Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
I simply can't agree with that. Oh, I have no problem laying off George as a person. But as an artist and a businessman, I continue to hold him in complete contempt. Not possessing the type of mind to adequately create the art that so much intense effort and money went into ... well, there's no excuse for that on an artistic or business level.
Yeah, I don't really mean to excuse that. He's a very arrogant person to weild his power the way that he does. I'll agree to criticize him on that level. But, that still doesn't mean that some of his artistic mistakes and problems are not honest on his part. He might actually think that what he is making is good. He certainly has enough idiots worshipping him, and with his arrogance in the way it isn't hard to imagine that he'd lose perspective.
Very good point. Again, I think that problem goes back to his greed. He purposely kept changing one franchise because he knew he could keep using its popularity for material gain. I'll criticize him there any day.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
It's really just the "now" attitude that he has. Whatever mindset of the week he has is what everything he's ever done has to be. Sometimes that manifests itself simply in the way he talks about things (i.e. I always meant this scene to be perceived this way...) even though it's obvious he's talking out of his ass. Sometimes it manifests itself in him actually going back to old material and changing it to fit his new viewpoint rather than accept that he's changed and deal with it.
I simply can't agree with that. Oh, I have no problem laying off George as a person. But as an artist and a businessman, I continue to hold him in complete contempt. Not possessing the type of mind to adequately create the art that so much intense effort and money went into ... well, there's no excuse for that on an artistic or business level.
Yeah, I don't really mean to excuse that. He's a very arrogant person to weild his power the way that he does. I'll agree to criticize him on that level. But, that still doesn't mean that some of his artistic mistakes and problems are not honest on his part. He might actually think that what he is making is good. He certainly has enough idiots worshipping him, and with his arrogance in the way it isn't hard to imagine that he'd lose perspective.
Originally posted by: zombie84
Had he made them each as their own self-contained series or film this problem wouldn't exist, but he tried this in 1987 with Willow and it failed--so rather than develop new material he allowed himself to experiment and indulge his various sensibilities by selling the material as "Star Wars."
Had he made them each as their own self-contained series or film this problem wouldn't exist, but he tried this in 1987 with Willow and it failed--so rather than develop new material he allowed himself to experiment and indulge his various sensibilities by selling the material as "Star Wars."
Very good point. Again, I think that problem goes back to his greed. He purposely kept changing one franchise because he knew he could keep using its popularity for material gain. I'll criticize him there any day.
Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
It's really just the "now" attitude that he has. Whatever mindset of the week he has is what everything he's ever done has to be. Sometimes that manifests itself simply in the way he talks about things (i.e. I always meant this scene to be perceived this way...) even though it's obvious he's talking out of his ass. Sometimes it manifests itself in him actually going back to old material and changing it to fit his new viewpoint rather than accept that he's changed and deal with it.
Good way to put it. He goes too far. But, I believe that's because his mind just isn't sufficiently rigid enough to remain faithful to certain concepts. He accepts and rejects ideas far too easily. What we have left is headache of chaotic elements.
(Perhaps that's why Gary Kurtz had a falling out with Lucas, when Lucas changed his mind too much from what had been previously agreed to.)