"...this
might be fun."
You'd think a man with career-long friends would know those friends well enough to be certain something involving them
will be fun. "I know we made three movies we had so much fun making...but a fourth one...I don't know, making it might suck. I mean, we've got all this money we don't need...and limitless digital FX power in our pinky toes...writers who sacrifice themselves in Thuggee cult rituals just to hear our story ideas...nameless extras lining up to dress as Nazis so our lead character can throw sand in all their eyes or run them over with convoy trucks. I'm not sure we have enough to make this some definite fun."
Really? GL, "I find your lack of faith disturbing."
..."have to"? GL, SS, and HF don't
have to do anything. Does GL know who he and his friends are? They're not us, that's for sure. GL's talking like he's someone's whiny apprentice for crying out loud. "My master demands a new movie once every 3 to 5 years. He's crazy! I'll show him. I'll go through 5 writers and take 10 years on writing alone. That'll teach him."
ScarfaceJoker said:
I also think the quote is probably taken out of context from a longer interview and probably posted online just to add to the theory as to how Lucas has 'lost it'.
Could be out of context, sure. Anything could go that way.
As to your theory about this post. Well, if your theory is that he's lost it and it adds to it, that's your business. I don't think GL's lost it. I think he stopped living his life deliberately. He doesn't strike me as being hungry like he used to be. He's not crazy. He's bored. Boredom has replaced passion.
To be the guy who re-made Greedo to take a weak shot at Han, and then show up on KOTCS set in a t-shirt that says, "Han shot first." There's nothing "lost it" in that. It strikes me as a childish stab at people tied to dreamless jobs that screams, "Because I can." That or the worst apology for changing/wrecking a classic scene ever!
Put it this way:
20th CENTURY FOX
GL, Han's actions in this shot are too heartless. Change it.
GL
No.
20th CENTURY FOX
Fine, then we'll change it for you. (to O.S.) Let's get some crappy digital on this wide angle. Make sure Harry's head looks like it broke off as he ducks an impossible miss from three feet away.
FX DEPARTMENT
Couldn't we rebuild the shot in live action? Greedo suit, smoke. Off Han's "Yes, I'll be you have," make Greedo pull some threatening move that provokes Han to blast him on reflex?
GL
That's a good idea. Let's do that.
20th CENTURY FOX
Nope. Too late to negotiate. Time is money. Move along. Move along.
CUT TO
DESERT - KOTCS MOVIE SET - DAY
GL strides from his car wearing a defiant HAN SHOT FIRST T-SHIRT.
Tada! As it stands, he seems to be standing in defiance of his own decision (unlikely)...so...apology?
Hmmm...it could have been a dare.