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Jay Sylvester: [regarding the changes made to the original Star Wars trilogy] George Lucas may be the brainchild behind Star Wars; he may have come up with the story and a lot of the characters, but everyone who participated in making those films had some type of creative input. I mean they won an Oscar for best special effects. Some of those effects are stripped out and replaced with CGI enhancements, if you wanna call them that. I think that that's really disrespectful to the people who worked on those models and did those shots.
George Lucas
George Lucas (George Lucas) was born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California, USA. He is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Film Department of the University of Southern California.
In 1966, directed his first short film "Freiheit". In 1971, directed the short film "THX-1138"
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. In 1973, with the comedy film " American Graffiti ", he was nominated for the 46th Academy Awards for Best Director
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. In 1977, with the science fiction film " Star Wars ", he was nominated for the 50th Oscar Award for Best Director
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. In 1980, he served as the screenwriter and producer of the movie " Star Wars2-The Empire Strikes Back "
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; in the same year, he served as the producer of the movie "Shadow Warrior", for which he won the 25th Italian David Award for Best Foreign Producer Filmmaker Award. In 1983, he served as the producer of the movie " Star Wars 3: Return of the Jedi "
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. In 1986, he served as the producer of the science fiction comedy film " Howard the Duck "
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. In 1991, he appeared in the documentary "The Memories of Warner Superstar".
In 1999, he directed the movie " Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace "
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, for which he was nominated for the 26th Saturn Awards for Best Director. In 2002, the film " Star Wars Prequel II: Attack of the Clones " directed by him was released
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. In 2005, Lucas received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute
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. In 2008, he served as the producer of the movie " Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull "
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. In 2012, George Lucas announced that he had entered a "retired" state and would no longer take any commercial productions. In 2013, he won the National Medal of Art
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. In 2015, the sci-fi love animation film " Strange Magic " , in which he served as the screenwriter and producer, was released
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. In 2018, the film " Solo: A Star Wars Story " with which he was the screenwriter was released
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In April 2021, the 2021 Forbes Rich List was released, and George Lucas ranked 339th in the "2021 Forbes Global Rich List" with US$7.4 billion.
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Personal Life
In 1969, George Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin. Later, Marcia Lou Griffin adopted a daughter, Amanda, and Lucas adopted two children
. In 1983, the two broke up.
In 2006, started dating Melody Hobson, chairman of DreamWorks Animation Department. On January 3,
2013, they were engaged to Melody Hobson ; on June 22, the two married at Skywalker Farm in Marin County, California. They were married by PBS reporter and producer Bill Moyer. Sri Lanka
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On Friday, August 9, 2013, Melody Hobson gave birth to her daughter through surrogacy
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Character Evaluation
George Lucas is like a lonely gifted craftsman, creating a world that belongs only to him
. He incorporated unlimited imagination and the most avant-garde technology into film art
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George Lucas seems to be better at arranging the plot of the film, but not good at exploring the themes of the film in depth. This is the biggest difference between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. He is more diligent in his career in film and television. He always projects sunlight on those novel works of unique style, hoping to discover the material and use his talented production ability to create more influential film and television works
. In the "Star Wars" series, George Lucas showed a stable way of storytelling, and it provided inspiration for Hollywood's creative direction in the new era. In terms of narrative techniques, Lucas is well versed in popular literature, and constantly uses humor and sadness to adjust the narrative rhythm and drive the emotions of the audience. From the point of view of aesthetic taste, Lucas's profound classical complex permeates the film's story archetype. Although science fiction films often point to the future, Lucas has repeatedly emphasized the past in his films .
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