![]() ![]() I heard of it, because there was a brief yet strident ad campaign for it, and said campaign did not make a good impression. Like, I assume, most of you reading this, I did not see Strange Magic when Disney unceremoniously dumped it into theaters using their Touchstone imprint and hastily swept it under the rug with little fanfare. Yet what of his triumphs? What of the heights he achieved? We all know the man’s weaknesses by heart in this day and age, but in doing so have we forgotten his strengths? Indeed, there is much to be learned from the failures of George Lucas, and the internet has poured over them with a fine toothed comb in laborious detail. “A George Lucas film you say? Like the Star Wars? I want to see what that many cooked up this time!” Such words can no longer be uttered with a straight face in this day and age, for, like mighty Icarus, George flew too close to the sun, and is remembered more for his disastrous failures than for how high he flew. ![]() ![]() There was a time, before the age of logic and reason, when George Lucas’s name held a certain creative clout. ![]()
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