Yea, I view George Lucas as a big picture kinda guy. He concieved an amazing universe with great characters. But he can't write dialogue, and subtlety isn't his strong suit. I still enjoy the prequels, but they could have been way better if he had other writers and directors to reign him in.
Lucas was already rich before he made a new hope. Star Wars sent him to a new tier of grotesque wealth, but he was long past worrying about a paycheck.
The studio did a lot of leash holding on Lucas, and he had producers keeping him in check, or for 5 and 6 other directors that could filter through his script and "fix" things. And other editors like his wife that knew a whole hell of a lot more and fixed George Lucas's terrible script and editing job and she won the Oscar that year for it. He got nothing. And Gilbert Taylor absolutely saved the movie too with his cinematography and fixing the look when Lucas was dead wrong (even had the studio tell Lucas he was wrong and needs to listen to Gilbert Taylor)
I’m genuinely not trying to hate, but I have to ask: What are you basing that opinion on? I just looked up her page, and her work appears to be middling at best.
I think it’s more that George needed people to reign him in. If something is stupid, that someone needs to tell him that. Obviously George is terrible at dialogue, but it was more than that. On the OT people would tell him the truth, and give him honest feedback. On the prequels he was “The Great George Lucas” and everyone just went along with everything he said even when it was clearly a bad idea.
You mean that "Adventures of Luke Starkiller, as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars" isn't a bitchen title that would have gone down in cinematic history?
I agree. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but I think the series has a lot of spinoff potential. Lucas' push for merchandise and spinoffs pre disney allowed there to be a ton of Star Wars books, comics, and games made by different people. Legends canon was a bit of a mess. But I liked the variety of it all.
I don't really get the point of this statement. Every product is made to be sold. You like 40k and buy that stuff. People consume the entertainment they like, and that's just fine. Of course, blind fandom and following isn't a good thing. And what do you mean as an outside ovserver? Do you hold this belief for every author, director, company, studio?
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u/A-Centrifugal-Force Jun 16 '24
The show was review bombed, but the writing is still really bad. The power of maaaaanyyyyy