3. Agreeing That The Dialogue Is Atrocious But Loving It Anyway
If you harbour delusional aspirations of being a screenwriter and want tips on how not to write character dialogue then spend an afternoon watching any Star Wars film and allow the brazen stupidity to wash over you, cleansing your senses and warning you to write something not like this. For all its technological ambition, its widely acknowledged that Star Wars doesnt have the most inventive on-screen discourse, and it ticks all the boxes for the maddeningly mundane and unoriginal: from my point of view the Jedi are evil!, no, no, no! You will die!, anything that Jar Jar Binks says as well as that widely panned line from Anakin in Attack of the Clones about getting sand in his pants. Its laughable stuff. Even the dialogue from A New Hope is overly cloying and seems to have only endured because the film and characters are so iconic: laugh it up, fuzzball. This is what Sir Alec Guinness had to say about it on location in a letter to a friend: new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. You cant argue with Obi Wan.