I'm still wound up by the idea George Lucas thinks he has a better grasp on plotting characters with relationships and families than the people who now own Star Wars
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 30 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
George Lucas is now reminding me of the guy who graduated last year but still hangs around the high school a lot. LET IT GO, GEORGE.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
attending a party at his ranch in a few weeks, anyone got any questions they want me to ask him
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
already got "When is the sequel to Red Tails coming out????!???" covered
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
how about an animated reboot of howard the duck?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 30 November 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
ooh good idea
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Ask him what exactly has stopped one of the most successful directors/producers of all-time, who basically owns his own movie studio, from making those "smaller, more experimental films" he's been yammering about for the past 30 years.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Maybe he has! He just doesn't like the bit where you show them to people.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
I'll ask to see some. Preferably in his "greatest movie theater in the world"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 November 2015 23:51 (eight years ago) link
ok, i like the idea that george lucas has become an inverse howard hughes, holed up in his mansion, endlessly filming movies for nobody but himself. there could be dozens of these smaller, more experimental films. hundreds, even. no guesses on the jars of urine though.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
ask him if he ever goes back to Modesto
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:17 (eight years ago) link
can someone tell george lucas why not?!?
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
Find out his thoughts on individual building meter data, duh
― latebloomer, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 03:27 (eight years ago) link
Will there be a special edition release of the holiday special?
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
jar jars of urine
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 05:14 (eight years ago) link
excellent Kasdan interview here
"I had just taken six months to write RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK from scratch. I handed it in, and George said, ‘do you want to write EMPIRE STRIKES BACK?’ Literally, he threw it on the desk and asked me to write EMPIRE. He said, ‘We’re in big trouble. Leigh Brackett [who wrote the first draft] has passed away. They’re building sets in England. And I don’t have a script.’ I said, ‘Maybe you ought to read RAIDERS first.’ He said, ‘I’m going to read it tonight, and if I don’t like it I’ll call you back tomorrow and take back this offer.. “George said to me, ‘Darth Vader is Luke’s father.’ And I said, ‘No shit?’ "
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/lawrence-kasdan-qa/
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
haha
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
George once said to me, “oh, Ben is not a Jedi master.” I said, “what?” And he said, “yeah, he’s not really a master. A master is this and this.” And I said, “you’re out of your mind.”
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
so a jedi friend of theirs dies in front of them, and they spend time whimsically pondering their next action
the thing is it could have been a deliciously bond-esque scene, baseball signs and everything, if directed with any urgency whatsoever
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
he forgot to say "faster and more intense"
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
I don't think anyone necessarily said the dude was incidental to the first three, but rather that he had fairly strong collaborative feedback control system, if you will, surrounding him that was able to edit and select and shape the random neural firing out of his brain into something better.
Actors on his first film would supplement or override his direction. DePalma reportedly cut down and reshape for the opening crawl. His wife and others literally edited the stuff. Guys like Gary Kurtz were there to call him on his shit and get in fights over it if need be(and who acrimoniously quit during the pre-production of Jedi).
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Ask him what exactly has stopped one of the most successful directors/producers of all-time, who basically owns his own movie studio, from making those "smaller, more experimental films" he's been yammering about for the past 30 years.― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, November 30, 2015 5:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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you've heard of nathaniel dorsky, right?
have you ever seen nathaniel dorsky and george lucas in the same room?
i didn't think so....
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
"deliciously bond-esque" is not a good match for these films (or any films) though.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 08:00 (eight years ago) link
Skywalker Ranch is p odd. Japanese-style architecture, "attendants" waiting to direct you to your destination at every several hundred feet, a statue of yoda in the courtyard, tons of old original movie posters, and original Mucha of Sandra Bernhard (this was probably the thing I was most interested in). His private movie theater was showing "White Christmas", nice velvet seats.
George did not appear to hold forth on the many experimental films he has under development
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 December 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
wonder how much movie memorabilia will be relocated to that new museum complex in chicago
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 14 December 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure he's got a bajillion things stashed away - we didn't see any norman rockwell stuff, for example, and I know he's got a lot of that. And there was actually very little Star Wars material. The ranch itself is used strictly for private events and is not open to the public, so I assume most of what goes on there is related to his philanthropic activities and rich people wine parties and things like that.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 December 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
a former colleague was a registrar for the Skywalker ranch/ Lucas collection- the SW archive is apparently very, very extensive.
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 14 December 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
All that Jar-Jar merchandise had to go into a landfill somewhere
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
I can only imagine it's paved over somewhere in the desert, to be excavated by Jar Jar revisionists in 30 years
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 02:29 (eight years ago) link
http://yourpopfilter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jar-jar-binks-candy-tongue.jpg
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 06:36 (eight years ago) link
that's the most poignant candy dispenser I've ever seen
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link
Xpost The gist of the Chicago Museum iirc is not really to house movie memorabilia but his vast collection of fine art. Be shocked if it doesn't at least have a Star Wars wing. I recall when they built this nice new aquarium in Camden, New Jersey and thought it was a good idea to focus on local fish. After a year of low attendance, out came the sharks and shiny fish.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 12:56 (eight years ago) link
no idea if this has prev seen light of day
https://twitter.com/pareene/status/676539201471586307
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
goddamn it.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's from the Making Of book that came out in 2013
but yeah, the level of detail even then is pretty crazy
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
http://www.designboom.com/architecture/mad-architects-george-lucas-museum-of-narrative-art-approved-chicago-11-02-2015/ (from nov)
― conrad, Friday, 18 December 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
ha, re that story conversation: was rereading chunks of the secret history of star wars yesterday and laughing at how frequently lucas' early conception of the emperor was described as a "nixonian bureaucrat" (not a phrase that makes a whole lot of sense but tevs)--like, i wish!
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 December 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
do you mean Emperor Cos Dashit?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 18 December 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
lol yes i do
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 December 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
I learned a new term this weekend:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder%27s_syndrome
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Monday, 21 December 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
can't argue that
you need new blood, otherwise you end up doing things the exact same way forever while the world rolls on around you
you also run the risk that the people who were so instrumental had one good idea and don't realize you can't work off that forever
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 21 December 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/ibhuE1UO6WD
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
XD
― how's life, Saturday, 2 January 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
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.)
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 3 January 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
what if it was a weird canada-only interview where he misunderstood the relationship to the queen and was trying to ingratiate himself
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 3 January 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
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
― how's life, Monday, 4 January 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
"Mm." - George Lucas
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Monday, 4 January 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
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― glandular lansbury (sic), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
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.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link