George Lucas On Monogram

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George Lucas On Monogram; Huh?
Topic Started: Mar 14 2008, 03:06 PM (405 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Mar 14 2008, 03:06 PM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,072 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	Lucas is preparing a new Star Wars TV show or two, and had this to say... You've got the whole assembly line built, and then you say, 'Hey, we can make up something,"' Lucas said in an interview. "It was like old-time movie making. What I love about television, it's like Monogram Pictures or the old studio system, where a couple guys come to work and they sit and have some coffee and go, 'Why don't we make a movie about such and such? OK, fine.' And at the end of the day, it's pretty much on its way."



Black Tiger	Aug 14 2008, 11:55 AM Post #2
Charter Member Posts: 1,814 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	Considering it takes about 3 years to make a film these days, tv sounds more suited to him.



mort bakaprevski	Aug 15 2008, 08:23 AM Post #3
Soony Roony! Posts: 1,433 Group: Members Member #73 Joined: January 1, 2006	Over at MSN, Jim Emmerson has a great article on George Lucas: http://movies.msn.com/movies/moviesfeature...-now/?GT1=28002 Here's my favorite part: Influential New Yorker critic Pauline Kael wrote: "Maybe the only real inspiration involved in 'Star Wars' was to set its sci-fi galaxy in the pop-culture past, and turn old-movie ineptness into conscious Pop Art. And maybe there's a touch of genius in keeping it so consistently what it is, even if this is the genius of the plodding. Lucas has got the tone of bad movies down pat: you never catch the actors deliberately acting badly, they just seem to be bad actors, on contract to Monogram or Republic, their klunky enthusiasm polished at the Ricky Nelson school of acting." But while Kael recognized that the movie was "synthesized from the mythology of serials and old comic books" -- "THX 1138" began with an actual trailer for a Buck Rogers serial -- generations of "Star Wars" fans had no idea what she was talking about. So true!!!
	“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.”


Black Tiger	Aug 16 2008, 11:06 AM Post #4
Charter Member Posts: 1,814 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	I find Kael condescending and elitist. But then again the New Yorker is not the place to look for reviews of classic B-films and serials.


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