Paden
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I think that ToJ is correct: Lucas is an outstanding creator, or an "idea man", if you will. Lucas has a gift for envisioning the kind of cinematic sagas that will capture the imagination of audiences, but he tends to paint with a broad brush. Executing the finer points of a story, such as character interaction and dialogue, is not his forte. I think that Lucas's films have been of much higher quality when he has allowed other screenwriters, such as Lawrence Kasdan, to flesh out his ideas. When Lucas tries to write his own scripts, the results are often weak. Revenge of the Sith is a fair example: the dialogue in the love scenes came across as stilted. Granted, it wasn't enough to ruin the film for me, but it was noticable. I think if Lucas had allowed an established screenwriter to take a crack at those scenes, they would have been much stronger in the end result.