Originally posted by: Mielr So, you're saying that he was out of practice, and that's why he sucks as a director now? It's a valid argument, but in my opinion it seems that his talent was more limited than he or any of us originally thought, and his revived desire to direct simply surpassed the limits of his directing ability.
No, I don't think it was because he was out of practice. I think he is a very different person now than he was then. I honestly think had he continued directing, while a few stinkers would have been inevitable, we would have seen many great things from him. Surely you have read books by a writer where his earlier books are better than his later ones, it isn't because he is out of practice, it is just because he seems to loose whatever it was he had when he was younger. I think this is the case with Lucas. I think he lacks the same focus he had back in the 70s. Something that once came from his heart and an ambition to succeed, was now replaced by the idea that this could bring in a lot of dough and the feeling that he had already succeeded and was now a well known and well respected director who's name is often listed among and associated with the masters. In other words, going from the young, I want to be all I can be and really make some great films to the old I've got something that will rake in boatloads upon boatloads of cash, and who better to do it than myself, master director extrodinare, a one man creative team who knows no wrong.
To sum it up, I think ambition was replaced by pride, and the desire to make good movies was also replaced by other motives. Show me top director who has not ended up doing at least a few crappy films. George kind of top out as a high status director after just a couple of successes and never got around to doing anything that bombed so as to tell him he too was mortal and capible of bleeding. We learn through out mistakes. Failure can sometimes becomes a stepping stone to success. Nobody is perfect. We become wise by realizing we are fools with much yet to learn. The bigger they are the harder they fall. And so on.