Posted on 04/25/2014 5:45:25 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Lucas can’t write or direct?
Um, the ten zillion fans who saw the original “Star Wars” film in the theater eighty-five times during its first release disagree with you.
(YES, I know it’s called Episode IV: A New Hope, but when I was a kid and saw it in the theater, the poster said, “Star Wars.” Trying to change movie names retroactively is never a good idea, fanboys.)
He’ll be back. Evil cannot be killed that easy. And the devil will resurrect his favored servant...
This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
The original “Star Wars” film was a mash up of other SciFi plots, characters, ands themes — all hijacked by Lucas.
After he had depleted the reservoir of that larceny — there was “no there, there”
Just my opinion.
He had a lot of help with that script. Most notably Gary Kurtz, Katz and his wife, and a group of close friends, Millius, Spielberg. They pointed out some flaws, and even though it irked George, he made the fixes.
He didn’t have all of the “yes men” he had with the prequels.
Directed by Joss Whedon
I’d pay a lot to see that.
Very cool link!
(I suspect that a lot more effort went into creating those scholarly pages than Lucas put into hacking out the script for Star Wars.)
"George Lucas ruined my life."
"You can type this stuff George, but you can't say it."
Carrie Fisher
Once Lucas became rich and powerful enough to run unrestrained in Hollywood, he proved to be a disaster. His latter movies are horrible, and have become a caricature of themselves.
After the awful episodes 1,2,3. Lucas needs to take a hands off policy except to hand over his original screenplays for 7,8,9 to JJ Abrams.
Lucas's genius was cobbling together all those elements into a new and genuinely exciting format. That's what made Star Wars work. It might not be original but its fundamentally a very good action-packed coming-of-age story and it hit the cinemas at a time when there was a dearth of such stuff. In other words, George Lucas got lucky.
I dont know much about “expanded universe”. Where does this lady come from?
Seen it. Love it! I go back to it again and again.
Better stealing 633’s dialogue than their special effects. ;)
Outrageously stupid call here. They couldn’t even modify it? What a bunch of jackasses.
“Lucas can’t write or direct...”
“He had a lot of help with that script. “
You guys want it both ways. He can’t write... but he sure had a lot of help with the script! Spielberg!, etc.
So which is it? Is it a crappy script he wrote... or a piece of cinematic genius he had help with from cinematic geniuses?
I guess when you swing a mop handle, it’s a light saber, too. Any weapon at hand works when your goal is to diminish someone’s unprecedented, unequalled-since artistic achievement.
By the way, I wouldn’t cite Spielberg when making your case that Lucas had script help. Spielberg is not a writer. He rarely takes a writing credit. He cribbed an unearned credit on “Close Encounters,” according to the executive producer.
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