Drew speaking with George Lucas – director and writer of the Star Wars Epic
Drew: “Why do you use illustration to advertise and represent your projects? Computer manipulated photographs dominate the advertising of so many studios, but you continue to loyally choose illustration….”
George Lucas: “The kind of movies I make are more fanciful in nature, more mythical in nature. To market my films, I like to move one step away from photo- realism to something that’s a little grander, a little more glorious, and something a bit more romantic than what you get with just simple photographs.”
Is Lucas just the biggest bag of hypocritical nonsense ever? First he goes on about the importance of film preservation, giving his detractors plenty of juicy quotes, and now I see this. If he truly said and believes this, what the hell would compel him to have "simple" photoshop generated garbage used for the covers of the recent dvd's?! Even worse, photoshop generated garbage that bastardizes the handmade artwork that he claims to consider paramount in marketing his films??!!
Seriously, does he have a head injury? How can one man so utterly and completely contradict himself at almost every point?
While I'm happy we have many talented folks here who provide outstanding alternative covers, it never ceases to confound me how wrong LFL gets things, and how disappointed I become when one of the greatest film series ever is treated with such contempt by its own maker, one who even DEFIES HIS OWN LOGIC!