George Lucas BASHES Girl Boss Trope! Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Under FIRE from Lucasfilm Creator! 

Moana 2 is coming, she will be. She will be.

As a straight woman myself, I 100% agree. I started noticing the change in the 2000s when I was in my 20s and wasn't liking what I was seeing. I come from a wonderful family and am the only girl with 2 younger brothers. Believe me, I was a tomboy and was treated equally by my brothers. Not to mention that most of my cousins from my age were guys. Like between the Summer of 81 to Spring of 82, I was the only girl born on my mother's side. At the same time, I was also a girly girl who is still a sucker for romance since I grew up on Fairytales. If I saw anyone treat guys as 'inferior', I lay it on them thick! It's why when I heard about The Last Jedi's production, I was SOO angry.

​@@tsiefhtesno she won't

As a man and myself there's nothing wrong with having a girl boss the problem is people don't understand what it means to be a boss

​@@tsiefhtes Well I certainly am not going to watch it. I will stick with the first movie and that's it.

Well said! I don't know if that's a Lo Flo Bro original, but that's a great tagline for one of Pro's videos.

Disagree with that we still got a male superheroes

Amen

@@benmarxxshow all original

True that

That would be because KK secretly hates all men, and has been waiting all her life to have the power to shove this kind of crap in their faces, and have no one (especially not male bosses) tell her "no"!

And accusing all the male fans for attacking women. She really said this.

Ahhhh It's not the female "leads" that are the problem. It's the feminist bull$#!+ they represent and hatred of prior canon that's the problem.

She is still convinced she can attract a new young female fan base. Hasn’t worked yet.

The diary of a clueless hack. She doesn't even like star wars, she never did. She was supposed to hire and support the talent, not inject divisive nonsense.

What's wrong with feminism is that they never wanted equality. They want things to be the other way around. They want to replace the Patriarchy with a Matriarchy. Because the Patriarchy lives rent-free in their heads, they cannot conceive of strength being manifest in any way except the forceful dominance of another person. That's why their strong women are always dominant and win every fight.

Today's feminists don't understand TRUE feminism! That infuriates people like my own mother (who grew up, and came of age, during the 70's feminist movement, that actually fought good and hard for a lot of the legal rights that women today enjoy, including being able to hold their own jobs, without needing the husband's legal consent! What today's "feminists" are fighting for is nothing more than two-bit VENGEANCE, and that pisses real feminists, like my mother, off to no end!!

100% agree (and I am a woman too who likes to write as a hobby). A person becomes strong by their actions . . . not words. I grew up in a strong female and male household. I loved being active and 'boyish' with my brothers and other relatives, but I also loved doing my girly stuff too. For me when it came to writing chars in general, I never cared about what they 'represented' I cared more about char development and how they fit within the story. And if my females just happened to be 'strong and independent', it was a result of how they developed.

The most off putting aspect of what you describe is that it makes the character look fake and thus unrelatable and obnoxious to spectators. Their understandings of what makes a human "strong" seems to be flawed. Being harsh is one way and generally, it's associated with villains for a good reason.

Thank you very much. It is why I am very critical at what Warner Bros. was doing with the Looney Tunes (specifically inconsistent female characters) while Ann Sarnoff was CEO. Pepé Le Pew got MeToo’d. And the Tiny Toons reboot was so bland in my opinion, no surprise that it was written by an activist, Erin Gibson, known for her political podcast Attitudes! as well as Funny or Die. Some of the recent spin-offs wanted to focus on characters that are popular with girls. Lola Bunny, who I remember was rebooted back in the 2010s in a sitcom iteration of the Looney Tunes where she was written to match her voice actress, Kristen Wiig, and her comedic chops. There was another iteration where they made her sporty like in Space Jam but with an unpredictable zany edge that made her a fun and humorous character. Now since LeBron Space Jam, Lola Bunny and the Granny character from the Sylvester and Tweety shorts were written to be like the strong and capable females Hollywood expects that feel like they are just there for empowerment instead of making the audience laugh. We are allowed to like or dislike characters based on how they were written and executed, not because of labels. Whatever the character, and whatever the genre, I expect it to be written well with motivations and traits that relate to the audience.

He's 80 and retired.

@@user-kz5gw7xe4o I appreciate your wholly irrelevant and pointless comment

Disney is a corrupt company as well as a monopoly. I find it interesting how complicit some people are with them. My cousin loves going to their parks and when I told someone I hate Disney they claimed it was blasphemy. That's quite telling.

He should have done what Charles m Schultz had done whit "Charley Brown"

because he's a sellout like the manufacturers who sold out to the genocidal dictatorship known as China

The man is contractually binded from saying negative things about Disney, he was stabed in the back and have to listen to all these experts who feel they are better at representing his invention than he is. Smh.

When he was bold, we got singing fat aliens and a lizard sidekick with the intelligence of a rock.

Exactly. He could have cast his vote for Nelson Peltz, a couple of months ago, back when there was a chance to make real change at Disney/Lucasfilm. Instead, he stamped hard for Bob Iger (the man who originally stole his dream, and turned it to ashes, with KK in charge). He doesn't deserve our sympathy. He's getting exactly what he deserves... He's still right, in what he's saying, though. That part doesn't change.

​@@jameswaythat's not the case at all

​@@jacob4920disagree with that entirely Bob Iger just because George Lucas signed with Bob Iger that doesn't make him a bad person all this hatred for the guy is stupid. All that talk about George Lucas dreams being destroyed is a little bit over exaggeration. Because he didn't do a damn thing wrong and you people seem to not realize that if you don't like Disney or the Star wars films they made that totally fine but you hate a person that is siding with the company you hate it's ridiculous

No one does!!! Look at Ollie's!!!

@@tmapes1989 My family used to. Have not had a thing we liked since Baby Yoda season one. After they fired Gina we were done.

They are quite relevant among the modern audiences that are at the end of the rainbow, next to the Leprechaun treasure chest .

It's weird too because KK worked with George in the past, it's not like he didn't know what she was capable of. The Indiana Jones movies are vastly overrated and they only get the attention they do because they are likewise LucasFilm shows. But KK was a big part of the IJ trilogy. It seems to me like maybe George is forgetful, could be all that weight he's gained, affects his sleep if he snores which then in turn will affect his memory.

This isn't actually all that hard a question to answer: Peltz is a friend of Perlmutter and Perlmutter is a friend of Trump. It's that simple, and stupid. George is just as liberal as the next guy in Hollywood, and, as much as he may dislike and even resent Lying-Corporate-Overlord Bob Iger, at least Bob is a Liberal in Good Standing. Letting someone on the board - someone who might end up steering Disney, the current owner of your IP children - who might just be an ally of that evil, racist, evil, angry, evil, bigoted, (and did I mention evil?) Orange Man . . . that simply cannot be allowed to happen! Churchill once said, ""If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil in the House of Commons." That's the logic. And, there's also whatever Bob paid (or at least promised) Lucas for the support to sweeten the deal.

Agree we have not forgotten that earlier this year he voted to keep Iger meaning he was fine with everything that happened before

There was a conspiracy that he claimed to have enjoyed the Obi wan Show

Because he's a sellout like manufacturers are.

How was working for weinstein ms headland? Nothing to see here i suppose?

Leia was a well written character. Compare her to padme, and then rey, and its a solid downward slope.

@@cheesesniper473 I thought Padme was an excellent character. She just unfortunately had the bad luck to be directed by George Lucas, who sadly does not know how to DIRECT a good film (he can write one, for certain! He's written plenty of greats over the years!) but he cannot turn his writing into a great motion picture unless somebody else not named GL is calling the shots from the director's chair.

​@@jacob4920there's the little fact she is a cougar. But aside from that, she's okay.

And KK saw that and said crank it to eleventy-billion and make it all the females!

@@Alpha_Digamma Not much of one, really. She's only five years older than Anakin. Even when he was a little nine year old, Padme was only 14. That's a five year difference. Not as "cougarish" as people would like to believe.

I agree !

Leia being skilled made sense since she was already secretly fighting in the Rebellion, not to mention Bail would've had her learn how to defend herself. She just didn't make Luke and Han look like idiots

@@elmermedina1713 That's the thing, all the characters worked together in a team where each one played their strong straights to perfection.

Unrealistically skilled = Bayonetta. I agree with infallible though, and more important is how they treat others. They have to have charm and charisma above all else.

George needs to point out Leia is strong in interview when strong females doesn't need to be pointed out. Screw you George Lucas you have no right to call Han and Luke idiotic clowns and claimed Leia the hero. Did this fool even watch his own movies? Ughhh. Leia is not the hero you think she is, Georgy. She doesn't do much other than banging a slug gangster in a metal bikini in front of everyone. Episode 4: she needs to be rescued, calls chewy a walking carpet and sits at yavin for the rest of the movie while these so called clowns battle at the death star. Episode 5: she sits at echo base, gets captured at cloud city and needs to rescued again this time by lando and lobot. She lets Vader escapes and failed to rescue Han from Boba. Episode 6: she fails to rescue Han again, got stripped and humiliated turning into Jabba's sex slave and needs to be rescued again by Luke. She befriends Ewoks but didn't help her friends when the Ewoks wanna eat them so luke and freaking c3po had to rescue themselves. Then, she got shot. Episode 7: she's a lousy leader who let the first order rise and destroyed her new republic (5 planets) in the most let down way possible. She causes Hans death by giving him a bad advice where Han went defenselessly towards Kylo ren because Leia told him to talk some sense to him. Then, she walked past & ignored chewy (the walking carpet as she called him) and hug a random stranger she never met instead and sidelined Han's best pal. Episode 8: she doesn't do anything other than defying laws of vacuum in space, physical assault and demoted a straight white man after literally saved the resistance, stunned him, and took a nap for the majority of the movie . When she called for help, nobody responded to her but in the next movie, they did respond to Lando and Po which says a lot about her. She also needs to be yet again rescued by Luke. She did the right thing in the end by trusting Po but I'm not giving her credit here because she's just changing her mind from a bad stand. Episode 9: she supposedly trains Rey which is BS since ray is already more powerful than anyone. Doesn't do anything in the movie except complaining peoole should be more optimistic and then dies. Episode 3: she's just a cry baby

Lucas was hurt by the fans trashing the prequels, which made him not want to make any more STAR WARS movies. Could it be that Lucas intentionally installed KK as president of Lucasfilm, Ltd., as a big "Fk You" to the fans who offended him and pissed him off?

We all make mistakes. George Lucas pulled a King Lear with Lucasfilm.

@@gregr3720 Lucas was set to make the sequel trilogy himself if Disney didn't buy him out. I never believed that he sold out to Disney because fans were mean to him. It's much more likely that Lucasfilm was hurting financially. It was a private company, so we'll never know for sure, but George said that he was concerned for his employees losing their jobs. By 2012, cheap CGI was likely undercutting his special effects business, his live-action Star Wars series couldn't get off the ground, and the animated Clone Wars series was very expensive to make but only bringing in mediocre revenue. George had said a few years earlier that he was never going to make the sequel trilogy, but then he changed his tune. He probably realized it was the only thing left that would turn a decent profit. Add in that by 2012 George was licensing out the Star Wars brand to anyone who'd give him a dollar and it looks pretty likely that Lucasfilm was in financial trouble.

@@user-kz5gw7xe4o he really did...

​@@gregr3720😂😂... NO.

Ma changed husbands faster than she changed bedsheets.

Absolutely.

Star wars is for all.

The Force is with us all😇😈🤘🏻✅

Correct statement... 💯...

@@uhh345this is the way

Well, video games and books are quite interesting I'll admit, but George Lucas still authorized all that stuff even if it was potentially getting in the way of his vision for his movies. We'll never know now because they weren't made and Disney made that nonsense instead. I really think Disney should just apologize and make 7-9 over again, using the guidance Lucas offered them. And they should force him to work with his ex-wife as part of the deal. She did good work.

I see you based Chad

I agree with you 100% I always blamed Lucas for what happened with Star Wars, his excuse for selling was weak.

His letter of unflagging support for Bob Iger, during the whole Nelson Peltz fiasco this past Spring, is what burned the last bridge between me and Lucas. GL still supported the gangster who ruined his pride and joy, and by extension, continued to support Kennedy, who has destroyed it completely. Lucas is getting exactly what he deserves. Him coming out and saying how much he doesn't like it NOW does nothing to change that.

True he gave KK a platform

IF GL wanted out of movie making then that is his prerogative. But he has come back... And for now, he's actually clapped back and taken KK and her cronies to task. This is an old school director who has watched from the sidelines while Hollywood turned into something he doesn't recognise and Iger drove Disney into the dirt. Forget SW... Hollywood itself is dead and if GL has stayed, he'd be part of the problem instead of sitting apart from it because he no longer had anything that Woker's wanted from him.

@@z28mjt he could have kept it and have people within his company take over the movie making, with just some oversight. It is not like he have not done that with the Expanded Universe. And the live action TV shows was never a must for most fans.

Thinking vigorously about Ashoka Tano, who was a good friend.

He was grabbing KK’s and the story groups coffee

You are wrong 100% he will be remembered as a great filmmaker and the world will never forget him

Some of the most influential movies of all times. They changed a great many things in not only film making but advertising and merchandising. He rocked the boat till it almost tipped.

He has far more misses then hits - Radioland Murders, Howard the Duck, Tucker a Man and his car, and worse of all American Graffiti 2 (do NOT watch that film because u won’t be able to enjoy the first one after every character is trashed)

That may be but you can't take away from accomplishments he has made and innovating he did. He was also involved with creating Indiana Jones' first few films. Creatively means a willingness to fail is a possibility in the attempting.

What killed Captain Marvel for me is that she was a jerk, and remained pretty much a jerk to everyone around her. And that all she had to do to unleash her power was just decide to - no learning, no personal growth, no real obstacle to struggle against. Just insulting and outshining all the menfolk from the first frame to the last. Even the little childhood montage at the end showed she was *always* one to stand up after a fall...so yeah, she didn't have to change anything about herself except stop being lazy.

What killed Captain Marvel is that they took a female fighter pilot from the early days of that being a thing and made her weakness... self-belief? Fighter pilots have egos the size of the moon! Rationally, she should have already accomplished her so-called character arc before the movie even started. She had already achieved what is a pinnacle in the US military. There was a way to make that character work but they were uninterested in giving her any kind of logical arc.

That's interesting, do you think the rumors about Mandalorian becoming worse over time and also the Acolyte is a bad show are true? I haven't seen these shows I just saw first 4 episodes of Mandalorian and was planning to watch more but I was waiting. If it already has become bad then maybe I'll stop waiting and just binge them soon.

It is worse than dead, it is categorically UNDEAD . Iger's Woke Diseasney co. did this and people need to remember that.

@@FORTEtheSECOND It is not only worse then DELETED. It has become something that formerly diehard fans increasingly no longer give a sh1t about. Apathy is worse then anger. I've passed through my 5 stages of grief and I now relish seeing more girlboss femi ni st SW movies and shows being announced. Seeing Disney burn money is now my main passtime.

That's straight up ridiculous to think that society is going to be forever tainted by social justice politics. Every era experiences various social movements that come and go. The current one is no different it will also end. Just like the hippie movement and the Cold War. Anyone who thinks the feminist social justice movement will last forever is either not living in reality or is paranoid. This current social justice fad was never meant to last forever because it can't it's impossible. It is extremely unpopular and it's waning especially compared to 2014 - 2017. It's just a matter of time before it ends. It just feels like it's taking longer to end due to the internet and social media. But it is inevitable that it will end.

Kreia said it best "Apathy is death"

@@NewCanada The AGI ASI AI revolt will replace and absorb it.

I wouldn't even say they're like the make leads because they aren't allowed to go through the shit we often see make leads go through, not do they actually start at 'low point' or awkward points before becoming heroes. They're already at position of power or are 'the best' and treat people like shit by being constantly passive aggressive about knowing this fact and loathing they aren't being praised by the 'common folk'.

More like 10 years.

I actually like the "Resident Evil" movies (especially the first film!). They're "idiot movies" done well. Not meant to be taken seriously, just enjoyed brainlessly. I wouldn't even come close to blaming those movies for what we have now. Not when we have shining examples like "Ghostbusters: 2016" to show us all EXACTLY when Hollywood started to turn bad in front of our faces!

Nah. BSG 2004 didn't strike me that way. They did a decent job with Starbuck. That character was not overpowered. She was a f@ck up and had a substantial amount of character development. I didn't smell any Mary Sue in that one.

I dont consider the first RE movie to be that, but those movies are cheese anyway. The Resident Evil movies obvioualy took inspiration from Trinity from the Matrix. Most modern girl boss characters are just badly written Trinitys.

Could it be that Lucas intentionally installed KK as president of Lucasfilm, Ltd., as a big "Fk You" to the fans who offended him and pissed him off?

@@gregr3720 He seems like that petty a person. But then again it is his legacy that is spiraling down the drain. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he is just that bad a judge of character.

I think in the end, it's clear to me that his ex-wife and potentially others would have been emotional support for him to deal with the backlash against Jar Jar and others. I think you may have a point, perhaps he thought too highly of himself due to his success instead of continuing to trust in the teamwork that made the OT happen. Even Luke and Han talked a lot about them participating in editing the voice lines... it's like he just stopped letting people be his friend. The people working on the OT could have just lied to him through omission and never complain if something feels a bit off. But personally I think Episode 1 was fine. Yes, I'm sure it could have been better if he was still married at the time, but the ultimate failure here is him not getting backup emotional support from whatever friendships he had during the OT. Perhaps just the fact that a lot of the actors were unavoidably new to him was a part of the issue. Maybe having actors from the OT show up on set to give their opinions could have made a difference. Just pay them a small amount for participation, some of them might have even potentially want to do it for free and they wouldn't turn down a little money if they thought he would refuse their help should they choose to do so. Like the amount of corrections people said were happening really makes it clear to me that it was a team effort. And he just makes it seem like it isn't. I respect that he had some fantastic ideas and a great vision, but to think that he could have all that success without people watching his back is just crazy. Were Episodes 1-3 all great? Yes. Would it be possible for them to be better? Yes again. Could they have been made well enough that he would be unable to receive put downs that caused him to give up the franchise? I don't know, but receiving put downs doesn't have to mean you back down from your goals. And yet that's what he did and he weakened himself to the point that he backed down from his goal of eventually making Episodes 7-9. Anyway, say what you will about Filoni but he's not even close to the problem person that Kennedy is. I mean I haven't watched all of the Mandalorian yet(just 4 episodes), but so far I have an overall good impression of his work. I can't imagine someone thinking that hiring him is any worse than the actor that played Padme for example. I can maybe agree with you on the Iger vs Peltz thing though. On the one hand we have a guy who literally didn't check to make sure promises were kept and on the other we have a guy that I know next to nothing about, but seeing that he's been involved with Marvel stuff seems speculative at best. I'm not sure what this George voting for leadership thing is all about but I haven't seen very many shows from Marvel that I absolutely hated. There are plenty that I dislike parts of like explosions don't need to be that loud, who cares about realism I want to enjoy a show without having to hide from the sound effects...and then there's everything that Deadpool and wokeness represents... if he was able to put a stop to such things and didn't well I am not sure he's any better than Iger so maybe you're overreacting a little there. People talked a lot about how Wonder Woman or Captain Marvel or whatever shows they were was woke and I don't know, never watched 'em...but considering the other problems the branding has had, it wouldn't surprise me to find out the rumors were true.

Tiny hats gonna tiny hat.

Lucas should never have signed that "non-critical" contract in the first place. Nor should he have gone through with the sale of Lucasfilm to Iger. Reasons aside, Lucas will ALWAYS be at fault for those two mistakes! And they will both follow GL to his grave, sadly.

​@jacob4920 meh I don't really have sympathy for the fans who instigated it. People can rag on Lucas all day for selling, but the fans were hilariously toxic towards him before that and celebrated the Disney acquisition.

Have you seen the signed contract?

GL inserted KK their at disney. That is his fault.

Then he is an idiot for continuing with the deal. There was other bidders. Warner bros also had a bid. He could have sold to someone else that would respect his lore. He went with the one with the most money. Because it was about the money and not the legacy.

nah, he sold it because he got so salty over people critiquing his Star Wars prequels at that time.. haha

Nice cope, but sorry Lucas was the sole cause.

@@hteekay His prequels sucked. If he got salty over it then he should have made better movies. SW was best when it was a team effort. George, with his then wife Marcia and friends giving him feedback and her editing. He booted them all out, surrounded himself with yesmen and that's how we got the prequels. George can't handle criticism. So screw that sellout! I hope seeing SW turned into girlboss fodder gives him stomach ulcers.

I don't know, maybe he's just crazy now. Did he really do that or are people lying about that? Seems weird that he would show support for one of the people that promised they'd do his sequel trilogy justice and then broke that promise.

Episode 6 came out in 1983.

@@ChristianFrates1997Thanks. I fixed my error to reflect episode 4.

(when a guy does it, you get Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?)

Correct, I LIKE'd what I said. I think what I'm saying makes sense and I think it deserves a thumb's up. 👍boom

Who cares about respect to us? The minimum they should have done is respect the story and at least pay lip service to George.