First of all I want to thank Brother Jaquandor from Byzantium Shores for giving me some fresh perspective on this whole Star Wars Marathon movie story. Like always he was totally reasonable without taking sides. There are laws that protect the creators of media content such as the Star Wars movies.
I however choose to view this topic with my biases fully exposed. How much is too much, George? These films have been picked over and watched so many times by so many of us that they are practically in the public domain.
Even though they are shown virtually non-stop on networks like SPIKE, maybe Lucas still thinks there is someone out there that has never heard of Star Wars and who might be another source of revenue for him.
Does the bad PR for Lucas Arts really hurt them at all? Is this issue really a big deal or is it only about the money? Couldn't a corporate entity like Lucas Arts create some kind of licence that is able to be purchases and used for a short time - maybe 48 hrs. But for that time the person who paid for the licence can show the films to anyone who wants to see them. In this way there will always be a big screen showing of these movies somewhere and on the big screen is how these movies deserve to be seen.
Somewhere with good sound and food and drink so that you can make a party of the shared experience. Maybe it can be used to by charities who would be allowed to charge admission for the experience of watching these films on a drive in movie screen propped up at the bottom of a hill in the country where you can bring your family and some blankets and watch these films under the starts.
How does this feel good event hurt Lucas? How much good will with the fans has he lost over this? How much is that going to cost him? Granted it's a small story but it's one of many stories that turned out exactly like you thought it would with Goliath killing David.
If I was a kid, how cool would it be for the movie theatre in my town to show old movies like the Star Wars movies at say a weekly Saturday matinee. SEE, I just came up with another great idea. I am on fire today.
If you want to read more about this story, go to Cultural Compulsive Disorder and tell Mike D or Jeff Bond what you think. They are great guys and great supporters of all we do here at 'Cave of Cool Inc' (which is by no means a souless corporate entity. We make all our puppets by hand, the way Granpa did back in the old country. Just look at that old world craftsmanship).
You can also read the story here
Huffington Post
New York Post
Forbes Magazine
Toronto Star
What do I think of all this? I would like to see Mike D. reschedule the event with all the proper permissions. I would like to see Lucas pony up for some snacks (name brand snacks ya cheap bastard) and everybody goes away happy with some of what they wanted.
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We've had private screenings in México (the last for ESB's 30th). And the only time the organizers had to desist was when we were having "Fanboys".
Of course they would have a problem with 'Fanboys'. Lucas hates the fanboys who think they could do a better job at 'Star Wars' than he did. That's what you get, George, for creating such a bitchin geektastic big space story unlike any that came before it. Just meet a brother half way, can't ya?
I'd continue to point out that maybe he'd meet them halfway if they'd asked. I'd also point out that there is no such thing as "practically public domain", as much as we might wish there was. And finally, again these newspapers keep characterizing this as a decision that George Lucas personally made. That may be OK, if ill-advised, for a blog, but for a newspaper? It's awful journalism.
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