You've probably already seen a few versions of Star Wars as a silent film, because YouTube is full of them. In fact, it was a hot trend around twenty years ago. We assumed that the idea worked so well because everyone knew the story already. Danny Boyd, also known as Cinemastix, explains how it's much more than that. George Lucas himself said he designed Star Wars to work as a silent film, but he meant that the dialogue is not as important as other elements of the films. The driving force behind the rhythm of Star Wars is the music -and that's anything but silent.
The exposition in this video gives us plenty of examples of how music and action power the Star Wars movies -and other films, too- which makes the dialogue less important. And we can see here how Hayden Christensen comes off as a much better actor in the prequels when he's either silent or overdubbed. Boyd also refers to the re-editing of Star Wars, a subject that was explained in a previous video.
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