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In Topic: More Lucas...
Posted 29 Sep 2004
QUOTE (baccamon @ Sep 29 2004, 01:40 PM)can someone present me with evidence that Lucas was not open to third party critique during scriptwriting/filming/post?
Sure Jar Jar, will straight from the source satisfy you?...
http:// news.bbc.co.u...ilm/1986453. stm
As an independent-minded director, who refuses to take a focus group approach to film-making, Lucas says he knew he had to make some unpopular decisions in setting the scene in Episode I.
"I knew when I made the film that I was doing something that was not commercially wise - but I had a story to tell and to me this is one big movie. It's one 12-hour movie in six parts and it's a story," he explains.
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And mind you, when George says not commercially wise, he is talking out of his ass. Everything he's done since Jedi, including the increased prominence of Boba Fett and the baby Greedo characther, has been for commercialism. What was Jar Jar, if not a loveable character for kidz? -
In Topic: More Lucas...
Posted 29 Sep 2004
QUOTE (jariten @ Sep 25 2004, 07:41 PM)QUOTEWhen one gains total creative control of their product and does not allow critiqe, diverse input, and outside ideas, the end result will ultimately die.
i hear this critisism a lot, often presented as the true reason behind the apparant failings of episodes 1 and 2. can someone actually give me some idea about where this came from though? can someone present me with evidence that Lucas was not open to third party critique during scriptwriting/filming/post? anyone? heres a bit of evidence to the contrary then, to get us started.
1.Lucas gave copies of the TPM script to Fisher and Kasdan, asked them to read it and comment on it.
2.Lucas co-wrote episode 2 with Jonathon Hales.
can someone present me with evidence that Lucas was not open to third party critique during scriptwriting/filming/post? -
In Topic: More Lucas...
Posted 25 Sep 2004
Thanks for the welcome chefelf.
My take on Lucas is he provides a perfect (if unfortunate) example of what happens to creativity and imagination when it is performed in a bubble.
When one gains total creative control of their product and does not allow critiqe, diverse input, and outside ideas, the end result will ultimately die. It's no accident that the most influential societies in recorded history were the most diverse in culture.
I wonder what Joseph Campbell would think about Episodes I and II. -
In Topic: More Lucas...
Posted 24 Sep 2004
Yes, George has entered into a state of being described by the Greeks as Hubris. He is a god unto himself.
The most telling line in that entire interview is this:
"The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... "
The other movie? If anybody wants it?
He's resorting to implied condescending insults.
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