Cultural impact can't be steered — Page 2

Since it appears this thread has become about the quality of the blu-ray artwork (solid first post Anchorhead) this is the artist who created it*:

Cliff Cramp

Maybe, if one was so inclined, someone could contact him and ask if he was given instructions on where to place certain characters both OT and PT in the collage or it was simply random.

*The new artwork, not the stuff featured in the Star Wars Visions collection.

I'll agree with Anchorhead about Lucas' (futile) attempts to steer the impact. But to some degree I think he has been successful in the short term. 

In the late 90s, the whole "vision" of the saga started being pushed, with the emphasis on the path of the hero, redemption, Joseph Campbell, etc. People bought into it, and it made us have hopes that the prequels would be better. The hype may have been why so many of us initially had trouble seeing the problems with the prequels.

Lately, I do feel like there's been a cultural shift in the other direction. Time is not being kind to the prequels and the vision of the saga, as opposed to the OT which only gets better with age. In the end, I think it'll all shake out, and Lucas' attempts to steer the cultural impact won't count for much.

ARTWORK:

About the cover art, it irritates the heck out of me that Luke is not wearing his boots. It just looks like some random blond dude in khakis. Am I the only one bothered by this?

Also, with Luke being a ghost going in the other direction: The cover clearly tells us that the OT is dead and the PT/Saga is coming straight down our throats.

TheBoost said:

In the end people remember good movies. Bad movies fade away.

That's why people always talk about the Golden Days of Hollywood. People remember "Casablanca" not "Shhh Beware the Octopus!"

People still look at Bela Lugosi's Dracula as the icon. Some film enthusiasts recall the lesser later movies in the Universal Monster series. Star Wars will be much the same way.

 They could package the blu-ray of Dracula with a picture of Abbot and Costello on the front, but in the end people will remember Lugosi.

that can true in most cases. 

but Star Wars has always been an exception to every rule and im afraid the PT will also be an exception. It had too much exposure - so its harder to fade away. 

and actually, its not really an exception - Im a big fan of the original Halloween. Before the sequels and the whole michael myers/laurie strode and the remakes (which I didn't see but people whose opinion i trust say they are horrible), this was a classic like Carrie, shining, psycho etc.  It was even a Criterion Laserdisc, LOL !!!!!!!! (and maybe that was a little too much)  But now, its regarded as just another slasher movie like F13 or NOES...and that sucks.

Rocky was a beloved classic, but now people makes jokes because of the bad sequels.

The original Jaws seems to have come away unscathed.