Re: Looks like a whole lotta

When is he, LUCAS, going to do something original again?

The Indiana Jones (1,2,3) where awesome and so were Star Wars (what he called 4,5,6 and what I grew up to beleive was 1,2,3)
Those movies were original, not a rehash of what he is doing now. I personally think he is in it for the $, which he really does not need. Just my opinion though.

ugh, buddy? neither "star wars" nor "indiana jones" was original in any way.

"star wars" is just a samurai saga with some fantasy elements.

"indiana jones" is just feature-length versions of saturday-morning serials from the 1920s-1940s.

Um so I was wrong about him totally then. He did not come up with anything that was original at all.

Yea that's LUCAS for ya!!!

[Post edited by InvisibleBiker on May 21, 2008]

THX1138. Pretty original! The "effects" in SW.? The "sound" in SW?...dont think anybody saw anything like that either at the time. Which would also=Original. Lucas built his empire on,wait for it..............."ORIGINAL".

[Post edited by bladerunner1 on May 21, 2008]

bladerunner,

your grasp of film history is piss-poor. just because you haven't seen or heard about the movies that influenced lucas's movies doesn't mean that film history starts with "thx-1138" (which is basically just an expression of modernist and minimalist art theories).

besides, lucas himself always talks about how he draws from a variety of sources. he is the first to admit that he's not very original. by calling him "original", you are contradicting him.

eddie

I don't know, I'd have to say he's not that original. Many guys have gone from having a neck in their youth to having no neck in their elder years.

Eddie, do you have to rub on everyone your 'film history knowledge'?? Remember is knowledge, not wisdom...

i'm not rubbing anything in anyone's face.

george lucas--the man HIMSELF--says that he drew inspiration for "star wars", "indiana jones", "american graffitti", etc. from samurai movies, saturday-morning serials, hot-rod racing movies, etc. the man HIMSELF admits that he wasn't being original when he made his movies. yet, we've got bladerunner arguing otherwise.

from a cognitive point of view, bladerunner is utterly illogical for contradicting the very thing that he thinks he's defending.

everybody has ripped everbody off eddie. there are only so many ways you can tell the same story.

bladerunner,

if that's how you feel, then you agree with me. stop trying to pick a fight where there is none.

eddie