From rec.arts.sf.reviews Thu Oct 30 14:01:50 1997 From: sfrevu@aol.com (Tony Tellado) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews Subject: Nonfiction: STAR WARS: THE ANNOTATED SCRIPTS by Laurent Bouzerau Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written Date: 29 Sep 1997 19:35:34 GMT Organization: Software Agents Group Lines: 31 Approved: wex@media.mit.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tinbergen.media.mit.edu Path: news.ifm.liu.se!genius.dat.hk-r.se!news.lth.se!c-1996!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!news!wex Xref: news.ifm.liu.se rec.arts.sf.reviews:1545 STAR WARS: THE ANNOTATED SCRIPTS by Laurent Bouzerau Review by Tony Tellado Copyright 1997 Ernest Lilley SFRevu A worthwhile addition to any Jedi knight's collection, and pretty interesting for the rest of us, STAR WARS: THE ANNOTATED SCRIPTS delivers more than the title promises. The book not only contains scripts from STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK AND RETURN OF THE JEDI, but almost every scene is shown with alternate treatments that show how the story evolved along the way. George Lucas gives insight into the creation of scenes and characters of STAR WARS that never quite were while illustrator Ralph McQuarrie talks of how he shaped the look of STAR WARS and the various physical changes the characters took. Other worthy interviews are with film editors, Paul Hirsh, Richard Chew and Duwayne Dunham; EMPIRE and JEDI Script Writer Lawrence Kasdan, EMPIRE Director Irvin Kirschner and many others. But what would a story be without conflict? Director Kirschner shares his disappointment with a scene where Darth Vader was unmasked in JEDI, transformed suddenly into kindly old man, supplanting the dark force that had stalked us through three movies. George Lucas reveals the influences on the trilogy such as the work of famed Japanese Director Akiro Kurosawa, and Producer Rick McCallum gives his insights on producing the special editions with lines from the specials added scene by scene. What emerges is not only an entertaining book for STAR WARS fans but also an opportunity for film buffs and students to get to see how films are shaped from draft to draft, to the final print. STAR WARS: THE ANNOTATED SCRIPTS takes us on a wonderful journey of story and creativity which is worth going on again and again. ISBN: 345-40981-7 / Del Rey Books