RED FIVE IN YOUR AREA

MARK HAMILL as LUKE SKYWALKER

Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.

While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.

On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:

On some of her work in Star Wars:

On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:

On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:

On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:

On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

I also think it’s crazy to level down Anakin’s importance in Padmé’s life to something as dull and incorrect as “he’s just some guy.” Anakin was not some random man that Padmé couldn’t live without. He was the love of her life, her soulmate, her one and only happiness in a galaxy going corrupt, her family, her world, and basically everything. Mind you, that Padmé never batted an eye at any man in her entire life and even rejected potential suitors who would’ve given her the life she’s always wanted because she was her own person with her own goals and passions to change the world she was living in. Definitely not a trait of someone who was living her life for a man.

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Is his sudden willingness to forgo any attachments because it makes no sense? Luke Skywalker was someone defined by his love for his family, even when he wanted to be anywhere else, and that same love is ultimately what led to him being able to save Darth Vader, even when it would've been easier to just kill him and the Emperor. He was willing to risk his life and soul on the slim hope he could save the father he barely even knew, because he was his father and sensed that there was conflict in him.

Heck, the main reason he stopped in Jedi training in The Empire Strikes Back was to save his friends, even when he knew it was probably a trap.

With that in mind, how can you look me in the eye and tell me that this would be the same person who tells Baby Yoda he has to pick between being a Jedi and Din? How can you say that he would keep Ben Solo away from his parents?

Heck, he knows why his parents' marriage was destroyed in the new Canon and it was primarily because Anakin was force to choose between his Jedi duties and his love for Padme, so why would he force a new generation of Jedi to do the same?