A very well done documentary!!! Understanding Star Wars thru the eyes of the GREAT VISIONARY GEORGE LUCAS. THANK YOU for bringing this EPIC story into exsistence!
@SkywalkerG1o one can count dad and son as one , a bit like the trinity, father is the son but iis nnot the son, nonsense.'also skywalker sounds a bit god like..
Why doesn’t anyone ask him some serious questions? Why does he still direct when he is clearly more a FX guy? Or why does he write scripts when he is not a people person? Did anyone ever say NO to him at any point during the making of the new Star Wars and just tell him his idea sucked?
anyone who created the character palpatine and darth plagueis has to very extremely intelligent. But i do agree that he has commercialized EVERYTHING and I think thats why alot of fans were turned off
The Jedi don't strike me as the type to boast about weapontry. Just my take. Obi-One could had said. "The Light saber is a tool a Jedi should never misplace for if the untrained oponet gets a hold of it, it could harm the inocent as a deadly weapon." Sort of what I mean but would need to be stated better.
One other thing I can say is in the first two Star Wars the characters-well most spoke in this epic way. Though prehaps not as real as the real world people would speak it worked so well for Star Wars. By the time of Return of the Jedi there wasn't as much epic speech. a little. Like the way Vader says "You don't know the poer of the dark side." Lucas had a speech layout that worked. In the new ones Obi-One says "This weapon is your life..." Not as epic and origionaly the Lightsaber a tool
this is a great interview..lets face it..lucas is a good guy...and after all..its he who brought us star wars..i dont care about all the little changes hes made to..his..movies..im a star wars fan and always will be..
Anyone who thinks Lucas is a genius never took a basic history or philosophy course or seen a Kurosawa film. Lucas' greatness was his naivete, which enabled a creative flourish in the original movies. Proof of this is; his is less than impressive intellect took over in the prequels and ruined the magic.
@cantstoptheseeker they only ruined it for some ..i enjoyed the prequels..lets see how many go to see the 3d release...is it gonna flop? or do great..?
maby somone should give him the same amount of money he used to make a new hope, and tell him that is all you have to make epsidoe 1 again, maby then i would be just has brillent as his masterpiece (Star wars: A new hope)
@LeeTheLittleDragon i think your spot on...even though i enjoyed all the prequels..i think if he had 30 million to make phantom..it would have looked a lot more like a new hope ..
@landerzoo The sequels tell the stories history, the prequels tell the stories future. The characters are about as shallow as the ones in the sequels.
@14Schofield the characters in the sequels were characters with depth. they weren't shallow because they were all carefully fleshed out. that's not an interpretation, it's fact. the characters in the prequels were the opposite.
The Vader character is one for the times of Evil VS Good and the fight we all have within ourselves of being good people but with the ability to do evil. Thats just basic human nature. He choose to be evil to help his loved one and to do what he thought was right for the republic and it turned to crap, just like when any one does something bad, in the end it turns to crap.
He must have never imagined that he would create a whole industry with one movie..... Hats off to George Lucas for giving me the most inspirational saga..... These movies have every lesson in life incorporated in them.... Its all a matter of choice!!
I don't think George Lucas gets enough credit for his intelligence. He really has the mind of a philosopher with some amazing perspective. Great interview.
@jecoharman Everyone moderately intelligent is a Philosopher just like everyone is born with ability to paint. He's probably not learned, but that doesn't mean his thoughts are invalid.
@OfficialOffice You just don't understand the context. He means Darth Maul symbolizes the archetype for evil that every man is capable of. If you've ever seriously studied literature, philosophy or psychology, you would know that the best stories are based off archetypes that every person can relate to.
Is it me or does the reporter seems to be trying despreatly to tie starwars to christianity. I mean how many times does Lucus have to say it's a collections of a bunch of religions and more. When the reporter said christ was tempted by the devil and Lucus says buddha was too, I was like come on already.
@FunniGui He wrote the story for all the films and completely funded them. So because he hired a director and screenplay writer he should no longer consider them his films? That's just ridiculous.
when talking about religion he says "all the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant." I don't know if this is where he got it from, but this is an old Sufi (Mystical Islamic) parable exlaining religion.
Life has to be more than just living and making babies, George. Because the question then becomes, what is the purpose of their life? It's an infinite regress. If the next Einstein happens to be infertile, you cannot say that he can't live a full and rewarding life.
what did darth maul ever do that showed he was evil? he just looked evil. he just followed orders to go kill a couple jedi. that doesn't make him like the devil or even darth vader. vader Fs people S up. vader is evil because he behaves that way. maul is a chump.
Pound for pound, for my money, one of the greatest Story Tellers/ Visionary/ Business man... ever. THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.
I hope to one day write & direct an independent film.
An immaculate realism 8:54...George, where do I sign up ;-)
George i thank you for making my childhood amazing,i cant imagine growing up today and watching shit like Twilight,Harry Potter and other retarded bullshit.
@dperry913MusicTracks Yeah I can see that too. It's like he thinks storytelling is a paint-by-numbers sort of thing. And the way he passive-aggressively directs actors; it's like they are claymation dolls to him.
@40gabe I think he is very...relaxed....with actors. Maybe "lax" is the best word. Clearly he doesn't pull great performances out of them like his mentor Coppola or friend Spielberg. Therein lies a real problem.
OTOH, George bit off a lot---maybe more than he could chew. He dropped out of directing for decades, possibly for that reason. Francis shouldn't have pushed him so hard into writing. George has wondrous broad visions, but he needs more help to make them really work in the real world.
i like lucas's take on the necessity of myths. Particularly, wholesome myths necessary in contemporary society. I think this is often absent in today's cinema.
@Joxman2k The fact that we both interpret a simple saying completely differently, and then we both consider our interpretations the truth, proves you wrong. Because, 'many of the truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view'. Did you get it?
at 8:39, sorry George, but you can't expect your audience to come to the same conclusion that you want us to without telling us what the fuck the foundation really is. How are we to know how the Gungan city really operates underwater without explaining it to the audience? how are we to know the motivation of Nute Gunray and his retarded and dumb operation without telling us what his motivation is? you can't have a legitimate answer for shit that is never explained.
to answer your question at 1:30, its very simple: it's because George Lucas was embarrassed when presenting his version of "The Empire Strikes Back". it had no external stimulation of the brilliant screenplay by Leigh Brackett and it proved that Lucas had no personable nor psychological connection to the Star Wars universe. The project was then handed to Irving Kershner, Gary Kurtz, Lawrence Kasdan and lastly Harrison Ford. George Lucas was pushed aside. that is why his prequels failed miserably
2. Make that a character flaw for Obi-wan. He knows it's wrong to love her so he tries to hide it. Anikin tries to help out his friend, gets involved in the cover-up and ends up using the dark side against Obi-Wan.
Maybe Obi-Wan gets banished to Tatooine as punishment...
@leeroynaggins I think the forbidden love thing was always dumb, but i think obi wan serves as an example of a good jedi, opposed as to what anakin becomes. The best way in my opinion to make the prequels better, would to have let qui-gon jinn and darth maul live for at least one more episode and develop those characters more. they had so much potential but we barely got to know them at all. the introduction of Count dooku was way too random and unnecessary.
Yep, Count dooku and many other unnecessary characters in the prequels.
I tend to agree with the Red Letter Media review guy who said that Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-Wan could have been combined into a single character called Obi-Wan. The apprentice could have been Anakin from the start.
It may have been better to have Darth Maul as the nemesis taunting & tempting Anakin throughout the 3 movies with the Emperor himself slowly emerging in the background.
hey how bout this? Padme stays in the Senate while Anakin and Obi-Wan are looking for Sidious They keep their love secret and Padme gets pregnant. she accidently gets the ball rolling for Palpatine because they were former colleagues. Anakin goes in rage with the dark side after Palpatine reveals himself as the dictator and finds out Padme caused it. He leaves. and it would follow along when Leia says "young and sad" because they were so in love with eachother. how bout that?
@leeroynaggins i miss typed....when i used "they" i was referring to Anakin and Padme. my bad. Also, in Epiosde 1, there shouldve been MUCH more development between Anakin and Padme THROUGHOUT the entire movie, rather than just one scene and they're suddenly deeply know eachother in the second film. Anakin keeps this a secret from Obi-Wan. but, once Anakin thinks that Padme has betrayed him by getting shit started for the emporer, Anakin is so confused that he humbles himself to revenge.
I agree. But then again Lucas was creating a movie in 3 parts so some elements (love subplot) weren't sufficiently focused on. SW is primarily an action movie with many subplots and currents that are supposed to enhance the action.
Episodes I II and III try to be too many things ...comedy, love story, action, political commentary, as well as visual effects blockbuster, that they feel muted on many of those levels. It's like ice cream with 68 flavors, none stand out.
@Joxman2k also, Lucas seem to disregard the fact that his movies didn't make sense, as if he didn't care that they followed no logic. had all the pieces there sure, but no logical connection, largely due to the screenplay and cinematography. i mean they were just awful
@Joxman2k okay. if you can answer this question from any of the 3 new prequels by JUST watching the movies, then i will be corrected. I want you to tell me WHY Nute Gunray agreed to have his ENTIRE Trade Federation under Darth Sidious' control...and the answer is NOT "so he could have an invasion on Naboo." remember: the answer can only come from the movies. If you dont have an answer, then that proves that all 3 prequels fail epically and everything else that happens as a result makes no sense.
Actually In my mind Darth Sidious could easily persuade the Trade Fed with more wealth and power. To me it is just a political view that Lucas had to propel the story line.
As for your view that if I cannot explain a plot point the whole series falls apart is just silly.
That's like me saying a Protocol Droid and an Astromech Droid would never become close companions so the whole series falls apart is just as valid.
@Joxman2k yeah but when you're talking about a huge organization with military efficiency, then thoe Shatinearians would probably want something in return...Darth Sidious can't really promise them political favors because it would give away who he is in the Senate. When they got caught they couldve said "it was like a hologram in a suit who made use do it. we got the recordings! you wanna see em?"....i find it hard to believe that these guys never started pointing fingers after they got caught
The thing is, if you think about it, wars usually start as a result of a value being unfair, which tends to be money today. Lucas was using that as a plot device.
I agree that they would start pointing fingers almost immediately if caught. That is why Darth Sideous chose to eliminate them out of the equation. They were just pawns.
I also believe that, while being greedy, they were ultimately afraid of him so they wouldn't snitch .... selfish/greedy are kinda the same.
@Joxman2k haha too much assumptions for a movie. damn it i wish it was written better haha seriously man i hope im not the only one in this world who dreams of other versions of these prequels, wakes up the next morning in a fit of disappointment, and continues to lament what we're stuck with haha :p also, we already knew they were pawns way before the second film....it was like George was telling us "oh the audience is so dumb so we're gonna tell you they're pawns even tho u figured it out"
I actually don't fault Lucas too much. It is quite an intricate story to weave properly. Some people believe that the love aspect was most important, others believe that the political story was more important, etc. He was trying to say everything and it ended up sounding like a muffled fart! :)
If you look at all the elements it would be hard to be cohesive. Star Wars was a simple morality play with a futuristic twist. That is why it worked so well.
@Joxman2k yeah it was like having a book read to us through a movie...just didnt work on screen and yes muffled fart is great terminology :P but what irks me is Lucas trying to play it off in this interview...hes like the second luckiest man in showbiz, next to Ringo :p
There is a lot of depth to Lucas's stories in the prequels and originals that speak to common human experiences and archetypes. The Prequels just don't accomplish it very well. They feel like a paint-by-numbers painting.
The Clone Wars Series is done very well and add a lot of depth to the Star Wars Universe. The stories are done very well, probably because Lucas just approves the stories and doesn't write them himself :)
It's unfortunate. I think the problem Lucas had was conceiving the 3 prequels. Star Wars was a movie onto itself, thats it no more ...done.
Lucas had a larger view and some of the story telling just wasn't done well. I don't think I, or anybody else could have done better.
Personally I'd like to see Anikan/Darth Vader done after the Clone Wars :) Same animation format, THEN, after Return of the Jedi animation stories. That could be awesome :)
@Joxman2k His next big project is going to be Star Wars TV shows. The first show will probably be about Boba Fett, then have branching off characters like Starkiller (Sam Witwer is chomping at the bit to be Starkiller again), Mara Jade, etc, but he has to do a whole season on a 50 million budget. Once he figures that out, he will. But I agree, I'd love to see New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force adapted in CGI just to see Luke be a badass and Mara and Kyle Katarn, Jacen, Jaina, Ben, etc.
@Joxman2k well i wouldn't bash the prequels ENTIRELY. now there was a lot of potential for Revenge of the Sith to be an encapsulating story because it would culminate everything from the original trilogy.....again if somebody pushed Lucas just a tad and said "no we're going to edit the bajeezus out of this" then it wouldve been saved, much like how editing saved the original Star Wars....check out that hour long video called "Star Wars Dark Force Rising" by StarWarsEdit. i actualy shed a tear
@Joxman2k I think what the Clone Wars series does is legitmamize the more absurd parts of the prequels, and while Episode 3 is the most powerful of the 3, and better reviewed than Return of the Jedi, it has to follow two that by comparison were bad movies. The movies however are far better than a lot of films, even recent ones like Green Lantern. What I think people want to do is just bash Lucas for what he did wrong and will no longer admit to what he does right.
I actually liked The Green Lantern very much :) Mind you I am not a fanboy, nor did I read or follow the comics. So from a virgin moviegoer of the comics the movie, it is done quite well :)
@Joxman2k I actually liked Green Lantern as well, but from a technical standpoint, it isn't as good a movie as any of the prequel movies. And I AM a fanboy, I just don't like my own culture because of their supreme arrogance that they fail to acknowledge the good aspects as much as the negatives.
@Joxman2k no, just Fanboy culture in general. They like what they like and they don't like to see changes or evolutions to their art, yet like with all mythologies, they are always ever changing. But what bugs me is that they will just focus on what they hate, yet neglect to mention what they like. They hate Jar Jar Binks, but apparently that takes away from the epic lightsaber duel at the end... I hate that they let the stupid things outweigh the good when it should be the other way around.
@Joxman2k That actually puts you in a relative simmilar boat to me. I mean seriously, if I got problems with the art, that's fine, but the creator wants it this way and nobody likes changing their work, good or bad. I'm not going to judge him differently because he's goofed a few things. Don't we all when expectations run high?
I guess that's why I don't really like other fanboys because they want things "their" way and neglect that it's the puppeteer controlling THEM, not the other way around
OK I'm going ZEN on your ass. The Artist creates something tangible ...it exists. The artist is satisfied. The viewer sees the art and enjoys it, then the viewer believes that they are in control of the art ....which they are. The viewer is creating a point of view that is intimate.
OK I just confused myself. The Viewer becomes the artist ....hence beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
@Joxman2k yeah, except that he's the biggest proponent of the fans. He hasn't sued anyone for making fan films or fan edits, he hasn't sued anyone for badmouthing him, he made Clone Wars as a "sorry" to the fans (he even trashes Jar Jar in it), he even encourages fan films and even gives out sound fx to use, etc. I agree with the whole concept, except that fans shouldn't JUST focus on the negatives and also consider the positives. If people DID, they'd be more like the things they love.
No No No! I didn't mean it like that. The Artist is not Lucas or anyone.
*sigh* I think Stephen King said it well when he was interviewed about a movie based on his novel. The interviewer said "arn't you upset that they destroyed your book with a bad movie?" He said "My novel is just fine on the shelf over there, They have not destroyed anything"
Art is not destroyed, or validated, by an opinion ...is it?
@Joxman2k which harkens back to an old Jedi who said this "Many of the Truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view."
I think the films are just fine the way they are, and the Expanded Universe around it just makes it richer and bigger. My target is the fans for just hating on it, yet still buying and making more and more and more stuff. The hypocrisy of it all, you know what I mean? I get what you mean, but my main target is people who just bitch and moan that he's evil.
Well that is what I was talking about. An artist could present an actual Rock. There will be people who think it is magnificent, others will see it as absurd, and others still will hate it! Some will go as far as hating the person who presented the Rock!
Grab some perspective friend ...it's just a Rock.
I do hear what you are saying, but let it go chum.
I personally don't think Star Wars is about spaceships, light sabers, planets and whatnot more than Braveheart is about horses, swords and castles. I may be shot for saying this but I believe the prequels are superior to the sequels because there is a lot more plot and emotion involved, but I got into Star Wars late and began with Episode 1 (although I knew the major plot twists). I have George Lucas' view on SW and completely agree with everything he's done except the music scene added in VI...
@PrimeDisguiseFilms - well, that's basically what lightsabers are.. light in a very compressed form, what we today call "lasers". it's the same thing.
People always says the panntom manace sucks like lucas has said you have to look at all 6 films as one movie in which I do sometime the most modain thing like in this world like Adolf Hitler not being accepted into art school (actual fact) can make the whole world suffer I don't just take the 6 films as the only star wars experience I take the novels and video games into the star wars cannon like the butterfly effect what happend 1000's of years ago in both the star wars and our own universe.
@jedilove1972 Exactly. If you compare all six movies to chapters of one book, you'll quickly understand that one chapter (especially the first) is almost always slow and might be perceived as boring to some. When I want to watch Star Wars, I take one week and watch one episode a day for six days. I don't just watch one of them. I think George Lucas intends us to watch it that way (much like the Lord of the Rings. You can start with II, but that's like starting a book from a middle chapter).
@TheJamezMan The only Spirit that I am interested in, is that of All Mighty God. The rebelous spirits that deceives the nations into following false religions and "spirituality" will all be judged. God offers, love, forgiveness, freedom, hope, joy, peace to those who return to Him. He has delivered me out of unspeakable evils that had consumed me in the past and "has called [me] out of darkness into His marvelous Light."
Do not let the darkness deceive you... no matter what it promises.
@ChristusVlCTOR I'm not sure if it would be true..but it certainly wouldn't be right imo. Personally, I have no time for a religion that would say another is wrong. If you look at most religions of the western world (maybe even world as a whole) they have this element to them. I personally feel religion is at its best, taken as a belief in spirit- the species in question being irrelevant. And nothing more cause the more elements u bring into it, the more q's u must answer..then it gets messy lol
Bill Moyers: "Would you say the transcendence of Star Wars speaks to an inner id to us all? Does it touch on emotions that are so innate to us that we scarcely see acknowledge them at all, and do these films capture something that, at its quintessence, defines us as all as irrevocaly human, despite the fact that these films depict a melange of alien characters? Do they, in short, prove Joseph Campbell's thesis on a timeless mythology ingrained in us all?"
people give George Lucas so much crap he doesn't deserve. He's an amazing creator, director and person. People make up stories like "he ruined the trilogy" or "he's so greedy" because that's the "cool" thing to say when they don't even know the guy. I think he's so amazing.
Thanks for posting this A very good interview. Mr. Lucas knows what he's talking about and despite his rewriting of creative impulses, off and on, he has an astonishing integrity that his decriers and critics aren't smart enough to see. He's hardly a flawless filmmaker and producer but he is a decent man and understands art.
The reason why the prequels sucked is *because* the audience could not understand how the "innocent" Anakin could become evil. The stories should have been told from the point of view of Obi Wan.
The force has brought me here to watch this.
k00LGuY671 1 day ago 2
the force is strong in this one
elchistosoII 4 days ago 2
i really love the expanded universe it really fleshes out the Jedi and the sith
cartoonkingforeever 4 days ago
A very well done documentary!!! Understanding Star Wars thru the eyes of the GREAT VISIONARY GEORGE LUCAS. THANK YOU for bringing this EPIC story into exsistence!
rothrock777 6 days ago
too bad he didnt use anything he learned for the prequals,
joed424 6 days ago
AH A VERY GOOD SECRET MESSAGE IN THE STAR WARS ABOUT OUR WORLD
millanrocks 1 week ago
I can't help but think Luke=jesus or messiah and the empire=the Romans
mPky1 1 week ago
@mPky1
Anakin not Luke,Luke isn`t main hero of SW,anakin is
SkywalkerG1o 2 days ago
@SkywalkerG1o one can count dad and son as one , a bit like the trinity, father is the son but iis nnot the son, nonsense.'also skywalker sounds a bit god like..
mPky1 1 day ago
I still think it was a horrible idea to have a biological explanation for the force.
NDguy191 1 week ago
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cartoonkingforeever 4 days ago
@NDguy191 are you kidding that makes it more realistic
cartoonkingforeever 4 days ago
i wish i could have been friends with Joseph Campbell
Nerdendoffer 1 week ago
Why doesn’t anyone ask him some serious questions? Why does he still direct when he is clearly more a FX guy? Or why does he write scripts when he is not a people person? Did anyone ever say NO to him at any point during the making of the new Star Wars and just tell him his idea sucked?
e93gsx 1 week ago
great interview. very insightful, interesting thoughts offered by george.
TurtleOnFire 1 week ago
I've been looking ALL OVER for this documentary. thanks :D
itsakr3wthing 1 week ago
anyone who created the character palpatine and darth plagueis has to very extremely intelligent. But i do agree that he has commercialized EVERYTHING and I think thats why alot of fans were turned off
petrucciphan 2 weeks ago
Ep1 is bad but I like it some what cuz it gives us more to darth vaders story
JunsnipesS266 2 weeks ago
The Jedi don't strike me as the type to boast about weapontry. Just my take. Obi-One could had said. "The Light saber is a tool a Jedi should never misplace for if the untrained oponet gets a hold of it, it could harm the inocent as a deadly weapon." Sort of what I mean but would need to be stated better.
jakewestwn 3 weeks ago
One other thing I can say is in the first two Star Wars the characters-well most spoke in this epic way. Though prehaps not as real as the real world people would speak it worked so well for Star Wars. By the time of Return of the Jedi there wasn't as much epic speech. a little. Like the way Vader says "You don't know the poer of the dark side." Lucas had a speech layout that worked. In the new ones Obi-One says "This weapon is your life..." Not as epic and origionaly the Lightsaber a tool
jakewestwn 3 weeks ago
To bad the critics were so harsh. # more star wars would had been great because he still showed us worlds no one else is willing to create.
jakewestwn 3 weeks ago
this is a great interview..lets face it..lucas is a good guy...and after all..its he who brought us star wars..i dont care about all the little changes hes made to..his..movies..im a star wars fan and always will be..
davycrocketful 3 weeks ago
Anyone who thinks Lucas is a genius never took a basic history or philosophy course or seen a Kurosawa film. Lucas' greatness was his naivete, which enabled a creative flourish in the original movies. Proof of this is; his is less than impressive intellect took over in the prequels and ruined the magic.
cantstoptheseeker 3 weeks ago
@cantstoptheseeker they only ruined it for some ..i enjoyed the prequels..lets see how many go to see the 3d release...is it gonna flop? or do great..?
davycrocketful 3 weeks ago
maby somone should give him the same amount of money he used to make a new hope, and tell him that is all you have to make epsidoe 1 again, maby then i would be just has brillent as his masterpiece (Star wars: A new hope)
LeeTheLittleDragon 4 weeks ago
@LeeTheLittleDragon At least it couldn't get any worse...
Calempaine 3 weeks ago
@LeeTheLittleDragon give him the funding for Empire, everyone knows its the best one.
XboxDCG 3 weeks ago
@LeeTheLittleDragon i think your spot on...even though i enjoyed all the prequels..i think if he had 30 million to make phantom..it would have looked a lot more like a new hope ..
davycrocketful 3 weeks ago
I AM YOUR FATHER !
DKMenaTV 4 weeks ago
I agree with so much of his philosophies.
mgmike576 1 month ago
Say what you will, but the man is articulate and full of great wisdom.
MrLavajet 1 month ago 2
@landerzoo The sequels tell the stories history, the prequels tell the stories future. The characters are about as shallow as the ones in the sequels.
14Schofield 1 month ago
@14Schofield the characters in the sequels were characters with depth. they weren't shallow because they were all carefully fleshed out. that's not an interpretation, it's fact. the characters in the prequels were the opposite.
landerzoo 1 month ago
The Vader character is one for the times of Evil VS Good and the fight we all have within ourselves of being good people but with the ability to do evil. Thats just basic human nature. He choose to be evil to help his loved one and to do what he thought was right for the republic and it turned to crap, just like when any one does something bad, in the end it turns to crap.
Atletico777 1 month ago
Reverbnation / No Experience Necessary. This man is a hero.
NENmusicTV 1 month ago
@landerzoo You aren't actually adding to the dialogue, what you're doing here is creating a simultaneous monologue.
TimeTraveI 1 month ago
322 @3:03
May The Force be with you...
Who-WHO will watch The Watchers?
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TheOwlMan 1 month ago in playlist Star Wars - The Legacy Revealed
He must have never imagined that he would create a whole industry with one movie..... Hats off to George Lucas for giving me the most inspirational saga..... These movies have every lesson in life incorporated in them.... Its all a matter of choice!!
dark4krad 1 month ago
i think i might give this science fiction thing a try
yourmaker74 1 month ago
16:00 he implies anakins mothers death in the 1st movie foreshawowing the 3rd one
ADSOR97 1 month ago
I don't think George Lucas gets enough credit for his intelligence. He really has the mind of a philosopher with some amazing perspective. Great interview.
DocKancer 1 month ago 33
@DocKancer he read everything and transformed it to the future and space. smart yes lucky yes philosopher no
jecoharman 1 month ago
@jecoharman Everyone moderately intelligent is a Philosopher just like everyone is born with ability to paint. He's probably not learned, but that doesn't mean his thoughts are invalid.
12Ominous 1 month ago
@jecoharman That's known as the appeal to authority fallacy.
12Ominous 1 month ago
I'm sort of in love with George Lucas.
leighcable 1 month ago
Kids these days. I took a lot from this and enjoy all his works.
eg6roll 1 month ago
"dark maul is the evil inside of all of us"
what a cliche thing to say
OfficialOffice 1 month ago
@OfficialOffice You just don't understand the context. He means Darth Maul symbolizes the archetype for evil that every man is capable of. If you've ever seriously studied literature, philosophy or psychology, you would know that the best stories are based off archetypes that every person can relate to.
TimeTraveI 1 month ago 2
@MrGish1 okay...
luismendezs 1 month ago
must say..He does the best movies ever.
JackThePunisher55 1 month ago
Is it me or does the reporter seems to be trying despreatly to tie starwars to christianity. I mean how many times does Lucus have to say it's a collections of a bunch of religions and more. When the reporter said christ was tempted by the devil and Lucus says buddha was too, I was like come on already.
moety2 2 months ago
some of the questions the reporter asks really prove, that he has bad to no imagination ^^ sad stuff ^^
basslinegenerator 2 months ago
@FunniGui He wrote the story for all the films and completely funded them. So because he hired a director and screenplay writer he should no longer consider them his films? That's just ridiculous.
TimeTraveI 2 months ago 6
when talking about religion he says "all the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant." I don't know if this is where he got it from, but this is an old Sufi (Mystical Islamic) parable exlaining religion.
jayyy689 2 months ago
Im gonna start watching now! I'll leave a comment when im done ^^
Dennizjoon 2 months ago
Life has to be more than just living and making babies, George. Because the question then becomes, what is the purpose of their life? It's an infinite regress. If the next Einstein happens to be infertile, you cannot say that he can't live a full and rewarding life.
EnnoiaBlog 2 months ago
@landerzoo Lokk what you just said,, he isnt evil he was just sent to KILL a couple of jedi
brettledbetter 2 months ago
George Lucas is the only one allowed to say laser sword in reference to light saber.
weirdosrok 2 months ago 4
@weirdosrok Agreed.
BlckSbthMan 2 months ago
@weirdosrok Actually everyone I know say Laser sword instead of lightsaber !
Marjoh1963 2 months ago
@weirdosrok No, no he is not
Nerdendoffer 1 week ago
what did darth maul ever do that showed he was evil? he just looked evil. he just followed orders to go kill a couple jedi. that doesn't make him like the devil or even darth vader. vader Fs people S up. vader is evil because he behaves that way. maul is a chump.
landerzoo 2 months ago
I am impressed with G. Lucas in this video.
midoribishi 2 months ago
The original trilogy are my favourite films but sadly George seems to work better with restrictions.
Dragon555 2 months ago
Pound for pound, for my money, one of the greatest Story Tellers/ Visionary/ Business man... ever. THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.
I hope to one day write & direct an independent film.
An immaculate realism 8:54...George, where do I sign up ;-)
kleyon11 2 months ago
hate to see yourself in a world where entertianment passes as a religious experience?....scientology!!!!!
dizzleblackizzle 2 months ago
what is it in the human brain that gives us the capacity to do evil? just watch the last king of scottland. I think that will clear things up a bit.
dizzleblackizzle 2 months ago
George is a genius
wd1250 2 months ago
George i thank you for making my childhood amazing,i cant imagine growing up today and watching shit like Twilight,Harry Potter and other retarded bullshit.
Thank you sir.
omgusername111 2 months ago
@liamstarwatcher that does not mean he is not powerful! afraid he is yes.
timesplitters333 2 months ago
a palace he had!
timesplitters333 2 months ago
"It's colorless..." Perfect timing to show the bright red Imperial Guards.
DORproductions117 2 months ago
Thanks so much.... that was so interesting on so many levels... thanks again!
paranoidpfanclub 3 months ago
38:57 who else thought he told his dad... I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU? lol
paranoidpfanclub 3 months ago 37
@40gabe I hear very little pretension in any interview with George. He generally sounds surprisingly like a car mechanic.
dperry913MusicTracks 3 months ago
@dperry913MusicTracks Yeah I can see that too. It's like he thinks storytelling is a paint-by-numbers sort of thing. And the way he passive-aggressively directs actors; it's like they are claymation dolls to him.
40gabe 3 months ago
@40gabe I think he is very...relaxed....with actors. Maybe "lax" is the best word. Clearly he doesn't pull great performances out of them like his mentor Coppola or friend Spielberg. Therein lies a real problem.
OTOH, George bit off a lot---maybe more than he could chew. He dropped out of directing for decades, possibly for that reason. Francis shouldn't have pushed him so hard into writing. George has wondrous broad visions, but he needs more help to make them really work in the real world.
dperry913MusicTracks 3 months ago
@dperry913MusicTracks Agree.
40gabe 2 months ago
i like lucas's take on the necessity of myths. Particularly, wholesome myths necessary in contemporary society. I think this is often absent in today's cinema.
r3dfella 3 months ago
@earthdome111 Nerdy Fanboy alert!
Trekiefreak777 3 months ago
George LUCAS... SHOULD MOVE ON. And make another cool ass story with other characters and other awesome "lessons/myths"
THAT WOULD BE COOL == NOT MORE SERIES AND SHIRTS, TOYS, ETC, ETC,
And I love Star Wars.. But I am just saying -- Be intrepid again and Move On!!
dalesalsa 3 months ago
@Joxman2k The fact that we both interpret a simple saying completely differently, and then we both consider our interpretations the truth, proves you wrong. Because, 'many of the truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view'. Did you get it?
TimeTraveI 3 months ago
at 8:39, sorry George, but you can't expect your audience to come to the same conclusion that you want us to without telling us what the fuck the foundation really is. How are we to know how the Gungan city really operates underwater without explaining it to the audience? how are we to know the motivation of Nute Gunray and his retarded and dumb operation without telling us what his motivation is? you can't have a legitimate answer for shit that is never explained.
jmiester25 4 months ago
to answer your question at 1:30, its very simple: it's because George Lucas was embarrassed when presenting his version of "The Empire Strikes Back". it had no external stimulation of the brilliant screenplay by Leigh Brackett and it proved that Lucas had no personable nor psychological connection to the Star Wars universe. The project was then handed to Irving Kershner, Gary Kurtz, Lawrence Kasdan and lastly Harrison Ford. George Lucas was pushed aside. that is why his prequels failed miserably
jmiester25 4 months ago
Damn that was more thought provoking than I assumed it would be :D
BobBurnnquist 4 months ago
Nice ^_^ Thanks!
HanEunJa 4 months ago
The interviewer is a religious fanatic.
NoWitnessesNoRegrets 4 months ago
The story of the prequels could have been much simpler...
Obi-wan and Amidala are a couple.
Anikin meets Amidala and falls for her.
She's not into him.
So he decides to use the Force to force her to love him.
This turns him to the dark side and forms the basis for the conflict between him and Obi-Wan.
leeroynaggins 4 months ago
@leeroynaggins but jedis are forbidden to have romantic relationships, so obi wan wouldve been acting against the jedi code.
Vykkdraygo713 4 months ago
@Vykkdraygo713
Good point.
Here's my thoughts on the forbidden love rule:
1. Do away with that rule in a Star Wars reboot
or
2. Make that a character flaw for Obi-wan. He knows it's wrong to love her so he tries to hide it. Anikin tries to help out his friend, gets involved in the cover-up and ends up using the dark side against Obi-Wan.
Maybe Obi-Wan gets banished to Tatooine as punishment...
leeroynaggins 4 months ago
@leeroynaggins I think the forbidden love thing was always dumb, but i think obi wan serves as an example of a good jedi, opposed as to what anakin becomes. The best way in my opinion to make the prequels better, would to have let qui-gon jinn and darth maul live for at least one more episode and develop those characters more. they had so much potential but we barely got to know them at all. the introduction of Count dooku was way too random and unnecessary.
Vykkdraygo713 4 months ago
@Vykkdraygo713
Yep, Count dooku and many other unnecessary characters in the prequels.
I tend to agree with the Red Letter Media review guy who said that Qui-gon Jinn and Obi-Wan could have been combined into a single character called Obi-Wan. The apprentice could have been Anakin from the start.
It may have been better to have Darth Maul as the nemesis taunting & tempting Anakin throughout the 3 movies with the Emperor himself slowly emerging in the background.
leeroynaggins 4 months ago
hey how bout this? Padme stays in the Senate while Anakin and Obi-Wan are looking for Sidious They keep their love secret and Padme gets pregnant. she accidently gets the ball rolling for Palpatine because they were former colleagues. Anakin goes in rage with the dark side after Palpatine reveals himself as the dictator and finds out Padme caused it. He leaves. and it would follow along when Leia says "young and sad" because they were so in love with eachother. how bout that?
jmiester25 4 months ago
@jmiester25
So Padme is in with Palpatine... intense. Intriguing!
leeroynaggins 4 months ago
@leeroynaggins i miss typed....when i used "they" i was referring to Anakin and Padme. my bad. Also, in Epiosde 1, there shouldve been MUCH more development between Anakin and Padme THROUGHOUT the entire movie, rather than just one scene and they're suddenly deeply know eachother in the second film. Anakin keeps this a secret from Obi-Wan. but, once Anakin thinks that Padme has betrayed him by getting shit started for the emporer, Anakin is so confused that he humbles himself to revenge.
jmiester25 4 months ago
@jmiester25
I agree. But then again Lucas was creating a movie in 3 parts so some elements (love subplot) weren't sufficiently focused on. SW is primarily an action movie with many subplots and currents that are supposed to enhance the action.
Episodes I II and III try to be too many things ...comedy, love story, action, political commentary, as well as visual effects blockbuster, that they feel muted on many of those levels. It's like ice cream with 68 flavors, none stand out.
:P
Joxman2k 4 months ago
@Joxman2k also, Lucas seem to disregard the fact that his movies didn't make sense, as if he didn't care that they followed no logic. had all the pieces there sure, but no logical connection, largely due to the screenplay and cinematography. i mean they were just awful
jmiester25 4 months ago
@jmiester25
Explain further please. Each episode had 3 narrative parts which was done ok. Each scene led to the next.
Joxman2k 4 months ago
@Joxman2k okay. if you can answer this question from any of the 3 new prequels by JUST watching the movies, then i will be corrected. I want you to tell me WHY Nute Gunray agreed to have his ENTIRE Trade Federation under Darth Sidious' control...and the answer is NOT "so he could have an invasion on Naboo." remember: the answer can only come from the movies. If you dont have an answer, then that proves that all 3 prequels fail epically and everything else that happens as a result makes no sense.
jmiester25 4 months ago
@jmiester25
It's simple. It was in the script :)
Actually In my mind Darth Sidious could easily persuade the Trade Fed with more wealth and power. To me it is just a political view that Lucas had to propel the story line.
As for your view that if I cannot explain a plot point the whole series falls apart is just silly.
That's like me saying a Protocol Droid and an Astromech Droid would never become close companions so the whole series falls apart is just as valid.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 4 months ago
@Joxman2k yeah but when you're talking about a huge organization with military efficiency, then thoe Shatinearians would probably want something in return...Darth Sidious can't really promise them political favors because it would give away who he is in the Senate. When they got caught they couldve said "it was like a hologram in a suit who made use do it. we got the recordings! you wanna see em?"....i find it hard to believe that these guys never started pointing fingers after they got caught
jmiester25 3 months ago
@jmiester25
The thing is, if you think about it, wars usually start as a result of a value being unfair, which tends to be money today. Lucas was using that as a plot device.
I agree that they would start pointing fingers almost immediately if caught. That is why Darth Sideous chose to eliminate them out of the equation. They were just pawns.
I also believe that, while being greedy, they were ultimately afraid of him so they wouldn't snitch .... selfish/greedy are kinda the same.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k haha too much assumptions for a movie. damn it i wish it was written better haha seriously man i hope im not the only one in this world who dreams of other versions of these prequels, wakes up the next morning in a fit of disappointment, and continues to lament what we're stuck with haha :p also, we already knew they were pawns way before the second film....it was like George was telling us "oh the audience is so dumb so we're gonna tell you they're pawns even tho u figured it out"
jmiester25 3 months ago
@jmiester25
I actually don't fault Lucas too much. It is quite an intricate story to weave properly. Some people believe that the love aspect was most important, others believe that the political story was more important, etc. He was trying to say everything and it ended up sounding like a muffled fart! :)
If you look at all the elements it would be hard to be cohesive. Star Wars was a simple morality play with a futuristic twist. That is why it worked so well.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k yeah it was like having a book read to us through a movie...just didnt work on screen and yes muffled fart is great terminology :P but what irks me is Lucas trying to play it off in this interview...hes like the second luckiest man in showbiz, next to Ringo :p
jmiester25 3 months ago
@jmiester25
There is a lot of depth to Lucas's stories in the prequels and originals that speak to common human experiences and archetypes. The Prequels just don't accomplish it very well. They feel like a paint-by-numbers painting.
The Clone Wars Series is done very well and add a lot of depth to the Star Wars Universe. The stories are done very well, probably because Lucas just approves the stories and doesn't write them himself :)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k yeah ive noticed that too.....like the ideas are there for a great and unique story..its just the execution is way off
jmiester25 3 months ago
@jmiester25
It's unfortunate. I think the problem Lucas had was conceiving the 3 prequels. Star Wars was a movie onto itself, thats it no more ...done.
Lucas had a larger view and some of the story telling just wasn't done well. I don't think I, or anybody else could have done better.
Personally I'd like to see Anikan/Darth Vader done after the Clone Wars :) Same animation format, THEN, after Return of the Jedi animation stories. That could be awesome :)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k His next big project is going to be Star Wars TV shows. The first show will probably be about Boba Fett, then have branching off characters like Starkiller (Sam Witwer is chomping at the bit to be Starkiller again), Mara Jade, etc, but he has to do a whole season on a 50 million budget. Once he figures that out, he will. But I agree, I'd love to see New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force adapted in CGI just to see Luke be a badass and Mara and Kyle Katarn, Jacen, Jaina, Ben, etc.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@Joxman2k well i wouldn't bash the prequels ENTIRELY. now there was a lot of potential for Revenge of the Sith to be an encapsulating story because it would culminate everything from the original trilogy.....again if somebody pushed Lucas just a tad and said "no we're going to edit the bajeezus out of this" then it wouldve been saved, much like how editing saved the original Star Wars....check out that hour long video called "Star Wars Dark Force Rising" by StarWarsEdit. i actualy shed a tear
jmiester25 3 months ago
@Joxman2k I think what the Clone Wars series does is legitmamize the more absurd parts of the prequels, and while Episode 3 is the most powerful of the 3, and better reviewed than Return of the Jedi, it has to follow two that by comparison were bad movies. The movies however are far better than a lot of films, even recent ones like Green Lantern. What I think people want to do is just bash Lucas for what he did wrong and will no longer admit to what he does right.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
I actually liked The Green Lantern very much :) Mind you I am not a fanboy, nor did I read or follow the comics. So from a virgin moviegoer of the comics the movie, it is done quite well :)
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k I actually liked Green Lantern as well, but from a technical standpoint, it isn't as good a movie as any of the prequel movies. And I AM a fanboy, I just don't like my own culture because of their supreme arrogance that they fail to acknowledge the good aspects as much as the negatives.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
What do you mean by your own culture? Are you talkin about Star Wars FanBoy Culture?
I love Star Wars and I love Star Trek. I care about both, but I'm not a militant FanBoy of either, if that is what you mean.
... I think it is important, no matter your fidelity, to be honest to the art. Good, Bad or otherwise.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k no, just Fanboy culture in general. They like what they like and they don't like to see changes or evolutions to their art, yet like with all mythologies, they are always ever changing. But what bugs me is that they will just focus on what they hate, yet neglect to mention what they like. They hate Jar Jar Binks, but apparently that takes away from the epic lightsaber duel at the end... I hate that they let the stupid things outweigh the good when it should be the other way around.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
Fanboy culture over all is over-rated :) Personally I love being a nerd and knowing facts that others do not know, but it is just arrogance.
For me to say, to a creator of art, that they are wrong and it should look like this! Just means I have way too much time on my hands.
Don't get me wrong I do care alot about certain characters and they live inside me on many levels, but it is ultimatelly just fantasy.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k That actually puts you in a relative simmilar boat to me. I mean seriously, if I got problems with the art, that's fine, but the creator wants it this way and nobody likes changing their work, good or bad. I'm not going to judge him differently because he's goofed a few things. Don't we all when expectations run high?
I guess that's why I don't really like other fanboys because they want things "their" way and neglect that it's the puppeteer controlling THEM, not the other way around
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
OK I'm going ZEN on your ass. The Artist creates something tangible ...it exists. The artist is satisfied. The viewer sees the art and enjoys it, then the viewer believes that they are in control of the art ....which they are. The viewer is creating a point of view that is intimate.
OK I just confused myself. The Viewer becomes the artist ....hence beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k yeah, except that he's the biggest proponent of the fans. He hasn't sued anyone for making fan films or fan edits, he hasn't sued anyone for badmouthing him, he made Clone Wars as a "sorry" to the fans (he even trashes Jar Jar in it), he even encourages fan films and even gives out sound fx to use, etc. I agree with the whole concept, except that fans shouldn't JUST focus on the negatives and also consider the positives. If people DID, they'd be more like the things they love.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
No No No! I didn't mean it like that. The Artist is not Lucas or anyone.
*sigh* I think Stephen King said it well when he was interviewed about a movie based on his novel. The interviewer said "arn't you upset that they destroyed your book with a bad movie?" He said "My novel is just fine on the shelf over there, They have not destroyed anything"
Art is not destroyed, or validated, by an opinion ...is it?
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k which harkens back to an old Jedi who said this "Many of the Truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view."
I think the films are just fine the way they are, and the Expanded Universe around it just makes it richer and bigger. My target is the fans for just hating on it, yet still buying and making more and more and more stuff. The hypocrisy of it all, you know what I mean? I get what you mean, but my main target is people who just bitch and moan that he's evil.
SoraMatt 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
Well that is what I was talking about. An artist could present an actual Rock. There will be people who think it is magnificent, others will see it as absurd, and others still will hate it! Some will go as far as hating the person who presented the Rock!
Grab some perspective friend ...it's just a Rock.
I do hear what you are saying, but let it go chum.
:)
:P
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@SoraMatt
"Many of the Truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view."
Is an idiotic statement. What does it mean? "I believe what I see" is what it says. Thats just stupid.
Thats like me saying " To be wise you must understand!"
True wisdom is "boooga boooga boooga"
Their you go.
Joxman2k 3 months ago
@Joxman2k "Many of the Truths that we cling to, tend to be from our own point of view."
The statement is left ambiguous on purpose, so that the person receiving the message must interpret it for themselves. Truths are subjective.
TimeTraveI 3 months ago
Reboot Star Wars
leeroynaggins 4 months ago
I can't wait for the series that George Lucas is planning that will bridge the gap between III and IV!
Armoterra 4 months ago 16
@Armoterra Really? What series is that?
sonic619760 3 months ago
@Armoterra
He should film force unleashed then ! only idea i can imagine of
Ltxtx 2 months ago
I personally don't think Star Wars is about spaceships, light sabers, planets and whatnot more than Braveheart is about horses, swords and castles. I may be shot for saying this but I believe the prequels are superior to the sequels because there is a lot more plot and emotion involved, but I got into Star Wars late and began with Episode 1 (although I knew the major plot twists). I have George Lucas' view on SW and completely agree with everything he's done except the music scene added in VI...
Armoterra 4 months ago
George Lucas called Lightsabers Laser Swords? ..... .... . . . . .fuck
PrimeDisguiseFilms 4 months ago 16
@PrimeDisguiseFilms lol i think hes also thinking of the creation of the light saber
my4thone 4 months ago
@PrimeDisguiseFilms - well, that's basically what lightsabers are.. light in a very compressed form, what we today call "lasers". it's the same thing.
DemiathDoomhammer 3 months ago
@PrimeDisguiseFilms yeah that kind of blew my mind; you think out of everyone in the world he would know what lightsabers are called.
anonwoohoo 3 months ago
People always says the panntom manace sucks like lucas has said you have to look at all 6 films as one movie in which I do sometime the most modain thing like in this world like Adolf Hitler not being accepted into art school (actual fact) can make the whole world suffer I don't just take the 6 films as the only star wars experience I take the novels and video games into the star wars cannon like the butterfly effect what happend 1000's of years ago in both the star wars and our own universe.
jedilove1972 4 months ago
@jedilove1972 Exactly. If you compare all six movies to chapters of one book, you'll quickly understand that one chapter (especially the first) is almost always slow and might be perceived as boring to some. When I want to watch Star Wars, I take one week and watch one episode a day for six days. I don't just watch one of them. I think George Lucas intends us to watch it that way (much like the Lord of the Rings. You can start with II, but that's like starting a book from a middle chapter).
Armoterra 4 months ago
mythology never caught my intress before of after I saw Star Wars...Mythology caught my intress after this documentary...
MrDavidFILM 5 months ago
If all religions are true, what if my religion says your religion is wrong? Is it still true?
ChristusVlCTOR 5 months ago
@ChristusVlCTOR Drop religion, enter spirituality.
TheJamezMan 5 months ago
@TheJamezMan The only Spirit that I am interested in, is that of All Mighty God. The rebelous spirits that deceives the nations into following false religions and "spirituality" will all be judged. God offers, love, forgiveness, freedom, hope, joy, peace to those who return to Him. He has delivered me out of unspeakable evils that had consumed me in the past and "has called [me] out of darkness into His marvelous Light."
Do not let the darkness deceive you... no matter what it promises.
ChristusVlCTOR 5 months ago
@ChristusVlCTOR I am saying that is what George is essentially saying.
TheJamezMan 5 months ago
@TheJamezMan You need religion to enter spirituality. Religion is derived from the Latin religiō and means relinking.
Fapsamup 4 months ago
@Fapsamup No you don't.
TheJamezMan 4 months ago
@TheJamezMan Then my friend you don't understand what spirituality is.
Fapsamup 4 months ago
@ChristusVlCTOR I'm not sure if it would be true..but it certainly wouldn't be right imo. Personally, I have no time for a religion that would say another is wrong. If you look at most religions of the western world (maybe even world as a whole) they have this element to them. I personally feel religion is at its best, taken as a belief in spirit- the species in question being irrelevant. And nothing more cause the more elements u bring into it, the more q's u must answer..then it gets messy lol
johnjnukemsheridan 4 months ago
RESPECT to STAR WARS!!! we will never forget the best franchise EVER!!! we will always love it! i think u all agree :)
tasarassf 5 months ago
Wise words...... too bad he never went by those words when making the prequels
Basty135 5 months ago
Amazing words by Lucas...such a wise man!!
tripledoer 5 months ago
thanks for the upload. i love shit like this
TheGame2407 5 months ago
Interesting that the VFX/SPFX in Phantom Menace have aged already, but the original trilogy FX are still perfect
alexanderjbf 5 months ago
Bill Moyers: "Would you say the transcendence of Star Wars speaks to an inner id to us all? Does it touch on emotions that are so innate to us that we scarcely see acknowledge them at all, and do these films capture something that, at its quintessence, defines us as all as irrevocaly human, despite the fact that these films depict a melange of alien characters? Do they, in short, prove Joseph Campbell's thesis on a timeless mythology ingrained in us all?"
George Lucas: "...I like money."
Gorshkin111 5 months ago 10
@Gorshkin111
in a way he became what his father wanted him to be
Ionisus 5 months ago
see ya all at SWTOR ! :))
Tetragrammaification 5 months ago
I cry when I watch A New Hope, or what it truly is Star Wars.
Tilka108 5 months ago
people give George Lucas so much crap he doesn't deserve. He's an amazing creator, director and person. People make up stories like "he ruined the trilogy" or "he's so greedy" because that's the "cool" thing to say when they don't even know the guy. I think he's so amazing.
asumbudee23 5 months ago 3
another Star Wars phase :)
tphsofficial 5 months ago
The Empire Strikes Back was the best film of the saga.
TheSimmonsFilmCo 6 months ago 37
Wow. What an amazing interview. I am inspired.
DawnAnn7 6 months ago
Mr. Lucas is my new role-mode.
someThinkingApe 6 months ago 4
Thank you 'QuantumLeap365' for uploading this great George Lucas doc.
ZachClooney 6 months ago
Thank You for uploading this! :) ... and YES I Agree, "May the Force be with us ALL !!!
Peace :)
lrwwolf 6 months ago 23
May the Force be with us all!
MrDavidFILM 7 months ago
i love lucas now, no homo . lol xp
Dsi1ver 7 months ago
Thanks for posting this A very good interview. Mr. Lucas knows what he's talking about and despite his rewriting of creative impulses, off and on, he has an astonishing integrity that his decriers and critics aren't smart enough to see. He's hardly a flawless filmmaker and producer but he is a decent man and understands art.
charlieladder 7 months ago 2
Where Lucas getting his ideas from is a mystery 5:24 - Maybe he was helped by someone how gave him the ideas ;-)
kristianheidi 7 months ago
I knew too that I didn't wanted to do the same thing over and over again each day...
I hope I find my love in career soon
Zobartan 7 months ago
Outstanding interview. I somehow had never seen this one.
I especially like the stuff about God from about 24 minutes in.
Great to hear a straight answer. Thoughtful stuff. The Phantom Menace
was not a good film at all, but this interview is great.
Jawsphobia 7 months ago
The reason why the prequels sucked is *because* the audience could not understand how the "innocent" Anakin could become evil. The stories should have been told from the point of view of Obi Wan.
SteelVelocity 8 months ago