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In Reply to: Re: "Minority Report" and Steven Speilberg posted by Joe S on June 19, 2002 at 07:42:21:
To me, Lucas seems to be a more private, introverted personality, than Speilberg. He isn't interested in being current or trendy...but therein lies his special genius.His films are a byproduct of a person who is in his own special world, and that he or she, choses to create these worlds, of his own making, and deal with reality on his own terms.
Words like "maturity" are subjective and unfairly judgemental, and really don't have any place in a describing or evaluating artists of any kind.
Speilberg is more earthbound, in his choice of subject matter. To me, I can see, how this would be an obstacle to overcome, in excercising his creativity and commercial sensibility.
Lucas, seems to have struck the perfect and delicate balance of genius, creativity, and ability to communicate his artistic vision to others.
Whether it's effective (ie. "successful" in commercial terms)is a moot point; that he does communicate, that he exercises his creativity, that he does these things, enough to satisfy himself, is "success" to this type of creative personality.
Lucas is communicating on totally other level, for which things like "box office", "ratings" is superfluous to him. This is not to say that he is "above it all" and "money doesnt matter".
Ultimately, Lucas succeeds in reaching his audience, whereever it is...hence the Lucas coined phrase "The Force". The audience doesn't have a chance, because no one really has any defense to "close out" his message and entertainment! We use words like "talent", but they hardly articulate that magical quality Lucas has.
Disney had It.
Speilberg has It, but choses to supress or rather, repress it. We say things like "it was good, but they seem to lack "something" when we describe them. They are always rooted in a reality, of some kind, that all can share, as the jumping off point...unfortunately, it never strays far from this safe place.
This is why Spielberg, still has to make his one great film.
...I meant more in a Lucas as a talentless hack of diminishing skills with the rather disheartening directorial ability to extract inferior performances form even exceptional talent sort of way....joe
well, the senario sucks! no plot, boring, too sentimental. So the result of this maturity is: some are good, but could be better, other are simply very overated.Stanley Kubric strengh is Spielberg weakness: Kubric can tell excellent story visualy, Spielberg just show ideas and facts visualy.
I'm not a fan of Spielberg, not at all. Mcdonald is the most known restaurant, but lots of smaller restaurant are much better, one just have to try and taste them.
I sensed the possibility of Speilberg being liberated by maturity, in ET, but he has too much of a sensitivity and prelidiction for commerciality that he cant suppress or control. He seems frustrated and unable to maintain a delicate balance, between anything, really.I'm sure he secretly envies Lucas' ability to tell a geniunely original and creative story.
Sometime after, "ET", "Close Encounters" and "Always", he tried to hard to please everyone in the Hollywood infrastructure. He can never really go back and capture that special magic, that Lucas always seems to tap into.
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