Talk:George Lucas

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Article milestones Date Process Result 13 February 2007 Featured article candidate Failure 17 March 2007 Failed featured article candidate
Current status: Failed featured article candidate

Contents 1 Hypocricy Quote 2 Main Quote 3 Does anyone hate George Lucas? 4 "the most significant contemporary contributor to modern movie technology" 5 Member 6 Bias? 7 impersonator 8 EU appreciation 9 ==???== 10 Criticism of Lucas

[edit] Hypocricy Quote

In wikipedia I read somewhere that Lucas criticized those who edited old movies (eg adding colour to BW movies), something that was deemed hypocritical when considering his re-releases. Anyone remembers the exact quote? MoffRebus 13:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

• I found it at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000184/bio -- Reignfire 05:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

• • It's technically not hipocracy since he was refering to other people changing a filmmaker's films. Adamwankenobi 06:23, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main Quote

I'm sorry, but does the quote at the top seem to be Lucas bashing? I feel it's a shot at the Prequels, a quote used by those who were not fans of the Prequel Trilogy to say that Lucas made them up as he went along. I feel a more appropriate quote would be "If I can get a room full of people and they enjoy it then I've done whatever it is that I had hoped to do." Brandon Rhea 19:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• I'm partial to "I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public." – Aidje _talk 07:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does anyone hate George Lucas?

does anyone like Star Wars but hate George Lucas??

• Objection: Irrelevant. Atarumaster88 21:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• Whoever posted this, talk with Darthmix. Darth Shohet 20:23, June 21, 2008

[edit] "the most significant contemporary contributor to modern movie technology"

This quote and the following are dubious and obviously takes one side on what "modern movie technology" is. There have been advancements both before and after Star Wars by several directors (such as those pioneered by Stanley Kubrick: the steady cam, the stargate effect, the retrofitted NASA cameras as used in Barry Lyndon, etc) which have much more merit in the scheme of "modern movie technology."

Also several of the "facts" about digital film are just plain wrong, such as the life of digital movies vs. film (or at least is extremely vague), and the whole "Delivery of movies to cinemas is much cheaper since the digital media is much smaller than traditional reels which can weigh hundreds of pounds." -- MOST, if not all movie theators in the country use 35MM projectors: the media MUST be translated to film media just to be shown to a movie theator audience! -- Falmarin 18:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

• One the first part, it could it be rewritten "one of the most significant". -- Riffsyphon1024 18:39, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Member

Do you think Lucas is a member of Wookieepedia? - Patricknoddy The Jedi Council 21:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Dout it, Lucas has only been on the starwars.com once or twice. He may have browsed wookieepedia a couple times to see what people wrote about him and his family.--Zett_FAN101 —Unsigned comment by Zett FAN101 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Bias?

Is it me, or does the article seem a bit biased? It reads somewhat like 'George Lucas had a miserable childhood and everyone abused him and then he made the brilliant Star Wars films and changed moviemaking for the better', or words to that effect. Does anyone else have the same feeling? Unit 8311 11:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] impersonator

Several SW fan films feature a guy that looks a good deal with Lucas and impersonates him. He has anarticle on Wookieepedia but I can't remember his name. Anyone knows what I am talking about? MoffRebus 05:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EU appreciation

Is there some sort of list of what parts of the expanded universe he likes? Gustafar 15:54, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ==???==

why the heck did he appear on the discovery channel show alien planet and whats with the he's not dead yet thing—Unsigned comment by Han Fett (talk • contribs).

• The "not dead yet" message is just to remind users that this is an article about a living person, and must follow our policies on articles about living people. —Silly Dan _(talk) 11:40, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism of Lucas

This section is atrociously POV. It discusses only the stereotypical "Lucas basher" and in doing so implies that there is no legitimate, cool-headed, sincere criticism of Lucas out there, which of course there is, and from well-known critics and media figures, too. Roger Ebert has repeatedly criticized Lucas' enthusiasm for digitial projection over film, just as an example. It's fine to discuss Lucas bashers, but this needs some balance. If no one objects, and if no one else does it first, when I have time I'll source some real criticism and add it to the section.Darthmix 21:22, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

• When you posted this, was it because you had found some? And no, I don't object to it being posted. I actually WANT to have it posted. And , although slightly irrelivant, Ebert's comment (NOT HIM) was MORONIC. It's simply new technology used to enhance the moviegoer's experience by making it more realistic and just plain awesome. User:Darth shohet 20:20, June 21, 2008