Posted on 05/07/2019 1:14:18 PM PDT by EdnaMode
“Merchandising!”
Unless she gets her old nose again?
If you have seen one Star Wars movie, you have seen them all.
“...like the fist of an angry God!”
He never even had that touch to begin with. Most of the good things were done at the suggestion of others (particularly his wife). Not to mention Star Wars was actually one of those anti-war movies, just cleverly disguised as a science fiction adventure (the Rebels were Vietcong expies, per Lucas’s own admission, with development notes penned by him at that time backing his claims up for once.). If anyone wonders why I root for the Empire since 2016, Lucas’s stunt in tricking audiences into rooting for communists (and if that interview with him in James Cameron’s Sci-Fi retrospective series on AMC is to be believed, he actually knew from the get go that the VC were at the very least a terrorist group) is pretty much why I’m rooting for them (and I don’t take this decision lightly, as I’m NOT one to root for villains, even if I disliked the heroes so when I make an exception to that rule, you KNOW I took the revelation VERY badly).
Here’s an idea, Star-Trump makes Luke his bitch with a beat down and shoving his light saber up Luke’s a$$. Oh and add a pee pee and spaceships blowing up accomplishing nothing with a giant dog flying a spaceship.
I recently watched “Rogue One” because some FReepers had said it was a decent movie; as it concluded all I took away from it was that it was made to correct an oversight in the last of the earlier prequels: It had been implied that an alien race had built the Death Star, and “Rogue One” clarified that it was white men that made it.
They want to appeal to otherized groups, go for it - white guys should not be funding this BS.
""A long time ago in a nursing home far, far away...."
I have heard that Lucas explanation before, but I don’t buy it. I think it was his cover story so the PC brigade in Hollywood that had killed off westerns and war movies wouldn’t kill off his creation. They were cowboys and resistance fighters against Nazis. The two genres Hollywood had come to hate.
That might have been his coverstory had it not been for this scan from The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler here: https://otnesse.tumblr.com/post/162081709399/this-is-from-george-lucas-1973-notes-for-star
He makes it very clear in these first draft notes, dated 1973 (can’t stress this hard enough), that the Rebels were VC members and the Empire was supposed to be America “10 years from now.” And actually, Hollywood DOES love movies that are against Nazis, because they project Conservatives onto the latter. For goodness sakes, Apocalypse Now actually had Ride of the Valkyries playing on the chopper’s speakers in order to subtly connect the American forces with Nazis. Cowboy movies? Yes, they definitely hated them during the 1970s, but not anti-Nazi stuff, they love it especially if they can implicitly connect Conservatives to them.
Not to mention he constantly bragged about it after the fact, as late as this past May in fact on James Cameron’s AMC series, when he really had nothing else to lose by that point anyways (being out of a job in Hollywood and having sold his creation to Disney).
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