Name: 星球大戰如何在編輯中保存 (How Star Wars was saved in the edit)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:00:24.000Z
Duration: 18 min 25 s

In February of 1977, George Lucas invited some of his closest friends to watch a rough cut of his new film:

在1977年2月，喬治盧卡斯邀請了他的一些好友們

來觀賞他最新一部電影的初步剪接版，也就是：

In attendance among a handful of people were 
Steven Spielberg and Brian De Palma.

在觀影的群眾中有幾個大名字：

-not good. According to Spielberg, this is how De Palma reacted:

史匹柏導演表示狄帕瑪的反應如下：

Sure, you can point at the superficial problems with the rough cut.

狄帕瑪：“三小？看不懂啦！毫無意義！”

當然你可以指出這不過只是初步剪接版罷了

No, the real issues were fundamental: the story, the scenes, the characters, the pacing

But the film was not beyond saving, because they say a film is written three times:

不，真正的問題出在更根本的地方：

If my blade should find its mark, you will cease to exist."

但是電影還有救，因為好電影需要寫三次：

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

-達斯維德，你贏不了的... (歐比王)

The success of Star Wars was not inevitable.

-如果我的劍擊中它的目標，你將會不復存在

In fact, the way things were going, it was almost guaranteed to fail.

It was only due to their laborious editorial process that Star Wars snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

So Lucas turned to his ingenious editing team: Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch,

-如果你擊殺我，我將會變得更加強大，超乎你的想像

arguably one of George's greatest collaborators: 
his wife at the time, Marcia Lucas.

Their job was to rebuild a bloated first act, 
cut tons of unnecessary material,

甚至就事情的發展看來，它幾乎可說是必定失敗

create clarity, tension, 
and drama in places that had none,

and restructure scenes and 
entire sequences to propel the story forward.

讓星際大戰成功地逃離失敗的魔爪

Basically, they just had to start from scratch.

所以盧卡斯便尋求他的天才剪輯團隊幫助：

In this video, we'll compare and contrast these changes from rough to final cut

周理查、保羅赫希，以及可說是他最偉大的合作夥伴

Using references from the script, recovered deleted scenes, and behind the scenes interviews

也是當時的配偶，瑪西亞盧卡斯

in order to demonstrate just how powerful editing is

他們的工作是將浮腫的第一幕重建，

So, without further redo, let's go back and examine how Star Wars

將原本不清楚、沒有張力、沒有劇情的地方修正，

並將鏡頭及整個段落重新構築以好好的推動故事進行

The film always began with the famous opening crawl.

However, the text itself in earlier drafts was long.

在這個影片中，我們會比對初略版與最終版的變化

藉由劇本的註解，刪除的片段，以及幕後訪談

And it bombarded the audience with information. 
Especially for a first-time viewer.

來展示剪輯作為一個說故事的工具是多麼的有力

It talked about the Republic Galactica, the Jedi Knights, the Dark Lords of the Sith,

那麼就讓我們進入正題，回到過去來檢視星際大戰...

the Emperor, none of which will be immediately relevant to the story we're about to watch. 
It's just overloaded.

電影一直都是以著名的捲動字幕開場的

He was particularly brutal about the opening crawl. So, George enlisted him and Jay Cox to rewrite it.

不過，初期的草稿文字量有點大

And that's how we got the roll up we see today, which is straight to the point

There's a civil war between the Rebellion and the Empire, a Death Star,

而這讓觀眾被各種資訊轟炸，尤其是對第一次看的人

裡面講到銀河共和國、絕地武士...

Then we see an epic space battle.
 Star Destroyers chasing Princess Leia's ship and is quickly captured.

沒有半個會跟現在我們要看的故事有直接的關係

So far so good. Everything was pretty much the same, up until this happens:

"Help, I think I'm melting! This is all your fault!"

A little awkward place for a joke, and then there's a scene transition to...

所以盧卡斯聘請了他跟杰寇克斯重寫

而這就是我們如何得到現在的版本，簡潔扼要

在反抗軍和帝國之間正在進行內戰中，

有個死星，設計圖被偷走了...然後影片開始

Hopefully, it's clear already that there's some problems with this.

接著我們看到一場史詩般的太空戰鬥

They just interrupted the pacing of this epic space battle to cut to some rando kid and his robot.

帝國滅星艦正追逐著莉亞公主的飛船，並且將其捕捉

This is really how they're gonna introduce their main character?

目前為止都蠻不錯的。到此一切都差不多，然後：

-救命，我想我要融化了！這都是你的錯！

Cutting the deleted scene is one thing.
 However, the opening of the film intercut with luke constantly

這邊在有點詭異的地方放了個笑話，接著鏡頭轉換到...

So, let's break down Luke's introduction.

In the first cut of the film, they intercut with Luke three times before he eventually crosses paths with the droids at the Jawa auction.

Which, as we all know, is the first time we meet Luke in the final film.

希望各位可以看出來這邊很明顯有問題

This scene was never intended to be Luke's introduction, but it works.

太空中激烈戰鬥的步調被如此打斷

"Luke, tell uncle if he gets a translator be sure it speaks Bocce."

就為了讓我們看某個不知哪來的小子跟他的機器人

"Doesn't look like we have much of a choice, but I'll remind him."

他們真的要這樣介紹本片的主角嗎？

-來吧，崔德威爾！(天行者路克)

Nothing is happening and they prevent the story from progressing.

And to illustrate that, here's a quick breakdown of the events laid out in the rough cut.

We already saw the first scene, so now we're back on the ship.

但是電影開頭持續不斷地將路克的鏡頭相互交切進來

在初步剪接版片中，路克在賈瓦人拍賣上
遇到機器人(R2跟C3PO)前被交切進來三次

而在完成的片中，這是我們第一次看見路克

這一幕原本並不是為了介紹路克用的，但是它很有效

-路克，跟叔叔說如果買翻譯機器人它一定要會說博切語

-看起來沒啥選擇，不過我會提醒他

好，那麼為何要剪掉這些片段？

Then once again, they go from epic space fantasy,

螢幕上沒有發生任何事，而且也阻礙了故事的進行

為了說明，以下是初步剪輯版的事件發生順序：

Well, I'm serious the sandpeople been getting really crazy. 
They've even rated the outskirts of angkor thom

我們已經看到路克的第一幕，接著回到船艦上...

That's enough of that. We'll provide links below if you want to watch the whole thing okay?

Which they're not in the making of Star Wars editor Paul Hirsch says quote in the first five minutes

We were hitting everybody with more information than they could handle there were too many storylines to keep straight the robots the Princess Vader

Luke so we simplified it by taking Luke out, and you don't introduce Luke until he actually becomes a part of the story.

Don't you think it's Hersh continues by stating quote it also made the planet they land on work as an alien place

Before by showing Luke on the planet there was no mystery. 
You knew the planet was inhabited by people

But now you don't know what you're gonna find the first characters you see the jawas

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