There's something "organic" about "Star Wars, " says Scott, and Lucas tampered with that feeling when he made the newer films -- particularly thanks to his sometimes ham-fisted screenwriting.
Set in the late 1960s and early '70s, Ridley Scott's star-driven "American Gangster" positions Harlem's notorious drug kingpin Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) as an entrepreneurial self-starter in the black economy.
