george lucas, biggest douche in the universe

[rone]

So, in the "Return of the Jedi" DVD, Lucas removed Sebastian Shaw's ghost appearance in the end of the movie and replaced it with Hayden Christensen.  Is there no end to Lucas's perfidy?  Why hasn't some crazed fan pied him in the face by now?  I know, i wish i could remove this emotional attachment i have to the Star Wars movies, because they really aren't that good.  But still... Lucas should not go unpunished.

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[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Oh please. "Universally" no doubt means "a whole bunch of literature professors", and as soon as you invoke the infallibility of literature professors, you know you're arguing an indefensible position.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

By all means, tell me who, other than Lucas, thinks that Lucas's "Greedo shoots first" change was a good idea.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

[Answer 1:] Me. Or at least, I am not in the slightest bothered by it.

[Answer 2:] You miss the point. It doesn't matter who, other than Lucas, thinks it was a good idea. It's Lucas's movie.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

... or rather, it matters, in the sense that it influences the way we as a culture evaluate the work. It doesn't matter in the sense of influencing Lucas's right to make the change. "I disapprove of what you say, yadda yadda yadda" -- Voltaire.

It's legitimate to regard Lucas as an idiot for making a bad change (if you regard the change as bad); it's pathetic fanboy posturing to condemn him as some kind of vandal or criminal for making it.


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[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

Voltaire never actually said that. It was written in a biography as the type of thing he might have said.
-m

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

You say defacing a work of art isn't vandalism if it's being defaced by the author. I say you're wrong.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"not bothered by it" != "good idea"

[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

The readers at the time hated it too. I know readers=sheep, and 1000 people can be wrong, but I've never found a documented opinion (besides Richardson's himself) that felt the changes were the slightest bit enjoyable.
-m