Paul Hirsch and the Dubious Recollections
Apr 28, 2021 9:53:34 GMT
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Post by Alexrd on Apr 28, 2021 9:53:34 GMT
Last year, someone shared with me a comment from Phil Szostak on Twitter revealing the following:
My reaction? Huh, I didn't know that. Learn something new every day, I guess.
But something didn't feel right. I failed to see the correlation between the blade colors and "Christian iconography in Renaissance art". I mean, in all art colors do have many meanings and can be used to convey feelings or ideas. Lucas is no stranger to that, he has always been very aware of the importance of colors in his movies.
I tried looking for the source, it's Hirsch's biography: "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away". Unfortunately I didn't have the book and I didn't feel like buying a copy just to figure out more about this piece of trivia.
Fastfoward to yesterday, when I finally decided to watch Nerdonymous video:
I skipped most of it since rebuking an easily identifiable dishonest video that I would never waste my time watching or take seriously doesn't really hold my interest. But towards the end, he does reveal something interesting. Excerpts from Paul Hirsch's book, including the comment about the lightsaber colors. Skip to the last chapter of the video.
If I felt the excerpt itself didn't sound authentic or logical, then the other recollections he has made me reach the conclusion that his statements in the book are very questionable. This is more noticeable in the part about Jabba and Greedo, where there's flat out dishonesty. I don't like to attribute malice to people, but it looks like he's piggybacking the decades-old false narrative and revisionist history of the anti-Lucas crowd in order to sell himself to the reader. The same anti-Lucas crowd who created the video Nerdonymous happens to be rebuking.
Am I the only one who doesn't find his narration of events authentic?
And it was Star Wars editor Paul Hirsch who suggested to Lucas that the lightsaber blade colors be switched, so that Vader's was red and Luke's was blue. Hirsch was an art history major in college and based that note on his knowledge of Christian iconography in Renaissance art.
My reaction? Huh, I didn't know that. Learn something new every day, I guess.
But something didn't feel right. I failed to see the correlation between the blade colors and "Christian iconography in Renaissance art". I mean, in all art colors do have many meanings and can be used to convey feelings or ideas. Lucas is no stranger to that, he has always been very aware of the importance of colors in his movies.
I tried looking for the source, it's Hirsch's biography: "A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away". Unfortunately I didn't have the book and I didn't feel like buying a copy just to figure out more about this piece of trivia.
Fastfoward to yesterday, when I finally decided to watch Nerdonymous video:
I skipped most of it since rebuking an easily identifiable dishonest video that I would never waste my time watching or take seriously doesn't really hold my interest. But towards the end, he does reveal something interesting. Excerpts from Paul Hirsch's book, including the comment about the lightsaber colors. Skip to the last chapter of the video.
If I felt the excerpt itself didn't sound authentic or logical, then the other recollections he has made me reach the conclusion that his statements in the book are very questionable. This is more noticeable in the part about Jabba and Greedo, where there's flat out dishonesty. I don't like to attribute malice to people, but it looks like he's piggybacking the decades-old false narrative and revisionist history of the anti-Lucas crowd in order to sell himself to the reader. The same anti-Lucas crowd who created the video Nerdonymous happens to be rebuking.
Am I the only one who doesn't find his narration of events authentic?
