skyjedi2005 said:Except the words need not be spoken.
Pardon me, but I think all the words you spoke have been spoken and respoken and regurgitated and rehashed and... ugh...
Artists in the past and artists in the future will sell their quote "artist soul" to get rich and make a buck.
First of all, who is to be the judge of when somebody 'sells out'? You? Has everyone who has gone from not being rich to being rich sold out? What does it even mean to sell your 'artist soul'? What sort of an ideal do we have to live up to, to not disappoint you?
The guy who hated the entire corporate idea and ideal who refused to take over his fathers business because he didn't want to become like him became the corporation. The little guy underdog artist who worked for a small personal system of making small films on your own terms outside hollywood became the new hollywood along with Spielberg. He eventually betrayed the very ideals he and Coppola had at Zoetrope in the 60's.
You mention that Lucas didn't want to become like his father, but you forget that he vowed to become a millionaire by thirty as well, so where does that leave your theory?
And while he may have 'betrayed' Coppola's ideals of a small independent film unit, those were Coppola's ideals, not Lucas's. And he most certainly hasn't betrayed the idea of the USC-like film making environment that he first pursued with the ranch and now the new project.
Besides, whatever ideas, thoughts and ideals a man has in his early twenties must undergo change as life progresses; holding Lucas to your idea of his ideals in his early twenties is the absurd. It sounds like you're busier feeling cheated out of a good prequel trilogy and mapping Lucas's life onto the structure of Star Wars than you are understanding that things change over time, and that you aren't entitled to anything just because you happened to like the original trilogy.
And, you of course gloss straight over the fact that Lucas is the most successful independent filmmaker in the history of the world, responsible for having rejuvinated the movie industry, the special effects industry, the sound industry and the theater experience in general. Oh, and he has poured who knows how much money into education.
Yeah, he's pure evil alright.