George Lucas talks STAR WARS, Coppola, gender/race + more from Cannes 2024 

Persistent focus and passion on The Art first. Then came long term success.

Says the guy who created Ewoks to sell toys, since he negotiated all the 3rd party licensee rights.

@@trekkiejunk ru-vid.comlssUAWfcsgc?si=dWoO13hM8QGNsnWB

There is the famous bet with him and Spielberg over which was the better movie, Close Encounters or Star Wars. Not sure who was discouraging him here.

​@@fictionles Studio executives. Check out Empire of Dreams.

Thanks so much! It's been a crazy fest, really helps that you did that

He's starting to sound old 😢

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Hi Theory!

Hello there.

The Maker. Forever grateful to George Lucas for him creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

his Nikes looking CLEAN too ✨

Yeah, he lost a bunch of weight. But man, he should get rid of that waddle.

Remember seeing George with the big mass on his neck. I think he has it under control now. Best of health to him. Just wished Disney would follow his original Star Wars storyline, concepts and ideas with new Star Wars tv series they put out

@@trekkiejunk It takes a while to shrink up. In the meantime he needs to have a lot of protein. like a lot. like risk gout or kidney stones. I'm reminded of when Gary Anthony Williams lost a bunch of weight. We lost out on the opportunity for a live action Uncle Ruckus, but it was an inspiration and good to know he'll live longer now.. but man did he have skin flaps hangin' down. and his head looked all huge like when Oprah lost weight.

I'm a big Star Wars fan, and i've NEVER heard that rumor.

Agreed. I love the prequel trilogy as well.

I think you'd love Young Indy if you've not watched it already!

Oh I love it! I was inspired 💯 and I like the way George Lucas introduced the world history in a teaching way through the Young Indiana Jones series 😊 It’s easy to feel the love that George Lucas have of storytelling and done with heart. Amazing person!

@@CloneShockTrooper Beautifully said, friend. That's how I feel too. 😊

Reminds me of this one too. “Rather than do some angry, socially relevant film…I realized there was another relevance that is even more important - dreams and fantasies, getting children to believe there is more to life than garbage and killing…Once I got into STAR WARS, it struck me that we had lost all that - a whole generation was growing up without fairy tales. You just don’t get them anymore, and that’s the best stuff in the world - adventures in far-off lands. It’s fun.” “George Lucas Goes Far Out” from the April 1977 issue of American Film Magazine. He's always been crystal clear who these movies are for.

And even if it's meant for kids, dosen't mean adults can't appreciate it (Walt Disney and J. R. R. Tolkien also said something among those lines), he said it, I've been recently in Star Wars film forums, theater packed, fans of all ages, from people my age (20) to those who watched the original trilogy in theaters, awesome experience, the pannelist talked about how these movies grew up with him, and he's noticed many details he didn't catched before. J. K. Rowling also wrote Harry Potter for kids, but those kids grew up on par with the story and the characters, so it became more serious, darker, with a more adolescent tone, I think that's what Lucas did with both Star Wars trilogies, especially the prequels Anakin starts as a kid in Episode 1, he's an inmature and hormonal young adult in Episode 2, by Episode 3 he is already an experienced Jedi Knight worried about having children and protecting the woman he loves.

I liked that George asserted that it was for kids. I think there's not enough media really being made for kids anymore besides for very young children. It seems like companies always want to appease millennials because they're the internet influencers. It makes for very contrived products and nostalgiagrabs. Also, the kids need inspiration.

@@jimmies Thing is, it wasn't so divided before. Now they divvy up for 'age' in the market. But Star Wars and that era they did things family friendly. You can aim at kids and still give adults a good time, both in movie and TV. I MISS that. Now they seem to think they have to dumb down for kids stuff and for adults spice it up with sex, blood and gore. This family friendly stuff is no longer being made for the most part.

@@jimmies -- A kids movie. Ahhhhh...yes. Kids movies typically have people slicing off limbs and heads. They also have the villain murdering children, heroes being tortured, and others being burned alive right before your eyes. Everything i look for in a series of "kids movies."

Disney needs better leadership for lucasfilm and better filmmakers. also if warner bros or universal studios bought star wars it wouldnt last 5 years and it would be awful and not star wars like. Disney just needs a whole new lucasfilm division

@@andrewpanagiotis-lp4is yeah... I just don't know if that'll ever happen given how many times they've doubled down on keeping things the way they are and continuing to push out garbage content that doesn't respect the established lore, characters, etc. There'd have to be a major house clean and restructuring of the entire company... I hope one day that will happen, but until then... It's really in the hands of fans to make their own content etc.

@@keyseronthewire2575 Agreed

George was too sensitive of the backlash due to the internet just starting to become more of a big thing when the Prequels started dropping. He meant well and was trying to listen to the audience but he needed more ppl in his corner to keep him from overcorrecting. All he had to do was get a better writer for the romance stuff, a punch up guy for dialogue in general and someone to edit down or rework the senate stuff so it was more to the point and palatable. If he'd have followed through with Jar Jar's arc instead of sidelining him all would have been redeemed. Other than that they were great (oh yeah throw away the midiclorian stuff too, keep it vague and mysterious. Don't wanna get into DBZ territory with power levels and stuff lol)

@@AnoneemusNoename no, the prequels are perfects.

Hah! Asshole next to me didn't turn off her ringer. But I like that it sounds like Jar Jar yelling "Annie!"

Finally, we've been rescued from our own lived experience and opinions. 😂

Why does it have to be that people who disagree with you about the Prequels are brainwashed? I hate the Prequels, and i can elucidate why. If you have your own reasons to love them, that's fine, but don't support your love for them by denigrating people's genuine criticism.

@@trekkiejunk I'm talking about myself NOT you or anybody else. IF your hate for them or dislike is genuine GOOD for you, my ''hate'' and ''dislike'' wasn't genuine. Not hard to understand.

Sound gets better about 10 min in.

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Yeah, very sorry about that, accidentally got dropped on timeline! Working on trying to fix

You should watch some chess tournament videos :D golden comments in there

Nervous habit

That's every audience.

I emailed Cannes and they told me no official filming is forthcoming. So grateful they're allowing this to stay up.

@@zoetropeguardianwhat why?

@@TrueLunacy They didn't say. I would assume it has to do with a certain company hating when he is critical of what they've done to his beautiful creation.

@@zoetropeguardian because he didn’t include 20 female cast members? And 20 ethic people in his films? When he actually did… SJW are ruining culture

@@zoetropeguardian ridiculous! And RU-vid keeps deleting my comments!

He's said they're movies for kids since 1977 and that was before the first movie came out at that. They've always been for kids.

@@zoetropeguardian -- Yes, i know he said that. That's why i'm commenting. I'm saying that it's dumb. Besides, him claiming they are "for kids" doesn't mean they ARE "for kids" as cited in my examples. Please have an argument beyond, "nuh uh!"

@@trekkiejunk Have an argument rooted in subjectivity? I'm good. I'll keep to objective fact. Objective fact would point you to knowing he said he wouldn't take a five or six year old to Revenge of the Sith. He believed an eight or nine year old could handle it though. I was going on ten when I saw it and handled it. So his conviction was correct. And whose to say kids can't handle darker things? The first Harry Potter has someone's face and body burnt to crisp. A child is also abused by family members. No one disputes it's a story for kids though. Psychological studies have shown it's all about how violence is portrayed. You wouldn't take a kid to a Quentin Tarantino or John Woo film because these are the definition of stylised violence. Star Wars never had that except tipping that way with Anakin now Darth Vader being burnt intensely. That's the reason it was given a PG-13 instead of the usual for PG. A PG-13 Star Wars? That was so unusual at the time. This moment is important though as you have to see the consequences of his and your choices. Unless you think kids shouldn't see how their actions effect everything they do? Edit: I see from your other comment on this video you hate the Prequels. That explains it. Haha

It also doesn't help that interviewers rarely ask him anything new. However if anything all of this proves the point that he's consistent and the people who say otherwise don't have a leg to stand on.

How?

@@stepfalcon he said something along the lines that, i paraphrase ''they took the story to another place than he intended''

@@hankstorm3135 ok and? He sold it

​@@stepfalcon He is the creator

@@alexsuno1387 again, he sold it. He doesn't decide what is canon anymore.

@@zoetropeguardian There are ensemble movies with several main characters. Yes, the story of a New Hope is about Leia's mission to destroy the Death Star, but the bigger story is about redeeming Vader and destroying the Empire so the story goes in a different direction and becomes Luke's journey as well.

@@zoetropeguardian No problem.

He's been saying this for years. Leia is the hero. A New Hope is her story and her mission to bring Obi-Wan back with her to help the Rebellion. This failed and Luke only tags along in the first film despite being the one who goes on the hero's journey. He also planned for her to become the Supreme Chancellor by Episode IX in his Sequels. He said this would've brought Balance of the Force. Likewise the story was about her two children. So Leia very much is the key player in the long run of Star Wars even though we sadly didn't see it due to Disney's failures. Ironically they treated her worse by putting her in a coma but they say they're so progressive. And also worth noting, just how A New Hope is Leia's story The Phantom Menace is Padmé's. Padmé is on a mission to get the senate to help her resolve the Trade Federation's control over Naboo. This also doesn't go as planned as the group end up meeting up with Anakin. The story of Star Wars wouldn't work without the women characters!

@@aldunlop4622 First reposted. Thank you.

@@zoetropeguardian Actually I've had time to think about this while I was making my dinner, and I completely disagree. Leia is NOT the hero. She is a plot convenience to make the story happen. You're confusing plot with theme. Some movies are about plot. A leads to B leads to C. job done. Star Wars is about theme. It's about Luke becoming a man, it's a coming-of-age story, about a bored, unfulfilled boy on a farm at the ass end of nowhere who wants to get out, see the world, go on adventures. And adventure comes knocking. His family is killed and he discovers his father was killed by an evil man and decides to leave and help a princess in trouble. He later learns he has powers. From a film theory point of view, Leia is a plot device to drive the hero to go on his quest. If it was a computer game, she would be an NPC giving the main character a quest. The quest is to destroy the Death Star, but the underlying meaning of the movie is learn first realising that he is Force sensitive, and that he trusts and believes in it, and gives himself over to it. Luke experiences character growth throughout the movie, Leia does not, she's just a big deal in the Rebellion. Han is mostly a side character but he does learn to start being one of the good guys instead of just a cynical smuggler.

That wasn't going to happen as he lost much of his wealth in his divorce from his first wife. He focused this time on developing technologies like EditDroid and what became Pixar. He also made films with friends such as Indiana Jones, Tucker, Labyrinth, Kagemusha, and Willow during this time. In the early 90's he also had a revolutionary TV show that is overlooked in how it changed television and Radioland Murders. He returned to Star Wars after that!

How so? Where does he show any negative emotion to his fans?

Timestamp?

He's describing the films he made as his children. You forgot the second part of the quote.

Cover their eyes

They are kids movies. If you’re an adult trying to convince yourself they’re not kids movies you need to grow up. Grown up movies didn’t have their own dedicated aisle at Toys R Us. It’s okay to like kids movies as an adult. Kids movies have artistic merit too.

I've liked SW my whole life, including before the prequels (dad was a big nerd). Episode 5, the darkest movie of the franchise, has always been my favorite. And ever since 1999, the phantom menace is my favorite prequel. I like both the gritty and lighthearted side of Star Wars. The reality is, SW was always meant to be palatable for family audiences. Lucas always wanted it to be adventurous, with light hearted eliments to it.

Well, kids movies can be scary and intense too!

Yeah because children’s stories and fairytales never had any subject matter like that! Ummm Hansel and Gretel is a story about CANNIBALISM

This has been debunked. Watch “How ‘How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit’ was Saved in the Edit.”

Debunked! You tried 😂

like all movies ?

good thing George Lucas was there to direct his editors!

True, so was American Graffiti. Still two great films.

Why?

​@@Alex-rl4ll Why not?

Yeah sure, cancel one of the greatest artists who ever lived and one of the most humanist, good people who have ever lived. Great thinking!

@@goaway9977 weird

He got canceled for every Star Wars he made since Jedi