Did Star Wars Really Need Dialogue?
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George Lucas once described the Star Wars films as “basically silent movies.” Clearly, the movies had dialogue, but Danny Boyd of CinemaStix shows how the rhythms created by editing and music tell stories without words. He then explores what Star Wars might have been like as a silent film, plus a Kurosawa-style revamp of Revenge of the Sith.
