What would Leia Organa do?

Architecture of Prague is truly mesmerizing

KIM KITSURAGI - “The connection to technology would have made Interfacing my first guess, but it doesn’t seem to share the general...perchant for self-destructive behavior. As always, Electrochemistry is a likely suspect for that. In this case, however, I would like to tell Authority to find other ways to answer a perceived slight from Satellite-Officer Vicquemare.”

LOGIC - Love that guy. AUTHORITY - Harry, you ARE licking the damn battery. Both sides now.

HARRY DU BOIS - “I will Lick It.”

KIM KITSURAGI - “...do it then. I command you.”

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: