alanajoli: (scc-writers-strike)
Alana Joli Abbott ([personal profile] alanajoli) wrote2007-11-09 12:26 pm

Just... Wow

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.

[identity profile] holmes-iv.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'know, that explains a great deal... :-(

[identity profile] matt-m-mcelroy.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty funny stuff...

[identity profile] dcopulsky.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
(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?)

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing new here!

[identity profile] waywardbound.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. The article being on TheSpoof.com is kind of a hint.

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

[identity profile] dcopulsky.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
(Yeah, I just can't tell if Alana gets that or not?)

[identity profile] tltrent.livejournal.com 2007-11-09 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...there you have it, folks. I feel ill. I really do.

[identity profile] elven-wolf.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't been impressed by George Lucas in years. This is why.

[identity profile] elven-wolf.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Didn't read the whole article, but some of it was pretty funny. Again, not too far from the truth.

[identity profile] alanajoli.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I totally didn't! I was following the links from Google News. I will edit the above and stop the tears. :)

[identity profile] holmes-iv.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's the grizzly taint of plausibility that makes it so good.

[identity profile] elven-wolf.livejournal.com 2007-11-12 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed.