Writer's Block: Lucas for a day
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You know, there's so much "expanded universe" crap out there now that I'm not going to read the answers to this question because I know I wouldn't understand a word of it. To illustrate, in the toy department at the store where I work they have these helpful placards above each toy's section showing the brand logo and a popular character from the franchise. Above the Star Wars section do they have Darth Vader? Yoda? R2-D2? Or even a relative newcomer like Darth Maul or General Grievous? No it's... a fucking COWBOY. I am not kidding, the signature character for the current wave of Star Wars toys is some fucking SPACE COWBOY LOOKING THING complete with a cowboy hat, duster, and some kind of futuristic gas mask to let you know that he's, you know, in space. I have no idea what this creature is supposed to be or what it could begin to have to do with Star Wars.
So if I were making a new Star Wars movie I would not try to add tons and tons of new and exciting stuff to the lore and try to make things more epic. Because George Lucas has proven time and time again that this cannot be done. No, I think I'd just tell the story of a few adventurers who learn the importance of Light versus Dark but don't necessarily save the universe.
In college my friends and I played a really riveting game of the old Star Wars RPG by West End games where we played a bunch of gangsters. Or more specifically, I played a gangster and they were a group of fledgling Jedi I was sheltering from the Sith. We all had to find creative ways to actually run the criminal empire and keep the crime boss happy, yet without actually doing anything evil that would draw the Jedi to the Dark Side. I remember one particularly riveting session where one player had to undergo reconstructive surgery and the Dark Side somehow caused the antisthetic to stop working so it could tempt him by offering to make the pain stop.* It was crazy. Sadly, the semester left us forever on a cliffhanger where a Sith apprentice dramatically entered the Jedi dojo and prepared to throw down. THAT is what I would make a movie of. I would like to say it would be The Godfather with Jedi. Although as over-the-top funny as our group could be it would probably be more like Analyze This with Jedi.
*If you're gong "Oh wait but the Dark Side can't do that. The Dark Side doesn't work that way." Well, the last time I checked Star Wars didn't have alien Sergio Leone gas mask cowboys either! Screw you, my idea's just as valid and it makes more sense! *blows raspberry*
You know, there's so much "expanded universe" crap out there now that I'm not going to read the answers to this question because I know I wouldn't understand a word of it. To illustrate, in the toy department at the store where I work they have these helpful placards above each toy's section showing the brand logo and a popular character from the franchise. Above the Star Wars section do they have Darth Vader? Yoda? R2-D2? Or even a relative newcomer like Darth Maul or General Grievous? No it's... a fucking COWBOY. I am not kidding, the signature character for the current wave of Star Wars toys is some fucking SPACE COWBOY LOOKING THING complete with a cowboy hat, duster, and some kind of futuristic gas mask to let you know that he's, you know, in space. I have no idea what this creature is supposed to be or what it could begin to have to do with Star Wars.
So if I were making a new Star Wars movie I would not try to add tons and tons of new and exciting stuff to the lore and try to make things more epic. Because George Lucas has proven time and time again that this cannot be done. No, I think I'd just tell the story of a few adventurers who learn the importance of Light versus Dark but don't necessarily save the universe.
In college my friends and I played a really riveting game of the old Star Wars RPG by West End games where we played a bunch of gangsters. Or more specifically, I played a gangster and they were a group of fledgling Jedi I was sheltering from the Sith. We all had to find creative ways to actually run the criminal empire and keep the crime boss happy, yet without actually doing anything evil that would draw the Jedi to the Dark Side. I remember one particularly riveting session where one player had to undergo reconstructive surgery and the Dark Side somehow caused the antisthetic to stop working so it could tempt him by offering to make the pain stop.* It was crazy. Sadly, the semester left us forever on a cliffhanger where a Sith apprentice dramatically entered the Jedi dojo and prepared to throw down. THAT is what I would make a movie of. I would like to say it would be The Godfather with Jedi. Although as over-the-top funny as our group could be it would probably be more like Analyze This with Jedi.
*If you're gong "Oh wait but the Dark Side can't do that. The Dark Side doesn't work that way." Well, the last time I checked Star Wars didn't have alien Sergio Leone gas mask cowboys either! Screw you, my idea's just as valid and it makes more sense! *blows raspberry*
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Date: 2011-09-17 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-18 03:22 am (UTC)I thought you meant the human cowboy in the opening of The Old Republic mmo and I was like THAT COULD BE ANYONE!! lol
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Date: 2011-09-18 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-18 05:20 am (UTC)I don't know much about the human cowboy, but he looks like he is just Han Solo in in cowboy hat and duster.
Cad Bane is just badass, really smart, and kicks the jedi's asses ALL the time and HAPPENS to be wearing cowboy clothes. lol.
I REALLY like the Clone Wars show though so I could be biased toward EVERYthing that's in it.
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Date: 2011-09-18 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-18 05:55 am (UTC)