How could anyone else top this list? George Lucas, the director of Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, is perhaps the most polarising filmmaker of all time. Hes made three of the most beloved, cultural significant films, perhaps ever, and three of the worst, vomit-inducing travesties to have ever seen the light of day. Honestly, watching early interviews with Lucas, it can feel like youre listening to the words of an entirely different person. In the documentary From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, he talks about his passion for storytelling and his tentative relationship with special effects; he talks with passion about the magic of movies, his writing process and the way he approaches directing a scene. Flash-forward twenty years and Lucas has become unrecognisable to some people, people who see him as a corporate stooge with an overreliance on special effects, convoluted stories and flat characters. When Lucas sold the rights to Star Wars to Disney, there were some who were generally excited; in their minds, Lucas was an incapable creator who no longer understood the significance of his own creations.
