The People vs. George Lucas Page #5

"We want you to know

we have no intention...

... Now or in the future,

to restore earlier versions. "

In essence, says that

the original negative no longer exists...

... Because of its restoration.

But how could it be?

Because there must be transformed

the films on digital...

And then... must have worked

in their new special effects...

... With the digital version.

And then this new digital version

be transformed back to tape.

So now the film there

in the new version.

But you still have the original tape

with which it started working.

No, really,

physically cut a negative.

A file...

It doubles the negative, then

changes are made after that.

So I find it hard to believe...

They have really destroyed...

the negative of the film.

And if they did, it's atrocious.

"Never again you will see the original."

That says Lucasfilm

but probably not true.

In the mid-eighties,

There was a filmmaker...

... It was on a crusade

against Ted Turner...

I wanted color... movies

black and white.

The same filmmaker argued

that black and white films...

Were the epitome...

of our cultural heritage...

... And that not due modify.

That was filmmaker George Lucas.

In 1988, George Lucas testified

before Congress...

Against the colored...

of black and white films.

The following year, WAR

OF GALAXIES was a...

... The first 25 films

entered the National Film Registry.

In the future it will be easier

the negatives are lost...

... And are "replaced"

altered by new films.

This would be a great loss

for our society.

Do not allow our

cultural history is rewritten.

George Lucas

1988 congressional testimony

Never heard .

Then I say, "What rot."

He says:
"There can be colored

old movies...

... But I'm going to completely change

my film and it will ".

- It's obscene.

- Okay, because I wanted...

You lideraste campaign

against the color of the films.

You know why they should not be changed.

HUNTERS OF THE LOST ARK

Is different. These are my movies.

One could argue...

... that if you entered

National Register...

Episode IV:
A NEW HOPE

FILM - 1977

... belongs to the whole world.

belongs to all Americans...

... because it is so important,

culturally, to the United States.

So when you say,

indiscriminately:

"We will change it and improve it...

... And evolve with the times "...

Sculpt... it's like Bill Clinton

on Mount Rushmore.

Has a responsibility

with the history of cinema.

You know...

Can you get Congress to send:

"You must deliver that

Smithsonian museum now "?

Maybe not,

but would be great to happen.

The Library of Congress rejected

all our requests for interviews.

Like the Film Archive

and Television at UCLA...

... And the Association of Archivists

Moving Image.

Mr. Lucas, please throw them.

At least,

them available to people.

Please give us the original film.

Forever.

Just give us the original.

Although not remove

in the case of 70 albums...

... Where you have to buy the 70...

... For example,

all versions of The Clone Wars .

I'll buy it,

sell the rest of the Internet...

Cherish... and damn the three discs

I want. All right.

Steven Spielberg launched

an edition of E. T.

It is a double album.

changed some things digitally.

Then there's the original version

E.T .

E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial

ORIGINAL FILM:

I think Blade Runner there

in five different versions.

Brazil there

in three different versions.

Terry Gilliam accepted

these various versions.

When Criterion released the box

including all versions...

... even he hated

and which had nothing to do.

THE ONLY BRAZIL:

NO CUT BY TERRY GILLIAM

What better way for Lucas...

Demonstrate their confidence...

in the changes you made?

Putting both on the same disk...

... And say:

"Take, watch one after the other.

Compare the two.

I think this is better. "

It has nothing to do

with creativity...

Sandy Lieberson - Former Chief

20th Century Fox Production

... But with marketing,

the business...

And... sales of home videos...

And new licensing...

TV and all the rest.

While studying film...

... I swore to my father,

I was a businessman...

I would never... entrepreneur.

Wars was so

success that took control of my life...

Ie... it was an opportunity

I could not pass up.

Have created something so popular,

an incredible success...

ANN SKINNER:

Continuity Wars

... Must be a heavy burden.

Sometimes,

desire never have made this film.

The great success of

Wars ...

Failed to... independence...

Film... and to staff.

George never made another film

after that...

But transformed...

a producer and entrepreneur.

In a way,

is the worst thing that happened to George Lucas.

Could have made a happy career

doing dramas...

Some documentaries...

and cutting edge material.

But became

in a large corporate entity.

He was someone who struggled

against the institutions...

... and turned it

the overnight.

I.L.M.

INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MILLION

It is arguable that the success of the series

destroy George Lucas as a filmmaker.

GEORGE LUCAS:

THE CREATOR:

Deprived us of those movies...

... He would do

and could have done.

And in its place,

species have an enormous...

TOKYO, JAPAN

complex...

industrial marketing.

When a franchise

is so successful...

... Is connected to a machine.

THE ORIGINAL DARTH VADER

Dave Prowse - LINE FORMS HERE

Return of the Jedi was the beginning...

Dave Prowse is

DARTH VADER:

... When did the marketing.

Dave Prowse

Aka Darth Vader

And from then on,

all became very commercial.

JAR JAR BINKS GOOFY AS

seems that in a moment...

disappeared... the narrator,

and was replaced by the employer.

do not think that all secondary

Star Wars ...

... be true to nature

Rebel Alliance...

Fighting... the great beast.

THE STAR WARS:

GAME COLLECTION OF LUCAS

I can not reconcile the two George.

It's like Jekyll and Hyde...

... because I admire him very much,

and at the same time...

I do not know... what lessons

defending...

... Does not recognize in the mirror.

But I have much respect...

... because in view of trade,

created a brand that can not be beat.

It's a brilliant businessman.

It's like the evil genius.

WENDY IDE:

Film critic for The Times (London)

I consider myself a filmmaker.

And I had a discussion

in a lecture theater...

... With George Cukor, who does not like

the word "filmmaker".

Compared with toymaker.

I like to see me as

a toy manufacturer who films.

Products are crazy.

Even Spaceballs ...

- ... make fun of them when...

- Yes!

- ... Mel Brooks says...

- "Spaceballs the lunchbox.

- Spaceballs toilet paper. "

- Yes

Use briefs War

of galaxies , for the love of God.

IAN PARKER:

Venom Sgt Alias

We are like Oliver saying

"Please sir, can I get more?"

And instead of saying no

George Lucas says:

"Yes! I have a lot more oats."

I can not imagine landfills,

with the passing of this generation...

... the legacy we leave will be

a lot of plastic.

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