They may have struggled in the story department, but the Star Wars prequels rarely disappointed on a visual scale. Love 'em or loath 'em, this video may make you see them in a fascinating new light. Talented editor Pablo Fernandez Eyre has put together a beautiful comparison between George Lucas' much-maligned second trilogy and the original movies that preceeded them. Eyre's 'Star Wars Poetry' focuses on the astonishing visual symmetry between the two sets of films, highlighting a number of different ways Lucas' took drew inspiration from his old masterpieces through side-by-side comparison. The 2-minute long edit is set to the sound of Ludivicio Einaudi's beautiful 'Experience' - making the actual viewing experience all the more chilling. What are your thoughts? Does this video give you a newfound appreciation for George Lucas's later work, or is the mere memory of young Anakin too painful for you to ever get over?...
- 9/11/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
In a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair in 2005, George Lucas said, “The interesting thing about Star Wars—and I didn’t ever really push this very far, because it’s not really that important—but there’s a lot going on there that most people haven’t come to grips with yet. But when they do, they will find it’s a much more intricately made clock than most people would imagine.” Lucas has mentioned many times since, that he has always envisioned the visual language of Star Wars as akin to a silent film, in other words, if you were to turn the sound off, you could still follow along with the story. George Miller recently stated he took a similar approach when making Mad Max: Fury Road, and although this approach seems better suited for that film, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t any poetry to the...
- 9/2/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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