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“This mission isn’t for Luke to go out and kill his father and get rid of him. The issue is, if he confronts his father again, he may, in defending himself, have to kill him, because his father will try to kill him.” –George Lucas
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–George Lucas and the Cult of Darth Vader (x)
WELL, YOU ARE A WHINY TEENAGER, I’m dying.
TO FURTHER CLARIFY: The reason I’m dying is because George Lucas is actually one of the first people to admit that his dialogue isn’t great. He totally pokes fun at himself about it, he totally is upfront with how he’s not an actor’s director, he says his dialogue is difficult, but that’s the kind of story he’s telling. And that he’s also upfront about how the acting style is a throwback to ‘30s and ‘40s style, which is out of step with modern audiences.
And that’s part of what I like about him, that he’s honest about what kind of story he wanted to tell. A lot of people wanted little demon child!Anakin or they wanted Young Vader, but that’s not what the story was. It was a story about a good boy who became corrupted by the strength of his power and that he loved too much in a possessive way. It’s a story about a whiny, petulant teenager. It’s a story about a character who has too many uncontrolled feelings, whose love is real but also toxic.
THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE STORY GEORGE LUCAS WAS TELLING, DIFFICULT DIALOGUE AND STYLE AND ALL.
i read a post stating george lucas said lgbt people don’t exist in star wars and that he sued fans who wrote gay fanfiction. is this really true? google is failing me :(
not that I know
of. What happened was the people behind the games said that homosexuality didn’t exist in Star Wars and prohibited
fans from talking about it on the official boards. Here is what I found:BioWare take
their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on
Old Republic’s message boards about homosexuality, because it’s a term that
does “not exist in Star Wars”.Yes, if you care to trawl
around the site, there are a few threads that either began as, or devolved
into, discussion of how the game – or the game’s future player base – would
handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread
complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words
“homosexual”, “lesbian” and “gay” being censored
on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWare’s community manager Sean
Dahlberg posting succinctly:As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.
Thread closed. [x]
I honestly don’t know where
George Lucas (and LucasFilm at the time) stood on this because all I couldn’t find
anything directly connecting this to him (as if this order came from him). Some fans claim this lack of representation didn’t
came from George but from the executives. There were a couple of LGBT
characters in the EU but George himself didn’t get involved in the EU so it’s
hard to tell. What we do know is that George said this:“At first, C-3PO was not intended to be a robot but a Morphlak, a
humanoid species that were only of male gender, but the studio wasn’t too open
about the idea of a gay character, let alone a whole planet sustaining a gay
species” GL remembers. “You have to remember it was the 70′s, people were
far more uncomfortable about the topic of LGBT rights at the time. It made the
producers, lets just say, pretty uneasy, so we eventually changed his character to an asexual robot” he said. [x]“We told [Anthony Daniels] about the character’s homosexual inclinations
but not to make it too visibly “open”, due to the producers reticence. He
surprised us by taking a gay British accent which we believed was just pure
genius, that’s how the character took place and is frankly one of the most
popular characters of the series with his companion R2-D2, as everybody knows”
he acknowledged. [x]
Alas, those quotes are from a satire site unfortunately. I think they’re completely made up. But! George did donate $50,000 to the campaign to legalise same-sex marriage back in 2009, which seems to indicate pretty strongly where he stands. (Lucasfilm the company donated a further $50,000. I think he still owned it then? I’m not sure.)
Shower thought: Enfys Nest = Everest, a tribute to Everest Hobson Lucas, George Lucas’ biracial daughter.
Oh my gosh, that makes so much sense, especially since Lucas directed a little bit of Solo (I think?). I love it.
Wait, he did?
Ah, turns out he didn’t direct it so much as added a scene (which I guess is… kind of directing?) But I really love the idea that Enfys is named after Everest, since all three of his other children are in the movies!
This quote without any context entertains me to no end. Like, there’s George, sitting around in the fall of 1972, leaning back in his chair and just being like “…welp, gotta do something, guess it might as well be this absolutely fucking insane space opera that’s going to consume much of the rest of my life. [takes out a pen and paper, clearing his throat] Act One: Darth Vader, Yeller of Things.”
This is… weirdly inspirational, to be honest.
I FOUND THE *COMPOSITE* QUOTE I FOUND IT i’ve only been searching for it for… months. idek anymore
Alan Arnold: When did you begin to write Star Wars?
George Lucas: It is difficult to pinpoint the moment when thinking about it evolved into actually putting it down on paper, but it was about 1973.
Alan Arnold: How did the characters evolve?
George Lucas: They all came out of one composite – Luke was the composite, which is another way of saying they came out of me.
Alan Arnold: You were the composite, your subconscious?
George Lucas: I was dealing with two opposites, and these are the two opposites in myself – a naive, innocent idealism and a view of the world that is cynical, more pessimistic. My starting point was the idea of an innocent who becomes cynical. Should Luke be a brash young kid, or an intellectual? Should he be a she? At one point, I was going to have a girl at the center. Luke Skywalker might never have been; he might have been an heroine. Leia came out of Luke, so to speak, just as Han did, as the opposite of Luke. Han Solo evolved from my wanting to have a cynical foil for the more innocent Luke. A lot of the characters came out of Luke because Luke had many aspects. So I took certain aspects of the composite Luke and put them into other characters.
George Lucas interview, August 23rd, 1978, in Once Upon A Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back, Alan Arnold (p. 222-223)
Harrison kept yelling through the whole thing, “Kill me! Kill me! Kill me!” I said, “Harrison, I can’t kill you, I need you at the end of the next movie. There’s this love story thing going on. But I’ll do the next best thing. I’ll put you in a slab of concrete and ship you off to Mars.”
George Lucas
Behind the Scenes | Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Y’know, this might be a coincidence obviously, but in 2016 just around the time Jake Lloyd had his (public, thanks media) mental health breakdown, George Lucas donated a very large sum of money to a rehab clinic.
Behind the Scenes | Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
Y’know, this might be a coincidence obviously, but in 2016 just around the time Jake Lloyd had his (public, thanks media) mental health breakdown, George Lucas donated a very large sum of money to a rehab clinic.