One last thought on that line before the thread returns to its intended subject: He also changed up American Grafitti with new skylines and stuff like that. It’s just something he does with his movies. Back to the topic, I think Coppola is a great parallel. Watching Lucas’ student films, as well as his features, you can see he really did have a vision and a wealth of good ideas. But just like Coppola went from Apocalypse Now to Twixt in only a few decades, or how Terrence Malick went from Badlands to Song to Song, once a director starts believing his own hype it’s all downhill. George is, to me, a very tragic figure, someone that used to be great but eventually began phoning it in because, hell, he’s George Lucas and he’s a genius so it’s gonna be great no matter what.