Who cares what old George thinks he's lost the plot, look what he did to that blue ray edition...LOOK WHAT HE DID!
Not to mention what he did with episodes I-III.
What, making them?
George Lucas Explains What Star Wars "Means"
I've never understood the hate of the stories being tweaked, modified and changed. Most of the beloved, and timeless, stories have evolved constantly since they were told. Robin Hood, King Arthur, and the like... as they exist now they'd be virtually unrecognizable to those from centuries past.
Stories grow in the telling. It's their nature.
Edited by SlugrageI'm so glad that a sudden appearance of Mickey Mouse wouldn't make things worse, would it?
At this point no, not really.
Ugh I'm just waiting to see Data from Star trek next gen being sold by Jawas in ep VII.
Aaargh! First George r*pes my childhood and then JJ Abrahms gets R2D2 in my Star trek! What the hell hollywood?!
I've never understood the hate of the stories being tweaked, modified and changed. Most of the beloved, and timeless, stories have evolved constantly since they were told. Robin Hood, King Arthur, and the like... as they exist now they'd be virtually unrecognizable to those from centuries past.
Stories grow in the telling. It's their nature.
Euhm yes, but those have been around for centuries. I also think it has to do with those stories are retold by diffrent authors, wich seems to be more accepted. This is one director (who made good movies once) going back to them and adding inferior prequals, messing around with his original work. "But it's his work!" i hear you say, yeah well, but it's my childhood and Lucas better keep his hands off it!.
I'm so glad that a sudden appearance of Mickey Mouse wouldn't make things worse, would it?
At this point no, not really.
Ugh I'm just waiting to see Data from Star trek next gen being sold by Jawas in ep VII.
Aaargh! First George r*pes my childhood and then JJ Abrahms gets R2D2 in my Star trek! What the hell hollywood?!
lol, I never knew that R2 was in Star Trek, that's great. It reminds me of the hieroglyph of them in Indiana Jones. Every move could use a little random R2D2 hidden in it, along with the Wilhelm Scream.
Euhm yes, but those have been around for centuries. I also think it has to do with those stories are retold by diffrent authors, wich seems to be more accepted. This is one director (who made good movies once) going back to them and adding inferior prequals, messing around with his original work. "But it's his work!" i hear you say, yeah well, but it's my childhood and Lucas better keep his hands off it!.
I'd like to think that Star Wars has the legs to stick around and become one of the Great Stories. Who knows where it'll go in the next 40 years.
I've never understood the hate of the stories being tweaked, modified and changed. Most of the beloved, and timeless, stories have evolved constantly since they were told. Robin Hood, King Arthur, and the like... as they exist now they'd be virtually unrecognizable to those from centuries past.
Stories grow in the telling. It's their nature.
I would be all for a retelling or even with a drastically re-interpreted Star Wars Story. (As far as I am concerned that is what all this EU stuff is) But going back and changing a key element in the development in a character but leaving everything else the same kind of ruins the story.
So Han Shot Greedo before Greedo had a chance to kill him. That told us a lot about who Han was. What Lucas did, wasn't give us another retelling of the story where the characters are interpreted differently, He tool the same Han, the same story and undermined his own character development.
He did the same thing to Jabba the Hutt. Jabba was scary as this force lurking off screen. And when we finally saw him he was everything we wanted and more. He was awesome, gross and scary (for a 10 year old). But when he got put into Star Wars. Han walks on his tail, pushes him around and bullies him. Everything that happened in that scene made Jabba less scary.
Again it is okay to make a new star wars story where jabba isn't as scary, but to undermine the one he is already in sucks.
Euhm yes, but those have been around for centuries. I also think it has to do with those stories are retold by diffrent authors, wich seems to be more accepted. This is one director (who made good movies once) going back to them and adding inferior prequals, messing around with his original work. "But it's his work!" i hear you say, yeah well, but it's my childhood and Lucas better keep his hands off it!.
I'd like to think that Star Wars has the legs to stick around and become one of the Great Stories. Who knows where it'll go in the next 40 years.
I'm pretty sure it will stick around. After all the basic story of a new hope has its roots in those medival stories you mentioned:
A destined young man is handed a special sword by a wise old man: Are those King Arthur with excalibur and Merlin, or Luke with his father's lightsaber and Ben Kenobi?
A father faces his son in single combat, but the son doesn't know his oponent is his father. The father tries to sway him to his side: The empire strikes back? Nope! It's from the Lay of Hildebrand!
Jabba's inclusion in A New Hope was far less troublesome than his uncle Ziro the Hutt in Clone Wars. (shudder)
And lest you think that wasn't George:
"George Lucas stepped in and specifically asked for Ziro to sound like Truman Capote. "
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ziro_Desilijic_Tiure#cite_note-TCW-dvd-12
Edited by nathankcI would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
So the Empire did actually win in the end?
Oh, no ... Lando and Wedge survived ...
Now I want a sequel trilogy starring Lando and Wedge as a buddy cop duo riding around the Outer Rim looking for trouble.
I would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
It doesn't count if you were planning to do that anyway.
I would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
It doesn't count if you were planning to do that anyway.
How did you find out about project indigo banana?! great now i need to kill all my minions and get HR to schedule interviews.
I would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
It doesn't count if you were planning to do that anyway.
How did you find out about project indigo banana?! great now i need to kill all my minions and get HR to schedule interviews.
I'm sorry but i can't let you wipe out the population of Belgium...
Well, maybe just everybody but me.
I would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
It doesn't count if you were planning to do that anyway.
How did you find out about project indigo banana?! great now i need to kill all my minions and get HR to schedule interviews.
I'm sorry but i can't let you wipe out the population of Belgium...
Well, maybe just everybody but me.
*gasps* you mean you were french all this time?!
I would wipe out the population of Belgium if it got me the original cut on blue ray.
It doesn't count if you were planning to do that anyway.
How did you find out about project indigo banana?! great now i need to kill all my minions and get HR to schedule interviews.
I'm sorry but i can't let you wipe out the population of Belgium...
Well, maybe just everybody but me.
*gasps* you mean you were french all this time?!
Do I look i would just surrender? I'm Flemish dammit! 
no no no leave Belgium alone, brazil is here please kill half our population.
I'm so glad that a sudden appearance of Mickey Mouse wouldn't make things worse, would it?
At this point no, not really.
Ugh I'm just waiting to see Data from Star trek next gen being sold by Jawas in ep VII.
Aaargh! First George r*pes my childhood and then JJ Abrahms gets R2D2 in my Star trek! What the hell hollywood?!
lol, I never knew that R2 was in Star Trek, that's great. It reminds me of the hieroglyph of them in Indiana Jones. Every move could use a little random R2D2 hidden in it, along with the Wilhelm Scream.
Yeah R2 can be spotted amongst the floating debris of the space battle, after the enterprise goes to warp speed.
no no no leave Belgium alone, brazil is here please kill half our population.
Brazil lost the world soccer championships, that they hosted, with 1-7!
Science division estimated that would be enough to kill them.
Guess we'll have to go with plan-B...
Release the giant insects!
All I want is an unaltered, unedited, theatrical cut of the original trilogy.
Help me Walt Disney Company, you're my only hope...
If you look around on some of the download sites you should be able to find a Laser Disc copy of the oringals thats what I watch or my old VHS but there getting old now I no longer put up with the remakes. If you want to see what star wars should have been look this up
It's somewhat dismaying that none of the commentary here has anything to do with the OP's clip, which I thought was a rather interesting point of view.
I'm so glad that a sudden appearance of Mickey Mouse wouldn't make things worse, would it?
At this point no, not really.
Ugh I'm just waiting to see Data from Star trek next gen being sold by Jawas in ep VII.
Aaargh! First George r*pes my childhood and then JJ Abrahms gets R2D2 in my Star trek! What the hell hollywood?!
He can also be spotted in Indiana Jones, E.T. and Close Encounters. Let's start bashing Steven Spielburg too, since he also r*pes your childhood with those films.
Seriously, complaining about R2-D2 in Star Trek is as substantive as complaining about chipped paint on a roller coaster.
Special editions aside, I think Lucas nailed it in this interview. Nobody's perfect, all artists make mistakes, but the guy still made Star Wars.
I agree with this.
Fault the man all you want about his filmmaking practices. The fact is, none of us would be here today if he didn't have a vision and worked hard to carry it out back in the late 70's. He fought tirelessly against criticism not only from the studio execs, but the cast and crew working on it, and because of that he figured his little movie would never make money or be widely appreciated. Which makes it all the more impressive that he went through with it at all.
It was his older self that we all dislike, the one who couldn't leave well enough alone and who forgot that filmmaking should be a collaborative proccess.
Who cares what old George thinks he's lost the plot, look what he did to that blue ray edition...LOOK WHAT HE DID!
"I altered the scenes of the original trilogy. Pray I dont alter them any further"