Joek3rr
Master Member
Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
Well the PT was made for George. You never see George apologizing to the fans for the the mess he made. And why should he. Star Wars was his creation, he could do whatever the heck he wanted to with it. When he sold Lucasfilm he sold the rights for him to make crestive decisions. That now belongs to Lucasfilm/Disney and whoever they choose to to make a film. Though interestingly they still let him chime in from time to time. He called and chatted with Rian. And he came and visited the Solo set.
So should Rian and Kathleen bow to the wishes to the fans? Are they not already? After all they are just as much of a Star Wars fan as you or I. Rian for instance said, that his very first movie that he'd ever watched was Star Wars. He loved it so much that we would buy anything Star Wars. He couldn't get enough. And since this was before VHS and DVDs they only way to "see" The film again was by reading the comic adaptations, and novelizations. And read them he did. And finally when the ability to rent films came around, he said "I remember when we got the VHS for Star Wars from the video store. We had our friends over, and we would watch it for twelve hours straight, over and over, until we had to give it back. There'd be like a thee-month waiting list to get it." He says how the film became so mythological to him and friends, because of the limitations of not being to see it on a whim. "So you and your friends end up studying the sacred texts and philosophizing about it. I hadn't really thought of it that way before but that might be part of the reason why, in a way that can be hard to explain, Star Wars feels like such a powerful myth of childhoods. Maybe it's because we couldn't see the actual movies."
He's speaks the truth. I am a Prequel kid. But I didn't get the see 1, 2, and 3. Until we borrowed them from a friend. But just seeing the advertisements at Wal-Mart, at the gas station, at the local fast food joint was enough. I was fan even before I saw them.
Thats because at its heart it isnt a Star Wars movie. It wasnt made to capture the imagination of as many people, especially Star Wars, fans as possible, it was made to cater to basically two people, Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy. Say what you want about the PT but after nearly twenty years its still being talked about, I doubt the same will apply to TLJ.
Well the PT was made for George. You never see George apologizing to the fans for the the mess he made. And why should he. Star Wars was his creation, he could do whatever the heck he wanted to with it. When he sold Lucasfilm he sold the rights for him to make crestive decisions. That now belongs to Lucasfilm/Disney and whoever they choose to to make a film. Though interestingly they still let him chime in from time to time. He called and chatted with Rian. And he came and visited the Solo set.
So should Rian and Kathleen bow to the wishes to the fans? Are they not already? After all they are just as much of a Star Wars fan as you or I. Rian for instance said, that his very first movie that he'd ever watched was Star Wars. He loved it so much that we would buy anything Star Wars. He couldn't get enough. And since this was before VHS and DVDs they only way to "see" The film again was by reading the comic adaptations, and novelizations. And read them he did. And finally when the ability to rent films came around, he said "I remember when we got the VHS for Star Wars from the video store. We had our friends over, and we would watch it for twelve hours straight, over and over, until we had to give it back. There'd be like a thee-month waiting list to get it." He says how the film became so mythological to him and friends, because of the limitations of not being to see it on a whim. "So you and your friends end up studying the sacred texts and philosophizing about it. I hadn't really thought of it that way before but that might be part of the reason why, in a way that can be hard to explain, Star Wars feels like such a powerful myth of childhoods. Maybe it's because we couldn't see the actual movies."
He's speaks the truth. I am a Prequel kid. But I didn't get the see 1, 2, and 3. Until we borrowed them from a friend. But just seeing the advertisements at Wal-Mart, at the gas station, at the local fast food joint was enough. I was fan even before I saw them.