Posted on 12/11/2025 6:37:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles
Behold, the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Of course the darn thing had to look like a space ship, because George Lucas made the very $5.3-billion fortune that enabled him to aggrandize himself in this museum on the space movie franchise Star Wars. The 300,000 square-foot building contains 35 galleries and two movie theaters. Note the “environmental” roof-scape! What’s that narrative? Answer: The “green” roof is there simply to mollify the climate zealots on the LA planning board and allow Hollywood bigshots to enjoy their luxury-belief boost. It does furnish a clue, though, to the ironic heart of George Lucas’s story as a movie mogul: the guy really doesn’t know how to tell a story.
No, really, he can’t. The Star Wars saga is largely incoherent and has only gotten worse with each iteration. Lucas doesn’t really understand the function of dramatic action in narrative art. Here’s how you can tell: he marches characters onstage to babble about things that happened in the past. Then you get a big battle scene, a lot of visual effects dazzle and violence. Then another character traipses onstage to babble some more about things that happened long ago. That’s George’s understanding of narrative art, which is to say, he doesn’t understand it. By the way, Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings movies) has exactly the same problem. George’s museum building doesn’t tell a coherent story about architecture, either. It’s just another visual effect.
Prediction: by year 2035, The museum will be converted into a homeless shelter.
Thanks to Deborah Bachner for the nomination!
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Call me crazy, but it looks a little like a lady part to me. 😏
You’re crazy.
It’s a sea creature.
My first thought was it looks more like Star Trek’s Voyager ship than anything out of Star Wars.
It seems architects can only design brutalist or impractical buildings.
Maybe the next building will be shaped like a X-X-X-wing.
According to the actors of the first Star Wars, he doesn't understand basic dialogue either, having to cut and reshoot each scene as they laughed through their awkward lines. Clunky as hell.
Ther are two kinds of “climate zealots”; badly misinformed true believers and out-and-out liars.
More likely, in Los Angeles, it will be derelict.
Homeless money "disappears" in deep blue, corrupt LA:
"The audit reviewed $2.4 billion in city funding for homeless and concluded that insufficient documentation made it nearly impossible to trace how substantial portions of the money were spent...$2.7 million intended for homeless housing construction ended up with a nonprofit, according to court records."
Oddly enough that looks more like a Star TREK ship than Star Wars... actually it looks a lot like The Orville.
Seems like a very cool museum. Focusing not just on Lucas (honestly he does deserve his own museum, love Star Wars or hate it between that, and THX theater designs, and ILM Lucas changed EVERYTHING about movies, mostly for the better) but the whole concept of visual story telling. And putting a park on the roof is cool. With or without global warming more green is good.
Or a device used to excite lady parts.
I’m thinking more like a very large scale replica of a sperm cell🤦😖🤮😃🤮🤬🤬. An eyesore like the 0bama library
Ah, yes.
This portrayal of this building is not built totally yet. It isn’t scheduled to open until September of 2026. He was going to open a museum in Chicago but because of lawsuits he discontinued the project. The business he has on the left coast is ramrodded by his offices in the old Presidio Area and not at Skywalker Ranch. He lives in Chicago basically as that’s where his wife’s roots are. Lucas, also, owns homes in Bel Air, Carpinteria, and recently a significant purchase in London, plus retreats in Italy and France.
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Ah yes, the old truism in art and romance alike, that beauty tends to be drawn toward money.
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