More Lucas... Quotes from an interview about the DVD's
#16
Posted 16 September 2004 - 10:07 PM
like someone says here have some icecream. you love it when you taste a bit, but then they take it away, take a big steamy dump on it, and give it back saying: this is the only way you'll ever have ice cream again
FSW
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#17
Posted 17 September 2004 - 09:54 AM
I've got something for George to consider - if he doesn't want to spend the money on transferring the untainted versions to DVD and he doesn't think they really exist, then why doesn't he give the rights to these films over to Fox Studios... and they can make the DVDs for these films?
In addition to this, George, if you don't think the original films exist anymore, then I'd say they're public property.
#18
Posted 17 September 2004 - 07:50 PM
But between the Internet, the growing popularity of "consumer cinema" (movies created by non-professional groups for "consumption", not for profit), and the love that everyone has for these movies, I say that the Star Wars universe is free reign for everyone now.
Make your own Star Wars movie! People have been doing it for years! Drop the forests of Endor and the dunes of Tattooine! Explore your own planets!
This is our time now, guys, this is the time when fans and filmmakers can get together to play in this big universe. If Lucas wants to do his own version of Star Wars, that's fine. But it's fair game for us, too.
The Creative Orgasm - You have to see it for yourself.
#19
Posted 17 September 2004 - 08:16 PM
if he had died before his 'true vision' got out he would have died a hero!
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#20
Posted 18 September 2004 - 11:11 PM
My hate for his has grown as well. I keep saying I'll give up on SW, and I keep coming back and coming back checking out all these forums, virtually punishing myself. Lucas is doing a good job to turn me away...
#21
Posted 19 September 2004 - 03:25 AM
Lucas reacts strongly to the crits because he feels and cares strongly for his work. he does come across rather dismissive and flippant at one point in the interview, the "im sorry if you fell in love with something thats half finished" or whatever, but the sad but true fact is that no one owns these films, or has any right to them but Lucas. as the audience we can accept or refuse, balk at or choose to consume whatever the artist gives us, but that doesnt mean we have any power over the product. that right belongs to the artist, and the artist alone.
#22
Posted 19 September 2004 - 08:07 AM
Lucas has a rare deal. And, no doubt, he has the legal right to do what he's doing.
And if the Southern Baptists were ever tsomehow to purchase the rights to the Star Wars trilogy, they would be perfectly within their rights to digitally change the discussions about the Force into the need to be washed in the blood of Jesus and even insert Jesus's spirit into the Jedi ghost scene at the RotJ. And they also would be within their rights to burn every last master of the original. Would you in that case, still be getting all mushy for the rights of filmright holders, Jariten?
NO ONE questions Lucas's legal right to do this. And the only relevance to Lucas being an "artist" is that criticism comes with the territory. Lucas can create (or recreate) and the public will critique.
#23
Posted 19 September 2004 - 08:13 AM
#24
Posted 19 September 2004 - 10:09 PM
a true artsist releases his/her work and damns the consequences!
they do not constantly alter their work in a pathetic attempt to youthen it... aging of art is what makes it great... and this was something that was aging smoothly.
Lucase is not a ARTIST!
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#26
Posted 19 September 2004 - 11:44 PM
FSW!
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#28
Posted 20 September 2004 - 12:22 AM
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#29
Posted 20 September 2004 - 02:16 PM
It's wrong, and you know what? The fact that Lucas has to ride his high horse every other week or so and the fact that reporters keep asking him about it and twisting his quotes all to make him look bad pretty much indicates this to me: Lucas knows it's wrong, the reporters know it's wrong, and we all know it's wrong, on a gut level. It s fundamentally insulting and offensive to the set designers and the carpenters and the storyboard artists and the conceptual artists and puppeteers and hell, even the publicists and film distributors, to pretend this is akin to a painting or a novel and that it is the work of the guy who happens to have the legal ownership of the thing.
Lucas owns the thing; he can do with it as he pleases. That is his legal right, and if he wants to tiptoe onto his soapbox about the legal rights of a media mogul, then I will defend him with my back teeth. But he's talking about his rights as an artist, and essentially flipping the bird to all the other artists who worked on the film on the day. He's not worried about their rights.
So I say fuck him for that.
#30
Posted 20 September 2004 - 04:49 PM
I'm talkin to you Jar....
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