MaxPhactor23
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Raiders112390 said:I don't think he sold it, any more than any other director out there has.
George's problem, I think, is that these days he has more of a CEO mentality than a young hungry artist mentality. It's evident in the Ep. 1 making of that he's got a very very hands on approach and views it in sort of a business like way. Also, on the prequels, every decision was approved by him, while on the originals I've heard it was more or less a collarative process.
I'm pretty much with yah here. It's really rather annoying. That is a lot of the problem in my opinion. No one has the balls to speak against Lucas these days. The halls of ILM and his other offices are filled with sycophantic suck-ups. Somewhere along the like he developed this sort of god complex and demanded a sort of superiority. As far as I’m concerned, films greatly benefit from more then one mans narrow-minded vision. A collaborative process is how to get it done. A diverse flow of ideas can only improve. You don’t run your film like an office, and as a result the prequels were almost unanimously lacking. Lucas has derailed into some sort of self-absorbed fan boy himself. It’s all about the “me me me” mindset he’s got going. I’d much rather someone that cared about the fans and showed his appreciation. Films always come out superior that way. Always! It’s really rather sad compared to what he once was. The man was my hero, one of my main inspirations. Now he’s what I dread becoming the most, a greed-consumed Hollywood director more concerned with turning a profit then making art and telling a story.