously the movie as we know it.

Prequel haters - not all! - seem to sometimes fall into the same camp that likes to discredit Lucas for Star Wars and have him be the accidental beneficiary of others' talent. There's nothing much I can say to that camp, as his involvement in every aspect of the OT - even if sometimes unaccredited - is well documented (particularly well in [How Star Wars Conquered The Universe] (https://www.amazon.com/How-Star-Wars-Conquered-Universe/dp/0465089984/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) by Chris Taylor, definitely not a fan of the prequels).

Prequel haters talk how about Lucas being surrounded by yes men and/or folks intimated by Lucas who didn't steer him away from bad ideas. Obviously, as a fan of the prequels, I start from a different axiom about the quality of those movies, but I'll acknowledge Lucas's greatest faults. His inability to write movie dialogue, and his inability to detect an actor's inability to perform. But I'm a big movie fan and as someone in his mid 40's and a former movie critic (for a college newspaper, but I saw 4+ movies a week for 2 years), I have seen thousands. So I'll give Lucas enormous credit for his direction of action sequences, amazing visuals, excellent pacing (he is an editor by trade, after all), and for bringing high fantasy to the screen in a way only Lord of The Rings successfully implemented as well.

There's an older book that I think is called "on location, on Martha's Vineyard - the making of Jaws" that is a great read about the original, semi cursed production of this movie on the island before it was a big tourist destination. Lemme see if I can find it...

Yep. Found it...on Amazon but only from third party sellers.

Making of the Movie Jaws https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345248821/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_27uPCbKWEDTKA

I Want it Now is a memoir of the actress Julie Dawn Cole who played Veruca Salt. It's a quick read and free on Kindle. I recommend it-it's a fun recollection of behind the scenes insight from the perspective of one of the child actors.

Haha. Hey, we'll take that name too!

Actually, your comment reminded me... The local guy who insists on trying to actually name our area Orlampa is a bit of odd one... He's more Wizard of Oz vs. Charlie and the Chocolate factory but the weirdness is there for sure.

https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Orlampa-Yellow-Brick-Road/dp/B0031YZUGQ


"They call me the wizard because I created it... [The Wizard of Orlampa!] But I'm striving to become a wizard!"

"I find myself… living a fairy tale…on a yellow brick road...
that continues…to unfold before me." Quote from his website

Can confirm that we DO NOT call him the wizard of Orlampa. No one does. But hey, there's your random Central Florida oompaloompa fact for the day :)

If you get a chance watch the DVD of this with Stallone's commentary. During this scene he said that it was so cold his eyes froze and almost wrecked a couple of times. He does a decent job at commentary on this movie as well, which was surprising.

They look like they've been scanned out a magazine or book to me.

Edit: This looks like the book they were scanned from.

Yes you can get the extended editon in Blu Ray. But the bonus feature discs are still DVD quality, probably because the behind-the-scenes stuff was filmed in 1999 on standard definition cameras.

If you really want to get into it, try reading a book called "The Five C's of Cinematography". It's considered the bible of all things related to cinematography. It explains everything about shooting a scene in a way that's easy to understand.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Five-Cs-Cinematography-Techniques/dp/187950541X

you can watch it here if you have amazon prime, but otherwise i suppose you could look in a certain bay populated by sea brigands

You'll be happy to know that they just released a new Blu-ray set that includes the infamous "Ulysses" cut of the film which adds another 40 minutes to the run-time.

I think there was a limited DVD edition with this cut of the film released a while back but this is the first time it has been released in high definition.

Amazon link here!

It looks like it could be an outtake from the album cover photo shoot for Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints

https://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-Lords-Dan-Underhill/dp/B07KX7J1CV

The Joker comic by Brian Azzarello barely has Batman in it. This is likely going to be a world and character building story.

https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Making-Apocalypse-Eleanor-Coppola/dp/0571175112

Is it this one?

They released a storyboard book a couple years ago

I know it's available on disc 2 of The four disc final cut dvd.

> So I assume there are people who's jobs are just to mess around with this kind of stuff all day

You forget to realize there has been ~100 years of cinema already. A lot of "messing around" has already been done by others in the past.. and that info can now be found in textbooks.

VES Handbook