THX 1138

Whilst society’s ongoing change occurs, often it is the use of dystopian texts that explore our own future best. Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre under speculative fiction that undermines the fears of society in its given context. In modern dystopias, this is often through the use of a totalitarian government or in an environment of absolute control. However, in a teeming civilization, it may only take an individual to break this conformity. Thus, effective dystopias best express the faults in a civilization of often an oppressed society, by exploring the idea of individuality, a natural factor in mankind, that acts as an opposing force. Particularly in George Lucas’ debut sci-fi THX 1138, the text feeds to society’s questions concerning both environmental, sociopolitical and technological change…

another activity involving cars,racing. Lucas was convinced he was going to be a race car driver, but that soon changed. Two days before his high school graduation, Lucas had a nearly fatal car crash during a race on June 12, 1962. This led him to steer away from the racing business. After graduating high school Lucas had no idea where he was going to go to college. During the summer, one of his friends convinced Lucas to go Howard 2 to The University Of Southern California with him to study…

Francis Ford Coppola has some strong opinions about George Lucas and Star Wars. During an interview at the Marrakech International Film Festival (via ScreenDaily), the Godfather director spoke about his longtime friend's most famous creation, saying that the big budget cycle of the Star Wars machine drove Lucas away from his roots as an experimental filmmaker. "I think Star Wars, it's a pity, because George Lucas was a very experimental crazy guy and he got lost in this big production and…

George Lucas got his high school diploma and he went to college at University California for one year. Then he went to film school and made a sound system called THX 1138. After that he went on to make a screenplay called Star Wars. Even after all of this, George still wanted to become a race car driver. George Lucas was still successful in school even though he only went for one year. George Lucas’s TV career was very successful. In 1977 George came out with Star Wars episode IV A New Hope…

in MMP’s it’s extremely rare for a director to edit their own movies, it’s not unheard of in the indie market. It is debatable whether if directors who are the main creative forces in their film make it any better, because sometimes they fail. A great example of an auteur theory director is George Lucas, and he has made both incredibly successful and amazingly awful films. George Lucas is the embodiment of the auteur theory due to his major creative force in almost all of his projects, but it…

Walter Murch, The legendary sound editotr, was born in 1943 in Manhattan, New York. He studied Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University but it was only when he went to and graduated from the University of Southern California film school when he met students like the likes of George Lucas, and both went on to become successful film directors and editors. Through innovative techniques and film making processes and collaboration with other successful directors, they came out with group projects…

go straight, to improve as an understudy, to attempt to do something with myself."(Hearn). Lucas enrolled at Modesto Junior College, where he took an interest with cinematography. Settling on a business in film, he felt connected to the famed University of Southern California (USC) film school. USC was a work in progress for Lucas. "Abruptly my life was film-each waking hour," (Smith) he says in a 1997 Playboy interview. He focused on making powerful sci-fi movies and fake documentaries, which…

tied to the real world. According to Bould, “in the later films, lucas shows the audience how the oppression Empire is born, not with soldiers and military might but rather through fear, deceit, and emotional manipulation. Because of this mass of people are able to relate to the movie of how our fear could have a negative side effect. George Lucas was motivated by series of thing that occur throughout his childhood. George lucas has had made different claims how the creation of Star Wars…