Yes. The current state of pop culture mania proves it. Also he was not as cold-hearted as people like to pretend. This is from that same pook, just a few passages down:
>"When the script arrived, I was in Hollywood....had just finished, was literally on the last day of a film and this script arrived... And I thought 'Oh, George Lucas...' that's a name, you know, to conjure with...in the avant garde thing. And then I opened it and ah 'science-fiction' I thought <shakes head> not for me. Started to read it and....was held in the....although the dialogue was appalling.. but there was something about it that made you go on turning the pages. Now that's....fairly rare... And I met Lucas, we could talk the same language I think. And I enjoyed doing it. But I don't think anyone had much confidence in the picture except, in a funny way, me. I didn't know it was gonna be that success but...I heard people now and then disparaging the work and I would say "No, you....mark my words. It's been done with great taste...and ah.... imagination. There's something more to it than you think."
This reads incredibly arrogant, he sounds like an insufferable butthole. Reminds me of that famous letter he wrote where he couldn't even remember Harrison Ford's name. Compared to guys like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. You can do pop culture dreck and be kind to the people that made you a millionaire, while still valuing the theatre and more sophisticated acting above all that.
>guys like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. You can do pop culture dreck
Neither McKellen or Stewart could hold a candle to this, you trog. Although Stewart did indeed play the villain in its sequel opposite Guinness
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pq61jstTApk&list
>Luke, did I ever tell you the tale of America the Fat? It was a giant country of farmers with no landed aristocracy until urban merchant elites drummed up a civil war and devastated the agrarian economy, enslaving the peasantry to debt and cheap goods produced overseas, and converting much of their former farmland into "corn syrup" crops. Corn syrup doesn't provoke your natural satiety reflex, Luke, making it very addictive. Within a hundred years, the country went from a free yeomanry, like its founders intended, to a lumpenproletariat in which no one owned his own property and everyone went into massive debt just to participate at a minimal level in the economy. I visited this place, Luke, during my time as a travelling thespian. A man named George Lucas paid me handsomely to stand mostly stationary and read a few lines, because the way I enunciated properly reminded them of better times, when everyone wasn't so mentally moronic. Unfortunately my performance was used to make them even more moronic, being incorporated into a childish holo-reel. I am ashamed of my participation in that holo-reel, Luke. George Lucas was an evil man and I wish I had never prostituted myself out for his money. And he was a good friend.
Yes. Now we have an epidemic of fat losers who are 30 something years old and still talking about fricking lightsabres and darth Black person instead of starting a family.
>instead of starting a family
That may be true but many anons consider Cinemaphile to be our family or at least our home and perhaps through some process unknown to current science a miracle child will be born from the board. I haven't been outside in two months except to place the bins on the road and remove them always under cover of night. You may say I'm a believer but I'm not the only one. When the powers of Disney conspired to destroy the good will of George's epic creation, Cinemaphile glared down and persistently relieved ourselves on their designers suits like animated gargoyles perched on the last remaining cathedral and oh look at we we heralded, now it is the Mouse House that is in disrepair or at least the crippled wing of Lucasfilm, the depraved smelly brothel of Kathleen Kennedy.
One day the Cinemaphile family will produce a child and to celebrate the menu will consist of kino all the way down.
Well imagine you got rich doing dumb shit. Sure, being rich is nice, but knowing your entire worth was earned through what you consider to be banal and meaningless must suck in its own way. You can be a rich doctor and save lives, you can be a rich politican and influence events, but a rich actor really didn't do shit but play pretend for manchildren.
he obviously had some sense of what would be worth doing and he's clearly a gentleman so he didn't need the role to 'make him' so much as he made the role.
plenty of actors want to grow beyond just a singular role and be tied to some fanbase who think nothing more of them that a character with lines they memorized.
indiana jones man was the same way and funnily enough trevor from gta v but that role actually made him.
>he didn't need the role to 'make him' so much as he made the role
It's probably harder to have ambition when you're rich, at least for some people, even if you're going to regret it later.
Well imagine you got rich doing dumb shit. Sure, being rich is nice, but knowing your entire worth was earned through what you consider to be banal and meaningless must suck in its own way. You can be a rich doctor and save lives, you can be a rich politican and influence events, but a rich actor really didn't do shit but play pretend for manchildren.
He was already a well known and wealthy actor. He just wasn't prepared for the overbearing adoration from nerds
No he's an actor, a public jester.
should have gone into a different field if he didn't morons salivating over his role in an escapist movie.
he's a homosexual, actors who whinge about moron fans are not worth listening to.
Yeah? He's aware that his job is to stare in these fantasy world of second hand childish banalities. I don't think he claims that this is a bad thing, or that watching these is a bad thing. He's complaining about manchildren that give way too many fricks about movies at the expense of real world.
No, he was a crotchety old man who hated the thing that made him eternally famous even after his death
He had nothing good in his life so obviously he wants other people to suffer too
what a c**t
No anon, that's what pathetic incel losers on Cinemaphile want for others
just stop being hateful towards others and maybe good things will happen to you
homosexual
>Looking into the boy's eyes, I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form
We can see the end results much more clearly these days, when those star-shells are allowed to go super nova in a man because nobody stepped in to put a stop to it in time
Yes. The current state of pop culture mania proves it. Also he was not as cold-hearted as people like to pretend. This is from that same pook, just a few passages down:
was he schizophrenic
it does read weirdly. maybe he's just a bad writer
To think this could've been Sean Connery but with the potential role as Gandalf.
>"When the script arrived, I was in Hollywood....had just finished, was literally on the last day of a film and this script arrived... And I thought 'Oh, George Lucas...' that's a name, you know, to conjure with...in the avant garde thing. And then I opened it and ah 'science-fiction' I thought <shakes head> not for me. Started to read it and....was held in the....although the dialogue was appalling.. but there was something about it that made you go on turning the pages. Now that's....fairly rare... And I met Lucas, we could talk the same language I think. And I enjoyed doing it. But I don't think anyone had much confidence in the picture except, in a funny way, me. I didn't know it was gonna be that success but...I heard people now and then disparaging the work and I would say "No, you....mark my words. It's been done with great taste...and ah.... imagination. There's something more to it than you think."
This reads incredibly arrogant, he sounds like an insufferable butthole. Reminds me of that famous letter he wrote where he couldn't even remember Harrison Ford's name. Compared to guys like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. You can do pop culture dreck and be kind to the people that made you a millionaire, while still valuing the theatre and more sophisticated acting above all that.
That passage has more to do with Guinness's fear of going senile.
>guys like Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. You can do pop culture dreck
Neither McKellen or Stewart could hold a candle to this, you trog. Although Stewart did indeed play the villain in its sequel opposite Guinness
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pq61jstTApk&list
Alec is my favorite actor. Anons please watch his magnum opus comedy The Horse's Mouth.
Bridge on the River Kwai for me, leagues better than Star Wars.
I will tonight.
>Ugh --- hugh -uh -ha -hm
What did he mean by this?
literally me when i see big fat gyatt when touching grass
Congrats to him for doing the bare minimum of being nice to a disabled man I guess.
And he was a good friend
He tried to warn us but we didn't listen.
Clearly. Just look at the absolute state of this board
>Luke, did I ever tell you the tale of America the Fat? It was a giant country of farmers with no landed aristocracy until urban merchant elites drummed up a civil war and devastated the agrarian economy, enslaving the peasantry to debt and cheap goods produced overseas, and converting much of their former farmland into "corn syrup" crops. Corn syrup doesn't provoke your natural satiety reflex, Luke, making it very addictive. Within a hundred years, the country went from a free yeomanry, like its founders intended, to a lumpenproletariat in which no one owned his own property and everyone went into massive debt just to participate at a minimal level in the economy. I visited this place, Luke, during my time as a travelling thespian. A man named George Lucas paid me handsomely to stand mostly stationary and read a few lines, because the way I enunciated properly reminded them of better times, when everyone wasn't so mentally moronic. Unfortunately my performance was used to make them even more moronic, being incorporated into a childish holo-reel. I am ashamed of my participation in that holo-reel, Luke. George Lucas was an evil man and I wish I had never prostituted myself out for his money. And he was a good friend.
Civil war was merchants vs msrchants. Importing slaves to work plantations for international export is not the work of yeomen
damn fool idealistic crusade like your father
Yes. Now we have an epidemic of fat losers who are 30 something years old and still talking about fricking lightsabres and darth Black person instead of starting a family.
>instead of starting a family
That may be true but many anons consider Cinemaphile to be our family or at least our home and perhaps through some process unknown to current science a miracle child will be born from the board. I haven't been outside in two months except to place the bins on the road and remove them always under cover of night. You may say I'm a believer but I'm not the only one. When the powers of Disney conspired to destroy the good will of George's epic creation, Cinemaphile glared down and persistently relieved ourselves on their designers suits like animated gargoyles perched on the last remaining cathedral and oh look at we we heralded, now it is the Mouse House that is in disrepair or at least the crippled wing of Lucasfilm, the depraved smelly brothel of Kathleen Kennedy.
One day the Cinemaphile family will produce a child and to celebrate the menu will consist of kino all the way down.
>perhaps through some process unknown to current science a miracle child will be born from the board
Will be a big child.
For you.
If Cinemaphile is a family, The Hills Have Eyes is a documentary.
Well imagine you got rich doing dumb shit. Sure, being rich is nice, but knowing your entire worth was earned through what you consider to be banal and meaningless must suck in its own way. You can be a rich doctor and save lives, you can be a rich politican and influence events, but a rich actor really didn't do shit but play pretend for manchildren.
he obviously had some sense of what would be worth doing and he's clearly a gentleman so he didn't need the role to 'make him' so much as he made the role.
plenty of actors want to grow beyond just a singular role and be tied to some fanbase who think nothing more of them that a character with lines they memorized.
indiana jones man was the same way and funnily enough trevor from gta v but that role actually made him.
>he didn't need the role to 'make him' so much as he made the role
It's probably harder to have ambition when you're rich, at least for some people, even if you're going to regret it later.
more like when you know you're a good actor but there's only so many scripts at a time.
He was already a well known and wealthy actor. He just wasn't prepared for the overbearing adoration from nerds
For me its tinker tailor soldier spy, and smileys people miniseries from the 80s.
No he's an actor, a public jester.
should have gone into a different field if he didn't morons salivating over his role in an escapist movie.
he's a homosexual, actors who whinge about moron fans are not worth listening to.
>fantasy world of second hand childish banalities
so... acting?
Yeah? He's aware that his job is to stare in these fantasy world of second hand childish banalities. I don't think he claims that this is a bad thing, or that watching these is a bad thing. He's complaining about manchildren that give way too many fricks about movies at the expense of real world.
Plenty of people hate their job.
Shakespeare is just Star Wars for upper-middle-class people.
Shakespeare and Star Wars are similar in that neither of them is science fiction.
No, he was a crotchety old man who hated the thing that made him eternally famous even after his death
He had nothing good in his life so obviously he wants other people to suffer too
what a c**t
>He had nothing good in his life so obviously he wants other people to suffer too
Um anon that’s based though
No anon, that's what pathetic incel losers on Cinemaphile want for others
just stop being hateful towards others and maybe good things will happen to you
homosexual
>hateful toward others because they have nothing
This is a universal trait. Your team isn't more virtuous for being it your team.
>Your team isn't more virtuous for being it your team.
Stop going to /misc/
fricking moron
>Looking into the boy's eyes, I thought I detected little star-shells of madness beginning to form
We can see the end results much more clearly these days, when those star-shells are allowed to go super nova in a man because nobody stepped in to put a stop to it in time
Peter Cushing, the other big British actor. Apparently liked the movie.
Peter Cushing was used to doing shitty B movies tho.
Look at his entire Hammer career.
Yes, I do suppose that makes him more familiar with what type of person would watch star wars
Absolutely.