Mrebo said:
They must be eating this up over at TFN. Not only are we stuck in the past, failing to realize that art is technology, but we want Han to be a cold-blooded killer. Not sure how slandering a large portion of his fan base is helpful.
lol, more 'interviews' !! as I said before - this guy has given more 'interviews' than every other film director in history combined. He loves to give interviews infinitely more than filmmaking - fact.
all kidding aside, you really shouldn't be surprised at what he said. I am not going to read the full 'interview, but I read the excerpts, and unless they are out-of-context, its what I expected. His take on Han/Greedo is not even worth dignifying with a rebuttal.
The post above highlights what I've been trying to say. The primary (if not sole) purpose of these 'interviews' is to dispatch new talking points for the apologists and sycophants. Why do you think on the AOTC dvd, he says 3 times that he is a 'visual' filmmaker? Becuase he knew he was discredited on the idea he cared about story and characters. So he needed this talking point - and it worked. Go check out some of the posts at TFN from that timeframe. Of course, this excuse is totally bogus because ALL FILMS are visual (thats why they have these things called cameras). And truthfully, except for a few shots in AOTC and ROTS, there was no visual flair to the PT - it was pretty sterile. So the next talking point was - 'lucas has a documentary style approach to filmmaking'. I have already discussed the repulsive appearences on Jon Stewart and Oprah. You need to keep this in mind everytime there is an 'interview'.
As far as thumbing his nose at the fans that made him a millionaire - it was confirmed in the Blu ray thread that he did not have a 'thank you' note, like he did for the VHS releases. Those thank you notes were disingenious. Now that he has his billions and was able to finance his Letterman center for 'Digital Arts' (bwaaaaaahahahaahahaha) he can drop all pretense. "I got mine, so screw you!"