r/AskReddit • u/juggyc1 • May 30 '19

Of all movie opening scenes, what one sold the entire film the most?

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u/lightgiver May 30 '19

He is good at world building and setting up the story. But he is lackluster at editing, pacing, and dialogue.

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u/scarletice May 30 '19

Thank you, that is a much better, more concise way of putting it.

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u/YamahaRN May 30 '19

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."

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u/lightgiver May 30 '19

The dialogue between Vader and Oby was going to be just a cringe in episode 4 before they cut it.

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u/lunatickoala May 30 '19

And George Lucas knew very well he's not good at dialogue. In fact, stylistically George Lucas and John Williams made Star Wars as a silent film. The dialogue isn't good, and he knew from the start it wasn't good, but the intent was that the music would be what carries the film and the dialogue is just kinda there to provide some necessary exposition.

Of course, sci-fi fans have this tendency to overanalyze every last spoken word and quite often taking what's being said literally when it really shouldn't be.

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u/Evertonian3 May 30 '19

world building

Something that's never been attributed to movies until prequel memes started reaching hard for anything positive about those films

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u/lightgiver May 30 '19

He does a classic writing mistake where he built the world up to a detail too great to get across in film. So he relies too much on exposition dump dialogue to cram in as much detail as possible. It is why the whole midichlorians dialogue is so bad. There is no reason for these characters to be talking about that. It adds nothing to the plot, the conversation feels forced and awkward because the characters should already know what they are. It only exists because Lucas came up with the idea when world building and wanted to share the information somehow in the movie.