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| George
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| Director
/ Screenwriter / Editor / Cinematographer |
| 1944 - |
| Born May 14,
Modesto, California, USA |
| Key
Production Country: USA |
| Key Genres:
Science Fiction, Space Adventure, Sci-Fi Action |
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Collaborators: John
Williams (Composer), Anthony Daniels (Character Player), Ewan McGregor
(Leading Player), Natalie Portman (Leading Player), Rick McCallum
(Producer), Ian McDiarmid (Leading Character Player), Frank
Oz (Leading Character Player), David Tattersall (Cinematographer), Ben Burtt (Editor),
Gavin Bocquet (Production Designer) |
| Recommended: American
Graffiti (1973), Star Wars (1977), Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom
Menace (1999) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Lucas Arts ] [
Lucas Film Ltd ] [ Salon
Feature ] [
Mr.
Showbiz Interview ] [ Star
Wars.com Biography ] [ FilmMakers
Profile ] [
American Masters ] [
Wired
Interview (2005) ] |
| Books: [
Skywalking:
The Life and Films of George Lucas ] [ George
Lucas: Interviews ] [ George
Lucas (Behind the Camera) ] [ George
Lucas: Close Up - The Making of His Movies ] [ The
Cinema of George Lucas ] [
George Lucas: Creator of Star Wars ] [
George Lucas (A & E Biography) ] [
Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas ] [
Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films:
American Graffiti (1973),
Star Wars (1977) |
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"He
made his feature debut with the science-fiction story THX
1138 (1971). The phenomenal success of Star Wars
(1977) transformed him into an influential producer, technical
innovator and owner of his own film empire. It also kept him
away from directing for the next two decades." -
(Chambers Film Factfinder, 2006) |
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"Along with
Steven Spielberg,
with whom he regularly collaborates, George Lucas is financially
the most successful of the Hollywood 'movie-brats'. Revealingly,
after three features he seems to have forsaken directing for
producing; indeed, his importance lies less in his films
themselves than in his influence on various current tendencies -
including marketing - in American cinema...Even more than
Spielberg,
Lucas adheres to a bland, childlike and Disneyesque concept of
entertainment." - Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"He has been an immensely successful entrepreneur; his company
Industrial Light and Magic is a pioneer in movie special
effects. Whether he is capable of moving beyond the comic strip
world he has created will become evident once the second Star
Wars trilogy is completed." -
(The Movie Book, 1999) |
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"Rambling nostalgia (American Graffiti, 74) and
science fiction (THX 1138, 71; Star Wars, 77) have
been covered by Lucas in his short career. The director shows a
knack for details of time and place and the ability to produce
skin-deep drama, but his excursions into more complex plots or
characters are flawed." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"You could actually go to school and learn how to
make movies. Suddenly everything came together in one place. All
my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was
right there." - George
Lucas |
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