George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

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George Lucas to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by michael on Saturday October 16, 2004 @12:00AM from the your-father-can-never-be-turned-from-the-Dark-Side dept.

KefabiMe writes "George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."

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Lucas Also Plans by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-16 00:01 · Score: 5, Funny

To receive the Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition in 2005, and the Super Extended Lifetime Achievement Award Special Edition Platinum in 2014.
1. Re:Lucas Also Plans by feidaykin · 2004-10-16 00:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yeah, in a recent interview, Lucas said:
  "I was only about 40% happy with the original award. There were things we just couldn't do when I first got it. The new award, I am 95% happy with. The fans of the awards may take some issue with it, but the award is for me, not them."
  Spoiling the joke by explaining it here: The 40% figure is what Lucas said about how happy he was with the original Star Wars when it was finished in 1977. He then went on to say he was 95% happy with Episode I. Which proves that the less happy he is with a film, the more happy everyone else is... ;)
  
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2. Re:Lucas Also Plans by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-16 00:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  in an irritating form of CGI ;)
3. Re:Lucas Also Plans by OverflowingBitBucket · 2004-10-16 11:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I notice Harrison Ford won it in 2000. So Han (sorry Ford) won it first.
  
  Give it a few years, and they'll release a special edition of the award, where Lucas wins first.
Remastered trilogy by Nova1313 · 2004-10-16 00:02 · Score: 3, Funny

I didn't know trashing the trilogy was an achievement... go figure... fp?

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Yoda Speak by TheKidWho · 2004-10-16 00:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Award win you shall!
1. Re:Yoda Speak by The-Bus · 2004-10-16 01:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  In Soviet Yoda, YOU shall win award!
  
  You have to give Lucas some credit. What other filmmaker is so ridiculously lauded based on the strengths of two good movies?
  
  Oh yeah, Quentin Tarantino.
  
  *ducks*
  
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Hmmmm... by koh · 2004-10-16 00:04 · Score: 4, Funny

I was unaware that giving birth to Jar-Jar Binks was considered as a "life achievement"...

Then again, everything depends on what you mean by "achievement".

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1. Re:Hmmmm... by meringuoid · 2004-10-16 00:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's an immense achievement. Jar-Jar was so bad that it made the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft.
  
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2. Re:Hmmmm... by Tackhead · 2004-10-16 05:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > > "Jar-Jar was so bad that it made the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft"
  >
  >I hope you're happy. I'll never be able to watch Shaft again without imagining an Ewok playing the role :).
  Who's the furry private dick
  That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
  WICKET!
  Yub dammmn nub!
  Coatee cha tu goo (Shaft!)
  coatee cha tu doo (Shaft!)
  coatee cha tu too (Shaft!)
  Allay loo ta nuv!
Wait a sec... by chrisgeleven · 2004-10-16 00:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Where is Jar Jar's award!?!?!?!
1. Re:Wait a sec... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-16 00:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Mesah won no award!?!? Yousah kidding! Jar Jar given award by Naboo Princess! Kiss on cheek! Jar Jar no need lifetime achievement award. Mesah still archieve only half lifetime greatness. Yousah gonna see lotsa more of Jar Jar nows!
woohoo by Turn-X+Alphonse · 2004-10-16 00:05 · Score: 4, Funny

All we need, now he'll think he's good and remaster Indian jones... and Indie wont shoot first.

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1. Re:woohoo by ibentmywookie · 2004-10-16 01:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Indian Jones? What are they outsourcing fucking movie actors now?
  
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2. Re:woohoo by ibentmywookie · 2004-10-16 01:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hmmm, I'm having "posters remorse" on that last post.
  
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3. Re:woohoo by fucksl4shd0t · 2004-10-16 07:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "Steve, I'd like to do some work on Jones."
  "George, we finished Jones a long time ago."
  "Yeah, but you know, I was never really happy with it."
  "I was. And after I saw what you did to Star Wars, you can keep your filthy fingers off my flick."
  "What do you mean? Now I'm happy with Star Wars."
  "If you were playing to an audience of one, that would be great. Now go away, I'm fishing."
  "No you're not, you're making a movie."
  "What are you, stupid? Why do you think I'm wearing this silly hat and vest?"
  
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Its not over! by bigwayne · 2004-10-16 00:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I can't wait until 20 years down the road, when he releases the DVD of the AFI program, replacing a 60 year old Lucas with a virile 20 year old version of himself. There will be space battles, too.

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Lifetime Achievement Award by slimyrubber · 2004-10-16 00:06 · Score: 4, Funny

For remastering dvd to show a puppet, now with more wrinkles!?

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This one's got a bad motivator! by bbzzdd · 2004-10-16 00:06 · Score: 3, Funny

<Wilhelm-Scream>AHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHH!</Wilhelm-Scream>
and maybe next year... by YodaToo · 2004-10-16 00:09 · Score: 4, Funny

William Shatner will get a life time achivement award for "acting."
Although I will say they have finally found a good character for his over-acting on Boston Legal.

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OK by jb.hl.com · 2004-10-16 00:16 · Score: 1, Funny

If he won't make a comment, I will.

WHY!?!

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Good by Riktov · 2004-10-16 00:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Now he can quit.
1. Re:Good by Ingolfke · 2004-10-16 01:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wrong, now he has confirmation he needs to pursue episodes VII, VIII, and IX. No, as a lifetime achievement award winner, no one will question his decision to rework the triology so that Han Solo's name is actually Beau, and in episode VII we learn that Beau and Luke are cousins, and Han's long lost father returns, Uncle Jessie. The empire is defeated, but pockets of control remain throughout the galaxy, especially on the planet of Hazzard. Here Beau and Luke, the newly named Dukes of Hazzard, are sent to eliminate the remaining emperial forces. Lando, will of course have taken the Millenium Falcon, but that's ok because Beau will reveal that he has been working on a supped up ship, named after one of the great hearo's of the rebel resistance, the General Lee. Finally the Star Wars vision, the Lucas vision, can be realized.
  
  Oh... and I've heard in episode VIII Beau and Luke will run into a group of wrongly accused ex-rebel fighters, named Murdoch, Hannibal, Face, and B.A. Barachus. I pity the fool who misses this movie!
  
  And finally, we might see N-Sync do a cameo in the movie (that would be awesome d00d).
Re:Lifetime Achievement Award Requirements by AndrewStephens · 2004-10-16 00:24 · Score: 2, Funny

In 1993, AFI trustees extended the criteria to encompass individuals with active careers and work of significance yet to be accomplished.
Sweet, my genius is yet to be recognised but it looks like I am elligable anyway.
Where do I submit my nomination?

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Hmm... by kjones692 · 2004-10-16 00:27 · Score: 3, Funny

I sense a disturbance in the force... as if millions of voices cried out in terror, and then were suddenly silenced.

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Re:past winners by Pompatus · 2004-10-16 00:30 · Score: 2, Funny

You could have saved yourself a couple of minutes by just reading the linked article which included that exact information.

Dude, this is slashdot. Where have you been?

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Who needs a hug? by Lisandro · 2004-10-16 00:36 · Score: 4, Funny

"George Lucas is receiving the AFI Lifetime Achievement award. I will make no other comment."

Oh, c'mon, don't like that. You'll get yours too, eventually!
Re:past winners by fallen1 · 2004-10-16 00:36 · Score: 5, Funny

2000 Harrison Ford
YES! At least Han _won_ first and Lucas can't change it. ;-)

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Yes it is by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-16 00:44 · Score: 1, Funny

Getting millions of people to pay bucks to watch Jar-Jar _IS_ an achievement.
I nominate my hamster by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-16 01:18 · Score: 0, Funny

Any comments?
Re:Yeah, Lucas is a hack... by Dancin_Santa · 2004-10-16 02:02 · Score: 2, Funny

Why not? All you need is a pen. Don't let the condensation hold you back!
Re:Yeah, Lucas is a hack... by Tackhead · 2004-10-16 05:12 · Score: 3, Funny

> but what have YOU done?
Throughout my entire life, I was able not to create Jar Jar Binks.
quote by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2004-10-16 08:27 · Score: 2, Funny

What can I say... That's just your opinion, and if you have a hard time accepting others, feeling the need to look down on others, you're just narrow-minded.

That is by far the coolest quote I've found on slashdot. I think it really speaks for itself. Someday, I dream of cobbling together such an utterance into such a form.

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Re:you would think by DrVxD · 2004-10-16 11:03 · Score: 2, Funny

1) Made Sci-fi movies Mainstream
2) Set ground work for technology to make better sci-fi movies
3) Created the most Kick ass Sci-fi movie of it's time.
4) Independant film maker

You forgot:

5) PROFIT!

(disclaimer: I've loved Lucas' work since THX1138, and think he deserves the award. But this is Slashdot, and the rules clearly state that All Lists Must End With Profit)

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Although ... by Vinnie_333 · 2004-10-16 12:32 · Score: 3, Funny

...some of the events in his life will be altered so they more closely match the life George originally intended.

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