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Movie poster: The Beginning: Making Episode I (2001)
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The Beginning: Making Episode I

2001 · 66 min Documentary
7.3 / 10 · TMDB

The camera slips behind the curtain of blockbuster filmmaking, where George Lucas and his legion embark on the monumental task of resurrecting a galaxy. We witness barren soundstages transforming into the ornate halls of Naboo and the dizzying cityscape of Coruscant. Makeup artists labor for hours to birth alien visages, while actors in cumbersome prosthetics navigate a sea of green screens. This is a chronicle of immense pressure and creative fervor, where every detail—the hum of a lightsaber, the gait of a battle droid—is born from relentless debate and iteration.

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Year 2001
Country United States of America
Genre Documentary
Director Jon Shenk
Runtime 66 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.3/10 (28 votes)

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This documentary strips away the mythmaking to reveal cinema as a colossal, often messy, industrial endeavor. It trades nostalgia for the palpable sweat, frustration, and fleeting euphoria of seeing a digital sketch finally click into place.

What lingers after the credits is a raw, almost surgical look at the machinery of imagination. It’s a tribute not to magic, but to the grueling labor that conjures it. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Jon Shenk

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