Questions & Mysteries Is Oda just Japanese George Lucas
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their Genres and roles Are different
If your entire point is that they haven't been surrounded by the right people, then okay. But even ignoring the obvious differences between mediums, the products are not alike.
Lucas started from the end, and stepped away for ten years before developing the prequels. Oda has been working nonstop for almost 30 years to both expand and end the series as an ongoing thing.
I think in hindsight, another director should have accepted the offer on Phantom Menace for one. Oda is in a position where no one can really help him by nature of the beast. There's also no real case that someone should because a few guys on the internet saying so doesn't matter.
Lucas started from the end, and stepped away for ten years before developing the prequels. Oda has been working nonstop for almost 30 years to both expand and end the series as an ongoing thing.
I think in hindsight, another director should have accepted the offer on Phantom Menace for one. Oda is in a position where no one can really help him by nature of the beast. There's also no real case that someone should because a few guys on the internet saying so doesn't matter.
In general also a very good storyteller. I say "in general" because in the details, he tends to lack precision and punch.
Now it is not a mistake if the Original Star wars was a hit. The film managed to profit from a great editing and an amazing soundtrack. Lucas was not alone as mentionned before here:
Although people need to understand that the script was already written and storytelling is not only the script or the worldbuilding or the editing or the direction, it's everything together. All the ways these tools are used to tell a story, in the script, the visual, the editing, the music, the direction, the lighting etc.
So Lucas is a great storyteller as he was smart enough to surround himself with amazing teams and people to help him tell exactly what he wanted to tell. He managed to create coherency between generations of characters and thematics and had great ideas of concept overall. Outside of that, he is kinda average in term of narration, even bad sometimes.
But there is one thing he did good : He took his work seriously.
Now it is not a mistake if the Original Star wars was a hit. The film managed to profit from a great editing and an amazing soundtrack. Lucas was not alone as mentionned before here:
Although people need to understand that the script was already written and storytelling is not only the script or the worldbuilding or the editing or the direction, it's everything together. All the ways these tools are used to tell a story, in the script, the visual, the editing, the music, the direction, the lighting etc.
So Lucas is a great storyteller as he was smart enough to surround himself with amazing teams and people to help him tell exactly what he wanted to tell. He managed to create coherency between generations of characters and thematics and had great ideas of concept overall. Outside of that, he is kinda average in term of narration, even bad sometimes.
But there is one thing he did good : He took his work seriously.
The prequels are irredeemable garbage that ruined Star Wars imo. They were so awful that basically everything Disney has done since purchasing Star Wars is attempted prequel rehabilitation.
The OP post TS started out decent but descended into Star Wars prequel levels of writing sometime around the Wano era.
The OP post TS started out decent but descended into Star Wars prequel levels of writing sometime around the Wano era.
