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In Reply to: He's done a lot for movies, and that is more than I can say about the majority of modern directors. posted by Joe Murphy Jr on May 19, 2002 at 20:19:31:
Where is our scale? Where is the proportion?His contribution was in making a rather entertaining film that blazed some new trails - the original SW. A somewhat notable contribution, yes, but more than a "majority"? Cut me a break.
The "majority" could of course be as bad as you want it to be, and in that context you may be right. But by saying this you are ignoring perhaps hunderds of great directors who have done perhaps many times more for the film industry.
Lucas should have left after the first one, as this apparently was his level of incompetency.
But you know what? Lucas doesn't concern me much at all. He is simply a barometer, or our rectal thermometer, if you will. His films - and their HUGE monetary success - simply indicate the state of health of our society.
The miserable state, to be sure.
What excites us, what grabbs our minds, is getting more and more primitive every decade. If you look at that people went to see and enjoy in say, the fifties, and compare it to what the wide audience sees today you will see what I mean.
We slid from Ninochka to Titanic in just few short - VERY short in any historical tirms - years.
If that is not a sign of decay then I don't know what is.
However, we are sliding down on a logarithmic scale, meaning that we are never going to hit the bottom.
Instead, the quality of films that get us going is going to contnue getting more and more ridiculous.
Yes, going ga-ga over something like SW is ridiculous, degrading thing for ANY society.
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Follow Ups
- Oh, come on now... - Victor Khomenko 04:17:34 05/20/02 (11)
- "Sliding from Ninotchka" - clarkjohnsen 07:21:57 05/20/02 (10)
- Your wrong! - Victor Khomenko 07:30:40 05/20/02 (9)
- Re: Your wrong! - ToshiroMeyers 08:04:34 05/20/02 (8)
- Unfortunately - Joe Murphy Jr 16:26:01 05/20/02 (1)
- Re: Unfortunately - Victor Khomenko 16:42:58 05/20/02 (0)
- Hey Medved! - Victor Khomenko 08:31:34 05/20/02 (5)
- Re: Hey Medved! - caa 13:21:03 05/20/02 (0)
- Ah yer all a buncha right wingnuts. Star Wars rules! nt - clarkjohnsen 12:24:46 05/20/02 (3)
- LOL! Clark's dream... - Victor Khomenko 14:15:08 05/20/02 (0)
- Yeah, being condescending is a sure way to expand someone elses horizons. (nt) - Tom §. 12:56:42 05/20/02 (1)
- Condescension or no condescension, as we get older we all tend to expand horizontally. - Audiophilander 19:33:34 05/20/02 (0)
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