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Originally Posted by Geoff D
Yeah. Lucas wasn't exactly a student radical but he's part of that era when the politics of war really started to be questioned by people, so they started regarding every institution as being these greedy, engorged entities that were always looking to put down the little man. His experience with the movie studios did nothing to dispel that notion for him (Warners cut THX, Universal cut Graffiti), and he felt the same about the movie industry as a whole when he and Coppola struggled to turn people around to digital technology. So when he got enough money to become independent from the system he did just that, and in a glorious twist of irony created exactly the sort of mammoth corporation that he's hated for so long.
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What's really funny is studios weren't always like that. In the early days, a lot of studios were willing to take risks and do unusual films. But as they grew and more and more people got involved, it became about profit and the easiest way to make profit is to take no risks. Untimately they lost focus on why they made films to begin with which is very similar to what happened to Lucas. Had he just created Lucasfilm, things might have been different but all those spinoff companies gave him the independance to do whatever he wanted and not have to listen to others. Just like the studios before him, he lost focus. And he really isn't any different than the studios - as producer, he can recut any film he likes. If it was bad when the studios did it to you, why is it okay when you do it to someone else? Priorities change when you becomes as successful as him.