23rd April 2005, 10:12 AM
Well of course! Lucas made the first movie on a super tiny budget and had to create a special effects company that would come up with entirely new methods of practical effects right on the spot! I'm very well aware of how difficult A New Hope in particular was to shoot.
But that doesn't mean that they didn't have great difficulties with the prequels. And while it's true that you have to be more creative under greater restrictions, that doesn't mean that the end output is any less imaginative in anything but its execution. Naturally, a person with very limited art tools is going to have to be more creative with how he creates his painting than someone with the finest set of tools in the world, but that doesn't mean that the man with the crappy tools is going to make a finer painting. Just that he had to go about it in a more creative way. There are challenges in both restrictions and seemingly unlimited freedom. In the end it comes down to how each person is affected by different types of challenges. More on the practical side or more on the purely imaginative side?
But that doesn't mean that they didn't have great difficulties with the prequels. And while it's true that you have to be more creative under greater restrictions, that doesn't mean that the end output is any less imaginative in anything but its execution. Naturally, a person with very limited art tools is going to have to be more creative with how he creates his painting than someone with the finest set of tools in the world, but that doesn't mean that the man with the crappy tools is going to make a finer painting. Just that he had to go about it in a more creative way. There are challenges in both restrictions and seemingly unlimited freedom. In the end it comes down to how each person is affected by different types of challenges. More on the practical side or more on the purely imaginative side?