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Scene report: “The People vs. George Lucas”
Darth Vader and Boba Fett greeted fanboys lined up for the first showing of the lively doc “The People Vs. George Lucas” — a line so long that another screening was added at midnight to accommodate the spillover.
There was little doubt about where this jury’s sympathies were: Most of the crowd clearly felt Lucas had turned to the Dark Side years ago and should be fed to a sarlacc. But cries of “George Lucas raped my childhood” were balanced in the film, which gave ample time to those defending his right to do whatever he wants with his fictional creation, including turning it into an epic bore.
After the film, director Alexandre Philippe (whose generosity toward his subject extended to a defense of “Howard the Duck”) said that the loved/hated filmmaker has not seen it. He and his producers kept the Q&A short, moving the party over to the Highball, where long before the “Princess Leia Slavegirl Danceoff” was scheduled to begin, Stormtroopers were spotted chatting women up at the bar.
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