Why Hollywood hates George Lucas

George Lucas gives his opinion about Hollywood
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[Balmung]

Studio executives: "How come you get 100% profits off of Empire Strikes Back?"
George Lucas: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

[StarWarsTheory]

lol...George doesn't need Hollywood.

[abdullahx]

“Studio executives aren’t exactly the most sophisticated people in the world”
That burnt more than the fires of Mustafar

[trevorporter]

The studios- “The financier will decide your fate”
George- “I AM the financier!”

[calcugedhion]

"It's over Hollywood! I have the high ground!" - George Lucas

[DrNDJas]

Think of this trajectory: Star Wars was supposed to flop, limited budget, unknown actors= most iconic and beloved movie franchise in history.
Disney Sequels= unlimited budget, all resources in Hollywood, hyped to the Max= no soul, no interesting characters we love, forgettable flops.
George knows

[Jorhin]

He's really underappreciated for his constant middle finger to the Hollwood system

[ThOmegaPoint]

"I hate Hollywood, it's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere." - George Lucas

[Nick-GR]

The older i get, the more i appreciate Lucas for stopping making movies because of Hollywood executives stupidity.

[shermanngjazz]

If Hollywood hates you, you're doing something right.

[ChimpRiot]

I already didn't mind the prequels, but the sequel trilogy made me appreciate the prequel trilogy a HUGE amount more.

[mikhailsporyshev]

I heard from a guy, who wrote his own script and won a bunch of contests with. He was invited by studios agents from hollywood to see their bosses to convince them to invest into the movie. He said he had never met more ignorant and small-minded people in his life not before, not after. He said that he had to explain every single concept that was described by a word with more than 2 syllables. And the more you have to explain them the less likely they will give you money.

[doctorhouse]

THIS WHOLE VIDEO IS GEORGE LUCAS SPEAKING PURE FACT!!!

[nestortomaselli]

Hollywood: "We won't make your movie."
George: "I am The Senate."

[dorianoriley]

I think George is a nice guy. I understand if you don't like the prequels, anyway that's no reason to hate on him or insult him. He really is a risk taker, he was a risk taker when he made the OT. He put his heart into his creations with help from other visionary and passionate people. He was a risk taker when he later made the prequels. Didn't turn out to be as good but man, I think people should respect him a lot more because of what he has achieved.

[olesams]

You know, George lucas is the epitome of the American dream. Self made, entrepreneur, against the establishment.
You know what set him on this unique path? Execs being incompetent and dismissing his "stupid space movie", which allowed him to produce toys and get the IP of his own movie. Later movies.

[retrofraction]

The Prequels had 1000x more heart than The Last Jedi

[leftyfourguns]

No one has balls like this in Hollywood anymore. Just a bunch of corporate stooges and puppets doing what the board of directors tell them to (hi J.J Abrams)

[delberry]

"Being oppressed by people who are not as smart as you are" probably no 1. problem on earth.

[authorrayrogers]

Walt Disney was a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin, in turn, became a fan of the Mickey Mouse shorts that Disney was producing. Early in Walt's career, he got the chance to meet and have lunch with Chaplin at Republic Studios, which Chaplin was part owner of. Walt, then in his late twenties, asked the much older Chaplin if he had any advice for a guy trying to make it in the movie business. Chaplin said, 'Own everything you make. Don't give the bastards an inch.'

Walt took that advice to heart. He changed the name of his studio from The Disney Brothers Studio to The Walt Disney Studio and became the sole producer of everything his studio made.

Lucas was of the same spirit as Chaplin and Disney with his independent nature.

It's ironic that years later, Lucas would sell his company to Disney, which had become the very thing both Chaplin and Walt himself hated.