George Lucas: a talented filmmaker who stuck to his guns and made the movies *he* wanted to make..and revolutionised how films were made in the process.
i love how real george always is. he is so different than all the other big hollywood people. despite his movies being the biggest blockbusters of all time. he is an indpendnet film maker at his heart
He's really outside the bubble as he's a San Francisco filmmaker. I'm not sure why he's often associated with Hollywood as he hasn't been involved with them since A New Hope one could argue apart from having them distribute his projects.
George Lucas is one of the most important filmmakers ever. He pioneered so much regarding filmmaking and sound with the technologies and companies he had. The man has a vision and whether one likes it or not, you got to admit the man saw what he wanted and did his best to get it out there, regardless of whatever limitations were in front of him.
Lucas revolutionized cinema in soooo many ways. THX itself changed the way theaters play audio. Not to mention his incredible contribution to vfx and film scores etc etc true genius
@@eskanda3434 ok great thanks for interesting info. Eskanda, I was wondering on THX coincidence since I'm unfamiliar with THX movie and various audio inventions. I guess there are different ways to program audio. Continued blessings
George Lucas changed my life with his Star Wars movies, especially the old trilogy ( Lucas is the filmmaker that gave the most beautiful and fantastic cinema experience, I LITERALLY went crazy when I saw Star Wars!!!) Because of Lucas's Star Wars, I even began my own writing stories!!!
George tells a cool story about that first award winning film of his. It was for a class project in which each student was given just 30 seconds of film, with which they were to demonstrate that they could expose, edit, and print film. Other students were whining that they just wanted to make movies, not do silly basic stuff like this. George realized that instead of shooting 30 seconds of pointless footage, he could use still images, with camera pans and other techniques to make it dynamic and edit it into something interesting, and make a 30 second "film." He did, it went on to win awards and launch his career while the other students were still whining that they wanted to make movies. Check on RUclips for "George Lucas Look At Life Short Film" to see young Lucas in action. You can tell he would have done great documentaries!
Absolutely. He also shot Star Wars like a documentary as the story is being told by R2-D2 to the Keeper of the Whills for the Journal of the Whills. It's sad we never got to see this come to life and only can imagine how it would look.
I am so glad that George Lucas didn't let the "no's" from other movie studios deter him from his pursuit of making his space fantasy opera. Usually the best people in what ever field are the ones that over come their own fears and take a step forward and open a path for others to follow. May the Force Be You!
George Lucas is sorely missed doing STAR WARS without interference by certain people. Hey DW, thank you for this video reminder what a great storyteller/director is about and look like and most important maker of the Real STAR WARS. To you George Lucas, Thank you for all the STAR WARS that you have made for us fans. Love the prequels as well as the Original Trilogy. Wish you had continued but well its ok. I stopped subscribing to DisneyPlus in protest of what they are doing to your legacy and just wanted you to know that. Also send my regards to Jett and Katie for their contribution to STAR WARS 🙂 May the force be with you, George, Mellody, Katie and Jett and stay safe and great.
Fun Fact: Even though George insists that he is from San Francisco ; he is actually a native of Modesto , California. His back story being obsessed with cars being staple elements in future films such 'American Graffiti' and 'Star Wars'. He almost died in a car accident at 18 which made him change his career choice from race car driver to artisan.
He did spend a lot of time in San Francisco growing up though. Particularly going to see Canyon Cinema films with his best buddy that helped convince him to go take the entrance exam for USC. He also had a lot of Lucasfilm companies in San Francisco. So it's an important place to him and not far from Modesto. So I can see why it's easier for him to say that. Same with how he's a Bay Area filmmaker and not Hollywood but it's easier to just go with the flow sometimes.
Watching Disney flounder the legacy of Lucasfilm has been surreal. I always gave George a hard time when he was in charge of all things Star Wars, but now I honestly miss it.
Yes I agree I’m older I was 7 in 1977 when Star Wars came out I lived my childhood through Star Wars it was my life even after childhood I loved SW and then the prequels I didn’t hate them like a lot did but I did my share of bashing them and now I regret it I have for a long time I stopped saying stuff about them around 2008 started realizing they were actually good certainly better than anything Discrap has given us and now the franchise is a shell of its former glory thanks Discrap hope you rot and go bankrupt very soon
He actually did earn the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in the early 90's but he certainly does deserve more recognition for all he's done for all of us. He's enriched us in ways words don't do justice. I'll always be grateful to him. 😊
He is a great man. He made movies that people loved and knew the old style that made past films classics could still tug at the imagination and hearts of newer generations. It is a classic style of storytelling that is lost today. George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry have touched society and so many people over the years. I thank him.
George is just a forerunner of modern digital moviemaking but what I love is his interest in story telling especially the early Star Wars. He's the best
It was so ridiculously cool how he made those exciting space battle scenes in the 70s and very early 80s. I used to watch a behind the scenes Star Wars VHS as a kid that showed how they filmed those by literally exploding little model spaceships on a 'miniature' death star set. It's really interesting to hear about George's early career. I'm trying to see more movies as a new years' resolution. I am interested in checking out some of the titles mentioned here.
Listening to him talk about art and technology made me realize that he’s one of the most important and influential people as far as what he has done for the medium and for opening the door for other directors to tell stories that just wouldn’t have been possible without his breakthroughs.
Awesome. George remains most inspiring. His Brilliance shows thru more as the years go by and the more I watch his work. There is much depth and meaning in the Star Wars stories George created. The lessons within his SW stories are important and very relevant today. Thank you George Lucas!
George Lucas is a great director. I like his movie's. I am one of many. Planning to make movies one day. Thank you George Lucas for being you. Someone to look up too. It hurts! When everyone looks at you funny.
A very revolutionary director and visionary like others but I admire the most of all the greatest film directors in the world and still adore George Lucas
Great directors are revealed by their great thoughts. Just listen to him say that art is based on technology. And his expectations for cinema in 100 years. This is incredible! I think we are getting closer to the fact that films can be projected in the mind, in the form of dreams or in the form of a virtual world like in the Matrix. I wish Lucas longevity, health and spiritual harmony. This man has done enough for cinema and is inscribed in history forever!
It's interesting to hear him talk about visual effects as a technology used for the purpose of storytelling. Because most movie studios these days only seem interested in farting out visual effects as if they are the story itself, but on top of that, they don't treat their artists well, so things end up looking half-finished regardless. George sounds optimistic about the future of cinema here, but I'm more worried than anything. Most studios forgot artistic integrity, well-designed stories, and giving the audience a memorable experience.
The interview clips seem to be from 2005. There's footage of showcase animations from the ROTS game plus a replica of a 212th trooper helmet in the background when we see him talking.
no problem! when I was a kid watching the originals I said I wanted to work for Star Wars... 18 years later I was making lightsaber props! @@zoetropeguardian aim high!
I have Shinji Hata and Mark Cotta Vaz’s beautiful book "From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: the Best of the Lucasfilm Archives", published by Chronicle Books. I even briefly spoke with Mark Cotta Vaz on the phone. I've tried to look for sound recordings with the voice of Shinji Hata but so far have been unsuccessful. Any of you looking at this magnificent video won’t have a clue if there is any recording anywhere with the voice of Shinji, will you? Last time I checked, I was told that Shinji lived in Tokyo but all my attempts to contact him have been unsuccessful.
George has left an indelible mark on countless lives and industries through his boundless imagination and creativity. He is a national and global treasure, often overlooked and underrated. Personally, I am immensely grateful to him for the profound impact he and Star Wars, along with his other films, have had on my life at various stages. Thank you, George Lucas, Alan Ladd Jr., and everyone involved in turning Lucas's dreams into reality. Forever grateful for your contributions.
I just read a book from the library I recommend: “A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away….” by Paul Hirsch, one of the editors besides George on Star Wars (the first film before it was titled a New Hope). An excerpt: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." This was not in the original shooting script. George had added this card to prevent the film from being labeled science fiction. He thought of it as a space fantasy. He didn't want it hear about the impossibility of hearing sound in space or get caught up in any sterile arguments about what was scientifically possible." George was very generous. He bought cars for some people who worked on American Graffiti. He gave Paul Hirsch a bonus of ten weeks pay. (I remember he also gave James Earl Jones a big bonus). He and his wife let Paul's wife who had just had a C-section sleep in their room while they slept in the guest room etc. (she moved from NYC to have the baby). George thanked Paul twice: "You were the last man standing. You saved my movie." (meaning he did a lot of work on a movie that was very difficult to do at the time). Marcia Lucas had a lot to do with editing. Some ideas such as the Millennium Falcon showing up to save Luke in the Death Star trench. Paul edited Vader's ship looking like it had been knocked out into space since it wasn't shot that way etc. (Only 47 pages is of Star Wars with no fluff. There's also a section the Empire Strikes Back).
I have a feeling people would have hated on his sequels just as bad. He wanted Darth Maul to be the main villain. Plus "fans" caused him to sell to Disney.
“I finally decided okay I’ll finish Star Wars!” Lucas On filming the prequels and the SAGA itself. Well that settles that, Star Wars is phantom menace to return of the Jedi.
@@cinemagoose In fairness the films left him very burnt out and after his divorce he wanted to slow down to focus on his first-born daughters and eventually son. He still did a lot of work producing, developing technologies, and the like. However the commitment it would take to do more Star Wars was too large at that point for him as family became the most important thing for him. Plus the technology wasn't there yet to get it how he'd want it as he had to compromise so much on the Original Trilogy. It made him miserable and disappointed. Just like now though one of the main reasons he left is because he wanted to raise his daughter with his wife Mellody. At the time in the 80's he decided to convert a lot of original Sequel Trilogy ideas to Return of the Jedi while still keeping the door open in private it seems to the idea of Sequels eventually as there's a fair few tidbits through the years that align with things he's talked about with them and that are in development section of The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler that are in his Sequels we would've got. There's a documentary from 1999 where Steven Spielberg says that part of George's concept for doing the Originals then Prequels involved the Sequels after. Rick McCallum in the same documentary that whether or not George makes them it's the story about a family. There's a lot of factors to it all but I suppose what I'm saying is that he decided against it yet still seemed open to it in private while not fully committing either way. In part some of that I think is the backlash towards him starting with the Prequels took a toll on him. It's really sad to me. I'm grateful though the discourse has started to change and we're seeing a re-evaluation of his later work in no small part because of the generation he made the stories for now have a voice on the internet.
@@zoetropeguardian I mostly agree with you. The problem is that so many of his young fans believe he is some sort of God who can do no wrong. Very few prequel fans from what I've seen have critical thinking skills in regards to those films. The prequels aren't perfect, and yet they project hatred and promote a lot of toxicity in the Fandom imo.
@@cinemagoose As much as I try I also don't see the flaws in the Prequels some do. I've spent a long time reading and understanding George's creative process and George himself. So I can see what he was doing with the films and all of his work. I do agree though there's a lack of critical thinking within the fandom. I recommend checking out Rick Worley's How to Watch Star Wars series. Part 1 in particular if you can. He gets to the root of understanding George and his intentions with the films. There's only one time I've really disagreed with him.
Georges Lucas is the father of digital film making. What an incredible story-teller and world-builder❤! Thank you so much lister Lucas for all the dreams you gave us🙏🏽 Shoutout to Doug Chiang the boss
Watching an absolute genius talk so blasé about what he does......thankyou Mr.Lucas for a lifetime of wonderful and inspiring stories....and sharing yourself with all of us.
Just so everyone knows, this interview is from an old show titled "Hollywood's Best Film Directors". This video doesn't explicitly state that. It's just re-uploading it.
He said "I helped computer companies to make new technology in hollywood"... He literally created pixar and modern day hollywood special effects yet he brushes it off like its nothing. This is why I love George. he is so humble of a man. Its like listening to jesus christ talk about how he made modern day special effects in hollywood. He is a true Jedi. We forget that George is the one true master jedi.
@@BoothTheGrey This is true. And even he has admitted that. But he is humble about that. I have respect for it. You dont really know how much he has done for the industry unless you do the research yourself cause he doesnt boast about it.
It's because he's as Anti-Hollywood as they come as he's a San Francisco filmmaker. He did everything he could to become free of the Hollywood circus with financing The Empire Strikes Back himself. It paid off as he only distributed his work through the system.
What a great video. American graffiti is still one of my favorite movies ever. There’s a fantastic French Blu-ray edition which I got and I totally recommend.
This video is from 2012 so it's kinda old. Not that it's content is no longer valid, but George looks a bit older now, and a lot more has happened since then...
The future of cinema is bleak to me due to lack of creativity and people not willing to invest in new ideas. I feel like we are currently in an all time low which from the look of things is just gonna get worse. Maybe when we get over this superhero/remake era we can see something fascinating again.
It depends on the audience. If they stop showing up for the superhero and remakes we'd see real change but as long as they keep selling that's what we're going to get as suits are risk adverse and afraid of taking chances on creative individuals. It's really sad. Thankfully we have a treasure trove of older films and television to explore and inspire us.
@@DWHistoryandCulture More films like those by Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Agnès Varda, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, and of course the one and only George Lucas. Each of their films always take risk and do new things each time. It's always better to experiment and explore new things instead of watching the same thing all of the time as there's no personal growth in that.
I always wanted to meet this man. Sadly, I don't think that would be possible. I even entered a contest. He, along with others, made me sweat blood and tears writing for 15 years, trying to get Sci Fi projects off the ground. Sometimes, I wish I never saw star wars, 😂 they made it real hard for anyone to do what he did after. Such a clicky industry devoid of creativity now. I'm pretty sure the DGA fined him for not having opening credits of cast just out of spite. To think he was one hour away once, in a typical food court, having 5 dollar noodles and a coke and nobody noticed. 😂
It's funny how many people demonized Lucas despite his discipline, consistency, achievements, innovations, creativity, ethics, teamwork, and obvious storytelling proficiency. Sure, even GEORGE noted and agreed that Coppola's comment--which was that he was "the King of wooden dialogue"---was correct. But if that were truly, super-hyper true... well, I wonder why "Star Wars" (all six films and the Lucasarts video games) was all such a success? How was that possible? What could it BE?! I just don't *KNOW*. lol
In a sense dialogue isn't really the important thing in his stories. It's an anchor if you will to the visuals. He prefers pure cinema and letting the visuals tell the story. It works as you can always understand visually what is going on even if you're watching Star Wars in a language you don't know.
George Lucas has a few faults here and there like anyone has. No person is superhuman. I think he's main weakness is the dialogue writing, and maybe not compromising/reigning in on a few far fetched wild ideas as well. I think the old films were improvised in areas - especially dialogue, and he had hired two directors to smooth out George's rougher cut vision. Technology constraints also kept his original movies slightly more grounded and real feeling.
@@skycloud4802 The dialogue is consistent and the same across all six films. Check out Everytime Star Wars Quotes Star Wars. Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquard both followed George's guidelines in how the films were to be shot and weren't even involved in many scenes that George was. George had final approval on everything. He also fun fact wrote the majority of Empire before Lawrence Kasdan got involved. Kasdan's biggest contribution was polishing.
People love to hate the prequels, and while I haven’t watched them recently compared to the original, the prequel trilogy was very impactful to me as a kid, especially the video games that focused on the prequels (Star Wars Obi Wan, Episode III, and the 2 classic Battlefront games)
It'd be great, sure, but that'll never happen. The franchise itself, according to the only source I can find on Google is worth around 65 billion today. I can't imagine how much Lucasfilm is worth in 2024. At least the future looks bright for Indiana Jones.
I honestly don't understand the hate the prequels get. They're great movies. There's clearly quality filmmaking at play but "fans" hate on them for some reason. It must just be because of how different they are to the originals. Because all three are good films.
@@skycloud4802 The dialogue is consistent and the same across all six films. Check out Everytime Star Wars Quotes Star Wars. The CGI broke new ground and pushed cinema into the digital age.
@@zoetropeguardian The dialogue could be occasionally clunky, but was improvised much better in the OG films because the actors straight up told George to go do one. "You can write this ****, but you can't say it" - Harrison Ford having a moan during filming of Star Wars. Harrison improvised "I know" instead of Harrison "I love you too" or something cheesy like that which he was supposed to say. Harrison refused to wear a pink top which Han Solo was supposed to wear, and instead looked cooler for wearing something better. Prequel actors and production crew treated George like god, and were scared to challenge him on ideas or give any push back. They were Yes men, and George's prequels suffered as a consequence.
@@skycloud4802 Inaccurate. Harrison Ford had his issues but later told Time Magazine "I told George you can type this stuff but I was wrong. It worked." That part is wrongly always left out. He also did improvise that line. George isn't interested in one liners usually. His style is more classical 30's and 40's theatrical acting instead of method. He prefers the old style of making films. Where did you get the pink shirt information? I've never seen anything about that. He was challenged. Jonathan Rinzler debunked this narrative before he passed on.
Every time I see George Lucas the first thing I notice is his hair. George Lucas‘ hair genetics are on a level with Ronald Reagan, and they are perfect!
Even though the prequels are flawed in my opinion, just out of principle, I am glad he made them exactly the way he wanted them to be. I'm sick of Hollywood movies today that have no artisitic integrity
Look up "MOMA Gala George Lucas and Martin Scorsese 2022" for pictures. He's very healthy and happy looking there. It seems to be more Disney events where he's not happy and would prefer not being there but he goes to be respectful. Like the Indiana Jones movie premiere I imagine he went out of respect for Harrison Ford since they're good friends.
Lucas never explained if he followed Walter Murch's idea for THX or was it his "good friends, (students)?", that propelled him to go ahead and do this project with the help of the Zoetrope company. I'm confused.😐🤔😌
Matthew Robbins and Walter Murch came up with an original concept similar to THX 1138 but got bored by the project so they gave up on it. George was still very interested and pursued it. I hope this clarifies for you.
Yes , thanks a lot. Although the name Matthew Robbins kinda threw me off with the actor Tim Robbins of The Shawshank Redemption. DId the THX idea come from 1984 or other literary works? @@zoetropeguardian
@@georgioquestor597 My pleasure. It can get confusing. Funny coincidence is Tim Robbins was in Howard the Duck and Frank Darabont wrote multiple episodes of Young Indy with George. Haha To answer your question. There was some inspiration but it was more so a metaphor for them in how they were living at the time. Late 60's/early 70's. It was a film set in the future but not about the future.
@@zoetropeguardian Yea many connections there. If i am correct Frankie directed Shawshank with Robbins while Timmy was with Howard produced by LUcasfilms. Duck was a bust at that time but now seems to bean underground classic. He..he! Thanks again Zoe. P.S; THX is a heavy movie with many layers. It's amazing young George, (and student crew), made it look so convincing. First time i saw it I had no idea what i was watching. Now i get it.
@@georgioquestor597 You're very welcome. It's great how they've both become underground classics as you say. 😊 Oh! I should clarify for you. There were actually two THX 1138's. One was George's student film version and the second was his first feature film version. Only the first one was worked on by students and members of the Navy too. The second one was afterwards and he had spent a couple of years in San Francisco with Francis Ford Coppola as they started a film studio together. They made Francis's The Rain People and then feature length THX 1138. I hope this helps. 😊
0:07 For any sticklers out there, Coppola is pronounced; Co (rhymes with show) Po La, rather than Copp- a-la. Also, Scorsese is; Scor- Sehz- ee, rather than Scor-Say-zee. Edit: A few minutes later, Lucas says "Coppola". 😓 Maybe it's just me, but I like to pronounce things correctly once I know the correct way to say them.
George Lucas: a talented filmmaker who stuck to his guns and made the movies *he* wanted to make..and revolutionised how films were made in the process.
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@@silentmajority8365 No he isn't.
Not just films but music too.
Directors learned from his mistakes
15:52 “And everyone said, you can't do that, you can’t mmh.. but I did it anyway.“
And that’s why I love him.
“they said no, so I just did it anyway”
GL in a nutshell
i love how real george always is. he is so different than all the other big hollywood people. despite his movies being the biggest blockbusters of all time. he is an indpendnet film maker at his heart
He's really outside the bubble as he's a San Francisco filmmaker. I'm not sure why he's often associated with Hollywood as he hasn't been involved with them since A New Hope one could argue apart from having them distribute his projects.
George Lucas is my favorite director. I even met him once. But, there are other directors who made really good films.
He even acknowledged that he has become the coporate studio system that he originally rebelled against.
A great parallel to the Skywalker characters.
@@drewlovelyhell4892 While also being happy he could make his films his own way. Showing the same rebel he's always been as he did them his way.
@@drewlovelyhell4892 like anikin. you became the very thing you swore to destroy until now
George Lucas is one of the most important filmmakers ever. He pioneered so much regarding filmmaking and sound with the technologies and companies he had. The man has a vision and whether one likes it or not, you got to admit the man saw what he wanted and did his best to get it out there, regardless of whatever limitations were in front of him.
Indeed he did a lot for the industry
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From practical effects to CGI, then Cameron came up
George influenced my life in ways he can't even begin to imagine! Grateful to be a 70s kid with Star Wars on the cinematic landscape of pop-culture.
Thanks for this tribute to George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars. Learnt a good deal about his career as a film maker.
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I'm watching this cool tribute video on the day of his birthday 14th of May so Happy Birthday George Lucas! 🎂👍
Thank you George Lucas for deciding to make epo 1, 2, & 3! Much love from a birthday twin!!
Hee hee!
I was looking up my birthday twins the other day (Christian Bale, Gene Hackman..)
Lucas revolutionized cinema in soooo many ways. THX itself changed the way theaters play audio. Not to mention his incredible contribution to vfx and film scores etc etc true genius
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Is THX based on the movie that Lucas made in college? Is it same as Surround Sound ?
@@Lee-vb4vh its sound system he designed for theaters to have uniform audio quality output the name is based on his first movie
@@eskanda3434 ok great thanks for interesting info. Eskanda, I was wondering on THX coincidence since I'm unfamiliar with THX movie and various audio inventions. I guess there are different ways to program audio. Continued blessings
George Lucas changed my life with his Star Wars movies, especially the old trilogy ( Lucas is the filmmaker that gave the most beautiful and fantastic cinema experience, I LITERALLY went crazy when I saw Star Wars!!!) Because of Lucas's Star Wars, I even began my own writing stories!!!
George tells a cool story about that first award winning film of his. It was for a class project in which each student was given just 30 seconds of film, with which they were to demonstrate that they could expose, edit, and print film. Other students were whining that they just wanted to make movies, not do silly basic stuff like this. George realized that instead of shooting 30 seconds of pointless footage, he could use still images, with camera pans and other techniques to make it dynamic and edit it into something interesting, and make a 30 second "film." He did, it went on to win awards and launch his career while the other students were still whining that they wanted to make movies. Check on RUclips for "George Lucas Look At Life Short Film" to see young Lucas in action. You can tell he would have done great documentaries!
Absolutely. He also shot Star Wars like a documentary as the story is being told by R2-D2 to the Keeper of the Whills for the Journal of the Whills. It's sad we never got to see this come to life and only can imagine how it would look.
Thanks for sharing this anecdote with us and our community!
I feel like what Lucas did in that documentary might've influenced Ken Burns for his documentaries.
I am so glad that George Lucas didn't let the "no's" from other movie studios deter him from his pursuit of making his space fantasy opera. Usually the best people in what ever field are the ones that over come their own fears and take a step forward and open a path for others to follow. May the Force Be You!
George Lucas is sorely missed doing STAR WARS without interference by certain people.
Hey DW, thank you for this video reminder what a great storyteller/director is about and look like and most important maker of the Real STAR WARS.
To you George Lucas, Thank you for all the STAR WARS that you have made for us fans. Love the prequels as well as the Original Trilogy. Wish you had continued but well its ok. I stopped subscribing to DisneyPlus in protest of what they are doing to your legacy and just wanted you to know that. Also send my regards to Jett and Katie for their contribution to STAR WARS 🙂
May the force be with you, George, Mellody, Katie and Jett and stay safe and great.
George Lucas without interference is the prequels, and those movies are totally culturally forgotten without Reddit and Dave Filoni shows
Amen guys in George I trust
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@@almendraman Prequels culturally forgotten? Nah, they're as culturally cemented as the OT.
@@almendraman They're not culturally forgotten.
@@springbok8876 Maybe in Star Wars circles, sure. Not a single regular cultural critic remembers or favors the prequels over the originals.
Thanks George. That humble sci-fi / swashbuckling throwback adventure called Star Wars was one of the reasons why I got into this industry.
Fun Fact: Even though George insists that he is from San Francisco ; he is actually a native of Modesto , California. His back story being obsessed with cars being staple elements in future films such 'American Graffiti' and 'Star Wars'. He almost died in a car accident at 18 which made him change his career choice from race car driver to artisan.
We know, we watched Light & Magic too
He did spend a lot of time in San Francisco growing up though. Particularly going to see Canyon Cinema films with his best buddy that helped convince him to go take the entrance exam for USC. He also had a lot of Lucasfilm companies in San Francisco. So it's an important place to him and not far from Modesto. So I can see why it's easier for him to say that. Same with how he's a Bay Area filmmaker and not Hollywood but it's easier to just go with the flow sometimes.
Watching Disney flounder the legacy of Lucasfilm has been surreal. I always gave George a hard time when he was in charge of all things Star Wars, but now I honestly miss it.
We killed our own father.
Yes I agree I’m older I was 7 in 1977 when Star Wars came out I lived my childhood through Star Wars it was my life even after childhood I loved SW and then the prequels I didn’t hate them like a lot did but I did my share of bashing them and now I regret it I have for a long time I stopped saying stuff about them around 2008 started realizing they were actually good certainly better than anything Discrap has given us and now the franchise is a shell of its former glory thanks Discrap hope you rot and go bankrupt very soon
George made it, regardless of how you feel some part of you has always know that you loved it all, it just took taking it all away for you to see that
So what you’re saying is you are a hypocrite? 🤔 Too bad you didn’t appreciate him more huh.
@@jedijonesMaybe you did. I just trusted what he was doing, Prquels don't look so bad now do they?
He Sadley hasn't won a Academy Award, but he deserves an Honorary Award for his Success
He Achieved so much and inspired so many people like me
He actually did earn the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in the early 90's but he certainly does deserve more recognition for all he's done for all of us. He's enriched us in ways words don't do justice. I'll always be grateful to him. 😊
He doesn't need them, they need him, who else is worshiped at comicons all over the world every year?
He is a great man. He made movies that people loved and knew the old style that made past films classics could still tug at the imagination and hearts of newer generations. It is a classic style of storytelling that is lost today. George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry have touched society and so many people over the years. I thank him.
George is just a forerunner of modern digital moviemaking but what I love is his interest in story telling especially the early Star Wars. He's the best
It was so ridiculously cool how he made those exciting space battle scenes in the 70s and very early 80s. I used to watch a behind the scenes Star Wars VHS as a kid that showed how they filmed those by literally exploding little model spaceships on a 'miniature' death star set.
It's really interesting to hear about George's early career. I'm trying to see more movies as a new years' resolution. I am interested in checking out some of the titles mentioned here.
George Lucas is a living legend. A pity Disney squandered the masterpiece they got from him.
I love to listen to this humble man. Nothing but wisdom from him.
Listening to him talk about art and technology made me realize that he’s one of the most important and influential people as far as what he has done for the medium and for opening the door for other directors to tell stories that just wouldn’t have been possible without his breakthroughs.
Awesome. George remains most inspiring. His Brilliance shows thru more as the years go by and the more I watch his work. There is much depth and meaning in the Star Wars stories George created. The lessons within his SW stories are important and very relevant today. Thank you George Lucas!
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Could listen to this man all day! 🥰👌🏼💙
George Lucas is a great director. I like his movie's. I am one of many. Planning to make movies one day. Thank you George Lucas for being you. Someone to look up too. It hurts! When everyone looks at you funny.
A very revolutionary director and visionary like others but I admire the most of all the greatest film directors in the world and still adore George Lucas
This is a fascinating interview. So glad we could hear him speak his story.
Great directors are revealed by their great thoughts. Just listen to him say that art is based on technology. And his expectations for cinema in 100 years. This is incredible! I think we are getting closer to the fact that films can be projected in the mind, in the form of dreams or in the form of a virtual world like in the Matrix.
I wish Lucas longevity, health and spiritual harmony. This man has done enough for cinema and is inscribed in history forever!
He’s a legend, he has become
Mythical like his movie subjects.
He did so many breakthroughs its unlimited. A real game changer. Thanks george lucas
It's interesting to hear him talk about visual effects as a technology used for the purpose of storytelling. Because most movie studios these days only seem interested in farting out visual effects as if they are the story itself, but on top of that, they don't treat their artists well, so things end up looking half-finished regardless. George sounds optimistic about the future of cinema here, but I'm more worried than anything. Most studios forgot artistic integrity, well-designed stories, and giving the audience a memorable experience.
Looks like 10-20 year old clips.
Would love to see a current interview with him.
The interview clips seem to be from 2005. There's footage of showcase animations from the ROTS game plus a replica of a 212th trooper helmet in the background when we see him talking.
one of the greatest storytellers of the modern age
An amazing artist. We are blessed to have his work to enjoy!
10:43 i was on set that day giving out the lightsaber props :) loved working on the prequels.
Thank you for being part of the crew on something that brings me joy and showed me what I wanted to be when I grew up. 🙂
no problem! when I was a kid watching the originals I said I wanted to work for Star Wars... 18 years later I was making lightsaber props! @@zoetropeguardian aim high!
I have Shinji Hata and Mark Cotta Vaz’s beautiful book "From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: the Best of the Lucasfilm Archives", published by Chronicle Books. I even briefly spoke with Mark Cotta Vaz on the phone. I've tried to look for sound recordings with the voice of Shinji Hata but so far have been unsuccessful. Any of you looking at this magnificent video won’t have a clue if there is any recording anywhere with the voice of Shinji, will you? Last time I checked, I was told that Shinji lived in Tokyo but all my attempts to contact him have been unsuccessful.
If I come across anything I'll let you know. This book sounds great. When was it published?
George has left an indelible mark on countless lives and industries through his boundless imagination and creativity. He is a national and global treasure, often overlooked and underrated. Personally, I am immensely grateful to him for the profound impact he and Star Wars, along with his other films, have had on my life at various stages.
Thank you, George Lucas, Alan Ladd Jr., and everyone involved in turning Lucas's dreams into reality. Forever grateful for your contributions.
He is a very talented director. one of the best with Speilberg, Coppala, and others in his generation. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I just read a book from the library I recommend: “A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away….” by Paul Hirsch, one of the editors besides George on Star Wars (the first film before it was titled a New Hope).
An excerpt: "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." This was not in the original shooting script. George had added this card to prevent the film from being labeled science fiction. He thought of it as a space fantasy. He didn't want it hear about the impossibility of hearing sound in space or get caught up in any sterile arguments about what was scientifically possible."
George was very generous. He bought cars for some people who worked on American Graffiti. He gave Paul Hirsch a bonus of ten weeks pay. (I remember he also gave James Earl Jones a big bonus). He and his wife let Paul's wife who had just had a C-section sleep in their room while they slept in the guest room etc. (she moved from NYC to have the baby).
George thanked Paul twice: "You were the last man standing. You saved my movie." (meaning he did a lot of work on a movie that was very difficult to do at the time). Marcia Lucas had a lot to do with editing. Some ideas such as the Millennium Falcon showing up to save Luke in the Death Star trench. Paul edited Vader's ship looking like it had been knocked out into space since it wasn't shot that way etc.
(Only 47 pages is of Star Wars with no fluff. There's also a section the Empire Strikes Back).
Thank you Mr Lucas for not giving up 🙏
I can't wait to dive into this!
We love you George!
Remarkable man. Truly.
George, save us from Kathleen Kennedy!
Cry harder.
You'll have to blame her on Spielberg. She slept her way to the top and dragged Cryin Ryan with her through blackmail.
@@futuristica1710 Get woke go broke
I have a feeling people would have hated on his sequels just as bad. He wanted Darth Maul to be the main villain. Plus "fans" caused him to sell to Disney.
Help us, George Lucas, you're our only hope! Help me, George Lucas, you're our only hope!
“I finally decided okay I’ll finish Star Wars!” Lucas On filming the prequels and the SAGA itself.
Well that settles that, Star Wars is phantom menace to return of the Jedi.
He said the opposite years later.
He also said that there would be nine movies at one point. Which Lucas are you gonna trust? 1978 George Lucas or 1994 George Lucas?
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In fairness the films left him very burnt out and after his divorce he wanted to slow down to focus on his first-born daughters and eventually son. He still did a lot of work producing, developing technologies, and the like. However the commitment it would take to do more Star Wars was too large at that point for him as family became the most important thing for him. Plus the technology wasn't there yet to get it how he'd want it as he had to compromise so much on the Original Trilogy. It made him miserable and disappointed. Just like now though one of the main reasons he left is because he wanted to raise his daughter with his wife Mellody. At the time in the 80's he decided to convert a lot of original Sequel Trilogy ideas to Return of the Jedi while still keeping the door open in private it seems to the idea of Sequels eventually as there's a fair few tidbits through the years that align with things he's talked about with them and that are in development section of The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler that are in his Sequels we would've got. There's a documentary from 1999 where Steven Spielberg says that part of George's concept for doing the Originals then Prequels involved the Sequels after. Rick McCallum in the same documentary that whether or not George makes them it's the story about a family. There's a lot of factors to it all but I suppose what I'm saying is that he decided against it yet still seemed open to it in private while not fully committing either way. In part some of that I think is the backlash towards him starting with the Prequels took a toll on him. It's really sad to me. I'm grateful though the discourse has started to change and we're seeing a re-evaluation of his later work in no small part because of the generation he made the stories for now have a voice on the internet.
@@zoetropeguardian I mostly agree with you. The problem is that so many of his young fans believe he is some sort of God who can do no wrong. Very few prequel fans from what I've seen have critical thinking skills in regards to those films. The prequels aren't perfect, and yet they project hatred and promote a lot of toxicity in the Fandom imo.
@@cinemagoose As much as I try I also don't see the flaws in the Prequels some do. I've spent a long time reading and understanding George's creative process and George himself. So I can see what he was doing with the films and all of his work. I do agree though there's a lack of critical thinking within the fandom. I recommend checking out Rick Worley's How to Watch Star Wars series. Part 1 in particular if you can. He gets to the root of understanding George and his intentions with the films. There's only one time I've really disagreed with him.
Georges Lucas is the father of digital film making. What an incredible story-teller and world-builder❤!
Thank you so much lister Lucas for all the dreams you gave us🙏🏽
Shoutout to Doug Chiang the boss
I like George Lucas. He's so passionate I bet he collects star wars comics.
Watching an absolute genius talk so blasé about what he does......thankyou Mr.Lucas for a lifetime of wonderful and inspiring stories....and sharing yourself with all of us.
Just so everyone knows, this interview is from an old show titled "Hollywood's Best Film Directors". This video doesn't explicitly state that. It's just re-uploading it.
Thank you for that. I hope they'll upload the one with Francis Ford Coppola as seen in the end credits. It would be great to watch more of these.
GENIUS!!
Thank you @DW History and Culture for this video, and thank you George.
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He said "I helped computer companies to make new technology in hollywood"... He literally created pixar and modern day hollywood special effects yet he brushes it off like its nothing. This is why I love George. he is so humble of a man. Its like listening to jesus christ talk about how he made modern day special effects in hollywood. He is a true Jedi. We forget that George is the one true master jedi.
To be honest... if Lucas even did not exist it would have been done by other folks. It was a logical step.
@@BoothTheGrey This is true. And even he has admitted that. But he is humble about that. I have respect for it. You dont really know how much he has done for the industry unless you do the research yourself cause he doesnt boast about it.
Thank you very much, truly appreciated. Much regards, Alex.
hey buddy, I did Martial Arts. Perfect Dark Shotting Arena is all that.
I have no words to express my respect for that man
Me and my mate were discussing how underappreciated Lucas is in Hollywood, rarely every talked about but he started Lucasfilm and ILM come on...
It's because he's as Anti-Hollywood as they come as he's a San Francisco filmmaker. He did everything he could to become free of the Hollywood circus with financing The Empire Strikes Back himself. It paid off as he only distributed his work through the system.
I wonder if he regrets selling to Disney
Yes he did. He has expressed this several times, including at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
George Lucas is an inspiration for us all,and he’s right about a number of things
What a great video. American graffiti is still one of my favorite movies ever. There’s a fantastic French Blu-ray edition which I got and I totally recommend.
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Great interview, but some of the music was really jarring and distracting. We are capable of just watching someone talk without getting bored!
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"American Graffiti" is a really good film. Maybe his best even.
Star wars says hi
He is a genius! Selling Lukas Films to Disney only to buy back at a premium in the near future! One can wish ofcourse. Fingers crossed!
This video is from 2012 so it's kinda old. Not that it's content is no longer valid, but George looks a bit older now, and a lot more has happened since then...
Yeah they need to put that in the description
Background music in this interview is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
We are never going to get him to talk about Howard The Duck, are we.
Love you Mr. Lucas, thanks for everything!
A legend, in his own mind/opinion. It rhymes
The future of cinema is bleak to me due to lack of creativity and people not willing to invest in new ideas. I feel like we are currently in an all time low which from the look of things is just gonna get worse. Maybe when we get over this superhero/remake era we can see something fascinating again.
It depends on the audience. If they stop showing up for the superhero and remakes we'd see real change but as long as they keep selling that's what we're going to get as suits are risk adverse and afraid of taking chances on creative individuals. It's really sad. Thankfully we have a treasure trove of older films and television to explore and inspire us.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! What would you like to see more of in cinema?
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More films like those by Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Agnès Varda, Sofia Coppola, Jane Campion, and of course the one and only George Lucas. Each of their films always take risk and do new things each time. It's always better to experiment and explore new things instead of watching the same thing all of the time as there's no personal growth in that.
I always wanted to meet this man. Sadly, I don't think that would be possible. I even entered a contest. He, along with others, made me sweat blood and tears writing for 15 years, trying to get Sci Fi projects off the ground. Sometimes, I wish I never saw star wars, 😂 they made it real hard for anyone to do what he did after. Such a clicky industry devoid of creativity now. I'm pretty sure the DGA fined him for not having opening credits of cast just out of spite. To think he was one hour away once, in a typical food court, having 5 dollar noodles and a coke and nobody noticed. 😂
i would love to watch a 2 1/2 hour version of american graffiti
It's funny how many people demonized Lucas despite his discipline, consistency, achievements, innovations, creativity, ethics, teamwork, and obvious storytelling proficiency. Sure, even GEORGE noted and agreed that Coppola's comment--which was that he was "the King of wooden dialogue"---was correct. But if that were truly, super-hyper true... well, I wonder why "Star Wars" (all six films and the Lucasarts video games) was all such a success? How was that possible? What could it BE?! I just don't *KNOW*. lol
In a sense dialogue isn't really the important thing in his stories. It's an anchor if you will to the visuals. He prefers pure cinema and letting the visuals tell the story. It works as you can always understand visually what is going on even if you're watching Star Wars in a language you don't know.
George Lucas has a few faults here and there like anyone has. No person is superhuman. I think he's main weakness is the dialogue writing, and maybe not compromising/reigning in on a few far fetched wild ideas as well.
I think the old films were improvised in areas - especially dialogue, and he had hired two directors to smooth out George's rougher cut vision. Technology constraints also kept his original movies slightly more grounded and real feeling.
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The dialogue is consistent and the same across all six films. Check out Everytime Star Wars Quotes Star Wars.
Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquard both followed George's guidelines in how the films were to be shot and weren't even involved in many scenes that George was. George had final approval on everything. He also fun fact wrote the majority of Empire before Lawrence Kasdan got involved. Kasdan's biggest contribution was polishing.
The Master! 👌 The One And Only! - George Lucas -
Thank God For George Lucas! 😊 And May The Force be with us All 👊😆✊🍁♈🍁
What a lovely and interesting guy.
"I'm a mastermind." - George Lucas.
In the Kennedy-Iger era, everyone now agrees that Episodes 1,2,3 >>> Episodes 7,8,9.
People love to hate the prequels, and while I haven’t watched them recently compared to the original, the prequel trilogy was very impactful to me as a kid, especially the video games that focused on the prequels (Star Wars Obi Wan, Episode III, and the 2 classic Battlefront games)
George Lucas looked just like Warren Beatty when he was young. Ref: @ 0:35 and 2:39
When was this interview done? It doesn’t seem recent but it’s kinda presented like it is???
GL needs to buy back LF
Nope.
It'd be great, sure, but that'll never happen. The franchise itself, according to the only source I can find on Google is worth around 65 billion today. I can't imagine how much Lucasfilm is worth in 2024. At least the future looks bright for Indiana Jones.
No thanks to the Fandom Menace, he probably wouldn't want to buy it back even if he could.
I honestly don't understand the hate the prequels get. They're great movies. There's clearly quality filmmaking at play but "fans" hate on them for some reason. It must just be because of how different they are to the originals. Because all three are good films.
Bad dialogue and dated CGI. I like the prequels enough for the lore building, but they definitely haven't held up as well as the OG Trilogy.
@@skycloud4802
The dialogue is consistent and the same across all six films. Check out Everytime Star Wars Quotes Star Wars. The CGI broke new ground and pushed cinema into the digital age.
@@zoetropeguardian The dialogue could be occasionally clunky, but was improvised much better in the OG films because the actors straight up told George to go do one. "You can write this ****, but you can't say it" - Harrison Ford having a moan during filming of Star Wars. Harrison improvised "I know" instead of Harrison "I love you too" or something cheesy like that which he was supposed to say. Harrison refused to wear a pink top which Han Solo was supposed to wear, and instead looked cooler for wearing something better.
Prequel actors and production crew treated George like god, and were scared to challenge him on ideas or give any push back. They were Yes men, and George's prequels suffered as a consequence.
@@skycloud4802 If you think the prequels look dated then the OT is unwatchable by comparison.
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Inaccurate. Harrison Ford had his issues but later told Time Magazine "I told George you can type this stuff but I was wrong. It worked." That part is wrongly always left out. He also did improvise that line. George isn't interested in one liners usually. His style is more classical 30's and 40's theatrical acting instead of method. He prefers the old style of making films. Where did you get the pink shirt information? I've never seen anything about that.
He was challenged. Jonathan Rinzler debunked this narrative before he passed on.
That was great. As soon as i finished watching ... guess what time it was... 11:38... lol of course it was :D
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Love this! Great interview!
It's extraordinary how nonchalant he is about making a filmmaking empire.
He has done it from a fairly early age, so it probably feels very normal to him. He's been mega rich most of his life now.
This video is about 10 years old.
Every time I see George Lucas the first thing I notice is his hair.
George Lucas‘ hair genetics are on a level with Ronald Reagan, and they are perfect!
When was this interview made? It looks like 2005.
It's from 2024
IMDB says the show aired May 2, 2009.
George Lucas is a great idea man and imaginative and creative
Just a good guy who made movies of varying quality that are somehow all fantastic anyway.
Need 4k
Ohh How I wish George could save his own creation from the disaster of Disney and KK.
GEORGE PLEASE get your empire back.
What for? So OT Purists can come after him again?
@@cantnevercould9660 The OT purists love Disney Lucasfilm SW.
Even though the prequels are flawed in my opinion, just out of principle, I am glad he made them exactly the way he wanted them to be. I'm sick of Hollywood movies today that have no artisitic integrity
God I miss this man
My hero.
When this was made he seemed happier and much healthier here
Look up "MOMA Gala George Lucas and Martin Scorsese 2022" for pictures. He's very healthy and happy looking there. It seems to be more Disney events where he's not happy and would prefer not being there but he goes to be respectful. Like the Indiana Jones movie premiere I imagine he went out of respect for Harrison Ford since they're good friends.
Background music it’s a bit off
19:52 "Laddy" heroically defended more than one Sci-Fi masterpiece.
As a fan of the Alien franchise, he's somewhat of a hero to me.
Is this new or old footage?
I think it's a couple years before or after he sold Star Wars
so like 2010-2015ish
Lucas never explained if he followed Walter Murch's idea for THX or was it his "good friends, (students)?", that propelled him to go ahead and do this project with the help of the Zoetrope company. I'm confused.😐🤔😌
Matthew Robbins and Walter Murch came up with an original concept similar to THX 1138 but got bored by the project so they gave up on it. George was still very interested and pursued it. I hope this clarifies for you.
Yes , thanks a lot. Although the name Matthew Robbins kinda threw me off with the actor Tim Robbins of The Shawshank Redemption. DId the THX idea come from 1984 or other literary works? @@zoetropeguardian
@@georgioquestor597
My pleasure. It can get confusing. Funny coincidence is Tim Robbins was in Howard the Duck and Frank Darabont wrote multiple episodes of Young Indy with George. Haha
To answer your question. There was some inspiration but it was more so a metaphor for them in how they were living at the time. Late 60's/early 70's. It was a film set in the future but not about the future.
@@zoetropeguardian Yea many connections there. If i am correct Frankie directed Shawshank with Robbins while Timmy was with Howard produced by LUcasfilms. Duck was a bust at that time but now seems to bean underground classic. He..he! Thanks again Zoe.
P.S; THX is a heavy movie with many layers. It's amazing young George, (and student crew), made it look so convincing. First time i saw it I had no idea what i was watching. Now i get it.
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You're very welcome. It's great how they've both become underground classics as you say. 😊
Oh! I should clarify for you. There were actually two THX 1138's. One was George's student film version and the second was his first feature film version. Only the first one was worked on by students and members of the Navy too. The second one was afterwards and he had spent a couple of years in San Francisco with Francis Ford Coppola as they started a film studio together. They made Francis's The Rain People and then feature length THX 1138.
I hope this helps. 😊
Hi George ❤
When was this recorded? 🤔
0:07 For any sticklers out there, Coppola is pronounced; Co (rhymes with show) Po La, rather than Copp- a-la.
Also, Scorsese is; Scor- Sehz- ee, rather than Scor-Say-zee.
Edit: A few minutes later, Lucas says "Coppola". 😓
Maybe it's just me, but I like to pronounce things correctly once I know the correct way to say them.