{"id":35255,"date":"2010-06-27T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/27\/what-were-george-lucas-five-best-star-wars-ideas"},"modified":"2011-09-24T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T08:24:05","slug":"what-were-george-lucas-five-best-star-wars-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/what-were-george-lucas-five-best-star-wars-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"What were George Lucas&#8217; five best Star Wars ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/oldblogger\/luc0-033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ns\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-import\/oldblogger\/luc0-033.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>This occurred to me recently and I wanted to ask what other Horrorthonners thought. Obviously you could say &#8220;the Force&#8221; or &#8220;the Jedi&#8221; but I guess I&#8217;m asking in a more abstract, elemental &#8220;pure cinema&#8221; sense. What were the basic visual\/auditory innovations that gave the thing its fundamental punch, up on the big screen for the first time? Anyway here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<p>1) lightsaber (probably his best idea ever)<br \/>2) spaceship dogfight<br \/>3) droids<br \/>4) orchestral score<br \/>5) use a Muppet*<\/p>\n<p>Comments welcome.  (I&#8217;m posting on my phone from a Massachusetts cabin, which is pretty cool.)<\/p>\n<p>*(not just a mere puppet but a <i>Muppet<\/i>, specifically, complete with Frank Oz.) (Go ahead and give me a hard time about not sticking with the first movie if you feel like it.)<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM: Others that occurred to me included &#8220;Vader mask,&#8221; &#8220;dirt everywhere,&#8221; &#8220;Death Star trench (you could just say the Death Star itself but that had kind of been done before, albeit never so well),&#8221; &#8220;Letting them try to build the Dykstraflex motion control system even though it was the pre-PC era and they had to make their own fucking printed circuit boards&#8221; etc. He had a <i>lot<\/i> of good ideas, and so did the people he brought together.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This occurred to me recently and I wanted to ask what other Horrorthonners thought. Obviously you could say &#8220;the Force&#8221; or &#8220;the Jedi&#8221; but I guess I&#8217;m asking in a more abstract, elemental &#8220;pure cinema&#8221; sense. What were the basic visual\/auditory innovations that gave the thing its fundamental punch, up on the big screen for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horrorthon_posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41399,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35255\/revisions\/41399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}