Lucas: King Of Film
...effects crew he pioneered, Industrial Light and Magic, he continues to
amaze audiences world wide. His name in synonymous with famous
directors/producers in the world. His impacts reach out in more fields than
just film. He has created companies that produce award winning video games, toy
companies produce action figures designed after characters from his movies, many
books by many authors based on his original film stories, and countless other
wings of Lucas' reign exist in today's world. Since his youth, George Lucas has
experienced many influences, which in turn push him to make the greatest
contributions to the film industry which leave an ever increasing impact on film
today and the world.
Throughout history, it is apparent that those who are recognized as
"great ones" were influenced in some way or another to become the leader who
they are. In George Lucas' case, he was greatly influenced in his late teens
and early twenties. Lucas claims to have chased girls and raced cars throughout
high school, and barely made it through (Moritz 258). Soon after high school,
Lucas attended Modesto Junior College in California and continued to work on
cars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted saying, "I
was a hell-raiser; lived, ate, breathed cars! That was everything for me"(84).
Lucas even worked on pit crews for race cars when he met Haskell Wexler, who
introduced him to film (Moritz 258). Eventually Lucas realized his new passion
was film. Mr. Wexler helped Lucas gain admission into the University of
Southern California's film department (Moritz 260). In college Lucas was
the head of his film classes winning many awards and accolades. His first
feature movie in college was titled THX-1138 and won his university's award for
best film (Moritz 259).
Lucas is also inspired by his circle of friends and fellow directors,
producers,...
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