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Originally posted by: Jaster Mareel
Personally, I find Tolkien to be boring. He spends an entire chapter describing what a forest looks like. I was never able to finnish FotR, and I never even started on the other books. I really enjoyed the movies though.
But I think that one of the "greatest storytellers of the modern age" would be someone more like Quentin Tarantino, Chuck Palahniuk or even Kevin Smith. Darren Aronofsky has written some great movies aswell, but I think it's more his filmstyle that makes them great and not the actual story. Pi would be a boring book to read, but it was a genius movie to watch. Chuck Palahniuk writes some of the greatest books ever. Survivor being my favorite of them.
And I don't really think anyone will ever create the "most wonderous story ever told." I mean, to do that, it would have to be something so good that everyone in the world (or at least everyone who's watched/read it) would like. That's impossible to do, because everyone's opinions are so different...
Though, I do agree that future writers can learn from Lucas' mistakes.
I think that it is possible to create the "most wonderous story ever told". Just very, very, very improbable and, would be really hard to accomplish. Also, it would be hard to keep a lock on the story with the internet and, all. Personally, I feel that Star Wars would have been better had Lucas never been involved with Indiana Jones.
