The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW

skatepark builder writes "David Prowse, the 74-year-old actor who has enjoyed a long and varied career filled with roles such as Darth Vader (Star Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI), is starting 2010 off with two major accomplishments. His victory over colon cancer earlier this month means he'll live to see his top billing in a film premiering next month at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The People vs. George Lucas is a documentary attempting a balanced examination of the love/hate relationship Star Wars fans have developed with the filmmaker and his work over the past three decades. Director Alexandre Philippe distances his film from the one-sided fan rage films that lambaste Lucas, even though the title would suggest otherwise. According to the trailer, The People vs.George Lucas exposes the full spectrum of opinions on Lucas, including those like Prowse, who still refers to him as a 'master.' Philippe captures these opinions through filmed interviews, but perhaps more interestingly, he crowdsourced the commentary by soliciting fan submissions over the internet. The clips seen in the trailer appear to be funny, highly inspired, and are probably more concise than the recently released 70-minute YouTube evisceration of Episode I."

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Re:No, your kids did NOT love them.

[Jarjarthejedi]

"Episode 1 is now 11 years old, meaning your kids should be teens by now. Do they quote the movies? Has it seeped into every part of culture? Is it everywhere you can look?"

Impossible. It's impossible for something to seep in that's already there. Star Wars fandom was already present when Episode 1 came out, so it couldn't 'seep into' the culture. And it's still going just as strong if not FAR stronger than it was before episode 1's release.

"The entire proof that the prequels sucked can be found in the fact that TWO MMO's have skipped the era. Bioware wanted to do Star Wars, but were so desperate to stay away from the fall out that they invented an entire new era set so far apart (thousands of years) that they could completly distance themselves from it."

Ahh, so what you're saying is that proof of a movie not being good is that the majority of games were not based on it? That's a bit silly and completely ignores the many good games set in the new trilogy time-period, among them Battle for Naboo, Pod-Racer, Battlefront (which covers both time-periods), Force Unleashed and many more. And you could really say the same thing about the original trilogy, two of the best games every made about Star Wars and the new MMO all skip the original trilogy time period, does that mean the original movies weren't good?

"Kids now quote the Matrix, Lord of the Rings, etc. Episode 1 was just another blockbuster, made a lot of money but it has no lasting impact. It is the difference between Michael Jackson and McHammer... who?"

Meh. I don't really see Matrix being quoted much at all these days, not even in the groups of other programmers I hang out with. Lord of the Rings was popular long before it was a movie. And McHammer is not a very good comparison considering how many "Hammer Time" jokes there are, it's probably more common in popular culture than Michael Jackson at this point.