Phantom of the Paradise

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It took Lucas years to finish the script for Star Wars. His first draft, started in 1973, wasn’t finished until May, 1974. The Phantom of the Paradise was released in October, 74, and Lucas turned in a second (and apparently much-improved) draft on January 28, 1975, titled “Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode One of the Star Wars.”''

Lucas and De Palma spent two months together in the old Samuel Goldwyn Studios seeing between 30 and 40 actors a day. Lucas was shy and quiet, De Palma was outgoing. Mark Hamill, later cast as Luke Skywalker, thought Lucas was De Palma’s gofer.

This was borne out by Lucas’ experience screening a rough cut of the film to a select group of friends. They were Bill Huyck and Gloria Katz, (who wrote the script for American Graffiti and had punched up the dialogue in Star Wars); John Milius (who wrote the screenplay for Apocalypse Now) Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood, Jay Cocks (the film critic for Time), Steven Spielberg and De Palma.

“They all thought it was a disaster,” Lucas said. De Palma was the most critical, needling Lucas about “the almighty Force” and calling it one of the worst things he had ever seen. When the group went out for dinner afterwards, Pollock writes that Cocks and Spielberg were the only ones who liked it – they sat on one side of the table praising the film while “De Palma faced them and made snide suggestions.”

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In the end, De Palma stopped being such a dick, and he and Cocks rewrote the “opening crawl” that introduces the film, changes that Lucas incorporated in the final edit.

For the character of Vader and the Phantom, In Episode IV it’s most evident in the design of Darth Vader’s costume – his cape, helmet and electronic chest box. The decision to turn Vader’s face into a breath mask was made by Ralph MacQuarrie, who thought Vader would need it in the vacuum of space.

You can also see that when Obi-Wan Kenobi shuts down the power to the tractor beam, it is actually similar to the monitor levels in the Phantom’s cubicle/studio.

In Episode III, Palpatine proposes his “deal with the devil” to Anakin Skywalker – referring to a sith lord who found a way to use the Dark Side of the Force to defy death and extend life – while the two are, quite literally at a space opera! (above)

And Palpatine, like Swan, have both made Faustian bargains of their own to appear young even as they grow old, and both have their true appearance revealed when they are attacked – Swan at the end of Paradise, and Palpatine at the end of Episode III.

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