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George Lucas is evil
Lucas was a promising young independent filmmaker who made a conscious decision to make a commercial, mainstream film. After screening Star Wars for the first time, Lucas described it as a cross between Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
'I'm going to make five times as much money as Francis [Ford Coppola] on these science- ficton toys and I won't have to make The Godfather,' he boasted to cult filmmaker John Milius. 'I've made what I consider the most conventional kind of movie I can possibly make.'
In short, Lucas chose the Dark Side of the Force. It wouldn't have mattered if Star Wars had tanked, but it's record-breaking success steered Hollywood towards the Dark Side as well: Without Star Wars we wouldn't have had 'Armageddon'.
'Star Wars swept all the chips off the table,' William Friedkin told Biskind. 'What happened with Star Wars was like when McDonald's got a foothold, the taste for good food just disappeared.'
Lucas is Darth Vader.
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