The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW 149
skatepark builder writes "David Prowse, the 74-year-old actor who has enjoyed a long and varied career filled with roles such as Darth Vader (Star Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI), is starting 2010 off with two major accomplishments. His victory over colon cancer earlier this month means he'll live to see his top billing in a film premiering next month at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The People vs. George Lucas is a documentary attempting a balanced examination of the love/hate relationship Star Wars fans have developed with the filmmaker and his work over the past three decades. Director Alexandre Philippe distances his film from the one-sided fan rage films that lambaste Lucas, even though the title would suggest otherwise. According to the trailer, The People vs.George Lucas exposes the full spectrum of opinions on Lucas, including those like Prowse, who still refers to him as a 'master.' Philippe captures these opinions through filmed interviews, but perhaps more interestingly, he crowdsourced the commentary by soliciting fan submissions over the internet. The clips seen in the trailer appear to be funny, highly inspired, and are probably more concise than the recently released 70-minute YouTube evisceration of Episode I."
More concise... (Score:2, Informative)
Yes, quite possibly. More hilarious? No. Where are my pizza rolls?
Re:More concise... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:He still hasn't seen royalties from ROTJ (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting [wikipedia.org]
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Informative)
makes me wonder if i should put those vhs's i got into a safe, or maybe i should dump them to hardrive and make them available via torrent tracker?
And people should also look at... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Informative)
Why? They released the unedited versions to DVD. Granted that weren't cleaned up or anamorphic, but certainly will be better quality than your VHS transfers.
Even before that, very high-quality DVD bootlegs were available that were mastered from laserdisc versions of the films. I still watch these when I want to revisit the trilogy, rather than pay Lucas for copies of the worthless "special editions" just to get "official" versions of the unmolested films that look little better than the bootlegs.
Re:Cancer of the what? (Score:3, Informative)
For the anatomically challenged among you, it's the hole you pee through, not the one you sh1t through.
You pee thorough your urethra. Your prostate makes semen. The above reads like 'you digest food through your lungs' (because they both connect at the throat).
Re:A fandom i'll never understand (Score:2, Informative)
The first trilogy appealed to "Children of all ages." The prequels just appealed to children.
Re:How about space opera that doesn't suck? (Score:2, Informative)