{"id":780,"date":"2016-07-11T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2016-07-11T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:48:29","slug":"george-lucas-to-feel-the-true-force-of-star-wars-he-had-to-learn-to-let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/george-lucas-to-feel-the-true-force-of-star-wars-he-had-to-learn-to-let-it-go\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas: To feel the true force of \u2018Star Wars,\u2019 he had to learn to let it go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with everything &#8211; read between the lines of this article &#8211; it is in the&#8221;lifestyle&#8221; section after all. But the truth is here is George\u00a0who made billions of dollars empire&#8230; that enthralls half\u00a0of the planet including myself. It started with a one page treatment &#8211; grew into a full-scale space opera, which grew into a fledging company that started a whole new world of computer graphics, which snowballed into what we have today where everything is in one way or another &#8220;touched&#8221; by CG. Although a lot of quality filmmakers no longer employ computer graphics and digital visual effects &#8211; computer generated imagery has changed us forever. The rooms we walk into have probably been first\u00a0designed on a computer, the cups we drink from are probably a result from a digital design process, the screens and paper we look at are transformed most likely digitally. George was a pioneer in all of this\u00a0and a lot of what is in star Wars was a &#8220;first ever&#8221;. When I occasionally read on forums .. complaints about\u00a0Star Wars or\u00a0George.. I am like &#8211; really, i am sorry what is the issue here? lots of people don&#8217;t get Picasso either and a lot of my painter friends\u00a0think Van Gogh was a lousy painter. yet &#8211; I go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and into one of my favorite rooms and i see adults of all shapes and sizes pondering the paintings of Van Gogh, reveling in the simple flowers &#8211; it is one of the most crowded rooms and it is never empty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/george-lucas-to-feel-the-true-force-of-star-wars-he-had-to-learn-to-let-it-go\/2015\/11\/27\/d752067a-8b1f-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/george-lucas-to-feel-the-true-force-of-star-wars-he-had-to-learn-to-let-it-go\/2015\/11\/27\/d752067a-8b1f-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/966da11a-90a5-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2' frameborder='0' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">As with everything &#8211; read between the lines of this article &#8211; it is in the&#8221;lifestyle&#8221; section after all. But the truth is here is George\u00a0who made billions of dollars empire&#8230; that enthralls half\u00a0of the planet including myself. It started with a one page treatment &#8211; grew into a full-scale space opera, which grew into a fledging company that started&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/george-lucas-to-feel-the-true-force-of-star-wars-he-had-to-learn-to-let-it-go\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-george-lucas","category-star-wars","post_format-post-format-image","xfolkentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimmerlightstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}