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In reply to the discussion: fuck you george lucas. [View all]Javaman
(62,599 posts)The original Star Wars came out when I was 13 and changed my life forever. How?
For the next 35 years I dedicated my life to film. First making my own then eventually making movies in Hollywood and my crowning achievement was working for Lucasfilm.
However, during that time, as much of a Star Wars/Movie Geek/nerd that I was, I also realized how truly brilliant The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi were.
My point? Lucas didn't direct or write either of those movies.
Aside from the Indiana Jones series, Lucas's ability to direct complex character really isn't all that. He's admitted to that as much.
The Star Wars prequels sealed the deal of his weak directing when his original vision of portraying the Star Wars franchise as send up to the old time movie serials of the 40's and 50's strayed so far from the concept and instead became a market driven failure.
Yeah, there are plenty of people who love the prequels, and I will always have a special place in my heart for the original Star Wars, but from a story telling, character development and action pacing, TESB and ROTJ have the rest beat.
Lucas selling ILM is probably one of the smartest thing he could do. Not that him dying suddenly would make Star Wars go away, but by selling it to Disney, it gives ILM a much needed jolt of fresh blood.
People slam Disney, I'm one of them (for a variety of reason), but I honestly believe that Disney will do very good things with Star Wars. (I'm not talking about marketing. Star Wars already is saturated the market with all sorts of useless gewgaws).
Disney for all it's worth, after it's flop of the much anticipated John Carter of Mars, will not fuck up Star Wars. They know a lot is riding on it, least of which is a complete and total freak out by the devoted followers threating a massive Geekpocolypse if Disney totally screws up Star Wars.
Chill. It's business. Your childhood hasn't been stolen. Lucas had gone on record a couple of years back that he wasn't going to make the last three movies (I was of the belief that they weren't ever get made-I was secretly hoping he would farm them out to capable story tellers to redeem the franchise), but now the last three and no doubt more Star Wars films will be made. To me, that's a major win.
George is getting on in years and has made it no secret that he wasn't going to direct anymore and move on to other things.
Life goes on and this move insures that there will still be Star Wars.
Oh and by the way, It's still just a movie. A movie that sentenced me to 35 years of hard labor working in films.
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