George Lucas in conversation with Charlie Rose
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Channel: Chicago Tribune
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Length: 47min 31sec (2851 seconds)
Published: Thu Oct 23 2014
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I think a museum is the least worst thing that could go up on the lakefront, but all the same I'd rather the museum not go up on the lakefront.
So Daniel Burnham was a NIMBY then?
Why does it need to be on the lake?
City charged Lucas $13 for land worth MILLIONS in a city that is laying off teachers and can't hire enough cops. San Francisco told Lucas to go pound sand when he tried to run the same con on them, worth over 4 billion- he should pay market prices for land no matter WHERE his museum lands.
There are many places Mr. Lucas could build his museum in Chicago that would be prominent and attract lots of visitors. There are enormous tracts of empty land just south of Congress. Of course, he'd have to pay for those and wouldn't get them for free, like the lakefront land that's so important to his ego.
I like how OP states only "NIMBYS" wouldn't want a nerd Mecca over there.
I'm always perplexed when people heap so much praise on a director who only had one good film or franchise --- Lucas with Star Wars and Francis Ford Coppola with the Godfather trilogy are examples. They were brilliant films, but anybody can get lucky once. I believe only directors who can score major hits with different types of movies should be placed at the top --- such as Steven Spielberg (Jaws, ET, Schindlers List, Jurassic Park, etc) and James Cameron (Terminator, Titanic, Avatar).ο»Ώ
So here is the thing.
One of the surest ways to make money in a city is to increase tourism. Get more people into the city and into commercial areas, get more tax revenue. It works. If the Lucas museum brings a lot of people into the city, and those people spend money, then it's win-win.
Also, the Lucas museum is not, like many people think, a museum about Lucas or his films, but rather a museum of multimedia, design and filmmaking in general, which sounds great to me, seeing as how Chicago has a small, thriving film industry. I'm personally very excited about it.
Sounds like a really cool museum and as I expressed yesterday, I hope it goes through. In past threads I've compared it to the EMP museum in Seattle, which is incredible.
http://www.empmuseum.org/?code=brand_adwords&gclid=CM_Ek-GehMsCFQyHaQod9bICMQ
With all the shit that's wrong with this city, I don't see how this museum is anything but positive.
Amused to see the FOTP crowd abusing the downvote button again.