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George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes
Warlock7 writes "Yahoo has posted an interview with George Lucas by the AP on the changes to the original trilogy from the new DVD box set. They also discuss the future of the franchise and the direction he intends to take it."
Seems like his edits to the movies are an insightful yet unintentional comment on how people whitewash history in real life too.
After the empire was defeted (ep 6), the earlier histories get re-written.
I like my Star Wars as much as the next geek. I love it even but I have to say that George Lucas is so full of stinking shit that it's almost unbelievable.
His whole pompous BS about why he made Star Wars in the first place just grows every year that passes. He says he's bringing them out now on DVD because of piracy? Please. He's bringing them out now on DVD because he's afraid that based on his original plan he won't get the fat DVD version payday. He's afraid that a new format will be coming into play and he'll have missed the chance to fuck his fans out of their cash for the DVD's.
Launching into the piracy argument tells me that he's not just full of shit. He's full of shit AND he thinks the rest of us are too stupid to see it.
I like Star Wars but fuck George Lucas. Fuck him in his stupid ass.
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Why did you bother to read this thread? I mean, it's obvious that Star Wars means nothing to you, so why waste the time?
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The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I'm not going to spend the, we're talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn't really exist anymore.
This is obvious bunk. The original versions were cleaned up dramatically, both picture and sound, for the Ultimate Edition Laserdiscs, or whatever they called them. And there are some very, very, very fine DVD conversions (and Divx versions!) of the LD editions floating around as torrents. So Lucas's weird wish that they be confined just to old mouldering VHS is just fantasy. He doesn't even acknowledge the existence of Laserdisc, and all the late-80s/early-90s high-quality Star Wars releases. My God, a guy I know even has a Videodisc edition of the Trilogy and it looks very fine. Anyway, this interview once again illustrated to me that Lucas is indeed a man devoid of shame.
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