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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 92877" data-attributes="member: 158">I've finally figured it out.George Lucas has always wanted to do a &quot;Cast of Thousands&quot; movie, a la Lawrence of Arabia or Captain Blood. Episode I was his chance to do that. Visually stunning, and nothing more than a child's fairy tale in its core.Ep II is shaping up to be part &quot;love story,&quot; part &quot;cast of thousands&quot; movie also. While some people hate these movies in preference to the small-character driven stories of the first three Star Wars Films, it is just another genre and style of 1940's to 1960's style of movie that George lucas loves. How many people realize that Lucas directly ripped off scads of World War II fighter-pilot movies with the assault on the death star? He even inserted WW II fighter pilot footage of US fighters attacking a Japanese Battleship when Star Wars IV was in post-production, as place fillers!Ep II is going to contain hundreds of Jedi Fighting a desperate battle with thousands of opposition, and we the fans are going to eat up the scenes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 92877, member: 158"] I've finally figured it out. George Lucas has always wanted to do a "Cast of Thousands" movie, a la [i]Lawrence of Arabia[/i] or [I]Captain Blood[/I]. Episode I was his chance to do that. Visually stunning, and nothing more than a child's fairy tale in its core. Ep II is shaping up to be part "love story," part "cast of thousands" movie also. While some people hate these movies in preference to the small-character driven stories of the first three Star Wars Films, it is just another genre and style of 1940's to 1960's style of movie that George lucas loves. How many people realize that Lucas directly ripped off scads of World War II fighter-pilot movies with the assault on the death star? He even inserted WW II fighter pilot footage of US fighters attacking a Japanese Battleship when Star Wars IV was in post-production, as place fillers! Ep II is going to contain hundreds of Jedi Fighting a desperate battle with thousands of opposition, and we the fans are going to eat up the scenes. [/QUOTE]

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