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Lucas ceased to be a filmmaker...

posted 12 years ago by Fuzzyfoot
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when he realized he could make billions by selling toys. Hence why Wookies became Ewoks, so on and so on.

[–] toph1980 12 years ago

Maybe he'll redeem himself now Star Wars is out of his hands. I love the part where Coppola talks about Lucas being more than just Star Wars, the dozen of films he once wanted to make, and so on. Puts *beep* in perspective.

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[–] KittenCommunism 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure he ceased to be a filmmaker the moment he got the tar and feathers treatment for daring to touch slighty upon his older movies and making a new trilogy of films that didnt live up to the insanely unrealistic expectations of his "fans".

[–] robert3750 11 years ago

In other words, he was exposed as not being as good a filmmaker as people thought he was.

[–] pleckbo 11 years ago

Yeah, the guy sucks. Why is Empire better than New Hope? Because Lucas DIDN'T direct it! Give Lucas creative control, and creativity goes in decline. In all fairness, I think he's mildly retarded (seriously), so it's largely the fault of others kowtowing to this man's "vision."

[–] Dextrousleftie 11 years ago

Lucas is a good ideas man, but a terrible director and an even worse writer. The dialogue in the prequels is beyond wooden and laughable. The poor actors tried their hardest, but they just couldn't pull them off.

[–] daddie0 10 years ago

I thought the quote of him self-identifying as a "toy maker who makes films" was telling, even if he didn't realize how true this would become. Of course, the irony is that if it weren't for the toys, most of us wouldn't have loved IV, V, and VI so much....