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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.
One day, people will value the uncut, undoctored originals over the remade/remodeled "official" versions. All that re-re-re-editing smacks too much of revisionism.
Two follow-ups:
1. Bought the soundtrack yesterday. It comes with a DVD that is basically a 70 minute music (John Williams) video that tells the entire 6 episode story. My son and I loved it! Scenes from the new film are included.
2. My son loves Jar Jar. I know I know - but after reading the comments yesterday, I got to thinking - so what if parts were inane/childish? My son and I are having a blast and enjoying a great story together. It's given us some great opportunities to talk about good and evil.
Also - as some as noted - I think the darkness of this one will make up for Jat Jar.
JMHO
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Not to mention total ingratitude for the people who made the author his fortune. Lucas definitely has a God-complex.
It's not revisionism. It's revision. Authors do it all the time, though it's less common in fiction than it used to be. And it was never "uncut" or "undoctored" -- it was cut and doctored by George Lucas to begin with.
I've never seen a Star Wars flick. Any reason to start now?
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