Posted on 06/06/2005 11:32:51 AM PDT by quidnunc
I was always under the impression that Ford wanted to be a carpenter, but acting really paid well. I don't see him as a writer or director.
See how much of a fan I was? key word being 'WAS' LOL!
NO slight intended at all on adoption or adoptive kids.
I meant that Lucas has no personal experience with pregnancy, anticipating the birth of a biological child. Yet he tries to write a believable, young, male reaction to impending fatherhood.
He seems to be very disconnected from normal human interaction. He doesn't like people or dealing with them. He was distant in marriage, his wife left him for the man he hired to install stained glass in the Skywalker Ranch.
Everything I've read points to a very emotionally distant man.
He can't write- or present- what he doesn't know. He should have gotten help writing. But the ego wouldn't let him.
Someone else mentioned that with films like SW, plot is not a necessary thing...but that is exactly what made the Original SW WORK - there WAS a plot...and personally, I never really thought the dialogue all that bad. It communicated effectively what the characters were doing/thinking/anticipating. It all started going down hill when Leigh Brackett died and Lucas decided to replace Kirshner with a more 'malleable' director - in other words, someone who wouldnt question Lucas' writing and not allow the actors to take over.
There have been in the past one or two books discussing the behind the scenes of the OSW and how much of a micro-manager Lucas was, not to mention how jealous he was of letting more creative people work with his ideas. If he had been a bit more open to allowing the actors develop the characters and taken more of a 'global' approach to the whole concept, he may have had some BRILLIANT stuff.
Ironically, as an adopted child, I absolutely HATE the scene in ROTJ where Luke tells Leia who his father is and how Leia reacts to being his sister. Poor dialogue/acting indeed!
Warm regards! :D
A quote that, I think, says a great deal about Lucas as a craftsman.
Re. TESB- and how it was working with Irvin Kershner. There was arguing over the budget, and when the final film was delivered Lucas said. "...it was a better movie than I wanted to make."
It's from the book ' Skywalking'. Isn't that sad? Empire- the film that goes down as his best, was better than he wanted to make it!
I just cannot fathom a creative person, who truly cares about what he is doing, not wanting his product to be as good as it could be.
Me neither! I'd be thrilled if that happened to me! I'd be thinking "Let's do it again!"
"There have been in the past one or two books discussing the behind the scenes of the OSW and how much of a micro-manager Lucas was, not to mention how jealous he was of letting more creative people work with his ideas."
I would bet money this is part of why he refuses to release the original theatrical releases of the first 3 movies. Talk about ego problems....
Is it doing better than the last farce, err a movie?
There were lines of humor somewhere in this movie???
I must have seen a counterfeit film because I kept waiting for any attempt at humor and couldn't detect a single one.
Did you actually see this movie?
I just got around to seeing this movie today. What a waste of time and money.
Yep I saw this movie and if you read what I said Lucas did make attempts at humor. I didn't say I found them funny just that he made them. I agree it was garbage.
this film was junk. Quiet snoring was heard in the theater during the film. A dud! only the clone Lucas fans will be seeing it over and over for those strange "bragging rights" that only have meaning to those minions.
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