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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I'm paraphrasing this a bit, but there's a famous quote from Harrison Ford on the set of Star Wars telling Lucas, "George, you can write this %#$, but you sure can't say it."
Sadly, Lucas only became a worse writer as he aged. Remember Anakin's cringe-worthy line about sand in Episode II?
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I don't disagree.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I even found a lot of elements in the prequels that I really enjoyed. But it seems to me that Lucas writes better villian dialogue then he does hero dialogue.
I mean the whole Palpatine story about Darth Plageous the Wise in the opera house was so strongly written and performed.
But Ian McDarmid is a very strong actor.
But sadly Lucas' dialogue turned Natalie Portman into a poor actress.
I think that what also makes the Lucas Dialogue so tough is that you're competing with his overall imagination and story and effects that something has to suffer because it can't keep up.
Outside of aspects of the Phantom menace I found the whole 6 story arch to be a very cool story, and as much as people look at it as the story of the Skywalker clan, I would argue that the key characters are really the droids and the rise and fall of the Emperor.