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How did someone as experienced as George Lucas make such a mistake?

3 points by ilamont 4y ago

FrankWilhoit 4y ago
He seems to think that Lucas has ever made anything but mistakes.
- jleyank 4y ago
  Yup. Pride. Mine doesn’t stink.
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  Lucas is a flawed genius. It's a bit shocking how few films he has directed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas_filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas_filmography compared to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg_filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg_filmography It's pretty clear that he hasn't been trusted to get near directing a feature film. When I look at Lucas's accomplishments I think the most remarkable thing he did was what he did at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm_Games where he really pioneered getting storytelling into videogames. He could have gone down the path of licensing chintzy games based on Star Wars but instead we got stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_(1982_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Empire_Strikes_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) which were ahead of the time. He saw that video games weren't up to the standard of the cinema and was an early pioneer in raising that standard.
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hindsightbias 4y ago
Just not a good writer. He was telling a personal story with American Graffiti. SW was his backup because he couldn’t get rights to Flash Gordon. Being interested in mythos, Kurosawa and servicably well educated in film he was at the right time as the FX were reaching a level of being not laughable. But he was an even better business guy, and at least at that time smart enough to turn Empire over to Kirshner and Kasdan. Everything else was pretty much downhill from an art standpoint.
WheelsAtLarge 4y ago
Yes people all around him.

3 points by ilamont 4y ago

FrankWilhoit 4y ago

He seems to think that Lucas has ever made anything but mistakes.

jleyank 4y ago
Yup. Pride. Mine doesn’t stink.
PaulHoule 4y ago
Lucas is a flawed genius. It's a bit shocking how few films he has directed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas_filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas_filmography compared to say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg_filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg_filmography It's pretty clear that he hasn't been trusted to get near directing a feature film. When I look at Lucas's accomplishments I think the most remarkable thing he did was what he did at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm_Games where he really pioneered getting storytelling into videogames. He could have gone down the path of licensing chintzy games based on Star Wars but instead we got stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_(1982_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Empire_Strikes_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) which were ahead of the time. He saw that video games weren't up to the standard of the cinema and was an early pioneer in raising that standard.

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hindsightbias 4y ago

Just not a good writer. He was telling a personal story with American Graffiti. SW was his backup because he couldn’t get rights to Flash Gordon. Being interested in mythos, Kurosawa and servicably well educated in film he was at the right time as the FX were reaching a level of being not laughable. But he was an even better business guy, and at least at that time smart enough to turn Empire over to Kirshner and Kasdan. Everything else was pretty much downhill from an art standpoint.

WheelsAtLarge 4y ago

Yes people all around him.