George Lucas didn't sell Star Wars because of the Prequel backlash or because he wanted to raise his 2nd family. He transcended the artform.

George Lucas didn't sell Star Wars because of the Prequel backlash or because he wanted to raise his 2nd family. It's because CGI, Lighting, Cameras, etc. had come so far that there was nothing left for him to innovate. In the featurettes of him brainstorming in 1994 had him watching Buster Keaton in amazement asking himself "how did he do that?". By the time he was done with the prequels he had pushed the industry so far forward that there was nothing left for him to do. He transcended the artform.

The sequel trilogy really would've just been a soap opera about the Skywalker family.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ahhh yes, the peak of technology right here

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The graphics in the 20 year old film look bad, and then i onpy have 3-4 cherry picked scenes out of a 2 hour movie
      Find me any other computer graphics from the early 00s that even come close. Saying prequela weren't innovative is peak zoomer midwit. You weren't there. People thought ps2 graphics looked like real life, these films are still mindblowing. There are prequel scenes that age better than disney war scenes made in the last 7 years.
      A new hope revolutionized cinema once, my dad told me how good they looked at the time. The prequels did it again. No other film had as good computer graphics until avatar.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The first two Shrek movies were extremely impressive and Matrix had good visuals as well. But there were tons of bad imitations.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Starship Troopers
        >People thought ps2 graphics looked like real life, these films are still mindblowing
        >Source: my dad
        Lmao

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The battles in Starship Troopers were easy because of the lighting and terrain. The tan gungans and droids on the green field didn't allow for any sandy haze to add depth, etc. George was pushing the budget. Starship Troopers was playing it safe.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >People thought ps2 graphics looked like real life
        Well no that isn't true at all. In fact the joke at the time is sony claimed to have toy story graphics. And it didn't. You clearly weren't there.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >1997

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That looks like a product of its time. It looks like:
          >Total Recall
          >Super Mario Bros
          >Judge Dredd
          I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          god I hate this Kebab music. WTF was Luce Bessont thinking?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Damn now I have to go and watch Mila in her yum yum's and Multi Pass. Better than anything Lucas put out...

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Jurassic Park (1993) has aged better

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The jump between gens was the biggest factor. Even back then I would agree that the graphics were not good compared to real life. It was an abstraction which had dramatically improved over the prior gen. If you were a consolegay then of course most multiplats looked better on Xbox but again those consoles were ass compared to the limits being pushed on PC at the time. It was a true golden age of vidya where the focus was on pushing the boundaries of tech mixed with the best gameplay and even story. It's all transactioned to death now and games like TV series have transitioned to this perpetual live service where the end goal is player/consumer retention. They don't want to make the best of the best now. They just want steady streams of cash from a malleable population with no standards.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You bring a good point. But you are still missing one good piece from uncovering the conspiration.

        Redditlettermedia gaslighted everyone who wasnt there or who was too young to know better. "How?" You might ask, "I have the dvds!"
        Well, you see, while the prequels were shot in digital mostly, they were processed chemically in film and projected in film. The higher contrast, chemical process and grain of film helped to hide the shoddy cgi. This is how it was intended for us to watch them.
        People who watched them in theaters and were old to know better, remember them in all their glory. Your dvd, is the digital version without any of the chemical enhancements. Your dvd version is not the way it was projected in theaters. Your dvd version looks like shit and RLM convinced everyone that this is the real version and the rest is nostalgia.

        This scan looks a bit dark, but you can already see how good it looks most of the times. You can even see the Senator room and it actually looks fine.

        1:24-1:30 This one straight up looks better than modern Marvel Disney.

        Dont get zoomers and r3dditlettermedia tell you otherwise, they looked great, years ahead of anything before.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That is a huge difference, thanks anon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I only saw episode 3 in theaters. This is impressive as frick, holy shit.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Holy frick your right . I saw all three in theaters .

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I am watching episode three right now and tried applying a film grain filter and while its not exactly the same and the effect is subtle I do think it makes a difference on some scenes.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Frick the cgi in the prequels was horrible

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >CGI chairs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      holy frick that's looks awful. the prequels can lick my ass.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Eternal reminder that this was a fully constructed physical set, only CGI is what you see out the window.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Eternal reminder that this was a fully constructed physical set, only CGI is what you see out the window.

          Wow it's almost like prequels haters don't even know how their own eyes work and just look for things to b***h about. This is why we have the crappy disney films now people who grew up with the ots and created hundreds of self insert scenarios in the star wars universe can't be pleased

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      are you tricking us
      wasnt this a set

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        See

        I honestly have no idea why it looks so bad though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I guess it's the early digital camera making everything look like shit.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This. The prequels look like shit.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This. The prequels look like shit.

            are you tricking us
            wasnt this a set

            ahhh yes, the peak of technology right here

            Lucas created the real furniture and lighting to make it look like irl cg so it didnt look like a mix of real life shit with cg. He had SOUL on top of knowing the limitations of cg from that era. Something marvel disney could learn.
            Sheev Room is a litmus test for the ignorant in the ways of film making and the moronic in general.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the set is not cgi, but there is a terrible looking matte painting of a hallway on the left at the end of this clip

          ahhh yes, the peak of technology right here

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the question is WHY does the bg need to be CGI? couldn't they have just build this simple set and have a green screen for the window and call it a day? this studio would have been so simple why does it have to be CGI? What pisses me off the most is the exit with the silly ass door and the red carpet. Looks like Bioshock.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It takes days to build up a set versus hours to build the room in 3DS Max or Maya. Even then they still employed miniature models for areas such as the podrace arena or the geonosis arena or the large hallway in the jedi temple, hence the times where it looked uncanny.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        that's literally what they did moron
        see

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Love that little snap the CGI background does during the camera pan. The foreground is a physical set however. The shadows might be CGI and certainly the window is CGI.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He was going to go to the micro world.

    Imagine this taking place inside Padme’s stomach like in Innerspace. The lava is stomach acid.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He could of innovated by being a good writer or editor.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He doesn't want to make a soap opera lmao

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    he foresaw diversity quotas and decided to leave before being forced to work with nigs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      no Lucas has jungle fever and a nog obsession which only got worse as he aged (see that shitty red tails movie he made)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Sure thing zoomer.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He literally casted Samuel Jackson because of diversity quotas, moron.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >casted
        Dumb frick. Jackson begged to be part of the prequels. He even said he was willing to be a stormtrooper

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yes. Lucas would've cast any black guy in his place had he not volunteered.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He's married to a black woman...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The last movie he directed was about the Tuskegee Airmen.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >2022
    >Still no smell-o-vision

    bullshit there ain't nothing left to innovate

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lol yeah the phantom menace would've been better received if you could smell Jar Jar

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The prequels frickin sucked.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He truly is the Oppenheimer of cinema.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    he could have tried making a film with good stories and characters.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Even jar jar is better written than anybody from the new films.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Imagine simping for jar jar binks

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Its got to the point that I would like to see Jar Jar pop up.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well of course it has since you're nostalgia is flaring up.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I loved Jar Jar as a kid.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yes you loved being stupid as a child. You can keep doing it if you like. But you're still an idiot.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I liked Jar Jar but looked up to figures like Obi Wan and Qui Gon. Especially Qui Gon, he was the master.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kids loved Jar Jar. It's a kid movie. Grow up homosexual.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Zoomers are capable of simultaneously believing that Lucas is a genius who transcended film as an art form AND that Star Wars is just a silly kids series that should never be criticized because it's not serious anyway.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Everybody is capable of that anon.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nope it was backlash. Disney organised a massive anti-shill campaign for the prequels for a decade to pressure George to sell.

    What you think it’s a coincidence that the consensus on prequels changed after the papers were signed? I’ve never spoken to anyone that disliked the prequels either. It was always just from the internet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Source: Dude, trust me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This is true, Disney dropped mad money to signal boost things like the Plinkett reviews leading up to the 3D re-release of Episode I helping cause that to bomb. George's plans for his ST hinged on that doing decently at the box office.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      walt disney personally gave me 30 dollars to say I hate attack of the clones on facebook a decade after it came out

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He sold because Iger gave him an offer he couldn't refuse after the success of Avatar proved that 20th Century Fox was worth buying altogether. I'll bet you anything they've tried buying the Star Wars rights from 20th since 1984 when they started going full-on juggernaut.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      lol avatar was only a thing because of the 3D technology.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The latter two prequels look like shit, dude. Let it go.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    apparently he wanted to be able to amend entire scenes and movies after the fact using cgi and was going to basically redo all the movies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I really wish he would do that with the prequels.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    what if lucas bought himself hitlership

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    He literally admitted that he sold it because of prequel backlash, you dork.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >because CGI, Lighting, Cameras, etc. had come so far that there was nothing left for him to innovate
    Not really a loss, Cameron has us covered.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love democracy...

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty much spot on. Attack of the Clones is the visual finale of cinema. Hasn't been topped yet.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's just salt

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    George Lucas licensed star wars to dance dance revolution shortly before selling to disney. he was truly out of (good) ideas

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe he just wanted to dance?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Everybody should dance. Nobody should dance ddr as Han Solo on Cloud City. Find an outlet that doesn't destroy my childhood, Lucas

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Kek did your parents buy this game for you on Christmas or something

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I realised George Lucas was a great filmmaker yesterday, when I saw a video of a forest in a disney Kenobi thread. Immediately I noticed the forest didn't look like it was on another planet. Then I realised the forests in Lucas' films somehow looked like they were actually on another planet. It was then that I realised how great George Lucas was and how much of a hack whoever did the Kenobi series is.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      George Lucas said that most critics dont know much about movies, the history behind them, the tech behind them, so they cant really grasp or give informed opinions. And he is 100% right. Thats why youtube critics always dissect plot, plotholes and the meaning, symbology of the "plot". Because you dont need to have any knowledge about film to do so. Anyone can dissect a narrative. But to talk about the actual medium you need to know about it.
      This is one of the reasons why Armond White is unironically so pleasant to read. Even with some moronic (aka based) takes you enjoy his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of them medium. You know he knows his shit. He is not quoting tarantino, nolan and shawshank redemption. You might be a film buff, but then White talks about a movie you have never heard off and explains to you why its a landmark of cinema. All of that in a Green Hornet vs Ultron: dawn of infinity godzillas review.
      I remember some homosexual on youtube complaining about how boring the pod racing was because the camera pans all moved to the right. But thats something you would know if you knew basic film making. In his ignorance it was some kind of mistake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is also why RLM relies so much on Star Trek. It’s a philosophical show, not a show about filmmaking philosophy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      he does.
      tatooine, dagobah and the others feel like they exist, even if only. in a story.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't he allowed to just want the money?

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