The karma of George Lucas is evidently self-powered if this news is anything to go by – after charging the world to go and see his three sucky Star Wars prequels, George Lucas is atoning by giving a school $175 million.
And not just any school, either – George Lucas has thrown all that money at the University Of Southern California (USC) so that it can build a new film school to teach filmmakers of the future never to use cloying, over-sentimentalised, transparently merchandise-based, lazy racial stereotype aliens in any of their films ever.
If most people were George Lucas, they'd do nothing all day but swim about Scrooge McDuck-style in their vault full of money, only stopping to laugh at the thought that all of it came from ripping off The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell, albeit with cooler uniforms. But, as far as we know, George Lucas has never swam naked in a room of coins, cackling like a madman. Instead, George Lucas uses his money to do important things like toy with people's feelings over Indiana Jones 4, dick around with 3D versions of Star Wars and buy up as many generic checkered shirts that he can lay his hands on.
But George Lucas also uses his money for good. Just last year, for example, George Lucas donated $1 million for a Martin Luther King memorial, and now he's giving the USC film school its biggest-ever donation of $175 million, as the Los Angeles Times reports:
Much of the donation is to pay for a 137,000-square-foot complex. According to preliminary information provided to Los Angeles city officials, it would be designed to evoke the architecture of the era when the film school was founded in 1929. That new centerpiece building will expand its current cramped quarters and provide modern facilities that could boost the school's stepped-up emphasis on merging Hollywood storytelling skills with emerging multimedia technologies.
George Lucas himself gave a statement about his massive donation to USC and how it will ensure that kids will keep making preposterously self-important films about spacemen controlling things with their thoughts forever more:
"I discovered my passion for film and making movies when I was a student at USC in the 1960s, and my experiences there shaped the rest of my career. I'm also an ardent advocate for education at all levels, and encouraging young people to pursue their ambitions by learning. I'm very fortunate to be in a position to combine my two passions and to be able to help USC continue molding the futures of the moviemakers of tomorrow."
But surely a donation of $175 million would leave a gigantic hole in George Lucas' finances, so how will he ever make that money up again? More Star Wars films? In the words of the man himself: Noooooooo!
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George Lucas To Give USC Film School $175 Million – Los Angeles Times
[story by Stuart Heritage]
boobs says
Star Wars sucks and Lucas licks his own pee-pee.
bunyan 10 says
BTW —are we the only ones noticing?
–while Hollywood churns out ad naseum,
seen-to-death/done-to-death PC WWII retreads
–er, we mean ‘tributes’ —and after having
made BILLIONS outsourcing for cheap labor,
and catering to the franchise slum denial
needs of history’s –MOST– awesomely genocidal
regime —ACROSS the Pacific ( 70 million downed
in ‘peacetime’ -FACT-) —the 60th Anniversary
of the staggeringly, eerily relevant KOREAN WAR
is, once again, ‘mysteriously overlooked’…
NOT LOOKIN’ GOOOOOOD
-AMEN-