Biography Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. Known as the creator of the science fiction saga "Star Wars", the fantastic film "ThX", as well as the character of Indiana Jones.
Lucas is one of the richest directors of the world with its own capital in 3. Once upon a time, in one distant, premature galaxy from an early age, Lucas, like Skywalker, dreamed of a professional motorist, was fond of various equipment. However, the car ... the accident, as a result of which he spends for some time in the hospital, changes his plans. Lucas decides to abandon the career of a race carrier, and instead devote himself to cinema.
To do this, he enters the University of South California, where his first paintings were shot, the most noticeable of which appeared, awarded the first place at the National Festival of Student Cinema, the tape "ThX 4EB Electronic Labyrinth". The course of Lester Novorosis “Expression in the Cinema” had a great influence on me - there was a lot of revelations, for the first time I learned how to convey my emotions to the viewer with the help of color, movement, music, space, time, and forms.
In the same years, George Lucas gets acquainted with a person who for many years will become not only his business partner, but also a real friend - Francis Ford Coppola. Their joint project is the American Zoetrope founded in the year. The first brainchild of the company was the full -length version of the film "ThX", which was quite cool perceived by the audience in connection with the "unusual" picture.
The director creates his own Lucasfilms Ltd studio in the year, in which the film was shot that laid the foundation for a long path. The film “American Graffiti” released in the year, much less intricate, was nominated for an Oscar in five nominations, received a golden globe. The film also liked the film and critics, moreover, he brought Lucas, especially necessary money and reputation.
Inspired by the success of the first film, American comics and stories about the samuras of Kurosava, Lucas begins To work on the whole life - the Star Wars saga. I was attracted to the task of including mythological motives in modern history. I just wanted to make a good entertaining film that I would watch myself with pleasure. I was lucky that the audience liked this film too. George Lucas published in the year the first part of the Star Wars saga: Episode IV: New Hope "brings the director real glory and real wealth.
At the same time, fabulous income from the film distribution, was much less than the amount that the director “earned” on the sale of various related goods, which literally, “swept away” from the shelves of stores with fans. All subsequent parts of the saga, as well as the adventure-fantastic series of films about Indiana Jones, are no less popular. Lucas opened the Lucas Film Ltd on the money received from the trilogy rental.
Today and many of its branches scattered throughout California. On Lucas Film Ltd. Today today is the most advanced technical equipment for films in the world, and in the main territory of the studio there are many extremely equipped pavilions. Especially for staff, the company is working in recreation and service services, and for families of potential workers - dormitories and even schools.
The next twenty years, Lucas practically did not engage in directing. Sometimes he produced some successful picture, for example, the trilogy of Indiana Jones, and wrote the script to continue the "star wars" episodes of V and VI. In the year, he again tried to take up the directing of the films, putting the film “Murder in the Radio Station”, but the picture failed at the box office.
In the year, barely celebrating the twenty -year anniversary of the first part of the Star Wars, Lucas made a loud statement about the intention to release a number of prequels to his famous trilogy. The first part of the new "star was released already in the year. The next two followed each other with an equal interval of three years, respectively, and years. Three years later, Lucas replenished his filmography with another story about the adventures of Indiana Jones “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull”, the film was released in the cinemas in the summer of the year, the main role was played by the beloved actor Lucas and the permanent Indiana - Harrison Ford, as well as the full -length cartoon and the animated series “Star” War ".
The number of films that Lucas made was not so great, but they were enough to make a real revolution in the cinema of those years. George Lucas proved to the whole world that not only the super-star, but also special effects, can effectively attract the audience. Lucas's films, as well as Spielberg's films, immerse the audience into the atmosphere of a fairy tale, into the atmosphere of childhood.After the Star Wars and the Indiana Jones, Hollywood focused on colorful rides, leaving all other genres.
It is bad or good, it is difficult to say, but there is no doubt that without the incredible imagination of George Walton Lucas, without his boundless imagination, the world of cinema would be much boring. Learning to make films is very simple. It is very difficult to understand what to do films. George Lucas Personal life in M George met his first wife Marsia Lu Griffin, who became his associate, and worked with him on films.
One of the seven Oscars, earned by the Fourth episode of Star Wars in M, went to her - for the best installation. George never had his children. In M, he and Marcia adopted a girl named Amanda, but two years later the marriage broke up, and Amanda stayed with George. At the end of the eighties, the director adopted another girl - Katie, and in the early nineties, a foster son named Jett entered his family.
George never married again, and raised the children on his own. By the way, he took all of them in small roles in the new Star Wars trilogy. At this time, he lives in Merin County in California. The creator of Star Wars is sometimes considered a recluse due to the fact that he spends a lot of time in solitude on his Ranchu Ranch ranch.