“It’s not like the old ‘Star Wars,’ ” Lucas told theater owners at the
ShoWest convention. “This one’s a little bit more emotional. We like to describe
it as ‘Titanic’ in space. It’s a tearjerker.”
Titanic was one of the most over-hyped, over-long movies I have ever been exposed to. I’ve been planning on seeing Episode III in the theaters. I’m starting to reconsider that intention.
I’m going for the score. John Williams = win. George Lucas has not shown himself to be the same.
Further evidence that Lucas does not know what his fans want, and hardly even knows what he’s saying.
“Titanic in space”?? Absurd. I agree whole-heartedly on the over-hype – my natural reaction was a backlash which resulted in me utterly despising everything relating to the movie.
Maybe it’s hopelessly foolish, but I’m going to assume that Lucas is spouting nonsense and that Episode III will not resemble Titanic in any relevant manner. For my own sanity.
Titanic in space?
I have a funny image of Amadala and Anakin doing the “King of the World” scene, only getting sucked into a black hole.
I’ve begun to assume that George Lucas suffers from some mental disorder, ’cause, man, is he around the bend anymore over Star Wars.
And am I the only one who thought that in Ep. II, Anakin was a creepy stalker? Why Amidala didn’t run away…
Yes Anakin was creepy and disturbing in Ep II. Unfortunately there are women in this world who will propose marriage to Scott Peterson on the day he got moved to death row for the murder of his wife and baby, so Amidala falling in love with Anakin is actually believeable.
I hope you’re right. Star Wars should have “Ooooh! Cool!” not handwringing emotionality. To quote Harrison Ford during the making of Ep 4, “It ain’t that kind of a movie kid.” (Mark Hamil was arguing the illogic of coming out of a garbage compactor with perfect hair.)
This is wonderful news!
Ever since the hiatus between Ep VI and Ep I, everything Lucas has said or done about anything relating to Star Wars has been completely and utterly wrong. If Lucas says it’ll be like “Titanic in Space” then the one thing you know it won’t be is “Titanic in Space”, and the idea that that’s what he has failed to make means he might have stumbled into something decent with this one. *crosses fingers*
We all know that this is the one where everything bad/sad/tragic is going to happen… SO, no matter what anyone says I’m going to keep an open mind and hope for the best.
Besides, the trailer looked REALLY cool-
Hey, Cartoon network started up the next set of Star Wars Clone Wars cartoonettes… very cool and each are 15 minutes long this time.
Thank goodness.
AND my husband and I pride ourselves on the fact that we have NEVER seen “Titanic”. 🙂
“Titanic in Space” makes me think ‘Gee… Obi-Wan’s ship is going to run into an asteroid and ‘sink’, won’t it?’ 😉
I think George Lucas really, really needs to sit down and watch his old movies again so he gets an idea of what they involved, rather than what he thinks will make more money…
I mean, it’s one thing for the author to revise the universe; it’s another to tell them that this is like ‘It’s Titanic’ rather than ‘It’s Star Wars, but with more emotion’.
I recall wondering if maybe somehow Anakin was using the force to coerce Amidala into falling for him. She started out in the movie being upset that he was ogling her and by the end they’re married? She’s nearly old enough to be his mother, which wouldn’t make a lot of difference if he were actually an adult, but he’s still a teenager. I find the whole relationship creepy.
Yeah, I theorized he was using Jedi mind tricks on her, as well: “You will find me attractive…”
What it comes down to is, Lucas is not a very good writer, and he doesn’t think things in his story and plot through. He’s obsessed with making a sort of “unified field theory” of Star Wars, but the truth is, he’s always lacked almost every trait a really, really great writer and director needs except imagination and enthusiasm. And a lot of his imagination is borrowed from elsewhere.
I could live with them doing “King of the World” on the bow of a Star Destroyer. Easily. No sweat.
I’ll be somewhere that has little things like oxygen and atmospheric pressure to keep my inside bits *inside*. Amidala’s cute and all, but having her suffer from decompression along side her whiny husband would be worth the matinee price.
Take care!
same here– on not seeing titanic that is
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OK, not taking either side on if it is worth going to or not, nor if it makes sense where he is taking it or if he is a good/great/horrible director/writor, having said that.
He made this comment to a group of theater owners, not fans, these are the people who he need to buy into showing his movie, on as many screens as possible for as long as possible. We know that it will come out everywhere at first, but by setting expectations, he is hopefully better preparing them for what they will see, and selling them on the idea at the same time. Since these are business owners, many of whome have no interest in the SW franchise like fans do, they will need a comparison that they can sink their teeth into. Titantic makes sense, it made lots of money. That is their focus, so his comment probably makes sense from that point of view.
BTW, I personally agree that Titanic was really over-done, probably a better mini-series than a movie, but it still made TONS of money!
As for the darkness/emotial’ness of the movie. While I don’t know if I like the idea, in the beginning of Episode IV, the world is pretty bad. All the Jedi are pretty much dead, the empire is pretty well taken over, the rebels are run down, vader is totally evil and in control. I can’t see how you can get from episode II to episode IV without a really dark movie (how in the world can it end on a good note? there isn’t any that I can see)
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Ah that really makes sense. Perhaps we’ll use some of our movie gift card to see the film after all. (I don’t know if Howard has emailed to thank you yet, but he’s drawing a picture for you.)
Unfortunately about the best “happy ending” I can think up is “Yay we managed to hide the babies from their violent/dangerous father.”
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Having done lots of public speaking, I always try to make my talk make sense to the audience. Luckilly, I am not famous so my talks aren’t broken down and reboradcast like Lucas’s are. Otherwise, I am sure that lots of people would take offense at some of the thing that I said. When I am speaking to a group of business people who could care less about how a particular thing works, all they want to know is how much money it will save, I often simplify the technology to the point that an engineer listening could assume that I don’t know what I am talking about.
I have found that it works the same way in life… when I talk to someone about a good fantasy book scene, but that person is not into fantasy, I will gloss over all the fantasy parts and sometimes even “change” the scene to make sense to them. For example, if a dragon is seen talking to a little girl, and says something particularly funny… if I repeate that story to one of my non-fantasy friends, I might say… “this person said to a little girl”. get’s the point across without lots of discussion about dragons and why it diddn’t eat the girl right away (because you know that all dragons eat everyone they come across, right?)
I suspect that purists would ban me to some level of heck for that.
Anyway, I figgured that since I haddn’t heard from Howard, things were just busy and going well. No problem! Glad they were of help.