For the opening crawl, George Lucas originally wrote a composition consisting of six paragraphs with four sentences each. It contained a lot of history, including the demise of the old Republic, the Dark Lords of the Sith, the eradication of the Jedi Order, as well as references to locations in the Galaxy. Lucas said, "The crawl is such a hard thing because you have to be careful that you're not using too many words that people don't understand. It's like a poem." Lucas showed his draft to his friends. Brian De Palma, who was there, described it, "The crawl at the beginning looks like it was written on a driveway. It goes on forever. It's gibberish." Lucas recounted what De Palma said the first time he saw it, "George, you're out of your mind. Let me sit down and write this for you." De Palma helped to edit the text into the shortened form used in the movie.

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