I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!
Posted on 05/04/2005 7:14:23 AM PDT by dead
Ask George Lucas about his hopes for the closing instalment of Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith, and he replies that he expects it to fail.
In an interview with TIME magazine, Lucas says that like everyone who makes movies, he is "always convinced the next one will be a flop".
"So right now I’m thinking it probably won’t make any money and will be considered a failure."
But in spite of his fears, he concedes he is very satisfied with the final product. "I think it turned out as well as I could have hoped, and at the same time I'm very glad that I finished it."
Others may be less glad the saga has finally come to an end. In the first published review of Revenge of the Sith, filmmaker, Kevin Smith described the film as "so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching 'Othello' or 'Hamlet'".
"This is the 'Star Wars' prequel the haters have been bitching for since 'Menace' came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying," added the maker of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl.
Despite the staunch enthusiasm of fans of the original Star Wars, Lucas said he never really entertained the fact that there would ever be more than one film. "I expected it to take me a year, year and a half to make, and then I expected to move on to other things."
Lucas considers the Star Wars storytelling format very stylised, and "very much in opposition to what my natural inclinations are".
He now hopes to explore more abstract forms of filmmaking that interested him in his days at film school. "It's vaguely in the land of music videos, I guess, but I don't even know how to describe them. I know they won't be mainstream movies. I'm sure they'll be just as criticized as Star Wars films are," he said.
Lucas also has a hankering to work in television principally to shift away from doing anything that may considered "important". He said television offered the chance to do "really great work" without all of the "megillah" that surrounds film.
Revenge of the Sith is being released around the world on May 19.
I thought he said he didn't remember OWNING any droids.
Your objection makes no sense. It is no more nonsensical to have Chewbacca in both series than it is to have Kenobi and Vader. You're sucking wind on this one.
Especially since the last time he saw C-3P0, the droid was only half-finished and missing his skin. (Though I have to say that making 3P0 out to be the juvinile Vader's invention was one of the stupider moments in a movie that was full of stupid moments.)
I thought a Sith flop was a wrestling move.
You said it! APPLAUSE!!
I guess you don't think Obi-Wan saw C3PO at all during Attack of the Clones or Revenge of the Sith.
LOL! Re. James Earl Jones
" Luke-- when we said your dad went to the Dark Side...we meant the dark side!"
I don't know what it is, but it can't be good. Maybe it's somehow related to cow flop?
I'll hear no criticism of Mark.
Don't get into the 'whiny' with him unless you want to hear about the monosyllabic, scowling, one-expression grunting of Harrison Ford.
But then, what girl wouldn't want a man who was going to let her DIE unless he got some cash,right?
He didn't own C3PO or R2D2. They were owned by other people, and those are the droids being referenced in that scene. He was correct.
I've completely lost interest in Star Wars. It's just lost it's zing.
huh. well. I stand corrected. how about that.
Re: Hayden Christenson. I've seen better quality acting in porno films.
That being the case, why would one protocol and one astromech droid make much of an impression on Kenobi? If you once owned a Maytag refrigerator, and ran across another of the same model years later, would you assume them to be the same?
C3PO plays a greater role in interacting with Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith, at least in the book. However, you're right about Kenobi's sentiments. The book makes it clear he much prefers organic life forms.
Did you see anything?
No sir I didn,t see you playing with your dolls....
The Han vs. Greedo thing was redone, yet again, for the recent dvd releases. They now shoot simultaneously, and it looks just as unnatural and is just as logically nonsensical as the other changes he's made to that scene in the past.
Among other "special" enhancements in the new dvd release, the ghost of Anakin that is with Yoda and Ben at the conclusion of RotJ is now Hayden Christiansen(whoever), the Anakin from the new movies.
Heaven forbid we ever get the original, UNTOUCHED, trilogy on dvd. "I destroyed the original prints. These are the way the movies are meant to be seen from now and forever more." BULLCRAP! The original trilogy exists on laserdisc. Port the damn things over so I at least can own it as I remember and loved it.
The story behind PLS (and of course there IS one) is that Fisher started the part, as directed, with a British accent.
A little way into filming, she decided she sounded ridiculous, plus it wasn't making her any more regal-sounding. She figured that at 19, she might as well play up her youth to put herself in stark contrast with Peter Cushing (who, let's face it, has an accent that puts her effort to shame). So she ditched the accent.
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