Very flawed video. To imply that George Lucas isn't the reason Star Wars is successful and call it a "fact" is faulty logic. He's not the only one to give credit to, sure. It wasn't like he was conducting an orchestra with one hand and molding creature masks with another. He envisioned the whole thing, and he hired the very people mentioned here, as well as looked to others for help and advice and trusted the expertise of others. No creative genius works in a bubble, and no one can achieve massive success in the arts without the help of others. If Marsha Lucas, John Williams and Irving Kirshner (all amazingly good in their respective fields) walked into a movie studio, they would not have produced Star Wars.
As for the prequels revealing that things work better despite him -- I think this oversimplifies what was really going on. I firmly believe that his status and the movies being so successful and lauded for years and years all affected the movie-maker he became in that era. I think that he succumbed to this -- sitting in an ivory tower, having so much pressure to succeed, AND assume that his ideas were the best, AND surrounding himself with disciples who constantly reinforced this vs. actual collaborators who might have shot down an idea or two. If there were true collaborators or contemporaries Lucas turned to for advice at this stage, advice wasn't taken or Lucas's status made it difficult for others to challenge him. Did someone at some point raise their hand and speak up that Jar Jar just didn't seem to be working out and the whole idea should be scrapped...? And if so, what happened as a result..?
There are plenty of ways to make a "bad guy" into a protagonist... that's not what concerns me. What concerns me is giving up so much information on the character that he loses the mystique that made him so appealing in the first place, like what happened to Wolverine in the 90's comics (if you're old enough to remember how that character started out)...
On the other hand, the mystique with Boba Fett was already severely chipped away with the adventures of "Baby Boba" in the prequels, so I suppose the damage is done...
This is very funny-- if a little too crass and soberly self-aware at times. One point this makes that I really disagree with is the, “it killed death in comics” idea. Maybe it did so on a major scale, but comic book heroes have been “dying” and returning since long before this story.
As a father of a curious 15-month-old toddler, this would be the last thing I'd want in my kid's room. How about designing a table lamp or floor lamp that can't be knocked over? (And, no, bolting them to the floor or table is not an option)... Industrial designers! I challenge thee!
Let the heated debates begin.This was posted to some blog weeks ago, and it predictably raised the ire of parents who argued by saying things like "The guys who wrote this study aren't parents" and "people who aren't parents don't know", etc. etc... And those on the other side (the childless) arguing in defense of the study.
My two cents: If you don't like the study, refute it by making another study rather than getting into commenting wars, where no one can hear you scream.
But neatorama readers are too cool and smart to get baited into something like that... Right?
Johnny Carson took over hosting with Ed McMahon as his sidekick. For all but a few months of its first decade on the air, Carson's show was based in New York City. In May 1972 the show moved to Burbank, California, (although it was announced as coming from nearby Hollywood) for the remainder of his tenure. **Kermit the Frog guest hosted the show for Johnny Carson** in 1979, while Grover performed "Near and Far" for the first time on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in the 1969-1970 season.
If a object is flying at you very fast, your first instinct isn't to swoop in and protect the person you're with (unless maybe they were your child... parrental instinct). It looks like he figured she'd move out of her seat as well. Plus-- how easy is it to tell where a fly ball is going to end up for most of us non-pro folks? Give the guy a break.
As for the prequels revealing that things work better despite him -- I think this oversimplifies what was really going on. I firmly believe that his status and the movies being so successful and lauded for years and years all affected the movie-maker he became in that era. I think that he succumbed to this -- sitting in an ivory tower, having so much pressure to succeed, AND assume that his ideas were the best, AND surrounding himself with disciples who constantly reinforced this vs. actual collaborators who might have shot down an idea or two. If there were true collaborators or contemporaries Lucas turned to for advice at this stage, advice wasn't taken or Lucas's status made it difficult for others to challenge him. Did someone at some point raise their hand and speak up that Jar Jar just didn't seem to be working out and the whole idea should be scrapped...? And if so, what happened as a result..?
On the other hand, the mystique with Boba Fett was already severely chipped away with the adventures of "Baby Boba" in the prequels, so I suppose the damage is done...
My two cents: If you don't like the study, refute it by making another study rather than getting into commenting wars, where no one can hear you scream.
But neatorama readers are too cool and smart to get baited into something like that... Right?
Johnny Carson took over hosting with Ed McMahon as his sidekick. For all but a few months of its first decade on the air, Carson's show was based in New York City. In May 1972 the show moved to Burbank, California, (although it was announced as coming from nearby Hollywood) for the remainder of his tenure.
**Kermit the Frog guest hosted the show for Johnny Carson** in 1979, while Grover performed "Near and Far" for the first time on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in the 1969-1970 season.