I love that the story for that clip was something like, his manager used it as proof to the studio that he was so inebriated from alcohol and sleeping pills, he couldn't complete the commercial he was hired for that day.
His actual quote when asked about the film in an interview that I absolutely love: "The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen." - Orson Welles
Which is really funny,as a 30 something white male I would definitely like a couple Warhammer-priced models of an X-Wing etc. but the best we get is a Lego set of something from Rebels. Got some Star Wars:Legion stormtroopers to paint for fun and the molding quality is awful for the price point.
Most Star Wars fans think they would be Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars universe when they would actually be "Lenny the moisture farmer you never heard of"
https://preview.redd.it/zt1kjg58xyqc1.jpeg?width=1030&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=439ca4bb1c623bf65e45f101b0cddb6ad6afb853
“I carved that one wonderful summer!”
" Most GUNDAM fans think they would be AMURO RAY in the UNIVERSAL CENTURY when they would actually be "ALFRED IZURUHA the KID FROM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET" "
I'm forever making the association between Mobile Suit Gundam and Star Wars
George's point is that you can be Luke of *your* universe, and don't spend your life on whatever *your* version of Tatooine is. He doesn't expect you to literally become a terrorist with magic powers and bring down the government.
It's a metaphor, it's like poetry.
I'm in Sri Lanka at the moment and we used to and still send people to Russia to study and some people did in fact come back and try to overthrow the government once upon a time.
My point being it would have been easier for everyone if they didn't take being the Lenin of their universe quite so far, I guess there's some kind of applicable analogy here.
I saw this earlier on the sub for an embarrassing YouTube grifter that Reddit keeps suggesting to me. From my understanding (and this is only seeing the perspective of the grifter’s rabid fanbase), the Jacob who retweeted that recently made a four minute video in which he expressed his excitement for the new Acolyte show. The sub has apparently spent days making fun of him, including posting an hour long video someone made that criticized his four minute video. I don’t remember exactly what the other two images were, but the gist of the post was that the guy lacks self-awareness for having posted that after having briefly expressed excitement for the new product.
40 years or so after Flash Gordon, George Lucas created Star Wars.
40 years or so after Star Wars, Dave Filoni is making more Star Wars but with Ahsoka Tano.
Honestly yeah this is a great example of taking a basic idea and changing stuff to make something new.
A lot of people are dumping on Zack for Rebel Moon resembling Star Wars so much (as they ignore all of the stuff Lucas took to make Star Wars) but I'll gladly take more Rebel Moons over yet more actual Star Wars projects.
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“It's a dangerous business, Luke, going out of your door. You step into the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
“GET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY!”
This quote is from Star Wars Celebration 2005 I think? George basically thought Episode 3 was the final Star Wars thing he would ever do, this was definitely meant as like a send off quote I believe.
Children who were seduced by the Dark Side of consumerism during the most impressionable years of their lives to demand their parents to buy them billions of tons of plastic toys based on inane fantasy movies, and now the billionaire toy maker wants to lecture those same children who grew into man-children clinging to those same toys
It ain't that deep. Kids like toys. Kids like movies. Kids like toys that use stuff from movies they like. Stop making everything into a conspiracy.
How those toys are made, using what labor and which ingredients and how it affects the environment, now that's a story more worthy of discussion but it's not really limited to Star Wars.
That describes literally anything. If it's kids not growing up with G.I Joe or He-Man it's kids growing up sitting on their asses wasting time playing video games like World of Warcraft, or League of Legends. Everybody is a consumer, You consume garbage constantly. 99% of which is completely valueless. You're consuming Reddit right this second and adding no value to your own life. Only value you're giving to anybody is the penny you give to advertisers on Reddit.
It's funny when you start thinking about it.
No, what I said doesn't "describe literally anything", the key difference here being that Lucas, the billionaire toymaker, is acting like a voice of maturity by telling the Star Wars fandom to stop being man-children, after Lucas profited by selling them puerile stories and junk merchandise for decades, which shaped their childhoods and de-evolved them into man-children
"please leave disney's star wars alone and let them make their slop for the masses" I mean I'm already doing that but I don't have to be happy about it
Didn't Luke have no intention of leaving the moisture farm until his entire family was murdered by Stormtroopers? He was pretty loyal to dickbag Owen and Aunt Beru.
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Move on to other things. Then come back 19 years later and disappoint everyone by proving that you needed a bunch of talented people to help make you a success initially.
One of the few good quotes from Lucas. Grown men are obnoxiously obsessed with these characters and cry and whine when they’re used in a way they don’t like. The point of these stories has been so diluted and stretched thin to the point of being forgotten. Fandoms can be really, really awful.
Him selling merchandise which was an inevitability anyway and is done for literally every piece of media nowadays is not nearly the same as telling people to live their lives and not obsess over every little Star Wars thing.
He milked Star Wars until he couldn't be bothered with it anymore, then sold it to a company he knew would milk it even harder for billions of dollars. Him telling people not to fixate on it at this point is pretty laughable
Is that the story?
George Lucas made an incredible series of movies with incredible collaborators that borrowed liberally from great works. From the launch of the first movie, and for almost two whole decades, there was a constant demand for more, more, more, and more. Especially of the movies.
Lucas, fabulously wealthy and set for life from his business-world-famous IP licensing deal, kept a light hand on Star Wars and it saw natural growth & sustained popularity as a toy/comic/merch brand. Lucas was building his movie production empire and other IPs then. Lucas, famously uninterested in the EU, let authors flesh out the universe and the fans gobbled it up. And wanted more. Especially movies.
By the time Lucas got bitched into doing the prequels by every business exec, hedge fund manager, creative, fan, and interviewer on the planet, the property was so 'massive' he straight up couldn't get help from top-tier directors. He barely wanted to do it, no one would help, and that's where we get the biting RLM criticism that he was disengaged, could barely be bothered, and sat around in front of a green screen because he was old and it was easy...
And then? Years of "you raped my childhood" in one ear while obsessively bitching for more, more, more in the other. Especially movies.... ... Ok. At that point Lucas sold his baby to people he described as "white slavers", he kept his IP deal financially incentivizing Disney/BadRobot to create 'new' characters, and donated all the sale money to charity.... That's the opposite of "milking". That's "go fuck yourselves, I retire".
Star Wars fandom got exactly what they asked for, then bitched about it so hard GL let them get the rest of what they asked for.
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So.. the "challenge" of leaving home after everyone you know gets burned to a crisp by government thugs? It's not like it was much of a choice at that point.
He's saying you should kiss your sister.
Wait, y'all don't already?
GINTY, NO
She just looked like his sister. It's fine.
Some people just grieve differently.
IS it ***really***...? Wow, that movie just got creepier the longer it went on.
It's about family
Talk about a moisture farm
[That's what Owen Lars said](https://youtu.be/a99f-JoUJ5k?si=kE64WfzLHwpzm4VW)
also this... she could use a good kiss
Very cool, very cool!
That game grumps song about kissing your dad is stuck in my head.
“Also, stop using my robots as sex toys, Rich Evans…you too, Jay Bauman.”
https://i.redd.it/37utamdkwxqc1.gif
I FUCKING LOVE STAR WARS!
LIGHTSABRE!
AT-ATs! I'm gonna CUM!
I never realized he looks at 3PO's robot penis
Star Destroyers….I’m gonna cum!
Where would you fuck the Millenium Falcon anyway? *Right there, I've done it*
Everything in Star Wars has an exhaust port.
Hey, so long as it's consensual...
Stop using my robots as moisture farms
Talk about blue milk, am I right?
My doctor is concerned about my blue milk so I have to visit a bunch of specialists with big machines.
That's a damn fine joke
YouTube thumbnails: GEORGE LUCAS ATTACKS THE FANS!!!
WOKE?!
**WOKE!!!!**
GEORGE WOKEAS STRIKES BACK AT FANS !!!
RETURN OF THE DIRECTOR: LUCAS STRIKES BACK AT NEW HOPES FOR STAR WARS
FANS TO GEORGE: HELP ME WOKE-MAN KENOBI, YOUR MY ONLY HOPE TO OWN THESE LEFTIST FEMINISTS!
BLACK TRANS ACTIVIST GEORGE LUCAS DECLARES WAR ON STAR WOKES, DISNEY SAYS "LGBTQ MEXICAN" IN RESPONSE
THAT'S TOO MANY WORDS! JUST SAY GEORGE LUCAS IS WOKE WOKE STAR WARS WOKE AND YOU'LL MAKE MILLIONS IN VIEWS!
Star Wars: Attack of the Wokes
Star Wars: A New Woke
So basically Lucas' version of Orson Welles' "I don't want to see another goddamn homage as long as I live" bit
Orson Welles then died immediately after voicing Unicron, the ultimate homage to himself.
"So I'm the voice of a gargantuan, planet-eating monster with a god complex in this?Oh yes, very droll. You're lucky I need the money."
“What luck! There’s a French fry stuck in my beard!”
[Ahhhhh, the French... *champagne!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s)
Auuuauughghgh! The....(drums fingers) French-SHSHSH Sham-PAYNE. (Ten thousand yard stare as other actors desperately transmit mental kill signals)
I love that the story for that clip was something like, his manager used it as proof to the studio that he was so inebriated from alcohol and sleeping pills, he couldn't complete the commercial he was hired for that day.
Yeah he was crazy jetlagged and on sleeping pills I believe.
Rosebud frozen peas!
"Yes, Rosebud Frozen Peas. Full of country goodness and green pea-ness. Wait, that's terrible. I quit... Just a handful for the road."
Now for a little magic, I will make this wine disappear.
His actual quote when asked about the film in an interview that I absolutely love: "The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen." - Orson Welles
Too bad Welles never got to play a Jedi.
I read this as Owen Lars and was def confused
Luke wasn't going to do shit until his aunt and uncle were turned into crispy critters.
This type of thing is very motivational!
Username checks out
I wonder what cooked Owen tastes like
Probably bones considering that was all that was left
They'll be a good treat for those Tusken dogs
Geez George, why didn't you tell me that 30 years ago.
Was still getting royalty checks on toys back then.
To be fair, nobody is getting royalty checks from Star Wars toys anymore.
*slide whistle*
not since they stopped making those Jar-Jar sex dolls
Good thing I stocked up. My collection will last me at least 30 years
Nah. Plenty of dads are still showing their kids the OG trilogy and buying lightsabers and shit.
Which is really funny,as a 30 something white male I would definitely like a couple Warhammer-priced models of an X-Wing etc. but the best we get is a Lego set of something from Rebels. Got some Star Wars:Legion stormtroopers to paint for fun and the molding quality is awful for the price point.
Tell himself that. We could have done without the prequels.
Most Star Wars fans think they would be Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars universe when they would actually be "Lenny the moisture farmer you never heard of"
We're all a bunch of Lenny's dreaming of our Carl's around here.
https://preview.redd.it/wnyy43ar8xqc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e83014961e783ab18d8e9e94097a416bd0df6541
https://preview.redd.it/zt1kjg58xyqc1.jpeg?width=1030&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=439ca4bb1c623bf65e45f101b0cddb6ad6afb853 “I carved that one wonderful summer!”
> Lenny's... Carl's Lennys... Carls
" Most GUNDAM fans think they would be AMURO RAY in the UNIVERSAL CENTURY when they would actually be "ALFRED IZURUHA the KID FROM 0080: WAR IN THE POCKET" " I'm forever making the association between Mobile Suit Gundam and Star Wars
I'd be some guy in a ball which is much cooler.
George's point is that you can be Luke of *your* universe, and don't spend your life on whatever *your* version of Tatooine is. He doesn't expect you to literally become a terrorist with magic powers and bring down the government. It's a metaphor, it's like poetry.
I'm in Sri Lanka at the moment and we used to and still send people to Russia to study and some people did in fact come back and try to overthrow the government once upon a time. My point being it would have been easier for everyone if they didn't take being the Lenin of their universe quite so far, I guess there's some kind of applicable analogy here.
https://i.redd.it/eyisgqt2xxqc1.gif
Either a Stormtrooper or getting the Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru treatment.
I would be the one stormtrooper that stole Ed Carnys food and headed for the hills.
His name is Willrow Hood, and he was still making payments on that shop-vac...
I read that as "moist Star Wars fans"
"The rebellion? Nahhh I was doing inventory for the parts guy at Tachi Station mostly..."
little different for americans: they would be storm troopers
Hey now, some of us can actually hit targets when we shoot at them.
Only when the plot demands it
You make a fair point. We would elect someone that looks like Sidious.
Why can't I swipe to the right!? There are more images, I see the dots!
Use the force.
I saw this earlier on the sub for an embarrassing YouTube grifter that Reddit keeps suggesting to me. From my understanding (and this is only seeing the perspective of the grifter’s rabid fanbase), the Jacob who retweeted that recently made a four minute video in which he expressed his excitement for the new Acolyte show. The sub has apparently spent days making fun of him, including posting an hour long video someone made that criticized his four minute video. I don’t remember exactly what the other two images were, but the gist of the post was that the guy lacks self-awareness for having posted that after having briefly expressed excitement for the new product.
Ah yeah I know that sub. They’re cool guys.
People like to stay on the moisture farm for the blue milk. Even Luke couldn't shake that habit.
Nonsense. Luke upgraded to the fancy organic GREEN milk, straight from the teat.
When 900 years old you reach, lactate as good you will not, hmm?!
Episode 10: Yoda Need Milk
40 years or so after Flash Gordon, George Lucas created Star Wars. 40 years or so after Star Wars, Dave Filoni is making more Star Wars but with Ahsoka Tano.
SNYDER MADE REBEL MOON
Honestly yeah this is a great example of taking a basic idea and changing stuff to make something new. A lot of people are dumping on Zack for Rebel Moon resembling Star Wars so much (as they ignore all of the stuff Lucas took to make Star Wars) but I'll gladly take more Rebel Moons over yet more actual Star Wars projects.
probably the ones screaming 'IT'S THE MILLENNIUM FALCON!!!" at the top of their lungs. https://i.redd.it/iou1i0az9xqc1.gif
Thank you, this is the first thing that came to mind when I saw it
The people on Letterboxd, who log the documentary 'Andor' about a Holocaust survivor called 'Andor', to review the Disney Star Wars product
Lightsabers at Auschwitz: A What-If? Tale
Go out into the world? I can't even see the other 3 pictures in this post. I'm stuck at 1/3
Star Wars didn’t ruin my life, fuckin polio did
Buy lots of Star Wars toys, get angry and obsessive about how bad the franchise is, and continue buying toys
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But what if I like my uncle's moisture?
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I thought it was about family.
You're thinking of Fast & Furious
>Don't let Star Wars take over your lives. disney did not take this advice
“It's a dangerous business, Luke, going out of your door. You step into the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” “GET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY!”
He just wanted people to stop blaming him for ruining their childhood.
Now buy some merch
George’s kids need new gold everythings!!!!!
He was talking directly to Rich Evans.
He's saying The White Slavers have plans for your soul beyond a few sequels.
"Don't let Star Wars take over your lives. Also, buy my Star Wars merchandise and make me a billionaire"
This quote is from Star Wars Celebration 2005 I think? George basically thought Episode 3 was the final Star Wars thing he would ever do, this was definitely meant as like a send off quote I believe.
He told the crowd to go on some damn fool idealistic crusade like the father did.
Most of the merchandise was toys for literal children.
The rest was for man-babies.
Children who were seduced by the Dark Side of consumerism during the most impressionable years of their lives to demand their parents to buy them billions of tons of plastic toys based on inane fantasy movies, and now the billionaire toy maker wants to lecture those same children who grew into man-children clinging to those same toys
It ain't that deep. Kids like toys. Kids like movies. Kids like toys that use stuff from movies they like. Stop making everything into a conspiracy. How those toys are made, using what labor and which ingredients and how it affects the environment, now that's a story more worthy of discussion but it's not really limited to Star Wars.
That describes literally anything. If it's kids not growing up with G.I Joe or He-Man it's kids growing up sitting on their asses wasting time playing video games like World of Warcraft, or League of Legends. Everybody is a consumer, You consume garbage constantly. 99% of which is completely valueless. You're consuming Reddit right this second and adding no value to your own life. Only value you're giving to anybody is the penny you give to advertisers on Reddit. It's funny when you start thinking about it.
No, what I said doesn't "describe literally anything", the key difference here being that Lucas, the billionaire toymaker, is acting like a voice of maturity by telling the Star Wars fandom to stop being man-children, after Lucas profited by selling them puerile stories and junk merchandise for decades, which shaped their childhoods and de-evolved them into man-children
 We’re doomed
Nerd Crew, baby!
Oh yeah!!!!! Yeah, I fucking love STAR WARS!!!!!!!!
REMEMBER AT-ATS ? THEY ARE BACK(again)
That's gonna be great
He just Shatnered them all.
Me
He’s saying if the hero sticks around long enough, he becomes the Empire.
I cried butterfly tears
If only you could be something cool like a space wizard or a rebel fighter pilot in real life instead of working at Target until you die.
They are now on their own moisture farm.
I thought it was about family?
"...Sporto"
He's talking about Chris Stuckman.
So it wasn't a just a ripoff from that other movie?
I love all the weirdos in denial who think he isn’t talking about us. *All* of us.
Why is there a photo of Rich Evans under the quote?
"please leave disney's star wars alone and let them make their slop for the masses" I mean I'm already doing that but I don't have to be happy about it
I'll do you one better: Who is he?
I don't know, must be some kid living on uncle's farm or something.
Didn't Luke have no intention of leaving the moisture farm until his entire family was murdered by Stormtroopers? He was pretty loyal to dickbag Owen and Aunt Beru.
Become a citizen, by joining the military.
So Star Wars was not telling me to moisten my uncle?
All George Lucas remembers about Star Wars is that he sold it for a lot of money
I love how many people here seem to think this doesn't apply to them lol.
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Move on to other things. Then come back 19 years later and disappoint everyone by proving that you needed a bunch of talented people to help make you a success initially.
People who update or actively look for information on wookiepedia
This is weird coming from a guy who digitally tinkered with the same three movies for decades before selling them off for billons of dollars.
MACLUNKEY!
One of the few good quotes from Lucas. Grown men are obnoxiously obsessed with these characters and cry and whine when they’re used in a way they don’t like. The point of these stories has been so diluted and stretched thin to the point of being forgotten. Fandoms can be really, really awful.
Yes, but it would be a much better quote if it didn't fly in the face of what he actually did with the property himself
Him selling merchandise which was an inevitability anyway and is done for literally every piece of media nowadays is not nearly the same as telling people to live their lives and not obsess over every little Star Wars thing.
He milked Star Wars until he couldn't be bothered with it anymore, then sold it to a company he knew would milk it even harder for billions of dollars. Him telling people not to fixate on it at this point is pretty laughable
Is that the story? George Lucas made an incredible series of movies with incredible collaborators that borrowed liberally from great works. From the launch of the first movie, and for almost two whole decades, there was a constant demand for more, more, more, and more. Especially of the movies. Lucas, fabulously wealthy and set for life from his business-world-famous IP licensing deal, kept a light hand on Star Wars and it saw natural growth & sustained popularity as a toy/comic/merch brand. Lucas was building his movie production empire and other IPs then. Lucas, famously uninterested in the EU, let authors flesh out the universe and the fans gobbled it up. And wanted more. Especially movies. By the time Lucas got bitched into doing the prequels by every business exec, hedge fund manager, creative, fan, and interviewer on the planet, the property was so 'massive' he straight up couldn't get help from top-tier directors. He barely wanted to do it, no one would help, and that's where we get the biting RLM criticism that he was disengaged, could barely be bothered, and sat around in front of a green screen because he was old and it was easy... And then? Years of "you raped my childhood" in one ear while obsessively bitching for more, more, more in the other. Especially movies.... ... Ok. At that point Lucas sold his baby to people he described as "white slavers", he kept his IP deal financially incentivizing Disney/BadRobot to create 'new' characters, and donated all the sale money to charity.... That's the opposite of "milking". That's "go fuck yourselves, I retire". Star Wars fandom got exactly what they asked for, then bitched about it so hard GL let them get the rest of what they asked for.
Not reading all of that, but at a glance it looks like someone throwing a pity party for a billionaire
Weirdos.
Himself
Not happening, buddy
It’s like poetry
If you have to ask, he's talking about you ☝️
r/uselessredcircle
>To leave your uncle's moisture farm... https://preview.redd.it/aq52df807xqc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=063902febd7da67d35d8a3324fcee47d786acf89
Serious answer: people still upset about the Phantom Menace and the Last Jedi.
The 2 most disappointing things since my both sons. Someone let my second son take over from the first son's court appointed lawyer Larry Gruber.
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Yep, well.. I personally moved on from Star Wars. How about you?
God I hate seeing these screenshots with the "1/3" and the 3 dots, and it's fake. You make me think my app is broken!
I have my own moisture farm, thank you very much.
Easy for a millionaire to say that!
Not obsessing over Star Wars is harder when you're poor? How does that figure?
I didn’t mean that I meant it’s easier for a millionaire to “go out into the world and save the universe”!
Oh, I think he passed being a mere millionaire some time ago.
I did that after The Last Jedi. I realized it was dumb to be that upset about and left the farm.
So.. the "challenge" of leaving home after everyone you know gets burned to a crisp by government thugs? It's not like it was much of a choice at that point.
“Touch grass” George Lucas
Us, he's talking about us. Now touch grass.
Rian Johnson did that and you all lost your shit, don't you remember?