>Be Lucas
>Make early 1970 drafts of a movie called the Star Wars involving an evil dictator who has an army of Sith Lords who over rule the Galactic Republic
>Believe this is all too political so cut it out of your movie and save it for perhaps a sequel
>Get your wife at the time who is a very experienced editor to help draft your movie
>You and her share so much together and she gives you hope of your future
>Star Wars 1977 is a success so you continue on the sequels, having an entire backstory about a young Anakin Skywalker in mind but again this is all too big of a story so you just focus on Luke Skywalker redeeming his father
>Cut to the end of 1983 when Return of the Jedi is released as you and your wife are so rich and successful but you deeply care about your Star Wars character legacy and get deeply involved in the toy business (mainly due to the personal reason that you cannot pro-create with your wife so instead Star Wars is your baby to the world)
>Get too involved in Star Wars that you are away home too long as eventually your wife tells you she wants a divorce
>Finally begin the writing of Episode 1 using your old early 1970 drafts
>You don't have her support on the editing and this deeply saddens you
>Spend so much time with practicals and miniatures and shooting it on film
>Release it with a sudden backlash by many fans who are calling you a failure
>You remind yourself of your divorce from the love of your life when together you shared in the creation of your baby: Star Wars
>End up not giving a shit and just shooting Episode 2 on digital instead of film with hardly any practicals
>Cut all the way to 2012
>Fans have been hating your guts for a decade for the prequels
>Get fed up with the fanbase and decide to sell it to the worst company possible
>Sit and watch it all crumble to bits as you remind yourself "oh wait that's my baby"
Lucas' life is truly the official Star Wars tragedy
Be Lucas
I get sad just thinking about it.
His wife wasn't a experienced ediotr, she was a failed film student who ended up doing editing. The only reason she is associated to Star wars is because she married George. She actually is the cause of his depression after ESB and why he quit everything altogether.
Mate he made himself 6 billion dollars selling a franchise that peaked 40 years ago AND managed to make the prequels look better by tricking Disney into making infinitely shittier and soulless movies that make people understand what his movies were really about and appreciate the heart and soul behind it all, even though they are far from perfect movies.
He is probably happier than he's been since the mid eighties. The guy is a massive force of good in the world, being Bill Gates like in his philantophic efforts. He's being the hero of his own story now. He's moved on to greater things... for now. I think he'll do something Star Wars related one more time before he dies. Disney would let him in a heartbeat. It would sell itself. Maligned father returnes home. Who wouldn't want to see it after years of Disney's deck?
George Lucas is happy as a clam.
>End up not giving a shit and just shooting Episode 2 on digital instead of film with hardly any practicals
>Get fed up with the fanbase and decide to sell it to the worst company possible
Both of these are wrong.
There was a shit load of practical stuff used in EpII and the reason he sold was because he thought he could trust disney to keep making Star Wars movies and keep the magic alive after he eventually died, but before that he planned to still be involved. If anything he was extremely naive.
This. Two entire generations are coming around on the prequels and it has all to do with George showing us how bad it can really be by sacrificing Star Wars to Disney. He didn't rob us of more kino, because nobody wanted to see geriatric Luke, Han and Leia shot themselves on screen - instead on essence he re-gifted us the prequels , by forcing a new perspective on them within us - a new scale to judge them by - and we're finally realizing they were actually pretty fucking great.
>Gives half of it away to charity
He doesn't deserve us
This man gave over 4 billion dollars to charity and plans to leave 90% of his wealth to charity when he died, with only 10% being divided amongst his loved ones. By the time he does that will probably be another 10 billion dollars.
This man is too fucking good for us. How can anyone ever shit on this saint?
He's not your typical Hollywood director, unlike Spielberg
>Spend so much time with practicals and miniatures and shooting it on film
huh?
>wealth equals happiness
capitalist and communist materialists are idiots
what is the moral of the story?
if you become very rich and successful it's by the combination of talent and hard work plus more or less a fluke, so any subsequent thing you do will not be subject to a fluke and thereby expose your talent as not enough to pull of the thing that made you in the first place
>End up not giving a shit and just shooting Episode 2 on digital instead of film with hardly any practicals
Oh look, it's a retard who knows nothing about Lucas or how the films were made.
Lucas shot an entire scene in ep1 on digital and challenged anyone to find it. No one managed. He therefore decided that digital was the future and pioneered it in one of the most important moves in cinema history next to the use of cgi (that he also pioneered).
Ep2 has as many practical sets as ep1 but you've brainwashed by one or two deleted scenes and retarded rlm pseudo criticism
>Ep2 has as many practical sets as ep1
lol how the fuck can you shoot practical effects with a digital camera?
Not gonna lie, this is some pretty tasty b8
If I were his loved one I would be pissed that he’s just pissing away my inheritance on “charity”
Try working manual labour for sub minimum wage and say that you're happy.
It's not yours to begin with, you fucking vulture. Make your own money and stop treating your parents like a fucking bank.
Nah, Marcia was a great film student. She just went down the editing path, while George was unsure at the beginning. He ended up taking various camera jobs before Coppola took him under his wing and told his ass to start writing if he wanted to direct. He did, but struggled because he couldn't connect his writing with his emotions. Marcia didn't help draft Star Wars. She just gave him tips, much like Spielberg, Scorsese, and De Palma, and every writer-director out there, like Quintin Tarantula, loves feedback. Everyone knows that a movie is written three times m8: the writing, the directing and the editing. Autists and Mike believe that Star Wars was saved in editing, but you can say the same to nearly every movie in history 2bh. It's just the point of contention for most manchildren, they fail to recognize the talent George actually has. Without him, there won't be a Star Wars.
Why would you lie on the internet?
>Scorsese wanted to work with her (before SW) and eventually did
>Nominated for Best Editing with fucking Verna Fields (Verna did half of the editing before handing it over to her)
>First SW cut was such a disaster George put her in charge
>Hamill himself said she was the one who kept everything under control, telling Lucas what worked and what didn't work
>reeeeee b-but vaginoids
Pls come back ;_;
Making enough money to live an easy comfortable life makes you happy but having extra wealth on top of that doesn't increase happiness.
TLDR
George did nothing wrong
Apologize
>if it's bad it's that mean ol' man Lucas
>if it's good it's brave rebel filmmakers going against Lucas cause they love art
George confirmed for BWC?
I miss him.
wrong
Wow what a sacrifice to leave himself with TWO POINT FIVE BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS
>He is probably happier than he's been since the mid eighties.
People forget he didn't do the prequels in the 80s cause of the effects, but cause he had 2 children to raise while their mom fucked off with the carpenter and he wanted to be there for them instead of making movies about talking robots.
I can see where he's coming from especially since his relationship with his father was not the best.
Now his kids can say their dad was there for them instead of filming some movie in South America.
>The guy is a massive force of good in the world
People don't even know the little shit he did.
>paid the hospital bills for Leigh Brackett
>still vouched for Gary Kurtz when Return to Oz went over budget
Forgot to include
>Source: My ass.
George is A GENIUS! His work suffers without sharp opposites.
Do you really want me to feel bad for a billionaire?
I remember reading somewhere that in terms of actual happiness nothing past 75k really makes you happier. Like your brain normalizes everything after that point. Someone worth 75k eating a well made sandwich, and someone worth 7.5B eating prime rib will both get the same level of enjoyment out of the meal.
>First SW cut was such a disaster George put her in charge
Bullshit revisionism. George put Paul Hirsch in charge of the editing.
He didn't have it all planned to begin with. There's a reason the prequels introduce a decent number of plot holes. I mean he didn't even have finished scripts while his crew was building all these props and models. I think at best, he had a very rough idea for Anakin's arc, but that's probably about it.
I don't buy that this thing is his baby either. At least not completely. The first one very much was, but after that it was the company that was his baby, not the films. I mean he fucked off for Empire Strikes Back, not even writing the script or directing because he wanted to build Lucasfilm into a successful company so he'd never had to work with the studios again. He tried to pass Return of the Jedi off to other directors and when he finally gave it to Marquand, but Lucas found out that Marquand was ill-equipped to direct a blockbuster. When Lucas talks about how he ended up having to unofficially direct a lot of Return of the Jedi he sounds pissed. David Lynch had a meeting to direct Return of the Jedi and suggested Lucas direct it himself, but Lynch said he could sense that Lucas didn't really love directing.
I've always respected George for basically making an entire career out of saying "fuck you" to the studios and still succeeding. It's disappointing that he ended up selling out to the biggest corporation after all of that. At least he put all the money to good causes.