Originally posted by: Vigo
The worst thing he did was destroying the original negative of the original Star Wars films. For every Star Wars fan, this should be unforgivable.
For every movie fan, this is unforgiveable. It's really just about the most heinous cinema crime I've ever heard of.
There have been other negatives of cinematic masterpieces of historical significance which have been shamefully neglected and allowed to deteriorate ... but this is the only instance I've ever been made aware of where someone purposefully destroyed such a negative.
I find this quote of George's that Go-Mer posted to be outrageous and, well, indicative of insanity:
Originally stated by George Lucas
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished.
The worst thing he did was destroying the original negative of the original Star Wars films. For every Star Wars fan, this should be unforgivable.
For every movie fan, this is unforgiveable. It's really just about the most heinous cinema crime I've ever heard of.
There have been other negatives of cinematic masterpieces of historical significance which have been shamefully neglected and allowed to deteriorate ... but this is the only instance I've ever been made aware of where someone purposefully destroyed such a negative.
I find this quote of George's that Go-Mer posted to be outrageous and, well, indicative of insanity:
Originally stated by George Lucas
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished.
Huh? WTF? Anybody who makes films? What a crock! Who is he to speak for the world's filmmakers? ... most of whom I would imagine are grown-up enough to know that, at some point (and yeah, it's usually the point of public release) your work of art is finished ... and it's on to the next. He has a lot of nerve projecting his permanent state of real or faux dissastisfaction onto the rest of the world's filmmakers. Megalomaniac, with the emphasis on Maniac!!!
Interestingly, I was at a screening of Star Trek Wrath of Kahn last night that featured a Q&A with the writer/director Nicolas Meyer. He said that films were like a message in a bottle ... and that despite any legal claims to the contrary, a film no longer belongs to its creator in any real or moral sense once it's put out there to the public. I gave him a hearty dose of applause for his admission, as a filmmaker, that "ownership" of art is impossible and illusory once it becomes part of the public sphere.
Plain and simple, George Lucas is a fucktard lunatic. I've never been so happy to not have a widescreen TV in my life ... cause I can pretty much be satisfied with the recent substandard DVD release of Star Wars. If he wants to repudiate his unforgiveable criminal past and complete a fullscale restoration of Star Wars, that will be gravy. In the meanwhile, I don't give a fig what a creep the likes of George Lucas does with his twisted life. He can twirl his villainous mustache outside the San Rafael Best Buy as far as I'm concerned ... or, in his case, flick the folds of his multiple necks.
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