Happy 80th Birthday to the great #GeorgeLucas Here’s a portrait from my archives circa 1994(ish) celebrating the man who made me fall in love with film through @StarWars and #indianajones and everything in between! Here he is doing the iconic #ILM magician logo pose made famous by another hero of mine, #DrewStruzan@Starwars
Au-delà des batailles et des SFX, l'identité de la saga Star Wars s'est d'abord forgée sur un bout de papier.
À quel moment Vador est devenu le père de Luke dans la tête de Lucas ? Et comment écrit-on une saga qui résiste à ce point à l'épreuve du temps ?
One of my favorite real life stories is the founding of the company Industrial Light & Magic and how its "gang of outsiders" delivered the first STAR WARS film and started a revolution in the world of filmmaking.
The Disney Channel has a documentary all about that called LIGHT & MAGIC. I'm watching it for the second time now and loving it once again. Such a great story and what an amazing group of incredibly talented people.
On this day - 11 years ago - October 30, 2012 - The Walt Disney Company bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas for $4.05 billion and announced Star Wars: Episode VII
It's been 21 years since #BillWillingham launched #Fables, his 110-issue, wide-ranging, delightful and brilliantly crafted author-owned comic series that imagines that the folkloric figures of the world's fairytales are real people, who live in a secret society whose internal struggles and intersections with the mundane world are the source of endless drama.
The "curse of bigness" is real, but who gets cursed is a matter of power, and big companies have a lot more power.
The chaos, in other words, is a feature and not a bug. It provides cover for contract-violating conduct, up to and including wage-theft. Remember when Disney/Marvel stole money from beloved science fiction giant #AlanDeanFoster, whose original #StarWars novelization was hugely influential on #GeorgeLucas, who changed the movie to match Foster's ideas?
#TheCloneWars was in large part #DaveFiloni’s writing, but under #GeorgeLucas, before #Disney. At 130 episodes, the amount of content is well more than all the films put together. #Ahsoka was arguably the main character in that series, introduced in the pilot and central in the finale. While the execution in this live-action series may be questioned, Ahsoka’s role as a major character in the saga cannot.
La théorie du "voyage du héros" selon Joseph Campbell ne vaut rien et n'a jamais été appréciée par les spécialistes des mythes et les anthropologues. Sa célébrité résulte d'un renvoi d'ascenseurs et d'intérêts bien compris avec George Lucas à la sortie de "Star Wars".
Quant à "Star Wars", c'est un film qui doit énormément au cinéma de son temps, à "Buck Rogers", à "Flash Gordon" et à "John Carter", et pas grand-chose au Grand Inconscient Collectif des Mythes. Ça, c'est parce que Lucas complexait et cherchait un moyen de s'autolégitimer tout en assurant sa pub.
Ça fait TELLEMENT de bien de lire enfin quelqu'un dénoncer cette vaste fumisterie publicitaire ! Le crédit dont ce truc semble bénéficier auprès des universitaires spécialistes de la littérature britannique dans le monde anglophone est inquiétant : il est temps de remiser Campbell sur les étagères des théories obsolètes, dont il n'aurait jamais dû sortir.
Merci à @Archiviste_Dragontigre d'avoir posté le lien ! https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/ #mythologie#mythe#monomythe#monomyth#Campbell#JosephCampbell#VoyageDuHéros#HerosJourney#StarWars#GeorgeLucas#anthropologie#folklore#EnglishLiterature
Great insight from Pablo on how Young Indy was cancelled yet #GeorgeLucas made more of it. Sometimes (a lot of times) I miss the creator-owned, creator-driven #LucasFilm of the past.
Hip-hop isn't the only thing that was born on August 11, 1973. On the same day, George Lucas released "American Graffiti" in the U.S. The first LucasFilm movie, it paved the way for flicks like "Fast Times at Ridgemont High, "Dazed and Confused" and "Almost Famous," and gave Lucas the Hollywood clout to make a little film called "Star Wars." Here's music editor Matt Mitchell's moving, thoughtful love letter to "a perfect movie."
I bought this painting for $5 at Goodwill and added Star Wars to it. I sold it to a friend in California and posted this to Reddit, it blew up and got shared all over the world.
“Grow up. These are my movies, not yours”: (m.imdb.com)
George Lucas Won’t be Happy How Star Wars Fan Group is Illegally Saving the Original Trilogy