Yep, ANH was a hit and then they suddenly decided to figure out the big picture.

Jun 26, 2017
9:47:50pm

mudpupper All-American

Most of which then disagreed with what happened in ANH. But it wasn't really a big deal back then as the internet didn't exist and people couldn't publicly hash over inconsistencies.

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Why didn't Obi Wan Kenobi or Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru change Luke's last name?

eddog

6/26/17 9:33pm

It's just a movie bro.

SJS

6/26/17 9:34pm

Star wars isn't just a movie. It's life.

mudpupper

6/26/17 10:30pm

And football is just a game.

Ode to Hoy

6/26/17 11:43pm

Lucas cared more about special effects than plot holes

mudpupper

6/26/17 9:36pm

Because there's no way they could have come up with a cooler name

Beggar

6/26/17 9:37pm

That's exactly what the empire would have thought

SUAVO

6/26/17 9:38pm

Same reason Obi Wan doesn't remember owning r2d2

PenrynCoug

6/26/17 9:41pm

Obi Wan never did own R2. If you read the New Hope novel. It makes it clear that

monkeycowboy

6/27/17 9:01am

Skywalker is the Smith of far away galaxies, so it didn't matter.

BlueCoug

6/26/17 9:42pm

I have a therory that Lucas didn't have things planned out as much as he said

sgriff

6/26/17 9:44pm

I agree with this. Lucas did a ton of retconning.

eddog

6/26/17 9:46pm

Yep, ANH was a hit and then they suddenly decided to figure out the big picture.

mudpupper

6/26/17 9:47pm

This is what I think as well

Sir_Ten

6/26/17 9:51pm

Dude was the luckiest man to ever storm Hollywood.

mantis mutu

6/26/17 9:55pm

Like somebody on here said, he was special affects guy that landed a director's

mudpupper

6/26/17 9:58pm

Makes perfect sense. Do you know how he landed the music?

mantis mutu

6/26/17 10:00pm

I don't know but it was huge break for him. Williams was almost as important

mudpupper

6/26/17 10:13pm

No doubt. I wish I had the crystal ball view on how that 1st movie woulda flown

mantis mutu

6/26/17 10:16pm

It was a combination of Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress

TNT

6/26/17 10:23pm

I'll take that as homework, man.

mantis mutu

6/26/17 10:24pm

This info found here is great

TNT

6/26/17 10:29pm

Fox wanted Lucas to end the movie after they escape from the Death Star

TNT

6/26/17 10:35pm

He wanted to use the Planets at first ITRC. Spielberg recommended him after Jaws

TNT

6/26/17 10:19pm

That was me.

SandYFan

6/26/17 10:08pm

Still say that's the best insight in to Lucas. Simple but true.

mudpupper

6/26/17 10:14pm

Thanks. It's nice seeing actual filmmakers use the Star Wars toolbox.

SandYFan

6/26/17 10:18pm

George's gift was a very visual imagination

TNT

6/26/17 10:18pm

Making the robots the personable comic relief was bucking-trend ingenious too.

mantis mutu

6/26/17 10:29pm

It was. TNT is also of the opinion that the first Star Wars soundtrack

TNT

6/26/17 10:30pm

George Lucas. Nuff said.

mantis mutu

6/26/17 9:45pm

Another Skywalker on the same planet Anakin was born on? Nobody would notice

mudpupper

6/26/17 9:45pm

Anakin hated sand so much he wasn't ever going back there. Why else did he a task an underling to find the droids. SAND

SpiffCoug

6/26/17 11:03pm

Luke was hidden in the most obvious place ever

CFMcK

6/27/17 1:12am

Luke wasn't hidden. I thought Darth Vader knew his son survived.

Fdnman

6/27/17 6:07am

I was under the impression that Vader didn't find out about Luke

eddog

6/27/17 7:25am

You thought wrong. Vader didn't know about Luke until sometime between IV and V.

sgriff

6/27/17 7:32am

Darth Vader was in a constant battle with his inner Anakin. He felt that

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