Before the interview, they have to give the list of questions they wanna ask , and this list has to be approved. That's also why you always have the same questions.
Dommage de ne pas avoir de questions vraiment intéressantes. Quand on suit le bonhomme depuis longtemps c'est malheureusement toujours les mêmes qui reviennent. Alors c'est bien pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas l'histoire mais pour les autres une ou deux questions plus profondes sur l'art, sur ses projets en cours, sur ses productions moins connues avec d'autres réalisateurs feraient du bien. Malgré tout je suis heureux de le revoir.
En premier, c'est une icone, c'est tellement rare pour un média FR de pouvoir l'interroger que l'on doit limiter les questions. En 2nd, le temps imparti, car il a du les enchainer dans sa chambre d'hotel les interviews, à l'américaine je dirai. Plus le fait que la liste des questions doit surement etre validée en avance par l'entourage, tout ça fait qu'il n'y a plus bcp de place pour ce genre de questions, malheureusement. Je trouve que dans les réponses il y a quand même bcp d'infos.
The streaming question is interesting because I remember an interview from the 70s when George was still working on Star Wars, where he described a dream of his that sounded a lot like RUclips. A "digital" platform (I don't think he used the term digital but something close) where independent artists could put up their work without the need for a studio or publisher or distribution.
There is no imagination at all nowadays in entertainment. Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, De Palma, Scorsese were the last batch of REAL creators. Today is all about reshashing old ideas. Congratulations, George... much more admired in the rest of the world than you are in Hollywood.
Starwars was a reshading of old ideas: The princess of the desert, the movies of Kurosawa, western moves... In fact, this is the story of literature/movies since its inception.
@jjphoenix4055 I dislike blanket statements such as these, lacking any and all nuance. There are many incredible directors nowadays, just as there always has been: Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster, Takeshi Kitano, George Miller, Kelly Reichardt, Nicholas Winding-Refn, Thomas Vintenberg, Ruben Östlund, Justine Triet, Pedro Almodovar, the Coen brothers, the director of In Bruges + Banshees of Inisherin… these are but a few I could cite off the top of my head, and I just woke up! If anything, your comment says more about you than the state of cinema.
I would argue the ideas are always there, the studios simply don't want them because they want the save investment bet. They want their ROI. That's just what Lucas said as well right there in the interview.
Yes !! I wish that too, but sometimes I think of the (soooo funny !!) episode of "The Big Band Theory" where Sheldon (I think it was Sheldon but I'm not sure) tries desperately to meet him in the Skywalker ranch and things go not as planned LOL
I miss George Lucas being involved with Star Wars. The prequels weren't perfect, but they had heart and great world building. Sequels are just a horrible copy and paste
George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy is a pure masterpiece, a wonderful, magnificent, exciting, significant, and extremely rich work that has greatly contributed to the story, universe, characters, lore, and mythology of Star Wars. They are the best, the greatest films of all time, a great cult and exciting trilogy from start to finish. It's the Star Wars as George Lucas always wanted it to be. It's the best Star Wars trilogy, the greatest Star Wars trilogy, the richest, most accomplished, most complete, the best period; everything is superb: the deepening of the Star Wars universe and its narrative elements are superb and exciting, and it explores in detail the period of the Clone Wars, a crucial moment in Star Wars history. A fundamental and exciting turning point. The Clone Wars period is the best period of Star Wars. The fascinating plot that unfolds throughout the films. The rise of Palpatine, Darth Sidious, is masterfully depicted. His behind-the-scenes machinations to undermine the Galactic Republic and bring the galaxy under his control are meticulously presented. His manipulation to form a massive clone army and eradicate the Jedi with Order 66 is a central element of the story, explaining how the Galactic Empire took shape following the fall of the Republic and how Anakin fell to the dark side to become Darth Vader, a fallen hero who just wanted to save those he loved. Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader is a superb, memorable, breathtaking scene. The connection with the original trilogy is very well done. Anakin's internal conflict between his loyalty to the Jedi Order and his desire to save those he loves makes his story deep and tragic. His journey to the dark side, with key moments such as his confrontation with Count Dooku and his heartbreaking final duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar. The prequel trilogy also brought invaluable richness to the Star Wars universe, with a detailed look at the Jedi Order, Padawan training, Sith, combat mastery, and Jedi teachings. The spotlight on the Sith and their philosophy strengthened the dark side of the Force, adding depth and complexity to the saga. The political aspect of the prequel adds a new dimension to the Star Wars universe, with Palpatine's machinations in the Galactic Senate and growing tensions between planetary systems, creating a richer context for the later events of the Original Trilogy, the rise of the Empire, the fall of the Republic, the extinction of the Jedi, and Anakin Skywalker's tragic story. The expansion of the universe is also great. New planets, races, creatures, peoples, and cultures are introduced, contributing to creating a larger and more diverse world. Iconic locations such as Kamino, Geonosis, Utapau, Felucia, and Mustafar provide visually captivating backdrops for action scenes, development, and key plot moments. Beloved and iconic characters, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, General Grievous, Jango Fett, Watto, Sebulba. The action scenes and lightsaber battles are among the most memorable in the saga. Epic battles such as the Battle of Geonosis, the podrace on Tatooine, the Battle of Naboo, and the battle above Coruscant are very memorable and iconic of the saga. The lightsaber duels between iconic characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, and Yoda are executed with exceptional choreography, adding a visceral dimension to the story. The prequel also enriches the Star Wars lore with new charismatic and endearing characters, unforgettable music, "Duel of the Fates," "Across the Stars," "Battle of the Heroes," a super rich, exciting, and comprehensive lore, and a talented cast of actors, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Liam Neeson. Natalie Portman is superb, magnificent, sweet, sensual, and charismatic, giving her character Padmé Amidala queen and senator of Naboo an exemplary strength, determination, and courage. She's perfect, she's iconic. Her evolution from a queen to a senator, into a badass, elegant, and determined woman, is a central characteristic of the trilogy. Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson bring memorable class and presence to the screen. Their dynamic as Jedi Masters is palpable, and they convey a wisdom and determination that anchor the story in the Jedi legacy. Additionally, Christopher Lee's presence as Count Dooku adds a touch of class, elegance, and charisma, amplified by his Shakespearean speech. The prequel was the rejuvenation of the Star Wars saga, bringing real dramatic scope, real political context, stakes, new superb and iconic characters, iconic action scenes, a much richer universe, a more developed, more diverse universe, and a much more extensive universe. It expanded the lore of the saga, and complements the original trilogy being inseparable from it. The Star Wars prequel is a masterpiece, and the Star Wars trilogy is a masterpiece and together form an incredible whole, a single great story of exceptional galactic epic. The story of Anakin Skywalker, from his Jedi training to his fall to the dark side of the Force to his redemption as a Jedi by saving his son, destroying the Sith, and restoring balance to the Force. The story of the Galactic Empire, once a democratic Republic, and the story of Palpatine, his evolution from senator to chancellor to becoming the emperor of the galaxy, his manipulations to establish his authority in the senate, to create his own Galactic Empire, to overthrow the Jedi Order, and to keep Anakin with him as an apprentice. and the technological advancement towards digital, modern technologies, computer editing, special effects, to create new worlds, new extraordinary and extraordinary world-building, new peoples and to build the extraordinary story of the Star Wars prequel, a true expanded, gigantic, extremely rich universe, with infinite possibilities, exploring new planets, new peoples, new civilizations, new technologies, new worlds, just like Avatar.
All Star Wars movies from I to VI are pure masterpieces, iconic, magnificent, extremely rich, captivating, and timeless. They are unparalleled, the epitome of science fiction, the best movies of all time, with the best characters, actors, castings, scenes, universe, stories, richness, expansion, and creativity of this universe. The planets, environments, creatures, peoples, world-building, the revolution of cinema, technology, advances in special effects, digitalization, the evolution of computer editing, two great mythical, magical, exceptional, and timeless trilogies complement each other perfectly, forming an inseparable whole, a single great and same story, the story of Anakin Skywalker, his evolution, his fall to the dark side of the Force until his redemption by sacrificing himself to save his son, destroying the Sith, and restoring balance to the Force, the rise and fall of a dictatorship, the transformation of a democracy into a dictatorship, a single great and same universe, gigantic, expansive, captivating, magnificent, extremely rich, with endless possibilities, the beautiful universe, of limitless richness and creativity, the thrilling, unmatched, and timeless universe of George Lucas, a wonderful, legendary, mythical work, a monument of science fiction. 🔥🥰💖😍
Seul Spielberg est un génie, quand tu lis ton premier Valérian à l’âge de 10 ans, que Star Wars arrive juste au cinoche, que tu voies les similitudes (pour pas dire plus: le plagiat) et qu’ensuite tu te rends compte que ce type snobe ceux qu’il a pompé, tu te dis que le respect chez ces gens-là ça n’existe pas.
@@joachimmahoudeaux8619 sauf que c'est totalement faux. C'est juste que Valerian s'inspire des mêmes choses que Star Wars. Lucas a été totalement honnête sur ce qui l'a inspiré, dans le moindre détail. Le fameux comparatif entre les deux œuvres est, en revanche d'une malhonnêteté honteuse. J'en ferai probablement une vidéo explicative en détail, quand j'aurai le temps.
Ça devenaiti ntéressant sur la fin...Augustin qui aime construire et prendre le temps avec ses invités a fait ce qu'il a pu. ❤ Effectivement Papy Georges a sorti un peu les mêmes histoires, mais vraiment j'ai senti qu'il avait envie de développer ! Dommage !
@@TheVCRTimeMachine how do you define "made"? Because he certainly made Return of the Jedi, and there would be no Empire Strikes Back without him. Made goes beyond directed.
@@barkley8285 Either you're very ill-informed, but most likely you're trying to denigrate one of the greatest geniuses in the history of cinema. He didn't just 'help' make the movies you're talking about, he wrote them, produced them, supervised them and asked that the editing of several scenes be changed. He was the ultimate boss with decision-making power over everything, right from the start.
@@philippealain-art …uh no he wasn’t, you’re I’ll informed actually. He didn’t produce 4-6, he didn’t edit them, he did supervise and write them but didn’t direct 5-6 and co writ the script for 5-6. 4-6 are so good because it wasn’t just Lucas. 1-3 was all Lucas and that’s when you get bad dialogue, poor pacing, and a bunch of random exposition scenes. It’s all there, Lucas weaknesses were exposed
C'est le genre de personnalité qui exige de connaître les question avant les interview. Cette question là il l'a sûrement déclinée. On est d'accord qu'elle porte à polémique n'est-ce pas?
@@Oscar_Hector je me doute qu'il a dû signer dans la vente de SW le fait de jamais critiquer les production SW par Disney, mais delà à ne pas répondre à des questions "polémique" la dessus. Il peut toujours mentir. Si ça le fait chier il aurait pas accepter cette condition
@@Oscar_Hector il ne l'a pas décliné, il y a répondu (a long long time ago) avec tellement de dégoût - "j'ai vendu mon enfant aux esclavagistes blancs" - que Disney l'a recadré et depuis il essaie de rester sinon sage en tout cas "diplomate"... autant que faire se peut. (il n'a jamais eu peur de ses opinions, avec un goût pour l'ironie, et puis l'âge ne doit pas aider). Le journaliste ciné de Le Monde écrivait que sa femme accompagnait chaque interview pour éviter tout dérapage trop problématique... 😅
George Lucas et James Cameron sont les Maîtres, ce sont des vrais visionnaires, des précurseurs et des pionniers des nouvelles technologies, du numérique, des effets spéciaux, l'avancée du montage informatique, qui utilisent les technologies de pointe afin de créer des nouveaux mondes, des nouveaux univers fabuleux, des nouveaux peuples, des nouvelles civilisations, des univers étendus gigantesques aux possibilités infinies qui font voyager, que l'on a toujours envie d'explorer, et des nouvelles façons de faire de la mise en scène, de la narration visuelle, ce sont les plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma, des grands créateurs d'histoires et d'univers fabuleux, d'énormément de personnages emblématiques de l'histoire de la pop culture, et ce sont des vrais perfectionnistes qui ont dévoué leur vie à leur œuvre, que ce soit Star Wars et Avatar. George Lucas a dévoué toute sa vie à Star Wars, jusqu'à peaufiner chaque détail de son univers. George Lucas et James Cameron sont les plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma.
Georges Lucas a révolutionné dans les années 70… avec une saga. Racheté a 2 milliards personne n’a jamais fait avant lui. C’etait un très bon réalisateur et il savait s’entourer mets un peu plus de respect quand tu parles de lui.
@@psychod74 George Lucas est l'un des plus grands réalisateurs visionnaires de l'histoire du cinéma, un pionnier et un précurseur de l'industrie cinématographique, des nouvelles technologies, qui a révolutionné l'évolution du numérique, des nouvelles technologies, du montage par ordinateur et un vrai perfectionniste qui peaufine le moindre détail de son univers. Réaliser THX 1138 et les films Star Wars c'est balèze et tout le monde ne peut pas se vanter d'avoir fait ça en une vie.
@@natalieportmanfan1817 tout à fait d'accord avec ton commentaire aucun réalisateur n'a fait comme lui. Aussi bien Steven Spielberg que James Cameron n'ont pas inventés une saga aussi mythique ce ce grand monsieur du cinéma.
George Lucas s'est investi dans tous les domaines de ses films. Il est scénariste, producteur, réalisateur, bosse sur l'univers, la musique et le son. George Lucas est un des rares réalisateurs à autant s'investir sur composition de la musique, beaucoup laissent faire le compositeur à sa sauce, il a investi son propre argent pour ses films, il a créé sa propre boîte d'effets spéciaux alors que ça ne se faisait plus à l'époque, son propre traitement du son, et il a attendu 15 ans pour faire la suite juste parce qu'il avait une vision de ses films infaisables à l'époque. Au contraire, George Lucas est un exemple parfait d'un réalisateur qui s'investit pleinement dans son œuvre. Un vrai perfectionniste à tous points de vue (tellement perfectionniste que pour "More American Graffiti" il a filmé un quart du film). Réalisateur extrêmement sous-côté. Avec des trouvailles vraiment géniales sans toutefois être tape à l'oeil, sans être ostentatoire. Désolé mais les plans posés de Star Wars et de THX c'est de la mise en scène comme une autre et ça rend la beauté des plans. Ça n'empêche pas le génie de réalisateur. L'académisme et le classicisme n'a rien à défaut à plus forte raison quand il est maîtrisé, ce qui le cas chez George Lucas (la course de pods dans Star Wars pour ne citer qu'elle). La narration visuelle. Anakin et Padmé qui s'observent à des kilomètres de distance, elle dans leur appartement, lui au temple tout seul en proie des émotions conflictuelles, sans aucun dialogue, tout en silence en musique, et c'est une merveille de mise en scène de montage. Et puis il ne faut pas aussi sous-estimer la réalisation de George Lucas dans la création de l'Empire contre-attaque. La mise en scène des grosses scènes d'action sur Hoth et les astéroïdes on les doit à George Lucas et pas à Irvin Kershner (qui a toujours admis avoir du mal à travailler avec les effets spéciaux et qui préfère se concentrer sur le travail sur les acteurs). George Lucas a failli laisser sa santé et sa vie sur la réalisation de Star Wars, qui faisait suite à deux films qui avaient été réalisé en conflit continuel avec les studios qui les avaient par ailleurs remontés malgré son aval S'investir à ce point sur ces films est une preuve de génie.
@@14MovieMusic Djoumi aime l’œuvre de Lucas, mais c'est l’évolution du personnage qu'il remet en question. Le film matriciel de sa cinéphilie c'est Star Wars. Franchement c'est lui le mieux placer pour poser des questions pertinentes plutôt que l'autre guignol qui sert la soupe en posant des questions cliches pour 250000eme fois...
@@Grift76600 Le probleme avec les stars du calibre de Lucas, c'est que tu ne l'interviews pas comme ça. Tu dois presenter ta liste de questions a l'avance, et elle doit etre validée, et si tu devies d'un poil de Q, tu as tout son staff autour qui te tombe dessus. Plus le temps chronométré, car il doit enchainer 10-12 interviews , faciles, dans la matinée ou l'aprem. Donc pas évident de poser des questions pertinentes, à moins de le kidnapper et de se le garder pour soi pendant 1h ou 2..... Et c'est aussi pour ça que des gens comme Trapenard sont dans tous les medias, surtout publiques, ils savent bien lecher dans le sens du poil, avec eux , pas de mauvaises surprises, donc ils sont validés par le système.
Rafik Djoumi ? C'est une blague ??? Le gars qui s'est lancé dans une cabale anti-Lucas pendant des années, à cause des Éditions Spéciales ? Le gars qui vomissait sur Lucas dans chaque article qu'il écrivait dans Mad Movies, mentant à son sujet, déformant les faits à dessein, faisant passer Lucas pour un gros beauf incompétent et complètement neuneu qui n'était pour rien dans le succès de Star Wars ? Le gars qui a attribué pratiquement tout le mérite de la trilogie originale à d'autres personnes bien plus talentueuses que Lucas, dont son ex-femme Marcia et Gary Kurtz, sachant que la première a démenti avoir "sauvé Star Wars au montage", tandis que l'autre, vexé de s'être fait virer pour dépassement de délais et du budget sur TESB, s'est fabriqué une légende dans laquelle il se faisait passer pour le cocréateur de SW et le véritable génie créatif, et prétextant être parti de lui-même suite à des divergences artistiques quant à la direction trop commerciale que prenait l'épisode VI ? Le Rafik Djoumi qui s'est bien gardé d'interviewer d'autres personnes ayant bossé sur l'OT, car leur discours n'allait pas dans son sens? Ah ben oui, mieux vaut n'écouter que Kurtz, les deux hommes ayant une dent contre Lucas, l'un pour l'avoir viré, l'autre pour avoir saccagé ses souvenirs d'enfance avec les Éditions Spéciales. Forcément, qui n'écoute qu'une cloche n'entend qu'un son. Le Djoumi qui, invité par la Fnac pour une petite conférence avec d'autres spécialistes pour la sortie de la saga en Blu-ray en 2011, s'est vanté sur le net d'avoir dit aux clients présents de reposer les coffrets et de ne surtout pas les acheter car ils ne contenaient pas "la vraie version des films, l'originale non retouchée" ? Ce gars est peut-être une véritable encyclopédie sur le cinéma, mais en ce qui concerne Star Wars et surtout George Lucas, c'est un guignol. Un guignol désabusé, amer et rancunier, que plus personne ne prend au sérieux, surtout depuis la sortie des bouquins de Jonathan W. Rinzler qui sont sourcés, documents d'époque à l'appui, et qui démontent un à un les mensonges du sieur Djoumi.
There are true creatives out there who have unique concepts, films, books, music, etc. , but typically they don't find favor with the algorithms that tell the masses what to like and what to support. Everything is now one big popularity contest which is why almost everything that gets the most eyes on it is terribly uninspired, bland, and forgettable.
actually movies are not the images that move movies are combination of still images, so a better explanation would be movies are combination of images with aim of conveying a history to the viewer.
James Gunn did a presentation on his plans for DC Comics movies and TV series a year or so ago. Literally EVERY description he offered of the projects was something along the lines, "this one is like True Detective crossed with Men in Black." And it went on and on. Not only did he not have original ideas, but he was using the fact that his projects were copying old movies and shows as a selling point. George Lucas had made this point before, and reading what James Gunn said instantly reminded me of Lucas' statements about Hollywood's imagination being bankrupt.
And what’s wrong with it ? George Lucas has already said that he was inspired to create Star Wars by Dune and Flash Gordon but no one criticized him... And let's see what James Gunn offers us before criticizing him, it's always easy to say that it was better before than to be interested in other less known directors and their projects.
@@Carla_FT I'm not saying you're not smart but he wasn't criticizing Gunn. He's saying this is the way Gunn has to sell his movies so that the producers can understand it. "Succesful movie + Succesful movie = Succesful Formula" When Lucas presented Star Wars the producer literally said "I don't know what you're talking about and I don't understand a thing about dogs flying spaceships but you're a good director and I'll do it", because Flash Gordon wasn't enough to describe the vast amount of elements integrated in the creation and influences of Star Wars. To begin with, there's no Joseph Campbell in Flash Gordon.
Un mec incroyable, du cinéma comme peu de gens osent faire... Ils manquent aujourd'hui les vraies bonhommes qui s'en branle de tictoc insta tu m'as bien vu. On vit dans un monde au trois quart de faibles , c'est triste. Bientôt , on appellera le smartphone, le smarthomme, car il fonctionne que et pour lui. Bref, c'est l'époque des moutons d'aujourd'hui qui ne savent pas qui passe à côté de leurs vies qui est loin d'être éternelle...
Au contraire de pas mal de commentaires, je trouve les questions très pertinentes (même si pas forcément originales). Ce sont les réponses que je trouve à côté des questions et plus généralement à côté de la plaque. Il a pris un sacré coup de vieux, George Lucas ...
They dont set up cirmstances to attack her they set up situations where they can defend her from attacks so they can destroy all kinds of things and take credit for it , darksiders
Something ironic about Lucas complaining about nostalgic rehashes when he explains the original *Star Wars* as something of a rehash of his own childhood. I think it’s a state of modern Hollywood he’s very conscious of helping ushering in, and is no doubt very conflicted about it.
The thing with Star Wars originally though is that there was nothing else like it. Sure there's influences like Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa but there's plenty more influences that are far greater like the Canyon Cinema, NFB; and countless other classic films he drew from. Nowadays these types of films most of the time to be nothing but safe predictable products that reference themselves. It's not a means of personal expression but what will sell the most tickets. George's vision was pure artistic expression in the hope's of giving young people heroes in an era of anti-hero and grey morality. George's approach is vastly different from the Hollywood circus that tries copying him.
@@zoetropeguardian I don’t think “vastly different” is the appropriate term - no doubt Lucas (and Spielberg) ushered in the era of high-concept Hollywood blockbusters that made bank on sentiment, although yes, they generally and rightly deserve a pass for being the progenitors of the current recursive cesspool that is the Hollywood machine. Was Lucas’s vision built on good intentions? Yes, but as the saying goes…. At the end of the day, the calculus is simple - to the financiers and execs in the biz, Lucas’s success can be distilled down to an overarching nostalgia for the past, the cinema of looking back to make something new. It’s inherently self-referential; it’s one of the reasons Pauline Kael’s critique of Star Wars ‘77, as disagreeable as it may seem to those who’ve grown up in the legendary shadow of the film and its sequels, identifies the flaw in the film’s DNA, one that truly manifests as it becomes a victim of its own success. Lucas would have to be extraordinarily near-sighted not to see the inadvertent hand he’s played in the machine he once overturned.
@@tristanmoore9653 You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. It's on here. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it. I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York. Like George has said too, there's no way a Hollywood studio would have let him make Anakin nine years old. They told him it would destroy the entire series. He could take the risks he wanted to. Fans didn't have to like it but he did it. He told his stories his way and how he pleased. Hollywood just decided to copy him without understanding the context as to why he did things the way they did. They're still like that. They follow trends. Like after The Mandalorian we saw a fair number of child and stranger on a quest. It originates with Lone Wolf and Cub. But none of these Hollywood products understand that. It's just an idea for them. An idea without depth. I can't say that about George. His stories have layers upon layers. On the outside they make look the same but go deeper and you'll see movies for young people that are introducing them to the larger world of cinema and countless other things like history, politics, cultural awareness, etc.. George is not like them. Steven Spielberg on the other hand is proud of being Hollywood and for me, it shows. He's a talented filmmaker but personally his films are rarely for me.
@@tristanmoore9653 You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. It's on here. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it. I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York. Like George has said too, there's no way a Hollywood studio would have let him make Anakin nine years old. They told him it would destroy the entire series. He could take the risks he wanted to. Fans didn't have to like it but he did it. He told his stories his way and how he pleased.
@@tristanmoore9653 You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it. I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York.
“Cinema is the art of the moving image….if it moves its cinema l…” Well,not in all cases George. Things move because of physics, just because you place a camera there to directly record the movement does not instantly make it cinema???
Soit Lucas est gâteux, soit il en a rien à foutre de répondre aux questions de Trapenard! :D Il répond quasiment à chaque fois "à côté". Je soupçonne qu'il est pressé de retourner à la plage.
6:39 "No original thinking!' *ahem Poor Things Civil War Green Knight The Norseman The Lighthouse Zone of Interest Kinds of Kindness Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind There will be blood Beau is Afraid Under the Skin Men The list goes on and on...
@@zoetropeguardian he's an old man shaking his fist at the cloud. The Northman for example was released by Universal Pictures. Hell, even recently Furiosa was a big studio movie with original thinking.
@@purefoldnz3070 But, how many small to mid-budget films do you really see from the big studios? They're afraid to take chances on them as everything needs to be event movie or carefully crafted to avoid risk. George makes perfect and complete sense. Just like Martin Scorsese when he talks about Marvel.
@@zoetropeguardian Oh and I also forgot Longlegs releasing this week, which looks amazing. Plus with Bikeriders I saw last week really captures that 70's indie feeling. The studios have always released schlock going back to the 50s, 60s and 70s just look at the old disaster films of that era.
Le boss de l’ univers en personne… Qui finalement ressemble à n’ importe quel grand père de famille Comme quoi il y’ a 20 30 ans les stars étaient vraiment des stars .. elles étaient inaccessibles Aujourd’hui tu as l’ impression que tu peux les croiser à la boulangerie, dans ton canapé Comme Thomas bangalter (Daft punk)qu’ Augustin a interrogé qui a l’ époque était considéré comme un dieu vivant par de nombreuses personnes Tout le monde chercher sa tête sur internet Les stars étaient vraiment des stars Aujourd’hui tout se démocratise Il n’ a plus de stars à part mr tout le monde Mais est ce une si mauvaise chose ???
Questions chiantes... L'argent est il si important pour vous pour avoir vendu Star Wars à Disney? Ca vous fait quoi de savoir que Star Wars est devenue une franchise minable?
Il a déjà répondu à ces questions : 1. c'était pour sauver les emplois à Lucasfilm. Une grande partie de l'argent a été reversé à des œuvres de bienfaisance 2. il a l'impression d'avoir vendu ses enfants à des esclavagistes, mais ce qui est fait est fait et c'est trop tard pour revenir en arrière
George Lucas est un génie créatif, un visionnaire et un précurseur, c'est l'un des plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma avec James Cameron.
Allez c’est bon aucune question reliant Mézières et Christin à ce qu’il a fait, de la lèche avec Trapenard comme d’habitude. Et le gros pompeur de Lucas qui ose distribuer les bons et mauvais points sur les nouveaux réalisateurs de la SF, à gerber 🤮
The originals are not locked to a laserdisc master, and they don't look awful. Dumbest thing Mr Lucas has ever said. They need to be restored from the film sources he has in his archives, i guarantee you they would blow away the Special Edition if they spent the money and did it right. 4K77, 4k80, and 4k83 blow away his crap 2006 laserdisc sourced bonus disc. Nolan isn't some weirdo JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg shoot on film.
Digital is the future of cinema, George Lucas is a genius, a precursor, a visionary, one of the greatest directors of all time along with James Cameron, a pioneer of new technologies, digital, computer editing, to create new worlds, open worlds, expand the universe, new peoples, new planets, new environments, a truly expanded universe with infinite possibilities, that makes you travel, that you always want to explore, a pure masterpiece. You have to keep up with the times, make cinema evolve and live with new technologies instead of being stuck in the past.
@@zoetropeguardian True. I couldn't agree more. Just like James Cameron in fact. The filmmaker has the right to do what he wants with his films, it's his art, he doesn't owe anyone anything.
@@natalieportmanfan1817 Nope. All great artists make their art for themselves and hope to find an audience that will understand it. Sometimes it takes time for audiences to catch up like with the Prequels but it does happen.
Legend, it's a shame the questions were sort of the same ones everyone asks him, but still great interview
If you ask him the same questions. You will get the same answers, New questions= new answers.
Before the interview, they have to give the list of questions they wanna ask , and this list has to be approved.
That's also why you always have the same questions.
@@Supermanjonny96😅yôôôôoôô⁹9⁹⁹⁹
Dommage de ne pas avoir de questions vraiment intéressantes. Quand on suit le bonhomme depuis longtemps c'est malheureusement toujours les mêmes qui reviennent. Alors c'est bien pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas l'histoire mais pour les autres une ou deux questions plus profondes sur l'art, sur ses projets en cours, sur ses productions moins connues avec d'autres réalisateurs feraient du bien. Malgré tout je suis heureux de le revoir.
Je suis d'accord et ça fait vraiment écho à ce qu'il dit en plus.
Aujourd'hui il y a de moins en moins d'idées créatives.
Exact. On connaît déjà l’histoire par cœur. Quel intérêt de lui demander de la re-raconter ?
Je me refais en ce moment les interviews de Pivot, je confirme que c'était vraiment un autre niveau
En premier, c'est une icone, c'est tellement rare pour un média FR de pouvoir l'interroger que l'on doit limiter les questions.
En 2nd, le temps imparti, car il a du les enchainer dans sa chambre d'hotel les interviews, à l'américaine je dirai.
Plus le fait que la liste des questions doit surement etre validée en avance par l'entourage, tout ça fait qu'il n'y a plus bcp de place pour ce genre de questions, malheureusement.
Je trouve que dans les réponses il y a quand même bcp d'infos.
Un homme en toute modestie, qui parle avec passion et qui a grandement contribué à l'évolution du cinéma moderne...Un grand Monsieur.George Lucas
Pas que grandement 😊
The streaming question is interesting because I remember an interview from the 70s when George was still working on Star Wars, where he described a dream of his that sounded a lot like RUclips. A "digital" platform (I don't think he used the term digital but something close) where independent artists could put up their work without the need for a studio or publisher or distribution.
The interview you're talking about is from 1971, around the release of THX-1138. But your point still stands.
There is no imagination at all nowadays in entertainment. Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg, De Palma, Scorsese were the last batch of REAL creators. Today is all about reshashing old ideas. Congratulations, George... much more admired in the rest of the world than you are in Hollywood.
Starwars was a reshading of old ideas: The princess of the desert, the movies of Kurosawa, western moves... In fact, this is the story of literature/movies since its inception.
@jjphoenix4055 I dislike blanket statements such as these, lacking any and all nuance. There are many incredible directors nowadays, just as there always has been: Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster, Takeshi Kitano, George Miller, Kelly Reichardt, Nicholas Winding-Refn, Thomas Vintenberg, Ruben Östlund, Justine Triet, Pedro Almodovar, the Coen brothers, the director of In Bruges + Banshees of Inisherin… these are but a few I could cite off the top of my head, and I just woke up!
If anything, your comment says more about you than the state of cinema.
I would argue the ideas are always there, the studios simply don't want them because they want the save investment bet. They want their ROI. That's just what Lucas said as well right there in the interview.
@@hisvin That only tips the iceberg of everything that inspired Star Wars.
I wish I could meet mr. Lucas. Legend of cinema!
Yes !! I wish that too, but sometimes I think of the (soooo funny !!) episode of "The Big Band Theory" where Sheldon (I think it was Sheldon but I'm not sure) tries desperately to meet him in the Skywalker ranch and things go not as planned LOL
50 años robando con lo mismo a los mismos boludos de siempre.
@@StephenDedalus74 we all know the meeting would went like this
ruclips.net/video/Bq30vO3K4Lw/видео.html
One of the best storytellers the Film Industry has ever produced
I met him 1998, he signed my 1996 Star Wars remastered VHS tapes, Raiders VHS and a Special Edition Card.
George was talking about streaming services way before they existed. I remember people thinking he was crazy...and now streaming is king.
I could watch this man talk forever
Yes may the force be with you M. George lucas.
Une légende, et c'est avec plaisir qu'on l'écoute avec tant de simplicité
we love you George!
Always the visionary ... love this man.
I miss George Lucas being involved with Star Wars. The prequels weren't perfect, but they had heart and great world building. Sequels are just a horrible copy and paste
George Lucas's Star Wars prequel trilogy is a pure masterpiece, a wonderful, magnificent, exciting, significant, and extremely rich work that has greatly contributed to the story, universe, characters, lore, and mythology of Star Wars. They are the best, the greatest films of all time, a great cult and exciting trilogy from start to finish. It's the Star Wars as George Lucas always wanted it to be. It's the best Star Wars trilogy, the greatest Star Wars trilogy, the richest, most accomplished, most complete, the best period; everything is superb: the deepening of the Star Wars universe and its narrative elements are superb and exciting, and it explores in detail the period of the Clone Wars, a crucial moment in Star Wars history. A fundamental and exciting turning point. The Clone Wars period is the best period of Star Wars. The fascinating plot that unfolds throughout the films. The rise of Palpatine, Darth Sidious, is masterfully depicted. His behind-the-scenes machinations to undermine the Galactic Republic and bring the galaxy under his control are meticulously presented. His manipulation to form a massive clone army and eradicate the Jedi with Order 66 is a central element of the story, explaining how the Galactic Empire took shape following the fall of the Republic and how Anakin fell to the dark side to become Darth Vader, a fallen hero who just wanted to save those he loved. Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader is a superb, memorable, breathtaking scene. The connection with the original trilogy is very well done. Anakin's internal conflict between his loyalty to the Jedi Order and his desire to save those he loves makes his story deep and tragic. His journey to the dark side, with key moments such as his confrontation with Count Dooku and his heartbreaking final duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar. The prequel trilogy also brought invaluable richness to the Star Wars universe, with a detailed look at the Jedi Order, Padawan training, Sith, combat mastery, and Jedi teachings. The spotlight on the Sith and their philosophy strengthened the dark side of the Force, adding depth and complexity to the saga. The political aspect of the prequel adds a new dimension to the Star Wars universe, with Palpatine's machinations in the Galactic Senate and growing tensions between planetary systems, creating a richer context for the later events of the Original Trilogy, the rise of the Empire, the fall of the Republic, the extinction of the Jedi, and Anakin Skywalker's tragic story. The expansion of the universe is also great. New planets, races, creatures, peoples, and cultures are introduced, contributing to creating a larger and more diverse world. Iconic locations such as Kamino, Geonosis, Utapau, Felucia, and Mustafar provide visually captivating backdrops for action scenes, development, and key plot moments. Beloved and iconic characters, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala, Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, General Grievous, Jango Fett, Watto, Sebulba. The action scenes and lightsaber battles are among the most memorable in the saga. Epic battles such as the Battle of Geonosis, the podrace on Tatooine, the Battle of Naboo, and the battle above Coruscant are very memorable and iconic of the saga. The lightsaber duels between iconic characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul, and Yoda are executed with exceptional choreography, adding a visceral dimension to the story. The prequel also enriches the Star Wars lore with new charismatic and endearing characters, unforgettable music, "Duel of the Fates," "Across the Stars," "Battle of the Heroes," a super rich, exciting, and comprehensive lore, and a talented cast of actors, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Liam Neeson. Natalie Portman is superb, magnificent, sweet, sensual, and charismatic, giving her character Padmé Amidala queen and senator of Naboo an exemplary strength, determination, and courage. She's perfect, she's iconic. Her evolution from a queen to a senator, into a badass, elegant, and determined woman, is a central characteristic of the trilogy. Ewan McGregor and Liam Neeson bring memorable class and presence to the screen. Their dynamic as Jedi Masters is palpable, and they convey a wisdom and determination that anchor the story in the Jedi legacy. Additionally, Christopher Lee's presence as Count Dooku adds a touch of class, elegance, and charisma, amplified by his Shakespearean speech. The prequel was the rejuvenation of the Star Wars saga, bringing real dramatic scope, real political context, stakes, new superb and iconic characters, iconic action scenes, a much richer universe, a more developed, more diverse universe, and a much more extensive universe. It expanded the lore of the saga, and complements the original trilogy being inseparable from it. The Star Wars prequel is a masterpiece, and the Star Wars trilogy is a masterpiece and together form an incredible whole, a single great story of exceptional galactic epic. The story of Anakin Skywalker, from his Jedi training to his fall to the dark side of the Force to his redemption as a Jedi by saving his son, destroying the Sith, and restoring balance to the Force. The story of the Galactic Empire, once a democratic Republic, and the story of Palpatine, his evolution from senator to chancellor to becoming the emperor of the galaxy, his manipulations to establish his authority in the senate, to create his own Galactic Empire, to overthrow the Jedi Order, and to keep Anakin with him as an apprentice. and the technological advancement towards digital, modern technologies, computer editing, special effects, to create new worlds, new extraordinary and extraordinary world-building, new peoples and to build the extraordinary story of the Star Wars prequel, a true expanded, gigantic, extremely rich universe, with infinite possibilities, exploring new planets, new peoples, new civilizations, new technologies, new worlds, just like Avatar.
All Star Wars movies from I to VI are pure masterpieces, iconic, magnificent, extremely rich, captivating, and timeless. They are unparalleled, the epitome of science fiction, the best movies of all time, with the best characters, actors, castings, scenes, universe, stories, richness, expansion, and creativity of this universe. The planets, environments, creatures, peoples, world-building, the revolution of cinema, technology, advances in special effects, digitalization, the evolution of computer editing, two great mythical, magical, exceptional, and timeless trilogies complement each other perfectly, forming an inseparable whole, a single great and same story, the story of Anakin Skywalker, his evolution, his fall to the dark side of the Force until his redemption by sacrificing himself to save his son, destroying the Sith, and restoring balance to the Force, the rise and fall of a dictatorship, the transformation of a democracy into a dictatorship, a single great and same universe, gigantic, expansive, captivating, magnificent, extremely rich, with endless possibilities, the beautiful universe, of limitless richness and creativity, the thrilling, unmatched, and timeless universe of George Lucas, a wonderful, legendary, mythical work, a monument of science fiction. 🔥🥰💖😍
PREQUELS WERE ABSOLUTELY GREAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA
thing is, the wonderings of the 12 year old...don't end at 12 years old. Perhaps its why some of us still love it.
Looking good Mr Lucas!
les génies du cinema avec son ami Steven Spielberg ! Je suis un fan absolu.
Moi aussi ❤❤
Seul Spielberg est un génie, quand tu lis ton premier Valérian à l’âge de 10 ans, que Star Wars arrive juste au cinoche, que tu voies les similitudes (pour pas dire plus: le plagiat) et qu’ensuite tu te rends compte que ce type snobe ceux qu’il a pompé, tu te dis que le respect chez ces gens-là ça n’existe pas.
@@joachimmahoudeaux8619 sauf que c'est totalement faux. C'est juste que Valerian s'inspire des mêmes choses que Star Wars. Lucas a été totalement honnête sur ce qui l'a inspiré, dans le moindre détail. Le fameux comparatif entre les deux œuvres est, en revanche d'une malhonnêteté honteuse. J'en ferai probablement une vidéo explicative en détail, quand j'aurai le temps.
@@joachimmahoudeaux8619
George Lucas et James Cameron sont les plus grands réalisateurs créateurs visionnaires de l'histoire du cinéma.
This is Ruben AMEN 🙏💪 LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! 🙏✌️❤️🌍🌎🥇👍
Merci Brut. J'ai passé un agréable moment. 👍
Ça devenaiti ntéressant sur la fin...Augustin qui aime construire et prendre le temps avec ses invités a fait ce qu'il a pu. ❤ Effectivement Papy Georges a sorti un peu les mêmes histoires, mais vraiment j'ai senti qu'il avait envie de développer ! Dommage !
Oh the maker I like where he says we weren't trying to make money we wanted to make movies and he made 6 of the greatest movies of all time
I only count 1 he made, he helped with 2. Not sure where your other 5 are coming from.
He only made two great movies
1. American Graffiti
2. Star Wars (1977)
@@TheVCRTimeMachine how do you define "made"? Because he certainly made Return of the Jedi, and there would be no Empire Strikes Back without him. Made goes beyond directed.
@@barkley8285 Either you're very ill-informed, but most likely you're trying to denigrate one of the greatest geniuses in the history of cinema. He didn't just 'help' make the movies you're talking about, he wrote them, produced them, supervised them and asked that the editing of several scenes be changed. He was the ultimate boss with decision-making power over everything, right from the start.
@@philippealain-art …uh no he wasn’t, you’re I’ll informed actually. He didn’t produce 4-6, he didn’t edit them, he did supervise and write them but didn’t direct 5-6 and co writ the script for 5-6. 4-6 are so good because it wasn’t just Lucas. 1-3 was all Lucas and that’s when you get bad dialogue, poor pacing, and a bunch of random exposition scenes. It’s all there, Lucas weaknesses were exposed
love this man.
Legend🌟♥️🔥
Legend, I can not believe he is 80, live long and prosper
🩷🙏
Agreed 🖖
So much for him making all those small art films that he said he was going to make since before SW.
We do have an art museum to look forward to at least. 🙂
Le cinéma c’est eux , merci george we love you ❤️
I truly and full heartetly adore this man.
❤
Amazing Interview 💙
George seems tired in his voice and body movements, hope he is OK. Please write other star wars story with anakin back in it xx
Le GOAT!!!
Le "George Obi Anakin Terrific" ? ;)
I love that George cares about lost media. 😊
Georges Lucas c'était le Steve Jobs du cinéma !
Way better than Steve Jobs
I don't understand why no one's asked him about Darth Jar Jar yet.. it's always the same old questions.
Questions vu et revus
Alors que la seule question intéressante à lui poser c'était : Est ce que vous êtes content de ce qu'est devenu Star Wars ?
C'est le genre de personnalité qui exige de connaître les question avant les interview. Cette question là il l'a sûrement déclinée. On est d'accord qu'elle porte à polémique n'est-ce pas?
@@Oscar_Hector je me doute qu'il a dû signer dans la vente de SW le fait de jamais critiquer les production SW par Disney, mais delà à ne pas répondre à des questions "polémique" la dessus. Il peut toujours mentir. Si ça le fait chier il aurait pas accepter cette condition
@@Oscar_Hector il ne l'a pas décliné, il y a répondu (a long long time ago) avec tellement de dégoût - "j'ai vendu mon enfant aux esclavagistes blancs" - que Disney l'a recadré et depuis il essaie de rester sinon sage en tout cas "diplomate"... autant que faire se peut. (il n'a jamais eu peur de ses opinions, avec un goût pour l'ironie, et puis l'âge ne doit pas aider). Le journaliste ciné de Le Monde écrivait que sa femme accompagnait chaque interview pour éviter tout dérapage trop problématique... 😅
@@francoisbouchet9907 ok!
He nailed it at 6:20 onwards with what’s going on with movies and TV today.
Un réalisateur médiocre mais un créateur de génie. George est trop fort!
George Lucas et James Cameron sont les Maîtres, ce sont des vrais visionnaires, des précurseurs et des pionniers des nouvelles technologies, du numérique, des effets spéciaux, l'avancée du montage informatique, qui utilisent les technologies de pointe afin de créer des nouveaux mondes, des nouveaux univers fabuleux, des nouveaux peuples, des nouvelles civilisations, des univers étendus gigantesques aux possibilités infinies qui font voyager, que l'on a toujours envie d'explorer, et des nouvelles façons de faire de la mise en scène, de la narration visuelle, ce sont les plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma, des grands créateurs d'histoires et d'univers fabuleux, d'énormément de personnages emblématiques de l'histoire de la pop culture, et ce sont des vrais perfectionnistes qui ont dévoué leur vie à leur œuvre, que ce soit Star Wars et Avatar. George Lucas a dévoué toute sa vie à Star Wars, jusqu'à peaufiner chaque détail de son univers.
George Lucas et James Cameron sont les plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma.
Georges Lucas a révolutionné dans les années 70… avec une saga. Racheté a 2 milliards personne n’a jamais fait avant lui. C’etait un très bon réalisateur et il savait s’entourer mets un peu plus de respect quand tu parles de lui.
@@psychod74
George Lucas est l'un des plus grands réalisateurs visionnaires de l'histoire du cinéma, un pionnier et un précurseur de l'industrie cinématographique, des nouvelles technologies, qui a révolutionné l'évolution du numérique, des nouvelles technologies, du montage par ordinateur et un vrai perfectionniste qui peaufine le moindre détail de son univers. Réaliser THX 1138 et les films Star Wars c'est balèze et tout le monde ne peut pas se vanter d'avoir fait ça en une vie.
@@natalieportmanfan1817 tout à fait d'accord avec ton commentaire aucun réalisateur n'a fait comme lui. Aussi bien Steven Spielberg que James Cameron n'ont pas inventés une saga aussi mythique ce ce grand monsieur du cinéma.
George Lucas s'est investi dans tous les domaines de ses films. Il est scénariste, producteur, réalisateur, bosse sur l'univers, la musique et le son. George Lucas est un des rares réalisateurs à autant s'investir sur composition de la musique, beaucoup laissent faire le compositeur à sa sauce, il a investi son propre argent pour ses films, il a créé sa propre boîte d'effets spéciaux alors que ça ne se faisait plus à l'époque, son propre traitement du son, et il a attendu 15 ans pour faire la suite juste parce qu'il avait une vision de ses films infaisables à l'époque.
Au contraire, George Lucas est un exemple parfait d'un réalisateur qui s'investit pleinement dans son œuvre. Un vrai perfectionniste à tous points de vue (tellement perfectionniste que pour "More American Graffiti" il a filmé un quart du film). Réalisateur extrêmement sous-côté. Avec des trouvailles vraiment géniales sans toutefois être tape à l'oeil, sans être ostentatoire. Désolé mais les plans posés de Star Wars et de THX c'est de la mise en scène comme une autre et ça rend la beauté des plans. Ça n'empêche pas le génie de réalisateur.
L'académisme et le classicisme n'a rien à défaut à plus forte raison quand il est maîtrisé, ce qui le cas chez George Lucas (la course de pods dans Star Wars pour ne citer qu'elle).
La narration visuelle. Anakin et Padmé qui s'observent à des kilomètres de distance, elle dans leur appartement, lui au temple tout seul en proie des émotions conflictuelles, sans aucun dialogue, tout en silence en musique, et c'est une merveille de mise en scène de montage.
Et puis il ne faut pas aussi sous-estimer la réalisation de George Lucas dans la création de l'Empire contre-attaque.
La mise en scène des grosses scènes d'action sur Hoth et les astéroïdes on les doit à George Lucas et pas à Irvin Kershner (qui a toujours admis avoir du mal à travailler avec les effets spéciaux et qui préfère se concentrer sur le travail sur les acteurs).
George Lucas a failli laisser sa santé et sa vie sur la réalisation de Star Wars, qui faisait suite à deux films qui avaient été réalisé en conflit continuel avec les studios qui les avaient par ailleurs remontés malgré son aval
S'investir à ce point sur ces films est une preuve de génie.
Augustin est tellement fort!!
I'm with George. Digital can be art.
La légende!!
Oui❤❤
Le seul en France qui doit interviewer Lucas c'est Rafik Djoumi!
Serieux les gars, Trapenard quoi! Merde!
Le type qui a écrit un pamphlet contre lui? Il est venu à Cannes pour recevoir les honneurs pour son œuvre, pas pour se faire descendre.
@@14MovieMusic Djoumi aime l’œuvre de Lucas, mais c'est l’évolution du personnage qu'il remet en question. Le film matriciel de sa cinéphilie c'est Star Wars. Franchement c'est lui le mieux placer pour poser des questions pertinentes plutôt que l'autre guignol qui sert la soupe en posant des questions cliches pour 250000eme fois...
@@Grift76600 Le probleme avec les stars du calibre de Lucas, c'est que tu ne l'interviews pas comme ça.
Tu dois presenter ta liste de questions a l'avance, et elle doit etre validée, et si tu devies d'un poil de Q, tu as tout son staff autour qui te tombe dessus. Plus le temps chronométré, car il doit enchainer 10-12 interviews , faciles, dans la matinée ou l'aprem.
Donc pas évident de poser des questions pertinentes, à moins de le kidnapper et de se le garder pour soi pendant 1h ou 2.....
Et c'est aussi pour ça que des gens comme Trapenard sont dans tous les medias, surtout publiques, ils savent bien lecher dans le sens du poil, avec eux , pas de mauvaises surprises, donc ils sont validés par le système.
Rafik Djoumi ? C'est une blague ??? Le gars qui s'est lancé dans une cabale anti-Lucas pendant des années, à cause des Éditions Spéciales ? Le gars qui vomissait sur Lucas dans chaque article qu'il écrivait dans Mad Movies, mentant à son sujet, déformant les faits à dessein, faisant passer Lucas pour un gros beauf incompétent et complètement neuneu qui n'était pour rien dans le succès de Star Wars ? Le gars qui a attribué pratiquement tout le mérite de la trilogie originale à d'autres personnes bien plus talentueuses que Lucas, dont son ex-femme Marcia et Gary Kurtz, sachant que la première a démenti avoir "sauvé Star Wars au montage", tandis que l'autre, vexé de s'être fait virer pour dépassement de délais et du budget sur TESB, s'est fabriqué une légende dans laquelle il se faisait passer pour le cocréateur de SW et le véritable génie créatif, et prétextant être parti de lui-même suite à des divergences artistiques quant à la direction trop commerciale que prenait l'épisode VI ?
Le Rafik Djoumi qui s'est bien gardé d'interviewer d'autres personnes ayant bossé sur l'OT, car leur discours n'allait pas dans son sens? Ah ben oui, mieux vaut n'écouter que Kurtz, les deux hommes ayant une dent contre Lucas, l'un pour l'avoir viré, l'autre pour avoir saccagé ses souvenirs d'enfance avec les Éditions Spéciales. Forcément, qui n'écoute qu'une cloche n'entend qu'un son. Le Djoumi qui, invité par la Fnac pour une petite conférence avec d'autres spécialistes pour la sortie de la saga en Blu-ray en 2011, s'est vanté sur le net d'avoir dit aux clients présents de reposer les coffrets et de ne surtout pas les acheter car ils ne contenaient pas "la vraie version des films, l'originale non retouchée" ?
Ce gars est peut-être une véritable encyclopédie sur le cinéma, mais en ce qui concerne Star Wars et surtout George Lucas, c'est un guignol. Un guignol désabusé, amer et rancunier, que plus personne ne prend au sérieux, surtout depuis la sortie des bouquins de Jonathan W. Rinzler qui sont sourcés, documents d'époque à l'appui, et qui démontent un à un les mensonges du sieur Djoumi.
@@Megrez-Alberich Ha un apologiste. Ça faisait longtemps que j'en avais pas vu un.
There are true creatives out there who have unique concepts, films, books, music, etc. , but typically they don't find favor with the algorithms that tell the masses what to like and what to support. Everything is now one big popularity contest which is why almost everything that gets the most eyes on it is terribly uninspired, bland, and forgettable.
merci !
I wonder what it was about the "moving image" that fascinated George Lucas all those years ago???
On sent que le journaliste avait le timer en tête^^
actually movies are not the images that move movies are combination of still images, so a better explanation would be movies are combination of images with aim of conveying a history to the viewer.
James Gunn did a presentation on his plans for DC Comics movies and TV series a year or so ago. Literally EVERY description he offered of the projects was something along the lines, "this one is like True Detective crossed with Men in Black." And it went on and on. Not only did he not have original ideas, but he was using the fact that his projects were copying old movies and shows as a selling point. George Lucas had made this point before, and reading what James Gunn said instantly reminded me of Lucas' statements about Hollywood's imagination being bankrupt.
And what’s wrong with it ? George Lucas has already said that he was inspired to create Star Wars by Dune and Flash Gordon but no one criticized him...
And let's see what James Gunn offers us before criticizing him, it's always easy to say that it was better before than to be interested in other less known directors and their projects.
@@Carla_FT I'm not saying you're not smart but he wasn't criticizing Gunn. He's saying this is the way Gunn has to sell his movies so that the producers can understand it. "Succesful movie + Succesful movie = Succesful Formula" When Lucas presented Star Wars the producer literally said "I don't know what you're talking about and I don't understand a thing about dogs flying spaceships but you're a good director and I'll do it", because Flash Gordon wasn't enough to describe the vast amount of elements integrated in the creation and influences of Star Wars. To begin with, there's no Joseph Campbell in Flash Gordon.
Thank you for recognising marvel movies as cinema, mr. Lucas.
legend! so futuristic
Ca à déjà été dit mais dommage que les journalistes posent toujours les mêmes questions depuis 40 ans
La grosse balle perdue pour Disney 😂 (6:25)
George Lucas is a G.
Whatsup with all the background noise? You would think interviewing a legend they would have made sure its silent
Dommage qu’Augustin n’ait pas posé plus de questions sur le sens de ce nouveau musée que Lucas est en train de construire….
When the Master speaks, we all listen, and the Master has spoken……
True
Mais pourquoi a-t-il vendu ses licences à Disney 😔😢😭😭😭
aucune questions sur la prelogie ?? est ce qu'il y a eu des consigne avant interview?? dommage
Ah la la Georges etait un ovni a son epoque et encore plus aujourd’hui on est pas prêt de revoir son pareil.
George almost spat on his face when he said " may the force be with you" LMAO
C'est moi il répond à 1 question sur 2 ? :')
Oui mais comme il lui pose les mêmes questions qu'on lui a posé 1000 fois avant, on rate rien.
Un mec incroyable, du cinéma comme peu de gens osent faire... Ils manquent aujourd'hui les vraies bonhommes qui s'en branle de tictoc insta tu m'as bien vu. On vit dans un monde au trois quart de faibles , c'est triste. Bientôt , on appellera le smartphone, le smarthomme, car il fonctionne que et pour lui. Bref, c'est l'époque des moutons d'aujourd'hui qui ne savent pas qui passe à côté de leurs vies qui est loin d'être éternelle...
George told the truth
Yes
Pour moi, il y a deux Grand realisayeur dans chaque film de Star Wars: George Lucas et John Williams
Exactement
StarWars is trash now
only like Lucas StarWars OG Prequels
I wonder if George Lucas or Martin Scorsese ever consider doing a silent film???
❤❤❤ hero!!✌🏻✌🏻❤️❤️
🩷🩷🩷
Au contraire de pas mal de commentaires, je trouve les questions très pertinentes (même si pas forcément originales). Ce sont les réponses que je trouve à côté des questions et plus généralement à côté de la plaque. Il a pris un sacré coup de vieux, George Lucas ...
They dont set up cirmstances to attack her they set up situations where they can defend her from attacks so they can destroy all kinds of things and take credit for it , darksiders
George Lucas le GOAT!!
5:34 your welcome :)
Something ironic about Lucas complaining about nostalgic rehashes when he explains the original *Star Wars* as something of a rehash of his own childhood.
I think it’s a state of modern Hollywood he’s very conscious of helping ushering in, and is no doubt very conflicted about it.
The thing with Star Wars originally though is that there was nothing else like it. Sure there's influences like Flash Gordon and Akira Kurosawa but there's plenty more influences that are far greater like the Canyon Cinema, NFB; and countless other classic films he drew from. Nowadays these types of films most of the time to be nothing but safe predictable products that reference themselves. It's not a means of personal expression but what will sell the most tickets. George's vision was pure artistic expression in the hope's of giving young people heroes in an era of anti-hero and grey morality. George's approach is vastly different from the Hollywood circus that tries copying him.
@@zoetropeguardian I don’t think “vastly different” is the appropriate term - no doubt Lucas (and Spielberg) ushered in the era of high-concept Hollywood blockbusters that made bank on sentiment, although yes, they generally and rightly deserve a pass for being the progenitors of the current recursive cesspool that is the Hollywood machine.
Was Lucas’s vision built on good intentions? Yes, but as the saying goes…. At the end of the day, the calculus is simple - to the financiers and execs in the biz, Lucas’s success can be distilled down to an overarching nostalgia for the past, the cinema of looking back to make something new. It’s inherently self-referential; it’s one of the reasons Pauline Kael’s critique of Star Wars ‘77, as disagreeable as it may seem to those who’ve grown up in the legendary shadow of the film and its sequels, identifies the flaw in the film’s DNA, one that truly manifests as it becomes a victim of its own success.
Lucas would have to be extraordinarily near-sighted not to see the inadvertent hand he’s played in the machine he once overturned.
@@tristanmoore9653
You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. It's on here. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it.
I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York. Like George has said too, there's no way a Hollywood studio would have let him make Anakin nine years old. They told him it would destroy the entire series. He could take the risks he wanted to. Fans didn't have to like it but he did it. He told his stories his way and how he pleased. Hollywood just decided to copy him without understanding the context as to why he did things the way they did. They're still like that. They follow trends. Like after The Mandalorian we saw a fair number of child and stranger on a quest. It originates with Lone Wolf and Cub. But none of these Hollywood products understand that. It's just an idea for them. An idea without depth. I can't say that about George. His stories have layers upon layers. On the outside they make look the same but go deeper and you'll see movies for young people that are introducing them to the larger world of cinema and countless other things like history, politics, cultural awareness, etc..
George is not like them. Steven Spielberg on the other hand is proud of being Hollywood and for me, it shows. He's a talented filmmaker but personally his films are rarely for me.
@@tristanmoore9653
You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. It's on here. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it.
I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York. Like George has said too, there's no way a Hollywood studio would have let him make Anakin nine years old. They told him it would destroy the entire series. He could take the risks he wanted to. Fans didn't have to like it but he did it. He told his stories his way and how he pleased.
@@tristanmoore9653
You should check out his conversation with Charlie Rose from 2015. He actually addresses it and has a good outlook on it.
I don't blame him and don't think it's nostalgia clouding my judgment. Hollywood in those days was in disarray as the studios were being sold to corporations that weren't in the business of making movies. George was smart enough to see that he could get the merchandise rights, since they didn't see the value in those, to make money off t-shirts and the like to promote his movies. He could never have imagined it would've become a global brand. His use of merchandise was to stay independent and to be able to make his films the way he wants them. Just like his friend and mentor Francis Ford Coppola with wine. They're San Francisco filmmakers. Just like Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee are New York.
George Lucas, Augustin Trapenard : cherchez l'erreur !...
“Cinema is the art of the moving image….if it moves its cinema l…”
Well,not in all cases George. Things move because of physics, just because you place a camera there to directly record the movement does not instantly make it cinema???
It doesn't mean the cinema is necessarily good. See Marvel for examples. 🙂
Always a pleasure to listen to George Lucas. Too bad, interviewer had only very poor and common questions
Everyone asks him the same boring questions over and over nothing actually new that would provide new context on alot of things
A positive of this though is it proves he's far more consistent than his detractors like to spin.
Il s'est fourré dans un Trapenard, le Lucas
C'est le père du sabre laser au cinoche. Toutes ses productions vieillissent à vue d'oeil !! Dépassé.
6:23
I agree
Soit Lucas est gâteux, soit il en a rien à foutre de répondre aux questions de Trapenard! :D Il répond quasiment à chaque fois "à côté". Je soupçonne qu'il est pressé de retourner à la plage.
Questions concenus aucun intérêt
mdr y se prend pour jude law xD
6:39 "No original thinking!'
*ahem
Poor Things
Civil War
Green Knight
The Norseman
The Lighthouse
Zone of Interest
Kinds of Kindness
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There will be blood
Beau is Afraid
Under the Skin
Men
The list goes on and on...
He's talking about the big Hollywood studios.
@@zoetropeguardian he's an old man shaking his fist at the cloud. The Northman for example was released by Universal Pictures. Hell, even recently Furiosa was a big studio movie with original thinking.
@@purefoldnz3070 But, how many small to mid-budget films do you really see from the big studios? They're afraid to take chances on them as everything needs to be event movie or carefully crafted to avoid risk. George makes perfect and complete sense. Just like Martin Scorsese when he talks about Marvel.
@@zoetropeguardian Oh and I also forgot Longlegs releasing this week, which looks amazing. Plus with Bikeriders I saw last week really captures that 70's indie feeling. The studios have always released schlock going back to the 50s, 60s and 70s just look at the old disaster films of that era.
@@zoetropeguardian Please read my last comment lol
Le boss de l’ univers en personne…
Qui finalement ressemble à n’ importe quel grand père de famille
Comme quoi il y’ a 20 30 ans les stars étaient vraiment des stars .. elles étaient inaccessibles
Aujourd’hui tu as l’ impression que tu peux les croiser à la boulangerie, dans ton canapé
Comme Thomas bangalter (Daft punk)qu’ Augustin a interrogé qui a l’ époque était considéré comme un dieu vivant par de nombreuses personnes
Tout le monde chercher sa tête sur internet
Les stars étaient vraiment des stars
Aujourd’hui tout se démocratise
Il n’ a plus de stars à part mr tout le monde
Mais est ce une si mauvaise chose ???
Bro doesn't age
When 80 years old you reach, look as good you will not!
Les gens ne sont plus créatifs. Certes mais son indiana Jones 5 est une belle bousasse aussi
Il a rien avoir avec ce film
Aucun rapport.
George Lucas a produit et écrit les 4 premiers films Indiana Jones.
@@achoumachi6695 juste producteur......
@@leraph3904 Non c'est Steven Spielberg
@@leraph3904 Sauf que c'est Disney qui gère maintenant. Il faut se tenir au courant avant de se ridiculiser.
Il est obligé d'être aussi obséquieux le Trapenard ? Insupportable.
La définition du cinéma selon Lucas "le cinéma c'est des images qui bougent".
En anglais "motion picture".
Questions chiantes...
L'argent est il si important pour vous pour avoir vendu Star Wars à Disney?
Ca vous fait quoi de savoir que Star Wars est devenue une franchise minable?
Il te répondrai que c'est le premier à avoir chier dans la colle en divisant les fan à l'époque .
Il a déjà répondu à ces questions :
1. c'était pour sauver les emplois à Lucasfilm. Une grande partie de l'argent a été reversé à des œuvres de bienfaisance
2. il a l'impression d'avoir vendu ses enfants à des esclavagistes, mais ce qui est fait est fait et c'est trop tard pour revenir en arrière
C est chiant de se rendre compte que George Lucas vieillit 😢
Deflated Michael Fassbender.
george lucas parle de manque d'imagination et de copies de bonnes idées .....lol
George Lucas est un génie créatif, un visionnaire et un précurseur, c'est l'un des plus grands réalisateurs de l'histoire du cinéma avec James Cameron.
Grandissez un peu ! On nous pourri le cinéma depuis 50 ans !!!
Allez c’est bon aucune question reliant Mézières et Christin à ce qu’il a fait, de la lèche avec Trapenard comme d’habitude. Et le gros pompeur de Lucas qui ose distribuer les bons et mauvais points sur les nouveaux réalisateurs de la SF, à gerber 🤮
C'est complètement faux. C'est pas un comparatif malhonnête qui démontre quoi que ce soit.
His takes on AI are honestly awful
He has more in-depth thoughts about it in the book version of James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction.
The originals are not locked to a laserdisc master, and they don't look awful. Dumbest thing Mr Lucas has ever said. They need to be restored from the film sources he has in his archives, i guarantee you they would blow away the Special Edition if they spent the money and did it right. 4K77, 4k80, and 4k83 blow away his crap 2006 laserdisc sourced bonus disc. Nolan isn't some weirdo JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg shoot on film.
Digital is the future of cinema, George Lucas is a genius, a precursor, a visionary, one of the greatest directors of all time along with James Cameron, a pioneer of new technologies, digital, computer editing, to create new worlds, open worlds, expand the universe, new peoples, new planets, new environments, a truly expanded universe with infinite possibilities, that makes you travel, that you always want to explore, a pure masterpiece.
You have to keep up with the times, make cinema evolve and live with new technologies instead of being stuck in the past.
George doesn't owe you anything. It's his art to do what he wants.
@@zoetropeguardian
True. I couldn't agree more. Just like James Cameron in fact. The filmmaker has the right to do what he wants with his films, it's his art, he doesn't owe anyone anything.
@@natalieportmanfan1817 Nope. All great artists make their art for themselves and hope to find an audience that will understand it. Sometimes it takes time for audiences to catch up like with the Prequels but it does happen.