"Star Wars" was a monumental piece of cinema. Riding on the New Hollywood era that saw the rise of several auteurs and the systematic collapse of the classic Hollywood studio system, George Lucas' third feature is both a giant indie production and a blockbuster epic. The first movie especially combines the pulpy fun of the adventure serials Lucas grew up watching with cutting-edge visual effects that changed movies forever .

There's a lot of Lucas' filmmaking style in the original trilogy (even if arguably the most "Lucas" scene in all of "Star Wars" came in "The Phantom Menace"), but these movies also show his strengths as a collaborator — especially in the action. That's because, well, George didn't really do that much work on those scenes, at least on a script level. Instead, many

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