{"id":119747,"date":"2016-01-05T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/05\/george-lucas-brilliant-ex-wife-was-secret-weapon\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T20:29:18","slug":"george-lucas-brilliant-ex-wife-was-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/05\/george-lucas-brilliant-ex-wife-was-secret-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lucas’ brilliant ex-wife was secret weapon in ‘Star Wars’"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Lucas’ brilliant ex-wife was secret weapon in ‘Star Wars’<\/a><\/p>\n

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roane72<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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urdith6<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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handful-ofdust<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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cumaeansibyl<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This shit\u2019s been going on since time immemorial \u2013 before movies, it was wives editing and proofing books, sometimes putting in enough work that, had they been male, they would\u2019ve been credited as co-authors.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why having George Miller rhapsodize about how amazing his wife Margaret Sixel is and how important she was to Fury Road was so unusual and important \u2013 too often, women\u2019s contributions to their husbands\u2019 creative endeavors are viewed as a sort of marital obligation, not achievements in their own right.<\/p>\n

Also, there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou can see the huge difference in the films that he does now and the films that he did when he was married,\u201d [Mark] Hamill pointed out in the 2005 interview, in a not-so-subtle dig at the prequels.<\/p>\n

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Yeowch.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes! Now, THIS is a valid and important case of a male director taking credit for\/refusing to give credit due female work on\u00a0\u201chis\u201d project, not to mention prime auteur<\/i> theory bullshit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were finishing \u2018Jedi,\u2019 George told me he thought I was a pretty good editor. In the sixteen years of our being together I think that was the only time he complimented me.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Secret History of Star Wars,\u201d Kaminski makes the case that she has been \u201cpractically erased from the history books at Lucasfilm\u201d as a result of the divorce.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201c[She] is mentioned only occasionally in passing, a background element, and not a single word of hers is quoted; she is a silent extra, absent from any photographs and only indirectly acknowledged, her contributions downplayed,\u201d he writes.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cMarcia Lucas, the \u2018other\u2019 Lucas, has basically become the forgotten Lucas.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This happens enough that we\u2019re not shocked or surprised. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You know, I just watched the first trilogy, and noticed that she was listed as one of the editors. Having recently heard about Mad Max, I wondered how much of the movies\u2019 greatness came from her.<\/p>\n

I watched some of the BTS stuff talking about the history of the originals, and they talked about how originally George wanted to fill Star Wars with all sorts of history and politics and talky-talky stuff\u2013all of the things that made the prequels pretty ugh. I wonder how much of that Marcia talked him out of.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Lucas’ brilliant ex-wife was secret weapon in ‘Star Wars’ roane72: urdith6: handful-ofdust: cumaeansibyl: This shit\u2019s been going on since time immemorial \u2013 before movies, it was wives editing and proofing books, sometimes putting in enough work that, had they been male, they would\u2019ve been credited as co-authors. That\u2019s why having George Miller rhapsodize about … <\/p>\n

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