Fans often believe that the object of their fascination belongs solely to them and get mad when they realize that it does not. The relationship between director George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, and his fans portrays this belief perfectly and in the 2010 documentary named “The People vs. George Lucas,” this love-hate relationship is explored with a focus on the controversy surrounding the changes that were made to the original Star Wars trilogy and the sequels made after. This paper will focus on the film and how it portrays the love-hate relationship between George Lucas and the fans of Star Wars perfectly.
The film is broken up into four sections or “episodes,” and features interviews with fans, critics, and experts, including writer
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Lucas believed that the films were not truly in his vision and wanted to go back and make it as originally envisioned, but the fans hated what Lucas had done. They felt that the changes made were unnecessary and took away the personality of the original films. For example, the actions of the character Han Solo were changed for one scene and fans felt that the action was contradictory to his character. Changes like the one stated above, made fans feel like George Lucas had changed as a director, he was no longer the man they knew that created their happy childhood memories. This is the start of the love-hate relationship between George Lucas and the fans of Star Wars. The fans had become entitled, believing that the franchise belonged to them and not Lucas. They loved Lucas for creating the world they fell in love with, but hated him for how he “ruined,” the world they cared deeply about. Though, understandably, fans are allowed to be angry and scrutinize a piece of creative work, it is not okay to “loudly demand that creators bend the story to their preference” (Alejandra). Fans care deeply for their fandoms, but that does not mean they are entitled to demand change to the source