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• Star Wars
  • The Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
    • Foreword by Peter Jackson
    • Introduction
    • The Lost Interviews
    • Chapter 1: Two Visions (1968 to August 1973)
      • Journal of the Whills
      • The Star Wars Treatment
    • Chapter 2: Fighting Words (August 1973 to January 1975)
      • Rough Draft
      • First Draft
      • Second Draft
    • Chapter 3: Boundary Busters (January 1975 to August 1975)
      • Story Synopsis and Typed Outline
      • Third Draft
    • Chapter 4: Frenzy (August 1975 to September 1975)
    • Chapter 5: Purgatory (September 1975 to December 1975)
    • Chapter 6: Rise of the Poetic State (December 1975 to March 1976)
      • Fourth Draft
      • Revised Fourth Draft
    • Chapter 7: Mindstorms in the Sand (March 1976 to April 1976)
    • Chapter 8: Faster than a Speeding Freight Train (April 1976 to May 1976)
    • Chapter 9: Vanishing Point (May 1976 to July 1976)
    • Chapter 10: Ace-People and the Wizards (July 1976 to December 1976)
    • Chapter 11: Celluloid Transfiguration (December 1976 to April 1977)
    • Chapter 12: Fairy-Tale Cinema (April 1977 to December 1977)
  • The Star Wars: Story Synopsis

    • The Star Wars: Story Synopsis, also referred to as the first treatment of Star Wars, was the first step in the creation of the script for Episode IV. George Lucas composed it in the spring of 1973, and gave it to United Artists for perusal on May 7, 1973. It was rejected on May 29, 1973, because of the projected budget of $3 million. It was then sent to Universal, which failed to make a decision in the ten days alloted. On July 13, the picture was offered to Twentieth Century Fox. They accepted, and moved forward (with an option to withdraw at any time) with Lucas now to write a screenplay. One year after the composition of the treatment, in May 1974, The Star Wars: Rough Draft was finished.

  • The Star Wars: Rough Draft

    • The Star Wars: Rough Draft was written as a full rough draft by George Lucas in May 1974. The script was begun in the winter of 1973 as an expansion of the original The Star Wars: Story Synopsis. After being somewhat revised into The Star Wars: First Draft, it was considerably rewritten into the Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars (the second draft) over the summer and winter of 1974.

  • Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars

    • The Adventures of the Starkiller, Saga I: The Star Wars was the second draft of the script to the film that would become Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. It was begun in the summer of 1974 and finished early in 1975. It was replaced in May 1975 by a new synopsis called The Adventures of Luke Starkiller (episode one) "The Star Wars".

      This version of the script shows a much closer resemblance to the finished film than any of the earlier drafts. It is particularly interesting because of Ralph McQuarrie's conceptual drawings and paintings, which were commissioned to accompany the second draft. McQuarrie began work on conceptual art almost as soon as the script was completed, working through early March 1975. As such, the second draft can be said to have first established the visual character of the Star Wars saga.

Character traits

- Guy repeats himself. Not just repeating a single word, though, but also repeating a few sentences over and over again. I saw this when talking with a taxi driver on the phone. He kept repeating an exchange he had with an install shop, using the same inflection in his voice every time.
- Group of guys all use the same phrase. I saw this with taxi drivers, where they'd all say "Hello Nathan! How are you?" with the same inflection in their voice, and they'd all say "I have ALL the receipts".