OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?
Reminds me of how almost all the French dadaists and surrealists were WWI veterans of the trenches seriously exploring alternatives to conventional thought and language.
George Lucas REALLY wanted to impress Spielberg, Coppola, et al, but the first time he showed them Star Wars they laughed him out of their little boys’ club. He then gave it to his ex-wife to edit, and she is the only reason it became a hit.
She did not work on the prequels. Take it as you will.
It'd be pretty tough to film-edit out JarJar and the kid's pod racing contest. Those needed to be ripped out at script-writing, even before it's complete enough to edit.
there's a fan edit that only removes like 10 minutes from the Phantom Menace (a lot of the underwater stuff) and ALL Gungan dialogue is replaced by over dubbed alien voices with subtitles
it's actually pretty good
"we have to basically remove or completely rewrite all the dialogue for this one character" is actually possible because the problem character is an alien
