if you would join us hey everyone in today's video I'm continuing to go over
a transcript from the day's long story meeting which was where George Lucas had
this production team discussing what and shouldn't happen in Return of the Jedi
now I've used the term before but it's like being a fly on the wall here and
this is all from the separate books of the making of Empire Strikes Back Return
of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith I like to cover from all of these
different books because you get such a different perspective from all the
people that came together to make these movies including George Lucas himself
who gives a lot of insight on what was supposed to happen originally and then
he went in and changed things so Star Wars were supposed to be a completely
different story to what we know and love today and I think that's what's
fascinating to make these videos on is that we get to cover so many different
things that we never knew even was a possibility in the realm of Star Wars
according to George Lucas so here we get a sneak peek into George's creative
process now whether you agree with his choices or not it's clear that he has a
vision of what he wants Star Wars to be even if he may have accidentally put
some roadblocks in his own way by not knowing the entire story in his head
from the get-go which of course later had changed and we got what we got on
DVD and so on now in a new hope Ben tells Luke that Vader killed his father
but then an empire Vader tells Luke the truth so why did obi-wan lie to Luke
well the real answer is that he didn't George didn't know that Darth Vader was
Anakin Skywalker in episode 4 it was first when he was writing Empire that he
came up with the idea so now for Return of the Jedi it presented a problem what
could be the in universe reason for good noble Ben not telling Luke the truth
should Lucas attempt to answer it or just drop Kenobi from the last movie
well let's find out shall we oh and by the way the people he's speaking to
respectively here are his director producer and writer Lucas says we also
have to cope with another problem Ben how do we deal with Ben we have to deal
with Ben even to the point of using Alec Guinness and one more ghost scene I'll
get him to do it somehow we have to do what is right for the plot and the story
why did Ben not tell Luke in the early script I wrote that he wasn't ready to
be told mark and says well I think that is true if Luke had known
he wouldn't have become a Jedi and he wouldn't have been able to deal with it
mark Anne says I think that is absolutely true that's the most
practical reason why Howard Kazanjian says he probably wouldn't have learned
in the same manner for a lot of people there's a big issue there which we can't
screw around mark Han says the fact that Ben lied the
fact that Ben lied but he didn't really lie he didn't really lie because in the
first film he says that Vader betrayed and murdered his father which doesn't
necessarily mean that he killed him but that the bad Vader half of the
person betrayed the good part of the person the Skywalker half it's easily
understood Lawrence Kasdan says the first movie is not as much of a problem
as the second one where he has every opportunity to tell him yes I agree you
could get rid of all of this but I still tend to want to bring Ben into it he's
one of the main characters and he's still a strong presence I sort of agree
with Larry that the best way to handle this is to let him stay in another world
and to say there is nothing more that he can do now and that Luke is a Jedi now
and that his job is done it could be a goodbye scene to Ben which is I am never
going to appear before you again you want to bring him shimmering back at the
end we can do that they are guardian angels who are standing there Luke has
the power to see them that's nice that works they become the force the concept
is that when you die your energy drains into the force which is made up of all
living things we are just personifying it a little bit
which i think is all right the biggest thing is that we give Alec a good scene
to get him to do it a chance to act the problem with Empire was that he
doesn't act he just tells Luke something he wants something that is hard to do
but what he really wants is to be funny he wants some jokes some good snappy
lines he wants what all actors want to talk about the force but it's so boring
he doesn't want to talk about the force that's what he objects to now I kept
that last part with Alec Guinness wanting to be funny just to picture in
my head what that would have looked like Luke confronts Obi one about not telling
him Vader is his father and the old Jedi Master breaks into a stand-up routine
now maybe I'm gonna add that too you know once upon a theory or something but
you guys will know where it's all from anyways what I thought was neat about
what I just covered is that of her the whole from a certain point of view
thing before about obi-wan seeing that once Anakin became Vader part of him
that was good was murdered by the evil side but I hadn't heard before that Luke
wouldn't have been able to become a Jedi if he knew from the beginning but what
happened to his father that the knowledge would have been too much for
him that's pretty interesting and I guess you know just solidifies why
obi-wan didn't tell him the truth so you can kind of see George's process and
changing things up as he went from Episode four to five to six what do you
guys think if only one had told him the truth from the very first would Luke
have become a Jedi or would he have fallen to the dark side perhaps gone to
see his father and what do you think about if George had just gotten rid of
Obi one as was suggested it would have felt very unsatisfying I think anyways
let me know your comments down below hope you enjoyed this one I'll have many
more out like this for you until the next one remember the force will be with
you always
fulfill your destiny