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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2107456" data-attributes="member: 4275">[alex trebek] Oooo. Wrong. I'm sorry. How much did you risk?[/alex trebek]Um, actually, Lucas uses casting directors, they're credited and everything. He hired them.You see how that works? He used his own money.What's the line from the Producers about the first rule of Broadway... "Never use your own money".And the second rule? NEVER USE YOUR OWN MONEY!See, here's what makes Lucas spending his own money a big deal.If enough people agreed with you that the movies were completely worthless, he would have LOST a couple hundred million per film. Other producer-directors, like Lucas' friend Francis Ford-Coppola lost their shirts spending their own money on movies. It's not the safe bet you think it is.Unless you're the guy responsible for 7 (and now 10) of the top grossing movies of all time? I mean, American Graffitti, Star Wars 4-6, Indiana Jones 1-3... you might think the man who had a big hand in all those movies knew what he was doing wouldn't you?And for the record, I never said you didn't have the right to criticize the movies because he made them with his own money. In fact it gives you the BEST way possible to criticize them.Vote with your feet. Don't go. Please. Encourage all your friends not to go either. Make Lucas lose money and make him hock that chunk of the old Presidio naval base he just bought to be LucasFilms new HQ for 350 million.Cause that will leave more seats for me on opening day <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Chuck</blockquote>

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