Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three adopted kids off at school. He came home, climbed the stairs to his study, got a pad of yellow ruled paper and a box of Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. And in the same binder in which he wrote the original Star Wars, he got to work on The Phantom Menace...
...takes a village to make a movie: all those artists prying the Phantom menagerie out of Lucas' brain. The film had tens of thousands of visual elements, and Lucas signed off on all of them; he would stamp "O.K." or "Fabuloso" on the designs he liked. "George is very collaborative," says Rick McCallum, who produced Episode 1. "But finally it's his word, his world...
MOYERS: The mesmerizing figure in The Phantom Menace to me is Darth Maul. When I saw him, I thought of Lucifer in Paradise Lost or the devil in Dante's Inferno. He's the Evil Other--but with powerful human traits...
...doing certain things and denying to yourself that you're actually doing them. If people were really to sit down and honestly look at themselves and the consequences of their actions, they would try to live their lives a lot differently. One of the main themes in The Phantom Menace is of organisms having to realize they must live for their mutual advantage...
...feel the force of politics. Unlike his friend Steven Spielberg, Star Wars supremo Lucas doesn't make campaign contributions to the Democrats or, as far as we know, anyone. But could there be a heavy hint of party affiliation in his latest epic? Consider: Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, written in the mid-'90s and shot in scandal-filled 1998, opens with a hot-headed character named Nute (pronounced Newt), whose attack on the defenseless planet of Naboo has all the speed and surprise of the Republican revolution. Nute's ally in the Galactic Senate is known...