NO slight intended at all on adoption or adoptive kids.
I meant that Lucas has no personal experience with pregnancy, anticipating the birth of a biological child. Yet he tries to write a believable, young, male reaction to impending fatherhood.
He seems to be very disconnected from normal human interaction. He doesn't like people or dealing with them. He was distant in marriage, his wife left him for the man he hired to install stained glass in the Skywalker Ranch.
Everything I've read points to a very emotionally distant man.
He can't write- or present- what he doesn't know. He should have gotten help writing. But the ego wouldn't let him.
Someone else mentioned that with films like SW, plot is not a necessary thing...but that is exactly what made the Original SW WORK - there WAS a plot...and personally, I never really thought the dialogue all that bad. It communicated effectively what the characters were doing/thinking/anticipating. It all started going down hill when Leigh Brackett died and Lucas decided to replace Kirshner with a more 'malleable' director - in other words, someone who wouldnt question Lucas' writing and not allow the actors to take over.
There have been in the past one or two books discussing the behind the scenes of the OSW and how much of a micro-manager Lucas was, not to mention how jealous he was of letting more creative people work with his ideas. If he had been a bit more open to allowing the actors develop the characters and taken more of a 'global' approach to the whole concept, he may have had some BRILLIANT stuff.
Ironically, as an adopted child, I absolutely HATE the scene in ROTJ where Luke tells Leia who his father is and how Leia reacts to being his sister. Poor dialogue/acting indeed!
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