February 2011
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Iran has threatened to boycott the London Olympics unless the organisers replace the official logo, which Tehran claims spells out the word “Zion”.
The logo, a jagged representation of the year 2012, has been said by its critics to resemble many things, from a swastika to a sexual act, but the Iranian government argues it represents a veiled pro-Israeli conspiracy.
In a formal complaint to the International Olympic Committee, Tehran has called for the graphic to be replaced and its designers “confronted”, warning that Iranian athletes might otherwise be ordered to stay away from the London Games.
” —Iran claims London 2012 Olympics logo spells the word ‘Zion’ | World news | guardian.co.uk
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“Lucas should be a great director rather than the figurehead of a fanboy culture that equally despises and deifies him. The problem is that Lucas was the least successful of the Movie Brats until he was the most successful, and rather than continue to struggle to make things, he decided to lay back in the cut and allow his gift to atrophy, until the obstacles that made him hate directing could be removed with technology altogether. Lucas has been hermetically sealed off from ever making anything meaningful again by his own need to separate himself. Lucas’ work identifies to fanboys because his need to create comes from a place of a need to control, and unlike a Kubrick or a Fincher, he’s expressed that not in perfectionism but dissociation.”
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I still like the original trilogy (and can argue for Episode III given 10 minutes of prep time,) but it’s very difficult to refute Sean’s pointed, heartfelt look at What Went Wrong With George Lucas.
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