Just... Wow

[alanajoli]

George Lucas, explained why the Writer's Strike doesn't affect him. Apparently, he hasn't written for years. He showed the interviewer a nifty gadget they used to build action scenes for the prequels.

"Of course, the technology then wasn't quite what it is today. For many of the characters, we still had to use actors, and since the actors needed something to say while they were on the screen, I had to do a little writing here and there. Still," he says, "it was way better than working on the original trilogy. Back then, I had to use a typewriter, or later a word processor, to write a full 120, 130-page script! I hated it so much that after the first one I just hired other people to do it for me. I didn't even read 'em most of the time."

*cries*

The full article is here.

Comments

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Y'know, that explains a great deal... :-(

[matt-m-mcelroy.livejournal.com]

Pretty funny stuff...

[dcopulsky.livejournal.com]

(It's an entirely fictitious article? He says in it that the past couples movies were entirely computer done? It's making fun of him for selling-out and tying it into the timely issue of the writer's strike?)

[waywardbound.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The article being on TheSpoof.com is kind of a hint.

Sadly, it's not too far from the truth...

[dcopulsky.livejournal.com]

(Yeah, I just can't tell if Alana gets that or not?)

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I totally didn't! I was following the links from Google News. I will edit the above and stop the tears. :)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Nothing new here!

[tltrent.livejournal.com]

Well...there you have it, folks. I feel ill. I really do.

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

I haven't been impressed by George Lucas in years. This is why.

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

Didn't read the whole article, but some of it was pretty funny. Again, not too far from the truth.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

It's the grizzly taint of plausibility that makes it so good.

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

Indeed.