George Lucas Tells Bill Moyers About the Mentors in His Career

To celebrate STAR WARS DAY we're sharing a clip of the George Lucas in conversation with Bill Moyers in 1999. Lucas, who created 'Star Wars,' discusses his efforts to tell old myths in new ways, the role of faith in his own life and the influence of his mentor, Joseph Campbell. Using film clips from the Star Wars saga, the discussion explores how the continuing battle between the forces of light and darkness is best waged when we believe in a force greater than ourselves. See the transcript of Bill's full conversation with Lucas: bit.ly/2pCSM9l

[@RoundSparrow]

Thank you for publishing this and cleaning up upload. Happy belated Thanksgiving.

[@HansJrgenFurfjord]

"Taught me how to write screenplays" - yeah that worked out well, Star Wars is as self-contradictory/full of plot holes as the Bible, the three new movies are 100% unwatcheable, every line of dialogue stings you like the smell of ammonia. "Taught me how to work with actors" - that worked out even better. Every actor on the set of the three newest movies has PTSD from having to deal with how stupid he is.

[@HansJrgenFurfjord]

If you study closely what George Lucas has done throughout his life, how he made a terrible wreck/ripoff of other movies at the time, which he called A New Hope, that was edited and remade beyond any kind of recognition by other people before it was released, how other people did everything in the next two movies that wasn't stupid or looked bad, how and where he stole every single idea people think he had, and how he made three new Star Wars movies that are PATENTLY UNWATCHABLE CLUSTER**** OF MENTAL DISEASE, you come to the conclusion that George Lucas hasn't done a single admirable thing in his life. And that he is the biggest fraud and clown in all of Hollywood, which he finally realized when he sold Star Wars to Disney. But there is one thing he can do, very well: Talk forever in a quasi-intellectualized, self-absorbed and colossaly moronic way about every little facet of the movies he pretends he made.

[@moviereviews1446]

I am interested in this. Do you have any readings or videos on this? I would love to watch/read them.