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Originally Posted by loopydate
This is true.
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Being an innovator doesn't make you a great director. Alan Crosland directed the first "talkie," which revolutionized the entire movie industry. If it wasn't for what he did with The Jazz Singer, no one would make the movies they do. The Lumiere Brothers directed the first movie, which created the entire movie industry. If it wasn't for what they did with capturing and projecting moving images, guys like Alan Crosland couldn't make the movies they did. Neither of them come up in the "Top Directors Of All Time" debate.
One great movie, no matter how great, doesn't make you a great director. Otherwise, we'd be talking about Frank Darabont, Fernando Meierelles, and Bryan Singer, who have all made one or two great movies, but don't have the breadth of filmography that Billy Wilder, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Frank Capra, Spielberg, Renoir, Fellini, Leone, et al have.
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Though I completely agree with all of those directors being great, I disagree that this thread over "Top Directors of All Time" is a debate at all. It is simply a matter of opinion.
In my opinion, "Star Wars" is a worthy enough accomplishment to secure George Lucas as one of the greatest directors of all time. It stands alone as a testament, not only the movie industry, but to the creativity and imaginative genius of one man. It's movies like "Star Wars" that change the world.
Is Martin Scorcese a great director? Of course he is. "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "The Last Temptation of Christ," "Goodfellas," "Cape Fear," "Gangs of New York;" all of them prove that the man is brilliant. But none of these movies have had even near the impact of George Lucas' "Star Wars" on the movie industry as a whole. "Star Wars" stands as a monument, a mile stone, in the history of American cinema. This, in my eyes, makes George Lucas one of the greatest directors of all time.