the crimes of george lucas ('90s on)

https://vine.co/v/ibhuE1UO6WD

XD

Around when episode 1 came out, I saw an interview with Lucas on Canadian TV* where he said he was a monarchist. Anyone remember seeing this? I can't find it online. (*note: around 40% of Canadian TV is from the US so I don't know where it came from.)

what if it was a weird canada-only interview where he misunderstood the relationship to the queen and was trying to ingratiate himself

http://www.clickhole.com/theysaidwhat/find-out-what-george-lucas-john-cena-and-helen-mir-3755?utm_campaign=default&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_source=facebook

"Mm." - George Lucas

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thinking about jedis and luke: how lame is it that for the prequels, apart from all the other blandifications of the jedi (huge centralized bureaucracy rather than a bunch of independent guardians of peace and justice, etc etc), he insisted on giving them all obi-wan's desert robes from the first film, rather than luke's BADASS black outfit from ROTJ? it had always just been obvious to me: the jedi are returning, and this is what they wear. vader's look is like a corrupted jedi outfit, dark side, cool. ugggghghhhhhhhhh.

Good point, but Yoda wore beige robes in the OT as well. It's inconsistent.

As did Ghost Anakin (OG version).

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3S2auEHR4rg/hqdefault.jpg

Luke dresses differently because he is different, at least until he confronts Vader and the Emperor. The first thing we see him do in ROTJ is force-choke one of Jabba's guards, which is decidedly not a light-side thing to do.

That black outfit made a big impact on me as a kid (also loved the Luke in black/stormtroopers in white imagery).

yeah okay good point with the force ghosts. but still, man, you imagine a world where the jedis are still around, fighting the CLONE WARS, and idk it always seemed more like black-outfit luke being awesome on the ROTJ poster. maybe this is just because of ROTJ's fumbling script failing to establish what luke's actual moral arc is in that film. but i lived for years with a pretty clear, kick-ass vision in my head and then it was just a bunch of sluggish people shuffling around in robes insisting that it was inappropriate for them to do anything or act on any information.

the cloak and robes are a jedi order thing, we just don't really see jedi outside the order in any of the prequels because they're such an orthodoxy

that's why the jedi fell, all that restrictive, inflexible orthodoxy that forced them to wear bad clothes

We did have at least one non-robed Jedi in the prequels:

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23700000/Jedi-Master-star-wars-jedi-23758068-397-500.jpg

And this dude dressed more like a Tolkein LARPer

https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8572/338543-ki_adi_mundi.jpg

Here we have the Met Gala version of Jedi robes.

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/149056/4448465-barriss+offee.jpg

Many, many years ago, on this thread, DJP in a previous life said this:

You know, they could have played the Ewoks exactly as they did and no one would have complained if they'd added scenes with them eating the fallen Stormtrooper clones.

― suddenly, everything was dark and smelly (HI DERE), Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:35 PM

And now the dream is true, kinda.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/leia-tries-to-stop-ewoks-from-consuming-human-flesh-in-1819977244

This is glorious.

star wars prequels: most embarrassing and hacky attempt at fan-service and plot resolution

seeing this thread revive and its title provoked different thoughts than usual

Also: never forget how Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan initially conceptualized Marion Ravenwood in early brainstorming sessions for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. pic.twitter.com/JiQUOwBrWT

— Kate Hagen (@thathagengrrl) April 4, 2018

jesus christ

And her saying "i was a *child*" is still in the movie!

there was a pdf of the whole conversation doing the rounds a while back and there’s some pretty gross stuff in there iirc

Mmhm yeah, it's being taken apart on Twitter line by line as we speak

https://moedred.livejournal.com/2009/03/04/

"it was wrong and you knew it!"

Turned out a number of friends hadn't heard about that before so I'm glad it is making the rounds again.

spielberg was a big fan of the racism as i recall

1978 was before the '90s iirc

https://i.imgur.com/lVWMYk8.png

you think that's bad? this thread came into being in 2009

"He should have a mentor in this. Somebody you never see, but he refers to from time to time, somebody you want to see. The man who taught him everything. The man who gave him whatever power he has now. Maybe some supreme archeologist who's maybe ninety years old like Max Von Sydow, and is dying now."

Maybe they're just really bad at estimating ages.

"when they open the Ark all the animals should come out, marching together as couples, and they move slowly through the crowd of Nazis, devouring them or masticating them or crushing them, whatever power they possess will be unleashed. Indy and Marion will be untied by a pair of raccoons, since they're good with their hands or rather paws."

The 70s was a real weird time for a lot of age-of-consent pushing, huh

I'm pretty sure this has come up on ILX before, possibly on a thread not about crimes from the '90s

hey man if you want to create a “crimes of george lucas (pre 1990)” thread, have at it

Imagine sic in a book group; someone saying 'on page 50', and he's like 'actually, if you include the publisher's imprint and title page THAT'S PAGE 54!'

the naive days when we thought the worst of george’s crimes were creating prequels and re-editing decades-old films

As far as I've seen, these are the first specifics George Lucas has shared about what his vision of Episodes 7-9 would have been. This comes from @insighteditions awesome companion book to "James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction series" on AMC: pic.twitter.com/Wtlw8zlrqv

— Livio Ramondelli (@LivioRamondelli) June 12, 2018

wow george, that really would have been something.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/32/Micronauts-1.jpg/250px-Micronauts-1.jpg

I think Lucas was only able to make the prequels because he didn't work consistently enough after SW for the world to realize how bad his ideas are.

Like I'm convinced that a Lucas who was productive through the '80s and '90s would've decisively burned up all of his capital a la Shyamalan.

If the Force is powered by the Whills, the Sith must be powered by the Whonts.

I read that post hearing the voice from Patton Oswalt's routine about time-travelling to kill Lucas pre-prequels.

lmao ‘this story would have been shit and everyone would have hated it but at least it would have been complete’

“I regret not getting to stink up that public restroom like I intended to”

the best creative ethos

http://500daysasunder.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/screen-shot-2012-10-11-at-2-05-27-pm-e1349978764535.png?w=694
what you talking about, whills?

tbf to lucas though at least he had a new idea for the series even if it was terrible - i don’t get much of a sense that disney have much interest in doing something innovative

gee really

dunno what could've given you that impression, was it the trailer for Tim Burton's live action Dumbo?