General grievances (random fan rants)

Why?

Because he did?

Yes, but it is a little too extreme while I think that he (Kasdan) is far from the type of characters like Anakin and his son and understands Han Solo better. But the hero of Lucas SW is Luke and the tragic hero is Anakin, so the accent of the movie is actually far away from the cliche of the cool cowboy in space.

I would say it again: romance in TCW is more teen-like. That's why is .... tolerable for the fans who whine against the prequels because they know this type of romance and what happened in the prequels is very odd to them. Is classic but is unknown i.e. uncomfortable for them. And the ironic thing is that what happens in the prequels is much more realistic (in-world) as Padme and Anakin are secret husband and wife who have to steel precious moments living in a very troubled times.

God, that post and it's coment section is a lucas bashing shithole, how can people take a simple fun anecdote from Ewan and turn it into a excuse to hate on Lucas, like I was gonna say that actors helping another actors isn't proof that he is a bad director, and them there is a repley that say "but Lucas just told him to get more suspicious", like are you saying that Daniel Logan was so dyumb to not undestand what does that it mean? Are actors retards that need constant babysitting to do their job?.

And then the comments start to scalate until some people say that Lucas doesn't get human emotions," we are told Obi Wan and Anakin are good friends but we never see it, we are told Anakin and Padme  love each other so much but it just seen on a superficial level". and hten other comments with the classic " George was saved by actual talented people".

Is people like these that I can't see the comment section on anything Star Wars related.

Which isn't Star Wars (in other words: exactly, Joe).

Applying the "method" approach to Star Wars is overloaded given the already fantastical nature of the films. It's like mixing blue cheese with a fruit smoothie. The romantic strangeness of the setting calls for a more restrained, stylised approach. Star Wars is basically a radio serial in space. And that's not to say it is found wanting in the acting stakes. Plainly, people like Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, Liam Neeson, Christopher Lee, and Ian McDiarmid deliver solid, commendable performances. Then you have the often-ignored or overlooked talents like Anthony Daniels, Frank Oz, Ahmed Best, Pernilla August, Jimmy Smits, the indomitable Brian Blessed, and Andy Secombe as Watto. Then there's the charisma of Ewan, the rogueish thrill of Harrison, the smoldering quality of Hayden, the internal eccentricities of Mark, the sardonic wit of Carrie, the A-lister ephemerality of Natalie, the bright-spirited energy of Jake. Not much is lacking in these six movies. 

(My apologies for the deflection to TFA on the last page. This should really be about the Lucas movies only).

If you load up ROTJ, you also see how intriguing Lucas made Star Wars look and feel, thanks in no small part to the adept and immensely satisfying blending of humans, aliens, and droids. Star Wars is a world teeming with action, flush with personality, full of playfulness and pulpy verve. It's somehow all there. These people would be the sort in another age bashing Charles Dickens for being a purveyor of cheap, crowd-pleasing fiction, accusing him of a bland writing style and of filling his books with characters too exaggerated, pompous, or twee to be taken seriously. Kinda, you know, missing the woods for the trees. Lucas probably has a lot in common with Dickens. There's the compassionate angle, the rip-roarious imagination, the deftly-curated sentimentality, the cunning morality. And the fact that Lucas almost seems to fancy himself as a kind of 19th Century philosopher or retro-futurist. And people out of time (or out of sync with modern times) are always bashed for being silly, indulgent, misguided, and out-of-touch.

The other thing that pisses me off about this whole "Lucas can't direct actors" nonsense is that it trivialises the films as simplistic stage plays. They're really not stage plays at all. Naturally, they evoke the theatre, and they are, in essence, action-dramas (or even, perhaps, action-comedies), but there's a lot more to these movies than that. They're also, to steal some Ingram coinage, "imagination station" art installation pieces. Practically holographic in their colourful topologies, their fiendishly fascinating surfaces, their poetic and tightly-fastened construction. I've used the term architectonic before. Lucas himself has even said he considers himself something of a frustrated architect. You can put any of them on and just marvel at the visual (and aural) mastery on display. Episode I alone is a feast of fully-realised art direction and magnificent, soaring production design. One doesn't need to be dwelling on how well a human actor is emoting when watching the Gungans fending off the Battle Droids on the grassy fields of Naboo. This is gorgeous cinema being shunned and attacked by philistines.

I'll close with a quote from The Maker himself:

www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/01/06/why-is-the-force-still-with-us

I was re-watching The Ten Commandments last week and the thing that struck me the most was how dramatically De Mille poses his actors, as if they are figures in a painting. That seemed SO unmethod to me and I LOVED it.

Cryogenic
Appropriate for this thread
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfdHY2mmLnY

Yeah, I don't need more badass villains, thanks. Variety is good.