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quote:Originally posted by Jack Fear:
Yeah--what right has George Lucas, who only created and owns the franchise, to do with it as he pleases without consulting you?
Don't be daft. Legally, that's the situation. Practically... Star Wars is an average movie with an average script and performances, rendered magical by nostalgia and a sense of childlike fun. Lucas had a different hat on for Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi, and it shows - they're better constructed movies. But everyone's spent so long in the intervening years telling him that he's a genius, that he's now convinced that he was responsible for the lot, and that he's actually able to write and direct everything else in the franchise. Well, able to do it well, anyway...
Remember when he was asked by Kevin Smith for permission to rip off certain aspects for Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back? He was sent the entire script, and his only response was "What colour will the lightsabres be?" That's George Lucas. He runs a special effects company, and, like Tarantino does with the acting, moonlights as an ineffectual writer and director.
I mean, I'll still go to see the next one, because it'll have enough of a nostalgia trip to make the entry fee worthwhile. The lightsabre battle at the end of The Phantom Menace made me feel like a kid again, staging mock duels with my mates in the playground. I'm sure there'll be something similar in the next two movies to justify £6.00 entry - for me, anyway. But I have no great hopes that they'll actually be any good as movies... Lucas shat on that for me. |
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