Star Wars is almost certainly one of the most successful sagas in the history of commercial cinema. Above all, because it changed a lot of the things that people were used to when they watched movies. The experience of seeing the adventure of young Luke Skywalker, Leia and the Millennium Falcon for the first time in 1979 It is something that only a lucky few can understand. The galactic epic carries 40 years within the life and history of cinema and today we all understand the concepts of the force, the jedi or the dark side, but in the first viewing of Star Wars, the reactions were not as good as George Lucas expected.
Before the director of Star Wars (as the film was called in Spain in the 80s) had the film finished, he showed several of his director friends, among which were Steven Spielberg and Brian de Palma, an unfinished and very green version of what Star Wars would be. Lucas cut images of airplanes from other movies to cover the parts where the special effects were obviously not yet implemented. When the story is told, Spielberg always says that he was the only one present in the first Star Wars viewing that he enjoyed the movie, understanding perfectly what Spielberg wanted to achieve. However, now De Palma has denied part of that information on the podcast Mission: Imposible Light the Fuse.
Brian de Palma assured that everyone understood that the film did not have the unfinished effects, and that each of them knew that Lucas had managed to create something very special. What the director of Mission Impossible The thing about “the force” made him a bit funny: I made a joke about The Force, that’s true … I only thought about the idea of The Force, you know, “The Force”, I would say, and I kept repeating it. “Doesn’t seem like a great name for this kind of spirit guide, The Force.”. It was clear that in that, De Palma was wrong, but the filmmaker argued that he is always very direct with the opinions he gives to his colleagues.
“I said some very direct things to my director friends about their films that became very successful. Sometimes he was right, sometimes he was wrong. They did the same with my films ”stated the director, who also confirmed that in the same way, that Lucas himself was in the first viewing of Mission Impossible.
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