hey guys how are you doing let's finish episode one's bonus disc we only have a
little bit left and uh then we can start on episode
three which i'm very very excited for then we can start on the original
trilogy which i'm also really excited for because i just picked this up today
this the empire strikes back which has the original
uh unedited version as well as all the of course bonus discs
and this which is a bonus disc in and of itself
the whole thing uh for the original so i'm excited to go through all of these
as well as return of the jedi and new hope all that so very excited
let's finish up episode one we've got a lot of work ahead of us here
for the summer it'll probably run us the course of the summer here
so let's start at my favorite which is the story
the new episode episode 1 starts 30 some odd years
before episode 4 which was the original star wars
ever since the success of star wars i decided i would go back
and tell the back story of how everybody got there because the tricky part of his
the films are serials they are designed ultimately to be seen as one big 12-hour
film and in that there are sections and
chapters that actually express the story of a family
the part for me that was the most revealing was when i
first saw some film and especially film of the desert in tunisia
i said oh i'm back the characters were standing there
and it was star wars i mean just we were back there and it was
exactly the same and it was just like we those 20 years had never elapsed it
was pretty amazing
the difference with this star wars is you know it's part of a body of work
that's been you know it was conceived many years ago
and three films were made 17-18 almost 20 years ago it's kind of
become mythic already you know that we're stepping
into shoes in order to to be another piece of this jigsaw
puzzle that is star wars because of what star wars movies meant
to me when i was a kid you know it's about five or six when the first
one came out so they're more than just movies to me
the story starts out on the planet of nebu which has been blockaded by the
trade federation there's speculation in the queen's
palace of what this means one of the senators uh speculates that
it means that they're going to invade communications disruption can mean only
one thing invasion i will not condone a course of
action that will lead us to war in episode one of star wars i play queen
amidala she's very powerful and she is in
control of everyone yet she's a very good leader our people
are dying senator we must do something quickly to stop the
federation she doesn't act for her own good and for
her own quest for power she she really tries to
do the best for her people so i think it's
a it's a role model really for everyone and
it would be good for young girls to see
i have many beautiful beautiful costumes there's so many changes for me because a
queen can't wear the same outfit twice
they're familiar with it because the star was the same world as the same
world as what it is with new characters you know younger
characters but it's great it's the same kind of
fairy tale characters you know that make it work so well
whoops
there's never been a real comic character in
any of the star wars movies like just outright comic
the character of janja he was banished from his world
because he was clumsy he just didn't fit in with the other gungans
of his world and i think everybody remembers when they were that kid who
just didn't fit in and i know i was one i was that weird
kid who didn't fit into any group i think all those kids and all those you
know people who feel like they don't fit in will identify
with with jar jar he wants to fit in and he wants to be with everybody else and
he wants to be good but he just can't help it he's just he's
just clumsy you relate to the world even though
these are different creatures and different people you know it something
about it makes you relate to it you know something about it makes you
feel for the characters uh the central issue in the film is that
uh a boy is taken from his mother and that sort of drives everything well
i'm playing the mother of anakin and we have a good relationship my boy and i
and um it's a beautiful part i love it very much
it's so warm and i feel very familiar about it because i got three kids myself
anakin skywalker is a lot like me he's really mechanical he
loves to tinker with stuff he's been a slave in his entire life
on tattling and now he has to leave his mom
she's been the only person that's there for him for his entire life
she he does he he's never had a father so i think he was kind of confused
on whether to go or to stay
she's very brave in a way to let him go
she really do believe in him i just can't do it
that he's gonna take the responsibility of his own life
i ever see you again
what does your heart tell you
george is an expert and he is one of the world's great storytellers
we were very aware this is we're part of telling this
extraordinary story and that's you get a sense of him it's a very understated
expertise he has precision and patience you know
oh wow we're going to tighten up on yoda all right then we'll tighten up on sam
okay you kind of dream about things when you're a young actor and you see things
happening and you wish you could be a part of it
and sometimes you know things that you want can happen and this
is one of those kind of uh dream come true
i remember actually going to the very first
screening of star wars in new york city and i was at the first showing i was
there i saw it a lot of times after that i'm a huge fan of the series the first
day was pretty you know awesome for me to
walk onto a set looking around at all the people there
and the costumes you know and then to make it even
better all of a sudden i was there with you know yoda and the enormity
of the situation was everything i thought
a star wars experience could be
and it never stops you know you you would think you would get used to it
but i never got used to it
these movies are so entertaining and people love them and little kids love
them and adults love them and it really spans
generations george's tales the star war tales
have really tapped into a psyche in the world that
modern popular culture has never done before and to me that says yes these
films are incredibly well made but also it's
timing and to avoid that we have
as human beings that we have kind of lost something and george provides
you know these films are providing that great storytelling sense of myth
it's really cool seeing liam neeson talk about uh stuff like george lucas and
star wars and everything in general because you just never really see him
talk much about it i wish they had more stuff him you know
behind the scenes and maybe they do maybe we'll get to it but
something really interesting about anakin that i just want to
throw in there um is that you can see how innocent he was as a kid
and as george says it was all because you know it was a boy who was taken away
from his mother and the upbringing of this child you
know he was happy he was very curious and he was basically just a
positive good-hearted kid but that child with the
wrong upbringing can turn into what becomes darth vader
you know order 66 and everything that anakin did
in the pursuit of you know saving padme so what i'm trying the point i'm trying
to get to is what dave felony touched on which is
that qui-gon jinn was the real father figure to anakin
and had he not died then anakin would have gotten
the true upbringing that he deserved the true father figure that he needed
which he didn't have when he was plucked away from his mother
so anyways let's continue