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Right... Lucas told Mark Hamill before that scene was filmed so he would ham up his reaction.
And also so that the secret wouldn't get out
The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
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Re: The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
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Soon, but I don't think I, and we, will really watch them. I think we'll watch the "real" old movies instead. I think it'll take the route of other art forms, and we will value the craftsmanship just as much as the output
The promises of the film experience at the dawn of the digital era were never realized. All of the work has been put into minimizing the costs of movie making and distribution. Consumer display and audio technologies are the exception, but movie theaters still haven't incorporated automated ambient effects like local haptics or spatial audio, smellovision, lighting, etc, like in stage productions. There are no custom…
Very cool.
Do you want to work on this? Sounds like a fun project
Re: The Empire Strikes Back First Draft by Leigh Brackett (1978) [pdf]
#113A bit of context: Leigh Brackett was a sci-fi author and screenwriter that George Lucas hired to write the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back in 1977. She wrote it based on a story conference the two had but unfortunately passed away from cancer a month after submitting it in 1978. Lucas then wrote a few drafts himself but wasn't satisfied. Eventually, he brought on Lawrence Kasdan, who would also write Raiders o…
She was an underappreciated prodigy who wrote an enormous number of screenplays.
My understanding is that Kurtz and Fox hired her, Kasdan, and Kershner, not Lucas, resulting in the best film of the corpus. It's such a standout compared to the ones written by Lucas.