The Institute BulletinSunday, September 12, 2004
Concern Georgie Lucas
Editorial by Councilman Gom
The majority of the Institute Council has been ‘discussing’ vehemently the latest changes George Lucas has made to his now FLUID project called The Star Wars Saga for three days now. Having wasted that time already, I suggested it must be worth a Bulletin Rant. I think that Doyna Yar covered the ridiculousness of Lucas’ so-called ‘vision’ when he expressed his utter disgust of a third edit of films that many of us grew up with and loved as-is! However, being that we, the council have wasted these three days grumbling about the nonsensical changes, I feel that I Gombeggar must offer my two cents.
The Greedo scene alone is enough to make me blow my stack. It was fine the first time when Han behaved as a mercenary in a life-death situation and defended himself from a BOUNTY HUNTER, i.e. a dangerous murderous person who expected to bring Han Solo in dead or alive to a gangster. It is a totally valid scene. Changing it was dumb the first time around just to make Greedo shoot first. Who cares? Now to make them both shot simultaneously is pathetic. And it is all because George got ribbed about it by fans of the movies. He couldn’t admit failure and return the scene to the original, no. He had to make a mind-numbing compromise between his ‘vision’ and what his audience likes best which is the original cut of the Greedo scene. Then to go further with his senseless revisions, how about using Hayden Christensen in the final ‘ghost’ sequence of ‘Jedi’ along with old Ben and old Yoda. So you have old Ben, old Yoda, and fine and young Anikin. What sense does that make? Anakin dies an old withered corpse. It’s fitting enough that he is show as a whole elderly man. What the hell? He’s dead anyway he doesn’t have to be some young ladies man or something. George Lucas is just so out of touch with not only the film industry; but society and reality that he doesn’t even know how to tailor his films to meet mass appeal let alone make sense! At least not anymore. The man is ruining his own work on the audience that made him into a gazillionaire all in the false name of artistic integrity. Just because he is trying to hone a work of his own art does not give him the right to continuously augment it depending on how the wind blows up his skirt that day. As I expressed in council, it would be as if Leonardo Da Vinci pulled ‘The Last Supper’ down from the museum or someone’s home who commissioned it and took it away for a year to paint moustaches on Christ and add a few more apostles because he wasn’t happy with it. Once it’s done, especially as a movie, it’s done. If art becomes so fluid just to maintain the changing mind of the artist, then nothing is ever done and therefore art which is the human capacity to capture and interpret the universe in a communicatible medium becomes a moot point. Art becomes useless. And Lucas is drawing very near to making his art useless.
Thanx Gom
posted by raymond 10:52
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