Though Lucas fortunately had loads of editors and improvising actors on set to assist pave over this concern within the authentic trilogy, critics on the time nonetheless had no hassle mentioning that the dialogue was the film’s weak level. John Simon of New York Journal described it as “dialogue of overwhelming banality” again in 1977, and Peter Keough of the Boston Phoenix casually dismissed the dialogue as “awful.”
Which may appear shocking to trendy viewers, however the principle purpose the dialogue within the authentic “Star Wars” trilogy appears pretty much as good to us at the moment is as a result of now we have the prequel trilogy to match them to. It is exhausting to get on the unique films’ case after a long time of listening to bafflingly clunky strains like “I would relatively dream about Padme,” and “From my standpoint, the Jedi are evil” — and, after all, “I do not like sand. It is coarse and tough and worsening and it will get all over the place.” Lucas might have rightly stated his dialogue was not so good as Shakespeare’s, however after watching the prequels, his dialogue within the authentic trilogy begins does begin to look kind of Shakespearean as compared.
The “Star Wars” prequels gave us George Lucas at his most unrestrained, with valuable little editorial suggestions to forestall him from going via with three screenplays that clearly wanted at the least one other spherical of sharpening. The unique “Star Wars” films had been nice as a result of the clunky dialogue was rewritten, as Alex Guinness hoped it might be. It is only a disgrace that the prequels did not observe go well with.