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Originally posted by: D0CT0R_W40
Hey, please don't take anything I say personally...I don't want to argue here. I appologize if you took my post as a bash or anything like that, I didn't mean it to come off in that way.
Don't worry, I didn't take anything personally. I apologize if my post came off agitated. I wasn't, I was just defending my position.
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The idea here is to make a documentary...I'm trying to say from experience that "release the originals" isn't enough material to make a decent documentary. That will also make us sound like whiney star wars geeks.
A documentary that only asks for the OT will get the attention of other Star Wars fans...but in this article Lucas directly admits that he doesn't care what the fans think. If he's not changing his mind about the OT from the number of signatures on this petition, a documentary about it won't change his mind either. If we have something that gets the attention of other directors...maybe we'll have more luck. And if we can show that Lucas has taken too much credit, that will get the attention of the other directors.
I agree with you, we need to appeal to a wider audience than just Star Wars fans (although they will remain our core audience no matter what we do), and I think appealing to film preservationists is a good idea. However, I still don't think being overly critical of Lucas (especially to the extent of bringing up irrelevant topics like the Prequels) is going to win us any friends even among other directors. In the end, hundreds (if not thousands) of people work on every movie released and/or distributed by major studios, but it always comes down to people denoting ownership of it by the director (eg: "Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Oddessey"). So, I wouldn't concern myself with how much "credit" he's taken. I mean he's never said that he invented the motion control camera himself, he gave credit to Dykstra, he never claimed to have built any models, painted any matte paintings, fabricated any costumes, or even shot any effects footage. I think that we should bring up the fact that the hard work of these people won't be able to be seen anymore when much of it has been replaced by CGI, but I wouldn't get too focused on how much credit Lucas takes for the films as a whole.
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I'm going to wait and see if anyone agrees with me before I discuss this any more...if no one else agrees with me, I'll just drop the "lucas took too much credit" aspect of it, and I'll help you guys do whatever you want to do.
So everyone who wants to take part in this, or anyone who's just browsing through, what do you think? Should we A) Do a documentary that only asks for the original trilogy; or B) Do a documentary that asks that same question, but also points out that Lucas may have taken too much credit. Everybody who's reading this please tell us what you think...and read what we've both been saying before you vote
I'll be happy to help out in any way I can, whichever way we decide to do this.
By the way, This was posted recently by Jay. Let's make sure we keep that in mind while we talk about this, it's started to get just a *little* heated, and that's the last thing we want.
So, yeah, anyway, I hope you didn't take anything I said personally either. I don't mean to be insulting so if you get that impression please give me the benefit of the doubt and ask me what I meant. I'll afford the same respect to you. It's natural that we are passionate about this. We both think our way is right and will get more results, but as long as we keep in mind that we have the same goal we should be able to get along quite affably.