This is George Lucas's Greatest Skill as a Filmmaker!

What is George Lucas's greatest skill? In this video I hope to give tribute to one of my favorite artists and hopefully expose others to what I think was his greatest skill! This video means a lot to me and I hope people can enjoy and understand where I was coming from!

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[Sticks]

Great video, you’re a leader bro! Love what you have to say. And totally agree innovation is key and helping each other out. I like the premieres idea 💡

[brendalotz]

Innovation is massive to move forward and break out of the typical formats and systems. That's how you surprise your audience

[OpticLureProductions]

Perfect timing as im on a huge Star Wars binge right only the Lucas films

[DanLotzJoelDik]

What do you think is George Lucas's greatest skill? Comment below! Give the video a like if you enjoyed it!

[LotzofClients]

What characteristics do you think you try to work on most of Lucas in your past films?

[LotzRemodeling]

Helping the community grow is how the movement goes forward.

[KlemensasKozlovas]

No one really talks about THX1138, but it's one of the best 20th century sci-fi movies I've ever seen

[codyclarke]

When he does something right he also does the opposite, because he knows that 'right' is relative—he understands duality better than any filmmaker in history. He is one of the most balanced artists around, to a point that it unnerves people. I love his work, particularly the prequels.

[EveshkaGhost]

great video. I always saw him as a great innovator too. very important and a huge influence to my indie films. I love George! <3

[DanLotzJoelDik]

Correction (the prequels were shot on Sony not Panasonic... I must have sourced my information from an unreliable source). As a sony fanboy though this makes me even more excited to see how far ahead sony was even back then!

[lotzofremodeling]

100% agree, when you control the film via your own financing vs having to keep happy your investors, he was able to keep his artistic vision.

[joeldik]

Great call to action! What’s crazy is there is so much more to delve into about Lucas. Quite the visionary.

[NeoJesusYT]

It's like you read my mind! I got a vid coming up where I talk about Lucas quite a bit so this video is really a treat.

[DoomedProductions]

There is a case that George Lucas might be the most important figure of American cinema. The filmmaking pioneers in the early 20th century were scientists, inventors, magicians, philosophers. George Lucas is on the few filmmakers who feels like he’s cut from the same cloth.
Great video as always!

[KyleRoy]

Still waiting on that George Lucas biopic... I might have to make it myself... 👀

[brendalotz]

Do you think an innovator and leader are one and the same? If not, why not. More curious of your opinion on that.

[bigemccauley]

I always hated Sony. But the older I get the more I love there cameras

[aaronmarko]

I think in some regards, George Lucas is a remarkably weak filmmaker. At least, post-Star Wars. Really, I may get a lot of backlash for this but I think that while you can certainly describe him as the architect as Star Wars, I think he gets far too much credit for Star Wars. As I see it, most of the truly iconic things associated with the film came in Episode 5 & 6 while Episode 4 was a notoriously bad film that essentially had to be saved in editing. I think in a way, a lot of his unrestrained artistic sensibilities show the worst sides of creativity. While episodes 1, 2 and 3 certainly have their defenders, I think that on the whole, those are pretty bad films. Red Tails certainly was an admirable effort and while you had it "directed" by Anthony Hemingway, you definitely felt George Lucas' greasy fingerprints all over it.

So what does he do well though? Well, I think if you have to ask me, his best skill is really as a businessman. More specifically, a marketer or salesman. There's a reason the extended universe became so extended. And to some degree, I think you could define him as a risk taker. I think in some regard, he'd been open to taking chances on projects back in the 80s and 90s with Lucasarts. Now, while I wouldn't really call that a skill, I would say it's definitely a part of his brand. But these days, I wouldn't really call him an artist. I think in some sense, he was finished being an artist after the financial success of Star Wars back in 1977, or maybe when he signed that first merchandising deal with Fox. If he wants to continue being a filmmaker, I'd be interested in seeing what he does next. But I think he's been potentially tainted by the success of creating a cultural monolith like Star Wars that maybe he feels like if his next project isn't that culturally impactful, why bother doing it?