min 48:06 "Fortunately the studio never saw dailies of this scene, if they had , they would have fired me on the spot" XD Gotta love Lucas. GENIUS!!!! George should start a new production company focused exclusively on experimental film making.
@@djnary2896 No ones saying George himself making them but, have a company of storytellers and directors make experimental things. Like Henry Seleck with LAIKA
Im in love with this movie so much since childhood that I even making a cosplay of Android cop right now and I never knew this existed. You made my day thank you! :) Im gonna wait till friday night to watch this simultaneously with the movie, cause this will be an event for me :)
Murch and Lucas -- both highly intelligent, naturally analytic, and able to express their ideas in a clear, articulate fashion. I'm more familiar with Murch, who is wonderful at expressing complicated ideas in simple language and images (he has a poet's gift for the illuminating metaphor). But, damn, I must admit I'm a little surprised - I shouldn't be, given his body of work - that Lucas is equally incisive, analytic and articulate. That said, some of his ideas, such as the lizard juxtaposed with a tape recorder, are utterly opaque. Murch worked with him on the project, and *he* didn't get it, although in some ways it's the key to the story -- the protagonist as the living thing inside the machine. THIS IS WHY GEORGE LUCAS NEEDS A STORY EDITOR. Someone who can tell him (and whom he'd *listen* to): that cinematic idea you're proposing is brilliant, but NO ONE WILL GET IT, not even the Walter Murches of the world. Anywho, hearing that lizard-tape recorder business makes sense of an old remark by Lucas I recall, where he said he'd wouldn't mind spending all his time making experimental films. When I read that, years ago, from a guy coming off the huge popular success of American Graffiti and Star Wars, it didn't make any sense to me; it seemed a little coy, possibly disingenuous. Clearly it wasn't. His sensibility and native bent is toward the experimental, and he is deucedly creative at creating new cinematic ideas.
They are more symbolical than analytic that’s why no one gets it this is like Bhagavad Gita… later on Star Wars had the same principle but it was more appealing less minimalist and more comercial. This is a symbol of our own inner journey from underground limited existence (limited by society by a paradigm that downgrade us) to the full knowledge and awareness of who we are. This is why he ascends to the sun to above earth.
An idea like this could've only come from late sixties ideology about a possible future, coming from the mind of a brilliant, abstract film writer/American icon
The movie reminds me very much of the 70's (in the netherlands, born in 72) I had sharp antennas at the time the impression I got was that the future was going to be technocratic, and there was going to be a new kind of society, it was just a matter of discussing about it and choosing. That was very much the 'geist' hanging in the air in the 70's.
It certainly is. With an astonishingly high percentage of the population on SSRI's and growing along with VR porn and mindless jobs to consume unfulfilling products. Add smartphones and AI and its could be a very horrifying future.
I liked the student film. I find the story doesn’t move forward enough and the all white jail makes no sense because nothing is holding them from walking away. I would of had police in the air shaft reaching up to THX while showing the budget about to go over and right when he is about to grab THX leg that’s when the budget is not cost effective and the policeman stops the pursuit. There is a lot to be learned from this movie despite its flaws.
It's like I'm sitting at the front row together with the original creators awesome. One of my favorite movies together with 'the man who fell to earth', and offcourse 'bladerunner' and nagisa oshima's 'merry christmass mr lawrence' who despite the bad acting at some points somehow makes it 'all work'.
Part of the film's soundtrack, an all-too-brief Lalo Schifrin original composition called "The Hologram" arranged like a Baroque adagio (foreshadowing his arrangement of Bach's St. Matthew Passion used at film's end). Here at 47:00: th-cam.com/video/iKb-HH4oA_M/w-d-xo.html
2020 The year of COVID 19. Watch the movie, see how it predicted the direction we are headed into.... I was fascinated with this movie in my teen years many years ago.
The film that they're describing is way more better than the actual movie. This film would've been way better if the story was more clear and easier to follow.
min 48:06 "Fortunately the studio never saw dailies of this scene, if they had , they would have fired me on the spot"
XD Gotta love Lucas. GENIUS!!!! George should start a new production company focused exclusively on experimental film making.
RideMyTruck I agree. Lucas himself may not believe that anyone would want to see his new experimental films, but I would.
@@djnary2896 No ones saying George himself making them but, have a company of storytellers and directors make experimental things. Like Henry Seleck with LAIKA
Im in love with this movie so much since childhood that I even making a cosplay of Android cop right now and I never knew this existed. You made my day thank you! :) Im gonna wait till friday night to watch this simultaneously with the movie, cause this will be an event for me :)
Funny how 53 years after this movie came out. The world would be this in real time. Think you know more then you reveal George.
"Spielberg and Lucas are many things but stupid is not one of them."
Jordan Maxwell.
Saw it on the big screen on Friday and must say it's a masterpiece.
Consequently, completely misapprehended.
Murch and Lucas -- both highly intelligent, naturally analytic, and able to express their ideas in a clear, articulate fashion. I'm more familiar with Murch, who is wonderful at expressing complicated ideas in simple language and images (he has a poet's gift for the illuminating metaphor). But, damn, I must admit I'm a little surprised - I shouldn't be, given his body of work - that Lucas is equally incisive, analytic and articulate. That said, some of his ideas, such as the lizard juxtaposed with a tape recorder, are utterly opaque. Murch worked with him on the project, and *he* didn't get it, although in some ways it's the key to the story -- the protagonist as the living thing inside the machine. THIS IS WHY GEORGE LUCAS NEEDS A STORY EDITOR. Someone who can tell him (and whom he'd *listen* to): that cinematic idea you're proposing is brilliant, but NO ONE WILL GET IT, not even the Walter Murches of the world. Anywho, hearing that lizard-tape recorder business makes sense of an old remark by Lucas I recall, where he said he'd wouldn't mind spending all his time making experimental films. When I read that, years ago, from a guy coming off the huge popular success of American Graffiti and Star Wars, it didn't make any sense to me; it seemed a little coy, possibly disingenuous. Clearly it wasn't. His sensibility and native bent is toward the experimental, and he is deucedly creative at creating new cinematic ideas.
Well said!
They are more symbolical than analytic that’s why no one gets it this is like Bhagavad Gita… later on Star Wars had the same principle but it was more appealing less minimalist and more comercial. This is a symbol of our own inner journey from underground limited existence (limited by society by a paradigm that downgrade us) to the full knowledge and awareness of who we are.
This is why he ascends to the sun to above earth.
I Cameron is the same. Very quick and articulate.
Thank you Jesus
An idea like this could've only come from late sixties ideology about a possible future, coming from the mind of a brilliant, abstract film writer/American icon
Just watched it for the first time. It was way better than I thought it was going to be.
The movie reminds me very much of the 70's (in the netherlands, born in 72) I had sharp antennas at the time the impression I got was that the future was going to be technocratic, and there was going to be a new kind of society, it was just a matter of discussing about it and choosing. That was very much the 'geist' hanging in the air in the 70's.
Technocratic is a great word. Movie was ahead of it's time. Would love a TV show of it.
1:52 -- "So I think this is the only case in film history of titles that go from the top down to the bottom."
Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
I'm sure he said first but, yup he was wrong. Also another time Se7en (1999) or Next (2007) too.
1995.
hm, audio only .. 😞
Is this predictive programming? That is creating a movie that will become reality.
It certainly is. With an astonishingly high percentage of the population on SSRI's and growing along with VR porn and mindless jobs to consume unfulfilling products. Add smartphones and AI and its could be a very horrifying future.
I liked the student film. I find the story doesn’t move forward enough and the all white jail makes no sense because nothing is holding them from walking away. I would of had police in the air shaft reaching up to THX while showing the budget about to go over and right when he is about to grab THX leg that’s when the budget is not cost effective and the policeman stops the pursuit. There is a lot to be learned from this movie despite its flaws.
Thank you man, you are Awsome.
This too shall come to pass... very soon I fear.
...but you can escape. if you can figure out how, and you have the guts. that's part of it.
They have titles that go from the top down in 1927’s Metropolis to convey the underground work force
Rodney king channel huh lmaoooo😂 loved the commentary but that wouldn't fly these days
beedlie beedlie b..Willma😁 backside of the century.
Were they not in the same room during this commentary? They don't seem to interact at all or acknowledge each other
ya most likely, sounds like just recorded audio thrown together.
Most movie commentaries are like this.
It's like I'm sitting at the front row together with the original creators awesome. One of my favorite movies together with 'the man who fell to earth', and offcourse 'bladerunner' and nagisa oshima's 'merry christmass mr lawrence' who despite the bad acting at some points somehow makes it 'all work'.
Nur englisch 🙁
What was that song at 1:16:14 after that death scene?
Part of the film's soundtrack, an all-too-brief Lalo Schifrin original composition called "The Hologram" arranged like a Baroque adagio (foreshadowing his arrangement of Bach's St. Matthew Passion used at film's end). Here at 47:00: th-cam.com/video/iKb-HH4oA_M/w-d-xo.html
2020 The year of COVID 19. Watch the movie, see how it predicted the direction we are headed into.... I was fascinated with this movie in my teen years many years ago.
Manchmal ich bin soomüüde
George Lucas is so overrated.
not this time.
No, he is not. He remains vastly underestimated by far too many people.
The film that they're describing is way more better than the actual movie. This film would've been way better if the story was more clear and easier to follow.
go watch terminator 2, then.
@@plasticweapon
Yes Terminator 2 is a million times better movie. Whats your point?
Definite problem with this movie is that it’s too obsessed with the environment and sacrifices the story for it.
I enjoy this commentary more than the movie