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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 2091902" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I agree that it has been too long. Lucas's skills as a director have clearly atrophied. When he was making Star Wars, he was a relatively neophyte director fresh of a huge success with American Graffiti. His vision both about what a movie could be and technical skill in seeing the project through while inventing new special effects technologies were breathtaking. He and his crew had to be really innovative.</p><p>Now, he's something of a cultural institution and the technology has really advanced so that there is, I think, less really creative innovation and more incremental evolution. There's no one to say no to him and tell him an idea needs rewriting or reworking. The technology of computer generated characters is reasonably mature so he's no longer on much of a cutting edge.</p><p>There were some things in PM that worked reasonably well. The light saber duel was quite excellent. Some of the themes touched on between Anakin and his mother and the others were nice and had potential for exploration. Clones pretty much threw all of that away, as I see it.</p><p>The current trilogy should have some pretty good potential. For one thing, most of the principle actors are higher quality than the actors of the first trilogy. Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan MacGregor. But Lucas has never been known as a great director for getting the best performance out of actors. He's the kind of director who does have some good ideas, especially visual on scene composition, but he's also the kind of director who needs someone else to work with. </p><p>The biggest disappointment for me is how, if you notice, everything in this 2nd trilogy is bigger and better. The Jedi seem to be able to do just about anything, Anakin could do much more at a young age than his son apparently could at any age. It's like Lucas is trying to one-up himself on this trilogy over his last one. It's like the Japanese director in Lost in Translation who tells Bill Murray "Same thing, with more... intensity."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 2091902, member: 3400"] I agree that it has been too long. Lucas's skills as a director have clearly atrophied. When he was making Star Wars, he was a relatively neophyte director fresh of a huge success with American Graffiti. His vision both about what a movie could be and technical skill in seeing the project through while inventing new special effects technologies were breathtaking. He and his crew had to be really innovative. Now, he's something of a cultural institution and the technology has really advanced so that there is, I think, less really creative innovation and more incremental evolution. There's no one to say no to him and tell him an idea needs rewriting or reworking. The technology of computer generated characters is reasonably mature so he's no longer on much of a cutting edge. There were some things in PM that worked reasonably well. The light saber duel was quite excellent. Some of the themes touched on between Anakin and his mother and the others were nice and had potential for exploration. Clones pretty much threw all of that away, as I see it. The current trilogy should have some pretty good potential. For one thing, most of the principle actors are higher quality than the actors of the first trilogy. Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ewan MacGregor. But Lucas has never been known as a great director for getting the best performance out of actors. He's the kind of director who does have some good ideas, especially visual on scene composition, but he's also the kind of director who needs someone else to work with. The biggest disappointment for me is how, if you notice, everything in this 2nd trilogy is bigger and better. The Jedi seem to be able to do just about anything, Anakin could do much more at a young age than his son apparently could at any age. It's like Lucas is trying to one-up himself on this trilogy over his last one. It's like the Japanese director in Lost in Translation who tells Bill Murray "Same thing, with more... intensity." [/QUOTE]
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