That got me thinking today about George Lucas, however. Does he enjoy his own work? Does he, to this day, find the original Star Wars a fun film to watch? Is he actually devoted to the film as a great work of art as I am?
I ask this because his latest actions (dramatically editing the film and then twisting it with the "prequels") seem to come from someone who doesn't strongly care about that which was previously established. Instead, they seem to come from someone who no longer cares all that much about what works and what does not work artistically. If so, that might explain the disconnect he has with people who have a fanatical devotion to his past artistic successes.
In the past I concluded that George Lucas, as an artist, has too short of an attention span to devise a large, complicated string of ideas. He moves too quickly from one fascinating idea to another to be concerned with the continuity or depth of something that involved. But, perhaps the source of this artistic tendency of his comes from the way he enjoys all art. Perhaps he never enjoy enjoyed his own work in any lasting way in the first place. Maybe the Star Wars films were fun while he was making them, but then they became unimportant to him from then on (beyond making money with them at any rate).
I certainly don't know. It's a fun thing to think about though.