The Lucas tragedy

Kinda a diversion I want to go on as I abandon the project to clear my head. Recently watched Lucas sparring with autograph hounders on youtube. He's got no love for people seeking autographs though I can imagine a regular fan spots him he'd gladly give one. I've noticed Lucas doesn't truly walk the streets with body guards. People have caught him casually walking around town at times. He's nuts if he thinks he can do that but whatever, I guess.

Interesting to see this side of Lucas. He's very rarely shown emotion. This time he let his fury bubble to the surface as he became frustrated by the hounders and tried to explain to them why he's not giving them an autograph. They're obviously just after money and not true star wars fans.

It breaks my heart to watch Lucas himself sour to star wars because of jerks like them trying to exploit him.

I get it now why Michael Jai White ignored me. He's encountered complete assholes at cons and events trying to exploit him. He's developed a cruel cold callous attitude to deal with that. Most celebs probably do.

Tragedy of getting famous. You get shit from people just as much as you get praise.

I don't know, guess that's just the world we live in. You can't feel secure in this world. I've seen and experienced that myself.

How can I personally get across that I'm a true fanboy, not a guy trying to exploit these celebs if I ever meet them in the future.

Hard to say really. They're very open these days to being exploited because most of them have opened that door via twitter and facebook. They must be cautions, the internet truly is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I don't know, been doing the star wars thing since I was 8 years old. I've gotten too deep in fandom to ever try to be like a jerk towards my heros. Would Hamill etc. understand that? Or if I did meet them they'd have no idea if I was a good dude and shun me like with Jai White. Whatever...

True enough, Lucas says, the autograph hounds are just like him when HE started, he didn't have a dime to his name worth crap and worked hard to get to where he is.

That's why celebs who crossed that bridge don't care about you, at least the ones who have a hard earned success.

It makes me think, yeah, if I want respect it should be earned.