Lucas: King Of Film
Whether it be through his epic Star Wars saga, or through the exalted
special effects crew he pioneered, Industrial Light and Magic, he continues to
amaze audiences world wide. His name in synonymous with famous
directors/producers in the world. His impacts reach out in more fields than
just film. He has created companies that produce award winning video games, toy
companies produce action figures designed after characters from his movies, many
books by many authors based on his original film stories, and countless other
wings of Lucas' reign exist in today's world. Since his youth, George Lucas has
experienced many influences, which in turn push him to make the greatest
contributions ...
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College in California and continued to work on
cars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted saying, "I
was a hell-raiser; lived, ate, breathed cars! That was everything for me"(84).
Lucas even worked on pit crews for race cars when he met Haskell Wexler, who
introduced him to film (Moritz 258). Eventually Lucas realized his new passion
was film. Mr. Wexler helped Lucas gain admission into the University of
Southern California's film department (Moritz 260). In college Lucas was
the head of his film classes winning many awards and accolades. His first
feature movie in college was titled THX-1138 and won his university's award for
best film (Moritz 259).
Lucas is also inspired by his circle of friends and fellow directors,
producers, and collaborations with them. With the success of THX-1138 at the
university, Lucas was awarded the chance to be an observer on the set of
Finian's Rainbow directed by University of Southern California alumnus ...
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trilogy, for which he is best known
for the conception and production of. Since it's release in 1977, Star Wars has
grossed over four billion dollars in sales, making it the most money making
movie ever (Lane and Samuelson 126). Lucas also produced all three of the
Indiana Jones movies; Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Last
Crusade, which were directed by Steven Spielberg (Smith 83). Currently,
Lucas has re-released his epic Star Wars saga, and titled it Star Wars: special
edition, which has blown away viewers.
Perhaps his most important contribution to film is his beginning of, and
ownership of the special effects crew ILM, standing for Industrial Light and
Magic. ...
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