#george lucus

[art-of-thomas-elliott]

Some more clone Doodles.

[thefordcastpodcast]

REBLOG with your favorite part of INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE to win this from REEL COOL NOTEBOOKS ON @etsy AND listen to our episode to enter and win an original vintage INDIANA JONES POSTER from RAD RETRO MOVIE POSTERS ON @etsy

ENDS 1.12. WHEN OUR CARRIE FISHER tribute DROPS

[queenxofthescarletphoenixes]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GEORGE LUCUS THE ABSOLUTE LEGEND 👏👏

[doc-avalon]

[grimlocksword]

Disney Just BETRAYED George Lucas! This Is HORRIBLE For INDY 5 & Dial Of...

[dicecast]

Why did you think TFA was boring?

You mean “The Force Awakens” right?  If so, good question.  Long answer

Just a few disclaimers first. I think it was very good that Star Wars moved in the direction of being more inclusive, having the two protagonists be a women and a black man was a good movie, and the fact that the movie has become a creepy alt right recruitment movement is pretty disgusting.  Also Ray isn’t a Mary Sue, most of the actors were good, and in fact the core characters were good, if only they had somebody who was less of a hack than JJ Abrams. 

Other disclaimer.  I liked the original trilogy but I am not a huge star wars fan, I don’t mind changing things, and I think there have only been like...5 good star wars properties ever (The Original Triology Plus the Old Republic games) 

Other disclaimer: I think JJ Abrams is a mediocre director and everything his makes is simultaneously unimpressive and pretentious.  The Mystery Box is an absolutely awful writing  technique, he is like a poor man’s stephen Moffat 

Ok so to explain why I don’t like TFA i have to first explain what the orignial Star Wars did right, which is weird for me because I don’t think those movies are like...master pieces.  But part of the reason why a weird grudge sci fi movie blew into the most valuable intellectual property in history is because of how..unconventional the original movies are.  To prevent this from being a whole essay, i’ll narrow it a single point.  George Lucas was trying to be an experimental film maker.  So while the dialogue in the first movie is awful, the plot is pretty standard and characters are quite flat, the movie has this very...unique feel to it.  Part of this is because the movie drops you in the middle of a series and never bothers to explain itself, giving you this odd alienated quality to it (seriously its fucking weird that the first movie is episode 4, like...why?)  Part of it is despite how mythic the narrative is, its actually fairly unconventional, like Luke is not a very masculine protagonist, the Force is a pretty odd element, and we don’t even meet our protagonist for 30 mins in.  Part of it is that Lucus thought he was making a profound anti Vietnam War statement, which while....didn’t work it does lend the movie more of an specific edge.  

    Most importantly however,  Lucus designed the original Star Wars as sort of a cinematic Frankenstein.  Each part of the triology, espicially the first movie, is like...a different type of other movie, ranging from Kurosawa Films, Westerns, Kurosawa Films, 1940s Serials, WIzard of Oz, Kurosawa films, B-Movie monster films, Kurosawa Films, WWII plane movies, anti Vietnam War movies, and Kurosawa films.  Each scene in Star Wars is like you are in a different film genre, so even though the plot itself is...not great, you are constantly shifting between a bunch of different of genre sand style so the movie feels totally different than any other movie like it.  So what I would want from TFA is that they do so for all of the movies which have come out since 1977 but...yeah nope.  Its just cosplaying as A New Hope which...just isn’t a good enough movie to make that interesting 

    And as is typical of a lot of modern disney projects (and JJ ABRAMS) there is a lot of very grand imitation which doesn’t seem to have much purpose beyond a marketer being like “oh people like this in the original product, we need to respect the brand.”  Like...why did there have to be some sort of Super Weapon in TFA?  It wasn’t really tied into the plot and in fact its weird that the New Order, which is effectively a terrorist organization, was able to somehow get a more powerful weapon than the Death Star.  It feels like it is there..because the original movie had the Death Star.  

   For that matter, the New Order themselves are a pretty good example of the kind of souless property of TFA in terms of themes.  Like the original Empire were basically discount Fascists because Lucus was a hippie in the 70s pissed off about Vietnam.  They were a big empire, so they had Stormtroopers and large armies, and big space ships.  

     But if the New Order is basically a rebellion against the existing republic, they should have a different aesthetic, maybe reflecting how a lot of Neo Nazis or Neo Confederates present themselves as scrappy rebels against the Federal Government, or model them after something like ISIS or other insurgent groups. This is supported by Kylo Ren being a discount Vader, its Neo Nazis trying to imitate fascists.  

    Instead they are the Empire...again even though it doesn’t really seem to fit the story or the themes they were going for.  Like if the movie is about how fascism reemerges under the guise of rebellion, or how running a state its difficult or breaking down the black and white morality of the first trilogy, why are the New Order basically just The Empire again with just enough redesign to make them sell a new set of action figures.  

      TFA doesn’t have any themes, big ideas, or even confidence in its own material.  The fact that each of the three movies is a response to the one before rather than really be its own story is super telling to me.  

TLDR: Rather than tell its own story, TFA just tried to retell A New Hope, which wasn’t a good enough story to be told in a new and interesting way. 

[herowithnofearfan]

I was watching a commentary on A New Hope and it occurred to me that I love listening to George talk about how he decides what direction to take a story or how to motivate the characters, ect. because despite how much crap the fandom likes to give him, he truely is an amazing story teller. I kind of wish he would write novels.

[starwarsbaguette]

George Lucus: ‘The thing is Darth - baguettes are tasty!’