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  1. i disagree: if he believes that the musicians are the ones who bring his work to life, then surely he has to believe that, without him composing, there wouldn’t be anything for them to bring to life. As I interpret it, he ‘just’ sees himself as part of the process of making music for films. The statements you refer to simply show that he considers the studio musicians every bit as vital a part of the process as him, no more or less. They are fantastic musicians, as is he, but they all work to serve a common goal.
  2. My dream (as well as the Ultimate Editions on CD, obviously) is complete orchestral scores, Omni-style, at least for the OT...
  3. He wrote them all, so he can decide to like whichever one he darn well pleases! We, in turn, don't have to agree with him.
  4. Don’t you mean ‘the quality of these productions is consistently high as they tell a single story which was always Lucas’s original intent if only we can view it in the right way with open minds’? If not, there’s someone I’d like you to discuss it with. At length.
  5. I think @Miguel Andrade is right about the Yo-Yo Ma connection, but I was looking at Ax’s Wikipedia page, which says he started attending Juilliard at the age of 12 and I was wondering if he and JW might have overlapped there. JW is older, of course, but attended Juilliard in his 20s. However, @Ricard’s chronology has JW at Juilliard in 1954 (albeit with question marks, plus this seems to overlap with his USAF service) whereas Wikipedia has Ax starting at Juilliard in 1961. So, probably not, unless anyone knows better? Mark
  6. Wait... are you saying that Lucas knew all along that Mattris was going to come up with his theory and clearly planned to ridicule it from the beginning? If only we'd had someone who could have opened our minds to see this.
  7. Yeah, that’s pretty much what I was referring to. I see it as stemming from an assumption that it’s a conspiracy, but you’re right to mention confirmation bias. I’m not even convinced that logic is what should be used in this context. We’re debating artistic motivations and the like, not the operation of a machine - Literary Criticism rather than Engineering, if you will.
  8. Contradicting themselves in interviews, as you agreed they have. You think it’s part of a huge elaborate 50-year grand plan, I think it’s humans making the odd mistake or misremembering. I decided to chime in to state my own opinion, which is different to yours and to which I’m nonetheless entitled. Not that I’ve ever noticed, but I suspect you might have more conversations like this than I do. Nothing that I’ve seen posted here so far, that’s for sure. I suppose it would have to be the worldwide cinematic release of an official Episode X which matches all your predictions. In return, I would like to know what evidence would convince you that you’re wrong. I don’t particularly think it’s your logic that’s at fault, I think it’s your assumptions that you and I fundamentally disagree on. That kind of personalised dogmatism isn’t my style, but it does seem to be yours. I’ve merely come to the (contingent) conclusion that your interpretation of the situation is less likely to be accurate than others. That’s all. It’s really not that exciting a disagreement, it has no bearing on which of us is a better human being and it’s certainly unconnected with any pride I might have. Mark (promise to self broken yet again)
  9. …and I’ve just realised they have that offer on right now, until the end of November!
  10. Quite possibly - it’s fairly well-known. I felt a SW spin on it would be apposite at this juncture.
  11. Peri, of course, but Ace was slightly more at the right (ahem, hormonal) time for me:
  12. Sorry, @Mattris, I’ve already broken my promise to myself that I wouldn’t get involved in this (putting it politely) malarkey. I’m entirely happy with my interpretation of SW, you’re happy with yours; you haven’t convinced me, I’ve got no desire to try to convince you, so we can politely go our separate ways. As the English writer Alan Moore didn’t quite write: “The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of [Star Wars] is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not [George Lucas], or [Disney], or [Kathleen Kennedy]. The truth is far more frightening — nobody is in control. [Star Wars] is rudderless.”
  13. I’m quite sure it’s not what you intended, but to my mind that’s an eloquent, succinct and accurate summary of your actions in this topic of discussion.
  14. No it isn’t. It’s at least as plausible that people are misremembering or phrasing vague recollections as fact, for any of a number of reasons. I appreciate you want to believe that everyone involved in SW is a cunning genius of the highest order, but they are still human and humans make mistakes. Mark
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