Love him or hate him, or loved him now hate him, George Lucas' work has touched the lives of most of you. This documentary explores the hype and build up of the Star Wars fan base through the troubling Special Edition and the crash after The Phantom Menace. Lucas has become his own biggest fan, and for many people his revisions and extensions are destroying cherished memories.
And just think - in 1987 Lucas testified before Congress that the colorization of older films could ruin them by taking them out of their native context. And then a decade later he takes the bell-bottoms and cheesy hair of A New Hope and combines it with cheesier SE graphics, vowing to never again release the "incomplete" original version.
During the pre-film introduction, the director shared breaking news that Lucas was planning a Saturday-morning Jedi Babies cartoon. Lucas couldn't have timed it better.
This was a pretty funny documentary from the standpoint of someone who is very familiar with the roller-coaster of emotion as a Star Wars fan.
The People vs. George Lucas
2010, directed by Alexandre O. Philippe
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