George Lucas.
Early Life
George lucas was born on the 14th of May 1944 ,the son of Dorothy Ellinore Lucas (1913–1989) and George Walton Lucas (1913–1991),who owned a stationery store, but was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. growing up George loved car and motor races and is an inspiration for his films! But before he wanted to be a film maker he wanted to be a race car driver. ‘On June 12, 1962, while driving his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina, another driver broadsided him, flipping over his car, nearly killing him, causing him to lose interest in racing as a career. He attended Modesto Junior College, where he studied anthropology, sociology, and literature, amongst other subjects’SOURSE ONE. Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.’USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, Lucas shared a dorm room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood and John Milius, they became a clique of film students known as The Dirty Dozen. He also became good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg.’SOURSE ONE
George now has 4 children himself.
Early carrier
‘Lucas fell madly in love with pure cinema and quickly became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinéma vérité with such titles as Look at Life, Herbie, 1:42.08, The Emperor, Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town, Filmmaker, and 6-18-67.’ SOURSE ONE. He was also interested in camera-work and editing. This would define him as more of a film maker than rather to a director.Lucas also loved making ‘abstract visual films that created emotions purely through cinema’ SOURSE ONE.
‘After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film in 1967, he tried joining the United States Air Force as an officer, but he was immediately turned down because of his numerous speeding tickets. He was later drafted by the Army for military service in Vietnam, but he was exempted from service after medical tests showed he had diabetes, the disease that killed his paternal grandfather.’ SOURSE ONE. ‘In 1967, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production.[10] Working as a teaching instructor for a class of U.S. Navy students who were being taught documentary cinematography, Lucas directed the short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which won first prize at the 1967–68 National Student film festival, and was later adapted into his first full-length feature film, THX 1138.’ SOURSE ONE
He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur for many famous films like Star Wars The phantom menace, Star Wars Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars A New hope. Star Wars The empire Strikes Back, Star wars Return of the Jedi. Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jone and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. and lots of other famous films.
Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1967, Lucas co-founded American Zoetrope with fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
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