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Originally posted by: ricarleite
OK, here's the thing about George Lucas. First of all, I've seen only one non-SW movie directed by him, American Graffitti, and I enjoyed it. I've noticed that he had the actors decide how the scene would be made by themselves, you can notice that on how Richard Dreifuss acts in this movie. The writing is pretty ok but no sheakespeare. The thing is, he had a great idea, and executed it well.
For Star Wars, he had a terrible idea which slowly developed into something good. After some script re-writes, he got into something that would be interesting to see. In order to do that he had many influences that actually "worked" the script for him, Kurosawa as an example. He also had a great team and great minds working with him. In 1977 he had a visionary mind and a great criative vision.
Suddenly he becamse a multi-millionaire, and became distant to his creative mind and decided to focus on his business. He got old and lost all his experience. If you ask a 15 year old kid to tell you a story, and then ask that same person, 30 years later, to do it again, he'll not be as imaginative and creative as he used to be.
SFX, big budgets, bad luck, out of touch with today's world and a ego problem all contributed to what he is today. He might do some interesting non-SW films if he wants to, I'm sure he would do great drama films, or maybe a romantic comedy, but he has lost his touch for something as visionary and insanely creative as Star Wars is.
If anything he is better now then ever. He is a great visionary. Was then is still great now. Star Wars was an amazing achievement that started a world wide phenomena. Star Wars was not based off any book it all came from the mind of one man.