LUCAS REFLECTS ON THE DARK SIDE OF FILMMAKING
Thursday, June 30 2005
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George Lucas has predicted the imminent demise of big-budget epics like the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies with which he is associated. The online edition of Wired magazine quotes him as saying, "The big tent-pole movies will be the first victim of the rapid technological changes we're seeing now. ... We're just not going to see those being made anymore." Internet piracy was one of the factors influencing change, Lucas observed. "Why pay for something when you can get it for free on opening day? ... If they don't solve this problem of how to sell over the internet, the business is going to shrink, and what's produced will be more like TV movies. They'll be low budget, and there won't be as many of them." Another factor, he said, was the growth of home entertainment systems. "There is a difference between how you make things for big screen and small screen," he said. "When you're designing for DVD, you tend to end up with more close-ups, and your wide shots aren't so wide. I don't subscribe to that stylistic shift, but a lot of kids making movies now grew up on TV and DVDs -- not films in theaters -- so that's how they make movies."
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