#to me a lot of filony’s latest ideas are like those rennovations you see on tv shows where they took an absolutely gorgeous old house and

[howdidthisevenhappenanyway]

yeah also like… it’s the difference between renovating a house with good structure and good bones (once you get the asbestos and lead paint dealt with) and a shitty building that may as well be made of cardboard, like why am I even bothering, at some point you may as well tear it down and start over

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.