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Originally Posted by Darth Vile
Artists should be making art for their own edification... whatever it is that drives them to express themselves through film, music, pottery, oil on canvas etc. etc.
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It's the reason why there will never be a perfect film, and hopefully never a homogenous popular "collective unconscious", if George was actually trying to cater for one.
KOTCS was bound to upset some, because we aren't George or his co-creators. So here we can re-invent the story and its telling the way we think it personally should have been. And we can create the next Indy movie from personally selected options.
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Originally Posted by Darth Vile
It's true, Star Wars has become an aesthetic albatross around the neck of George Lucas: George Lucas the experimental filmmaker of his youth... But what an albatross to carry i.e. the cinematic equivalent of 'The Iliad'.
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George is rightfully smug. He at least accomplished what he personally set out to do. He will be impervious to criticism because he's secure in his own vision, and he can shut himself away from criticism if he likes. That's probably why he can be so self-deprecating in interviews, and laugh along with the critics.
If Star Wars is his
Iliad, then Indy remains his
Odyssey.
