He is right about Scorsese being right about Marvel but a broken clock is right twice a day. I have a deep respect for George Lucas as an artist, creator and mythologist. But he ruined his art with the prequel and forcing the special edition on people who liked the original is stupid. The prequels if dissected might have something to say in them about the downfall of a republic and the rise of fascism, they are mixed at best as films.

Also Francis does not make commercial films, or pop art the most commercial thing he ever made was the Godfather and he didn’t even want to make it and was forced do to it for financial reasons.

the Conversation and Apocalypse Now are absolutely brilliant.

The one thing I dislike about George which I won’t change my opinion on is promising final cut to Kersh on Empire and going back on his word with the Special Edition. Recutting Jedi when Marquand was dead and had no say.

He kept his word on Spielberg directed Raiders of the Lost Ark, there is no George Lucas redone cgi cut on DVD, Blu-Ray or 4K. He never took the picture away from Spielberg during production either. There is just something about Empire that makes George deeply unhappy from the way Kurtz produced it, going way over budget and schedule. To where he said in public, he thought it was the worst one and I actually believe he thinks that.

I also take him at his word when he says he doesn’t care what the fans want, and that he hated the Expanded Universe of Star Wars and let the marketing people do it because it was separate from his world. When he says we will never allow the original, I take that as gospel. That man is stubborn will never relent.