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George Lucas: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers)

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Well, this is a great book that helps you know more about the 20th century greatest myth maker: Mr. Lucas. Although the book is a little repetitive (You just can read so many times the story behind Thx or how he became a film maker) it lets you inside the professional life of a man known for not giving many interviews in a year. The best article is by far the 1997 interview-story that John Seabrook wrote. And here's a little note for the editors, in page 186, the writer mentions that Lucas adopted 3 daughters, so next print you may want to correct that one. Enjoyable book, but get the cheap edition :-)

Content Summary and Review: The book is valuable for collecting a variety of different interviews with George Lucas under one cover. There are many interesting perspectives to be found here, however, there is also a great deal of redundant material. One interview in several instances covers much the same material as another, and the repetition can be boring, obviously. If you are interested in finding out about Lucas' Life, the Pollock biography should suffice. Most of the material in this book is also in that one. A few quotes, ideas, perspectives are new here, and of course the major disadvantage is that the book covers only interviews regarding the 1st three movies; no updates for later interviews or articles. So - not bad, informative - but a better, more complete, and less repetitive source of information on Lucas could be produced.

Wouldn't it be great for Lucas to turn his genius to an epic for our time, one that has relevance. He missed Lord of the Rings. HE has a change to do Defenders of the Holy Grail, but somone will probably beat him to it. We need movies that connect us with today's emotions, GEORGE