Wednesday, 21 December 2016

The Ultimate Father

The Old Man Must Die -
and The New Man will Discover, to His Inexpressible Joy, 
That He Has Never Existed. 
"But ultimately, we all know that Darth Vader’s more powerful than he is.

He’s The Ultimate Father Who is All Powerful.






THE SON BECOMES THE FATHER, AND THE FATHER THE SON.

DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW;

LOVE IS THE LAW - LOVE UNDER WILL.


AS ABOVE, SO BELOW



It's Christmas in Heaven, 
There's Great Films on TV!
'The Sound of Music', Twice an Hour, 
and 'Jaws' I, II and III.


GEORGE LUCAS: 
It’s essentially The Same in a Different Kind of Way. 
Darth Vader was a — A Composite Man

I mean, he was… Half-Machine, Half-Man. 

And that’s where he lost a lot of his Humanity is that he — you know, he has mechanical legs. 

You know — and he has mechanical arms possibly and he’s hooked up to a breathing machine. 

So there’s not much, actually, Human left in him. 

This one is all Human. 

And I wanted him to be like An Alien, but I wanted him to be Human enough that we could identify with — with him. 

Because he’s not a — a — a sort of a monster we can’t identify with

He’s…

BILL MOYERS: 
He’s us.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
…he’s — yeah. 

He’s The Evil within us.

BILL MOYERS:
 I’ve had psychotherapists tell me that they use “Star Wars” sometimes to deal with the problems of their child patients. 

And they’ve said that the most popular character among the children is  
Darth Vader.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Well, Children Love Power because Children are The Powerless. 


And so their fantasies all centre on having Power. 

And who’s more Powerful than Darth Vader, you know? 

And, some, you know, will be attracted to Luke Skywalker because he’s The Good Guy
 
But ultimately, we all know that Darth Vader’s more Powerful than he is.

And as time goes on, you discover that 

He is more powerful because he’s the — 


He’s The Ultimate Father Who is All Powerful.
 

BILL MOYERS: 
This is where I disagree somewhat with our friend Joseph Campbell who said that :

" The Young Man has to slay His Father before he can become an adult himself. "

It seems to me, and I think you’re right on here, that — 

The Young Man has to identify — 
has to recognize and acknowledge that 

He is His Father and is not His Father.


"TO BE OR NOT TO BE?"



GEORGE LUCAS: 
You know, Joe used to talk about the — the basic issues that — that — that create the Mystery of Life. 


Of, you know, birth and death, and I like to always add, you know, your relationship with your parents.



BILL MOYERS: 
Do you know yet what is going to be the transforming of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader?

GEORGE LUCAS:
 Yeah.

BILL MOYERS: 
You already know that?

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Yeah, I know what that is. 
And it’s — it’s — it’s sprinkled throughout this episode. 


ANAKIN SKYWALKER DOESN'T HAVE A FATHER - AT ALL.


AND HE MAY ONLY HAVE A BIRTH-MOTHER, BEFORE ESSENTIALLY BEING ORPAHNED IN EPISODE I 

(a fact which becomes concrete during the course of Episode II) - 

IF HIS CONCEPTION WAS THE RESULT OF A 'VERGENCE IN THE FORCE', IT'S PERFECTLY POSSIBLE THAT SHIMI SKYWALKER IS JUST A VESSEL OR A LIVING FORCE-ARK ACTING AS A SURROGATE FOR SOMETHING ELSE, PERHAPS THE FORCE ITSELF, FROM AMONGST THE PANTHEON OF THE INVISIBLE.


I mean, it’s — it’s all of the — the groundwork’s been laid in this episode. 


And the — the film is ultimately about the Dark Side and the light side, and those sides are designed around Compassion and Greed


GREED IS GOOD.

Gekko
Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me Mr. Cromwell as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak.
Well, ladies and gentlemen we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality.

America, America has become a second-rate power.

Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder.

The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake.

Today, management has no stake in the company! 

All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company.
And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary?
Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent.

You own The company. That's right, You, The Stockholder.
And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Cromwell: 
This is an outrage! You're out of line Gekko!

Gekko: 
Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year.
Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out.
One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these Vice-Presidents.

The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest.

Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated.

In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars.
 Thank you.

 I am not a Destroyer of Companies. 

I am a Liberator of them! 

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that Greed, for lack of a better word, is Good. 

Greed is right, Greed works. 

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. 

Greed, in all of its forms; Greed for Life, for Money, for Love, Knowledge has marked the upward surge of Mankind. 
 
And Greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. 

Thank you very much.


CHO-JE:
 We can but point a finger along the way.
A Man must go inside and face His fears and hopes, his Hates and his loves, and watch them wither away.
Then he will find his True Self, which is No Self.
He will see his True Mind, which is No Mind.

SARAH:
And that's what meditation's all about?

CHO-JE:
Yes! The Old Man must die, and The New Man will discover, to his inexpressible joy, that he has never existed. 

SARAH: 
Well, good luck, mate.

MIKE: 
I think I'm going to need it.

SARAH
But if you do start ferreting about in your subconscious, aren't you going to turn up all sorts of nasties? I mean, complexes, phobias and what have you? 

CHO-JE: 
Of course, The Demons and The Divinities. 
But in our way, the Vajrayana Way, we use the powers to help us. 
If we will excuse me, it's time for the meditation class. 

MIKE: 
But couldn't that be dangerous? If these, these powers were used wrongly. 

CHO-JE: 
It could be so, yes. 
By evil men in their ignorance and craving, it could indeed be most dangerous. 

MIKE:
I see.

CHO-JE:
Such a thing could never happen here.

****

SARAH:
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Doctor.

DOCTOR:
What have you got to be sorry about? You did very well. You should be proud of yourself.

SARAH:
To let that creature take me over like that. I mean, I actually volunteered.

K'ANPO:
We are all apt to surrender ourselves to domination. Even the strongest of us.

DOCTOR: Do you mean me?

K'ANPO: Not all spiders sit on the back.

SARAH: Oh, I don't understand. You're not saying they've taken over the Doctor, are you?


DOCTOR: 
Oh no, Sarah, no. 
No, he's talking about my Greed. 

SARAH:
Greed? You?

DOCTOR:
Yes, my Greed for knowledge, for information. He's saying that all this is basically my fault. If I hadn't taken the crystal in the first place.
I know who you are now...!

K'ANPO: You were always a little slow on the uptake, my boy.

DOCTOR: It's been a long, long time.

SARAH: You know each other?

DOCTOR:
Oh, yes.
Yes, he was my teacher. My, my guru, if you like.
In another time, another place.

K'ANPO:
Another life.

SARAH:
Oh, no. Don't tell me you're a Time Lord too?

K'ANPO:
I am. But the discipline they serve was not for me.

DOCTOR:
No. Nor for me.

K'ANPO:
I wouldn't have chosen your alternative. To borrow a TARDIS was a little naughty, to say the least.

DOCTOR:
Yes, well, I had to get away. I hadn't your power.

K'ANPO: Indeed. I regenerated and came to Earth, to Tibet.

SARAH:
Regenerated?

DOCTOR:
Yes. Yes, when a Time Lord's body wears out, he regenerates, becomes new.

K'ANPO:
That is why we can live such a long time.

SARAH:
I see. Well, what about Cho-Je? 
Is he a Time Lord, too?

K'ANPO:
In a sense. In another sense, he doesn't exist. 

SARAH:
You've lost me.

DOCTOR:
....Me too, I'm afraid.

K'ANPO:
Cho-Je is a projection of my own self.

"And we all have those two sides of us and that we have to make sure that those two sides of us are in balance.

BILL MOYERS: 
I think it’s going to be very hard for the audience to accept that this innocent cherub almost of a — of a boy, who’s playing Anakin Skywalker, can ever be capable of the things that we know happen later on. 

And I’m sure you’ll take care of that but, you know, I look at Hitler and wonder what did he look like at eight years old, or Stalin …

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Mm-hmm …

BILL MOYERS:
 … or …

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Well, there are lots of — 

There’s a lot of people like that. 


I mean, you just —  
You see them all the time  
and you — that’s what I wonder :

I wonder, 
How can those people possibly exist


How could they live with themselves? 


How could they — 

You know, what is it in The Human Brain that gives us the capacity to be as Evil as Human Beings have been in The Past and are right now.

BILL MOYERS: 
Well, you’ve been probing that for a good while now.

GEORGE LUCAS: 
Yeah.

BILL MOYERS: 
Twenty-five years. 

Have you come to any conclusions?

GEORGE LUCAS: 
I haven’t.



The Son :
Father... if You can hear Me... 
I failed... I've failed You, I've failed Myself... and all humanity. 
I've traded my birthright... for a life of submission in a world ruled by Your enemies... 
There's nobody left to help them now... the people of the world... since I... 

FATHER!

Father!! 
Farther!! 
Father!! 
Farther!!

Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit,
Father, into Your hands -

Why have You forsaken Me?

In Your eyes, forsaken Me?

In Your thoughts, forsaken Me?

In Your heart forsaken, Me, oh -

Trust in My Self-Righteous Suicide.

I cry, 
When angels deserve to die in My Self-Righteous Suicide

I cry,
When angels deserve to die.


[as The Son starts to walk away from the crystal console, the remaining crystal starts to glow, he puts it into the crystal console, The Father appears]

 The Father: 

Listen carefully my son... for we shall never speak again... if you hear Me now... then You have used the only means left to You... the crystal source in which our communications begun... 

The Circle is now Complete.


When I left You, I was but The Learner, now I am The Master.
"Our Rob, or Ross."

The Father: 
. You have made a dreadful mistake Kal-El... 
You Did This of Your Own Free Will... 
In spite of all I could say to dissuade You...

The Son : 
I... uh...

The Father : 
Now you return to Me for one last chance to redeem Yourself... 
This, too, I have finally anticipated, My Son... 
Look at Me, Kal-El... 
Once before when You were small, I died while giving you a chance for life, and even now though it will exhaust the final energy left within Me

The Son : 
[broken on the verge of tears, turns his head] Father... no...

The Father: 
Look at me Kal-El... 

The Kryptonian Prophecy will at last be fulfilled... 

The Son Becomes The Father...
 The Father Becomes The Son... 

Farewell forever, Kal-El... 
Remember Me, My Son...

Jor-El disappears and reappears next to Kal-El in full form, he places his hand on his shoulder 

The Father :
My Son...

The Son is Reborn as God ]



" The Young Man has to slay his father before he can become an adult himself. "


It seems to me, and I think you’re right on here, that the 

— that

The Young Man has to identify — 

has to recognize and acknowledge that 


He is His Father and is not His Father.

"TO BE OR NOT TO BE?"

The Initiate :
No, That's not True.
That's Impossible.
I Don't Believe it.

The Master :
This, is why You Fail.



Rimmer Sr:
Arnold, I'm not your father.

Rimmer:
But that's impossible! 
It's not true!

Rimmer Sr:
Look inside yourself and you will know I speak the truth. 
Your father wasn't me, it's Dungo, our gardener.

Rimmer:
But he's a babbling imbecile!

Lister:
A billion-piece jigsaw suddenly falls into beautiful place....





Blind Drunk Lister (Video Recording) :
You're turned out to be a terrible disappointment to me, David.


From now on, if you are to continue to live under My Roof, You are going to have to learn to abide by My Rules.

It's time for Tough Love - time for a taste of Daddy Discipline.

Hungover Lister :
This is so unfair! I hate you!!


Lister: 
I remember when my dad died, y'know. 
I was only six. 
I got loads of presents off everyone like it was Christmas. 

I remember wishing a couple more people would die so I could complete my Lego set. 

My grandma tried to explain, you know. 

She said he'd gone away and he wasn't coming back. 
So, I wanted to know where, like, you know. She said he was very happy and he'd gone to the same place as my goldfish. 

So I thought they'd flushed him down the bog. 

I thought he was just round the U bend, you know. 

I used to stuff food down, you know, and magazines and that for him to read. 

They took me to a child psychologist in the end because they found me with my head down the bowl reading him the football results.

Cat: 
Yeoooowwww!!! 
My stomach has been pumped and now I'm hungry. 
Hey, there you are! 
Hey man, I'm so hungry, I just have to eat!!

Lister: 
Shhhhh!!! Rimmer's dad's just died.

Cat: 
Well, I'd prefer a chicken....


Lister: 
You never said much about him. 
You must have been pretty close.

Rimmer: 
Close?

Lister: 
Sorry, very close.

Rimmer: 
Close...? 

I hated him! 

Lister: 
Eh..?!

Rimmer: 
I detested his fat, stupid guts, the pop-eyed, balding git!

Lister: 
Why are you so completely blown away about him dying then?

Rimmer: 
Oh, it doesn't mean to say I didn't respect him, didn't look up to him. 
It was only natural, he was my father.

Lister: 
There's nothing natural about your family, Rimmer.

[ Yeah, takes one to know one... ]

All Criticism is Autobiography.


Dig Yourself.


"For a long time, you'll think that you were abandoned, but you weren't, man. 

You were put here to create a paradox, an unbreakable circle. 

With us going 'round and 'round in time, the human race can never become extinct. 

We're like... a kind of holding pattern. 

I'll see ya, son.




Kryten :
"Mum"... I never had a Mum...

Holly :

[ Her Tiara Askew
I never had a Mum, neither...



[everyone is drunk]

Rimmer: 
Well, I'd have thought it was obvious. 
Two people, unable to contain their desires, had an illicit liaison. 
A liaison, that an unforgiving society would not accept. 
And you were the fruit of their forbidden passion. 
You're forbidden passion fruit.

Lister: 
What are you saying, Rimmer?

Rimmer
I'm saying that there is a very real possibility that your parents were brother and sister.

Lister: 
Hey. I'm baring my Innermost, here!

Rimmer
How many toes have you got?

Lister
Ten.

Cat: 
Yeah, on both feet!

Lister: 
Altogether!

Kryten: 
They're not webbed or anything are they?

Lister:
 Look, they weren't related, all right?

[Kryten falls off his chair]




[ It is the day before Father's Day, and so, by long tradition, Lister needs to get blind drunk before making himself a card, so he can have Kryten hand-deliver it to him the following year. ]

Rimmer: 
And what are you doing today that makes you so "busy"?

Lister: 
I'm getting drunk!

Rimmer: 
That's your day?


Lister:
Not just any old drunk. 
I'm talking traffic-cone hugging, pavement licking kershnickered. 
That's my day, cheers!



Rimmer Sr.: 
I just wanted to say...

Rimmer: 
Yes...?

Rimmer Sr: 
I just wanted to say...

Rimmer: 
What?

Rimmer Sr: 
You're a total smeghead!

Rimmer: 
What?! This isn't my fantasy!


Cat: 
No. It's mine!

[ Robs Rimmer's Havana cigar out of his hand and scarpers. ]

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Leviathan

" These expressions of Themistocles made Eurybiades suspect that if he retreated the Athenians would fall off from him. 

When one of Eretria began to oppose him, he said, 

'Have you any thing to say of War, 
that are like an ink-fish? 

You have a sword, but no heart.' * ” 



[ * The Teuthis, loligo, or cuttlefish, is said to have a bone or cartilage shaped like a sword, and was conceived to have no heart. ]

"The first thing you need to know 
about Goldman Sachs is that 
it's everywhere

The world's most powerful investment bank is 
a great vampire squid 
wrapped around the face of Humanity, 
relentlessly jamming its blood funnel 
into anything that smells like Money. 

In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, 
which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall 
of the suddenly swindled dry American Empire, 
reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates. "

Matt Tabbi


Japanese Man
So sorry, Kyle, but I am starving. Which would you rather I eat? 
Should I eat a cuttlefish and asparagus or the vanilla paste-o?

Kyle Broflovski: [muffled] 
Vanilla paste! Vanilla paste!


Job 41 Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

The Saturnine Hex and Hornéd Beasts


GEORGE LUCAS: 
" A lot of evil characters have horns. 
It’s very interesting. 
I mean, you’re trying to build a icon of Evil, and you sort of wonder why the same images evoke the same emotions.... "






" Captain Kirk, I invite you and your officers to join me. 

But do not bring that one, the one with the pointed ears. 

He is much like Pan, and Pan always bored me. "

- Apollo

 "And when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony, and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord."

This was Jerome's effort to faithfully translate the difficult, original Hebrew Masoretic text, which uses the term, karan (based on the root, keren, which often means "horn"); the term is now interpreted to mean "shining" or "emitting rays" (somewhat like a horn).

Although some historians believe that Jerome made an outright error, Jerome himself appears to have seen keren as a metaphor for "glorified", based on other commentaries he wrote, including one on Ezekiel, where he wrote that Moses' face had "become 'glorified', or as it says in the Hebrew, 'horned'."

The Greek Septuagint, which Jerome also had available, translated the verse as 
"Moses knew not that the appearance of the skin of his face was glorified."

[ Radiation Burns ]

In general medieval theologians and scholars understood that Jerome had intended to express a glorification of Moses' face, by his use of the Latin word for "horned."

 The understanding that the original Hebrew was difficult and was not likely to literally mean "horns" persisted into and through the Renaissance.

DOCTOR: 
Jo, Captain Yates, would you mind drawing the curtains? 

(The Doctor sits behind a slide projector.

DOCTOR: 
Come on, Jo, stir your stumps. 
Now then. All right? 
Now then, tell me. Who's that? 

(A papyrus image of a ram's head with the solar disc between its horns.

JO: 
An Egyptian god, isn't it? 

DOCTOR: 
Top of the class, Jo, top of the class! 
That's right, that's the Egyptian god Khnum, with horns. 


There's another one, a Hindu demon

ALL: 
With horns. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. Thank you very much. 
And our old friend the Horned Beast. 

YATES: 
I don't get it. 

DOCTOR: 
Probably because I haven't finished, Captain Yates. 

YATES: 
Oh sorry, Doctor. 

Miss HAWTHORNE: 
Oh, you could go on all day and all night showing us pretty pictures. I mean, horns have been a symbol of power ever since... 

DOCTOR: 
Ever since man began? 
Exactly. But why? 
All right, Captain Yates, the curtains. 
Now creatures like those have been seen over and over again throughout the history of man, and man has turned them into myths, gods or devils, but they're neither. 
They are, in fact, creatures from another world. 

BENTON: 
Do you mean like the Axons and the Cybermen? 

DOCTOR: 
Precisely, only far, far older and immeasurably more dangerous. 

JO: 
And they came here in spaceships like that tiny one up at the barrow? 

DOCTOR: 
That's right. 
They're Dæmons from the planet Dæmos, which is :-

JO:
Sixty thousand light years away on the other side of the galaxy. 

DOCTOR: 
And they first came to Earth nearly one hundred thousand years ago.


BILL MOYERS: The mesmerizing character for me is — is Darth Maul.

When I saw him, I thought of Satan and Lucifer in “Paradise Lost.” I thought of the Devil in “Dante’s Inferno.” I mean, you’ve really — have brought from — it seems to me — from way down in our unconsciousness this image of — of — of Evil, of The Other.

GEORGE LUCAS: Well, yeah. We were trying to find somebody who could compete with Darth Vader, who’s one of the most, you know, famous evil characters now. And so we went back into representations of Evil.

GEORGE LUCAS: Not only, the Christian, but also Hindu and Greek mythology and other religious icons and, obviously, then designed our own — our own character out of that.

BILL MOYERS: What did you find when you went back there in — in all of these representations? There’s something …

GEORGE LUCAS: A lot of — a lot of evil characters have horns. It’s very interesting. I mean, you’re trying to build a icon of Evil, and you sort of wonder why the same images evoke the same emotions.

BILL MOYERS: What emotion do you feel, George, when you look at Darth Maul?

GEORGE LUCAS: I think the first thing you’re supposed to react to is fear. You’re supposed to go, ‘Ooh.’ You — you wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alley. And I’m not creating a monster. You know, that’s like — I — I didn’t want to create some ugly — you know, this — somebody ripped out their intestines and threw them all over their head — and it’s — you can’t watch it. This is something …

BILL MOYERS: It’s actually mesmerizing.

GEORGE LUCAS: This is something that is more — it works in a different emotional way. It’s not repulsive, it’s just — it’s — it’s something you should be afraid of.





Sunday, 18 December 2016

All Criticism is Self-Criticism - George Lucas & The Tao of Episode I - VI


Intitiate :
" What's in there? "

Master :
" Only What You take with You. "

" Oh, for my members and friends of the press, my self-appointed white critics, I was reading Mr. Bernard Shaw two days ago, and I came across a very important quote which I think is most apropos for you. He says, 

"All criticism is a[n] autobiography."

Dig yourself. "

Stokely Carmichael 

Dig Yourself.


" The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what I did was try to clean up the confusion, but obviously it upset people because they wanted Solo [who seemed to be the one who shot first in the original] to be a cold-blooded killer, but he actually isn’t

It had been done in all close-ups and it was confusing about who did what to whom. 

I put a little wider shot in there that made it clear that Greedo is the one who shot first, but everyone wanted to think that Han shot first, because they wanted to think that he actually just gunned him down. "

Only What You Take with You.

Dig Yourself.

Only What You Take with You.
Smoke That MF-er like it Ain't No Thang.

Dig Yourself.


So - Who Likes Lists..?

Dig Yourself.


BILL MOYERS: 
A professor I know said that he recently asked his freshman class how many of them had seen all three of the trilogy, and everyone in the class raised his hand. 
And he said to me,  
‘I hope Lucas knows he’s mentoring an entire generation of — of — of young Americans.’

GEORGE LUCAS: 
I — I have a philosophy that we all teach, and we all teach every day of our lives. 

And it’s not necessarily what we lecture. 

I’ve discovered kids don’t like lectures at all. 

But it is really the way we live our lives.
And what we do with our lives and — and the way we conduct ourselves.

And once in a while they listen to the lectures. 

So when I make the films, I’m very aware of the fact that I’m teaching on a much larger scale than I would just as a parent or somebody walking through life. 

Because I have this megaphone. 

Anybody in the media has a very large megaphone that they can reach a lot of different people, and so whatever they say, whatever they do, however they conduct themselves, whatever they produce has an influence and is teaching somebody something. 

And I try to be aware of what it is I’m saying.  "