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THE STAR WARS ARCHIVES: 1977–1983 - 0 - ENG Hardcover – 27 Nov. 2018

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Modern Monomyth Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically embraced the positive energy of the Star Wars universe as they followed moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his journey through galaxies, meeting extraordinary characters like mysterious hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi, space pirates Han Solo and Chewbacca, bumbling droids C-3PO and R2-D2, bold Princess Leia and the horrific Darth Vader, servant of the dark, malevolent Emperor. Writer, director, and producer George Lucas created the modern monomyth of our times, one that resonates with the child in us all. He achieved this by forming Industrial Light & Magic and developing cutting-edge special effects technology, which he combined with innovative editing techniques and a heightened sense of sound to give audiences a unique sensory cinematic experience. Made with the full cooperation of George Lucas and Lucasfilm, this first volume covers the making of the original trilogy - Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi- and features an exclusive interview with Lucas. The book is profusely illustrated with script pages, production documents, concept art, storyboards, on-set photography, stills, and posters. "Love people. That's basically all Star Wars is." -- George Lucas

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27 Nov. 2018
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33.27 x 7.11 x 47.75 cm
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Publisher : RETROSUPERFUTURE; 1st edition (27 Nov. 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 620 pages
ISBN-10 : 3836563401
ISBN-13 : 978-3836563406
Dimensions : 33.27 x 7.11 x 47.75 cm

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"The Star Wars Archives pulls off the impossible: a fresh look at one of the most picked-off franchises ever."--Chicago Tribune

"My films have a tendency to promote personal self-esteem, a you-can-do-it attitude. Their message is: 'Don't listen to everyone else. Discover your own feelings and follow them. Then you can overcome anything.'"--George Lucas

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Paul Duncan is a film historian whose TASCHEN books include The James Bond Archives, The Charlie Chaplin Archives, The Godfather Family Album, Taxi Driver, Film Noir, and Horror Cinema, as well as publications on film directors, film genres, movie stars, and film posters.

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Steven Roberts

Good.....but not great.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2019

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OK, first impressions...it's a BIG, handsome-looking tome. Reproduction quality is very good, but I was surprised that they included numerous photos from the 90s special edition re-releases (especially given the title of the book).

Surprised also to see a lot of promotional photos that have been seen many times before (was expecting it to be more heavily geared towards unpublished stills).

And - a minor issue this, but an irritating one - I don't like the way they indexed the stills, by placing the number of the image in the bottom corner of the still rather than under it...it just seems to spoil the purity of the images to my mind.

Overall, worth having if you are a SW nut, but not one of Taschen's finest efforts. I think they dropped the ball a bit here - not least because I'm confident there are/were enough unpublished photos for them to have done separate books for each of the original trilogy, rather than a (very large) single tome.

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Skywalker1138

Ultimate reference work? Yes. And no.

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When it was announced this spring that the German publishing company Taschen (known worldwide for their particularly beautiful and large books) was working on a Star Wars release, expectations were immediately high. This could be one of the most ultimate reference works.

Last week was the day: this gigantic work (weighing 7.5 kilos and 33 x 7 x 48 centimeters in size) was delivered. At the back of the credits a nice surprise (the author used two of my interviews, so I am already listed for the 5th time in a reference work) and you would say: give it a big 10 and we don’t talk about anything anymore, do we?

Before I start answering this, we start from the beginning: what is “The Star Wars Archives”?

It is a book that takes you back to the early 70s when George Lucas made American Graffiti and the first ideas for Star Wars came into being. On the basis of the most beautiful designs, drawings, stills, behind-the-scenes photos and posters, you then go through the trilogy chronologically, with special attention for The Holiday Special, the two Ewok films and the Ewok and Droids animation series (considering that all this is often ignored is a huge plus). The majority of the book is therefore visual. Due to the enormous size, the large images (often full page) look better than ever. Is there anything to read? Certainly: in addition to the foreword by George Lucas, it also contains two exclusive interviews with him, which is also one of the strongest points of this publication.

It is clear that in the trade-off between images and text, the first was given priority. As I said above, this makes sense, but in terms of information, this book will definitely not go down as “ultimate”. Over the past 20+ years many books have been published (one can speak of a supersaturation) and the three Making Of books by J.W. Rinzler are way on top.

This oversaturation can also be seen on the visual side of the book, since many photos and drawings have already been published. A good example is the designs of Ralph McQuarrie. These should of course be included, but his complete work was released two years ago. For “the collector who has everything” it will sometimes come across as old wine in a new bottle. Nevertheless, there is more than enough new stuff to be found in the photo area, so that even completists can be surprised.

Giving a rating to this book is a real brain teaser. Ultimate reference work? Yes and no. Visually it is definitely one of the 5 best but informative far from it. An eye catcher? Absolutely. Taschen has given Star Wars the “coffee table book treatment” and fans of this will enjoy it. Worth € 150 and “a big 10”? With this book, that depends more than ever on what you already have and what you are looking for. What in any case may be concluded is that after this release the “original trilogy reference book work market” is now really saturated.

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Edward Nelson

Successfully rings the changes on Rinzler's books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2019

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When you find a new book on the Star Wars original trilogy that has Lucasfilm archival photos, paintings, and documents, along with vintage interviews from the archives and the contemporaneous press, and all interspersed with materials from new interview sessions between the author and George Lucas, one could be forgiven for confusing it with the books by J.W. Rinzler, which had the preceding features plus a near-identical large-format layout. And this book is even more expensive than Rinzler's books. The good news is that Paul Duncan has successfully rung the changes and has produced a book highly distinct, visually and textually, from Rinzler's and a worthy addition to the making-of-Star Wars literature in its own right.

The new interview with Lucas is a good one, notwithstanding occasional chummy or sycophantic questions, e.g. "Why do you want to constantly break barriers?" (p. 220), that lower the gravitas of the book--and of the interviewer. Lucas for the most part follows a narrative in which he had the plotline for the 1980-2005 Star Wars sequels and prequels closely worked out when he made the original movie. Duncan does little to question this narrative, except implicitly by showing us fragments of early Empire scripts in which Luke's father was a different person from Vader.

Mr. Duncan---a request, please, when you quote interviews from decades past, give (on the same page) an explicit date for the quotation. As things stand, long-ago statements by the original cast are given without dates, alongside modern-day Duncan interview quotations, mostly from Lucas, again without dates or footnotes.

The book is not wholly free of typos: for example, "it" should be "it is" on p. 110, "advanced" should be "advance" on p. 229, and on p. 561 "telepathy" should be "telepathically." "Merchandising" and "laser" are incorrectly spelled with Z instead of S.

Finally, some unexpected and glaring errors: (1) Duncan's synopsis for Empire, ostensibly for the released film, claims without on-screen evidence that Empire was set three years after Star Wars (if that was the case, why was repaying Jabba urgent for Han Solo in Star Wars?). (2) Page 289 takes a typo in the shooting log for Empire, with a shooting date of March 11, 1978 (instead of 1979), at face value —despite the book elsewhere (p. 295) confirming that filming started in January 1979. (3) Page 355 falsely says the Cloud City dining room scene was the first and only Vader-Solo encounter in the films. (4) Page 476 falsely says Han Solo doesn’t act selflessly of his own free will until Return of the Jedi, neglecting his voluntary participation in the Rebel attack on the Death Star in Star Wars. (5) Duncan on page 568 incorrectly says Vader first calls Luke "son" in Return of the Jedi, neglecting Empire's line (very near the end of the movie), "Son, come with me."

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