Originally posted by: Tiptup
I just read an interview of his where he said the original Star Wars was only 25% of what he wanted.
This is most likely incorrect. Lucas likes to portray himself as a visionary by revision, so it is possibly true that the original Star Wars is only 25% of what he would have preferred it to be today. However, going by the interviews he gave back in the day, the original Star Wars came pretty close to what he actually wanted back then, even though it still wasn't quite 100% perhaps.
He does this because he isn't the same person today as he was 30 years ago. Almost any person will change quite a lot over such a period of time for that matter, and frequently over much shorter timespans as well, all dependent on the events in our lives. Depending on what order of magnitude in terms of change we look at, you've changed slightly even as you read this very sentence. A minute change, and perhaps not a significant one on the level of day-to-day life, but a change nevertheless. Lucas is just an example of someone who ins't really willing to accept this, that this is what was and this is what is and just let it be.
He should have just made all the movies brand new and not bothered to change the old. Then his Saga would truly tie together. Though he doesn't like Star Wars enough for that kind of commitment I'd guess. That would be too much work for our lethargic filmaker.
I just read an interview of his where he said the original Star Wars was only 25% of what he wanted.
This is most likely incorrect. Lucas likes to portray himself as a visionary by revision, so it is possibly true that the original Star Wars is only 25% of what he would have preferred it to be today. However, going by the interviews he gave back in the day, the original Star Wars came pretty close to what he actually wanted back then, even though it still wasn't quite 100% perhaps.
If that's true, why should he go back and fuck up an already good film with his additions?
He does this because he isn't the same person today as he was 30 years ago. Almost any person will change quite a lot over such a period of time for that matter, and frequently over much shorter timespans as well, all dependent on the events in our lives. Depending on what order of magnitude in terms of change we look at, you've changed slightly even as you read this very sentence. A minute change, and perhaps not a significant one on the level of day-to-day life, but a change nevertheless. Lucas is just an example of someone who ins't really willing to accept this, that this is what was and this is what is and just let it be.
He should have just made all the movies brand new and not bothered to change the old. Then his Saga would truly tie together. Though he doesn't like Star Wars enough for that kind of commitment I'd guess. That would be too much work for our lethargic filmaker.
I'm almost beginning to wonder whether Lucas will eventually turn into a manic recluse, as obsessed with editing the Star Wars movies into ever new versions of his "grand vision" as Howard Hughes was with collecting jars of his own urine. In the end though, it's all about the money of course.