Having watched part 2 of Light & Magic on Disney+…
… I could be completely happy seeing only the first two installments…
… because as familiar as I was with the story behind the making of Star Wars…
… this documentary really brings back the delighted amazement I felt…
… of seeing it in a movie theater in 1977.
Ralph McQuarrie’s paintings were, for George Lucas, what the Decca audition tape was for the Beatles — the thing that sold the Big Thing. Speaking of the Beatles, Light & Magic makes for quite a contrast with the other big multi-part documentary that’s on Disney+, Get Back. One shows the struggles at the beginning…
… and the other shows the struggles at the end.
