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George Lucas
With STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is fully released for all the see tomorrow. Here's a very interesting piece from the Archives of The American Film Institute. Apparently, staff was able to dig up a copy of the vintage American Film magazine with George Lucas published just before the release of the first STAR WARS in 1977.
Long before the space opera franchise would land in the hands of J.J. Abrams, Lucas started developing STAR WARS in the early 1970s, even before he piloted his sophomore feature AMERICAN GRAFFITTI in 1973 to worldwide success at 28 years.
When talking about STAR WARS in this interview, Lucas revealed he "wanted to do a modern fairy tale, a myth" that explores "the bigger mysterious world in space that is more interesting than anything around here."
"Rather than do some angry, socially relevant film...I realized there was another relevance that is even more important - dreams and fantasies, getting children to believe there is more to life than garbage and killing...Once I got into Star Wars, it struck me we had lost all that - a whole generation was growing up without any fairy tales. You just don't get them anymore, and that's the best stuff in the world - adventures in far off lands. It's fun"
Well, Star Wars certainly succeeded in handing a whole generation and future generations a much loved fairy tale.
Please read the original 1977 article by clicking GEORGE LUCAS GOES FAR OUT
SOURCE - The American Film Institute
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George Lucas is a genius. I also like the fact that he is married to the very intelligent Mellody Hobson, a black woman! Not being racist, just happy to see George Lucas has good taste, lol.
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ReplyDeleteBrilliant, brilliant man. There would be no Star Wars without him.
ReplyDeleteUniversity of South California, School of Cinematic Arts. Even his first wife, Marcia Griffin went to USC and won an Academy Award for editing Star Wars! Both good flag bearers. It's one of the best places in the world to study film making. George, Marcia, Francis Ford Copola (Godfather),etc.
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