Not ideal, and I would be curious as to his motivations, but ultimately I don't think it effects my view of the man. His politics were, to my knowledge, always to the Left so that is what it us.
I will always respect him for his vision and for the fun world he created. That like Ray Harryhausen before him he taught little boys they could dream of wonder and excitment.
He took several masterpieces, chopped them up, stuck them in a hero's journey Korusawa-themed mold, which other people improved greatly on the way, just take a look at the comic "The Star Wars" and compare it with what we got, and that was it.
Ultimately, my view towards him is now the same as Conan's is towards his god.
Give me good entertainment, and/or grant me revenge, if you don't listen, the hell with you!
Lukas was not the first to produce a space opera or an epic fantasy, he will not be the last, and the more he and his generation and kind fuck up, the more of a market to satisfy there will be.
The bigger the unserved market, the more people will want in on it.
People should stop fetishising writers, and movie stars and all the other assorted flotsom.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, they are making a product that people must enjoy for it to be a commercial success.
If they will not, somebody else will.
If they use PR methods such as the media, government bullshit, external sources of financing that keep them afloat for a while and isolate them temporarily from marked forces and monopolistic and oligopolistic practices sooner or later the consumers will flock to some other industry or somebody will find a way to breach through their barriers to entry, or people will start buying the product from abroad, via contraband if necessary.
As to Hollywood, as Razorfist pointed out, it was
always red!
The thing is, once upon a time, they knew to keep their politics out of their product and to make a more or less watchable product.
Now, they have gone full woke, and while I might disagree with Razorfist on the precedence between that step and the going broke step, I agree that eventually, in this case probably sooner rather than later, they will croak!
I am Agent23, Crom-fucking-speed, now get out!