Word: kershner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner for Empire and Richard Marquand for Jedi...
...Search for the Nile), campaigned for the job and guarded Lucas' creation zealously. Says he: "It is as if Lucas were a famous composer who said to me, 'Here's a 120-piece orchestra. Here's my music. I'd like you to conduct.' " In this maestro's view, Kershner had carelessly strayed from the true faith. Marquand was disturbed to detect that in Empire Artoo-Detoo was occasionally painted with black squares instead of his customary blue, and that Darth Vader sometimes wielded his light-saber with only one hand, like an oldtime Texas sheriff. "Everyone knows that...
...there is a difference, Connery says, it is in their approach to character: "I start with the serious and then try to inject as much humor as I can, to get a balance of the ingredients. Roger comes in the humor door, and I go out it." Director Irvin Kershner, whose last film, The Empire Strikes Back, mixed romance and rue, sees Never Say Never as "an entertainment, but with real people and human values. As far as I'm concerned, there's never been a Bond picture before...
...film also ends with no hint of resolution. Lucas and director Irvin Kershner take us to the edges of our seats and leave us there. If the quality of future Star Wars films remains as high as in the first two (or middle two, depending on your point of view), we'll still be there for episode VI three years hence--and for the last installment a generation from...
When Star Wars was completed, Lucas, who had been drained by the experience, said that he would let others direct the rest of the series. Kershner was chosen for The Empire because Lucas admired his ability to deal with human relationships. Lucas himself seems a little uncomfortable with real actors, and when he was making American Graffiti, his wordless style became a friendly gag among the actors. Richard Dreyfuss later joked that he was on the set three weeks before he knew that the director could speak English. While The Empire was being made, Lucas showed up at the London...