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but heavy-handed ownership control and manipulation of someone else's creation.
That belies an overall ignorance of how the movies were made, which goes back to my point that most fanboys don't really WANT to know what they're talking about because that'll knock holes in a lot of their righteous indignation.
He created the entire universe, and every character in it. Those are his. He wrote the story for every movie, and co-wrote the screenplay to Empire Strikes Back. Kasdan holds sole credit, but Lucas wrote 2 drafts before Kasdan came on, and Kasdan didn't change anything plotwise. He fixed the dialog (Thank God) and tightened up the pacing, but the story and events are just as Lucas originally wrote them before Kasdan got the draft to rework. Further story meetings all included Lucas, Kasdan and Kurtz, with Lucas and Kasdan hammering out points of contention. To say that's not his creation is ludicrous.
The same thing happened with Return of the Jedi, which was changed even less. The man directed 75% of Return of the Jedi by admission of anyone who ventured near the set during filming. Kershner put his stamp on the visual and character interaction in Empire Strikes Back, but the story, the plot, the characters, and the arc--that was Lucas. He sank the money into it, he wrote, he directed, he produced, he edited--save for the music, there isn't really a single aspect of any of these three films that Lucas didn't have creative control over.
These movies ARE his creations. He had other people help in the execution, and in that execution some new ideas were implemented, of course, but to say he's screwing up other people's creations is shortsighted and unfair, if not outright ignorant of how the movies were really made. It gives too much importance to Kasdan, Kershner, Kurtz, Kazanjian (what's with all the K's, jesus) Williams, Burtt, etc...that's not to take away from what they did at all, but it's just as unfair to give them more credit than they deserve as it is to say EVERYTHING was Lucas, down to correcting the angle on a popsicle stick poking out of the Death Star models.
Once again, I'm not saying the choices he's made since 1983 have been all showstoppers, but that doesn't mean these films, their subject matter, their stories, the universe they inhabit and the characters in that universe are not all creations of George Lucas, because they are. That's just how it is. It's pretty easy to step back and see that. It gets harder when you hang onto this weird, misguided sense of entitlement and pride that fanboys use to keep themselves overdramatically angry and indignant. When you don't purposefully drag in this sense of being personally assaulted into it, being able to look at it with a balanced eye gets a WHOLE lot easier. It doesn't become an exercise in seeing how many overused stale insults you can cram into a sentence.
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I really have no idea what these Lucas Loving Fanboys have against releasing the Original Trilogy Theatrical Version
And that's just another example of you being willfully ignorant of what's actually being said. There isn't a single sentence in any of my posts here that even HINT at me being AGAINST the release of the Original versions on DVD. As a matter of fact, there's very blatant statments to the OPPOSITE of that effect. And the above is one of the biggest straw man arguments ever deployed in this argument. The majority of fans I've talked to across the world wide web, who actually DON'T MIND the Special Editions, would LOVE to have the original versions released. They're certainly not for SUPPRESSING them. They want to take the trip down nostalgia lane as well. They're just not as personally insulted and overdramatically raging at the fact they can't do that with an official release yet. That doesn't equal them wanting to SUPPRESS the originals at all.