Lucas: King Of Film :: essays research papers fc

Lucas King of Film     Whether it be through his epic Star Wars saga, or through the noblespecial effects crew he pioneered, Industrial Light and Magic, he continues toamaze audiences world wide. His name in synonymous with famous purportors/producers in the world. His impacts afford out in more fields thanjust fritter away. He has created companies that produce award winning video games, toycompanies produce action figures designed afterward characters from his movies, some(prenominal)books by many authors based on his original film stories, and countless otherwings of Lucas reign exist in todays world. Since his youth, George Lucas hasexperienced many influences, which in turn push him to make the greatestcontributions to the film industry which leave an ever increasing impact on filmtoday and the world.      passim history, it is apparent that those who are recognized as"great ones" were influenced in some way or another to bec ome the leader whothey are. In George Lucas case, he was greatly influenced in his late teensand early twenties. Lucas claims to have chased girls and raced cars throughouthigh school, and barely made it through (Moritz 258). curtly after high school,Lucas attended Modesto petty(prenominal) College in California and continued to work oncars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted saying, "Iwas a hell-raiser lived, ate, breathed cars That was everything for me"(84).Lucas even worked on pock crews for race cars when he met Haskell Wexler, whointroduced him to film (Moritz 258). Eventually Lucas realized his new passionwas film. Mr. Wexler helped Lucas gain admission into the University ofSouthern Californias film department (Moritz 260). In college Lucas wasthe head of his film classes winning many awards and accolades. His firstfeature movie in college was titled THX-1138 and won his universitys award forbest film (Moritz 259).      Lucas is also inspired by his association of friends and fellow directors,producers, and collaborations with them. With the success of THX-1138 at theuniversity, Lucas was awarded the chance to be an observer on the set ofFinians Rainbow directed by University of Southern California alumnus FrancisFord Coppola (Champlin 7). Soon the two began to chat, and then became friends,so Coppola let Lucas work for him on the movie. With his hard work, Lucasearned the respect of Coppola who in turn did Lucas the favor of convincingproducers to let Lucas direct a major motion picture (Moritz 7). Lucas firstmajor motion picture was American Graffiti, with this film Coppola had givenLucas the chance to make a terms in the film industry, and he certainly did.