Biografi
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George Lucas is an American film-director, -producer and writer.
George Lucas was born May 14:th 1944 and in his youth he lived at the northern end of the
San Joaquin Valley, California. After a very serious car-accident in his
youth, George began reading philosophy, history and sociology and
changed his mind about being a race-car driver.
Lucas studied film at the University of Southern California where
he made a film that won first price at the Third National Film Festival in 1965.
In 1971 he reworked that film (a Science fiction film about a grim and dehumanized
world) as his first feature, calling it "THX-1138", that starred Robert Duvall.
The film had some decent reviews but didn´t really appeal to the big audience.
In 1973 George Lucas made the very successful "American graffiti",
after beeing rejected several times by UA(United Artists), but with the promise
of Francis Ford Coppola as producer and advisor, Universal Pictures took the
chance on a film that was described as nothing more than a musical montage.
Starring actors like(still pretty unknown):Harrison Ford (who was by that time
working as a carpenter), Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard (known to the public
from the popular TV-Series "Happy days" and
later a great director) and Charles
Martin Smith (you´ve seen him in "The Untouchables" among others). "American
Graffiti" confirmed the reputation of Lucas as a first-rank director, But the world
hadn´t still the slightest idea of what that would come next!
Four years later, in 1977 "Star Wars" landed in cinemas all over the
globe. The film was a bigger success then anybody would have hoped, and it made it possible
for Lucas to fulfill his wish to make films of the whole saga. The success of
Star wars also made a big economical platform for Lucas to stand on. The film
included specialeffects that literarly blew the cinemagoers away and the effects
are today still mindblowing.
Four years after the premier of "Star wars" another Lucas-Phenomenon arrived at the
cinemas around the world:Indiana Jones. George Lucas friend Steven Spielberg
dircted Lucas own story about the adventurous archeologist with the whip and the hat.
The film was of course "Raiders of the lost ark", starring Harisson Ford.
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