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George Lucas, the visionary filmmaker, has been awarded the honorary Palme d’Or at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, paying tribute to one of the great personalities of contemporary cinema who had an extraordinary career associated with entertainment, innovation, mythology, modernity, cinema and cinema. Technology. He has been an exceptional producer, both in the trilogy Star Warslike Indiana Jones, But also as a producer of masterpieces. Let’s think about the film Kagemusha, From Japanese Akira Kurosawa.
The director recalls the first time one of his films was selected at Cannes: it was in 1971 with the film. THX-1138. Then, in 1973, there will be American Graffiti, a song for young people starting Harrison Ford’s career. And, in 1977, finally, star wars, It reinvented the codes of film genres and created its own geography: people, languages, values… and its own vehicles. The film became a global sociocultural phenomenon. Later, the company was established Light and magic, He was a pioneer of special effects. He has come to build an empire through nine episodes of Saga, four of which he directed himself, in which he added his other company, THX, which contributed to the evolution of stereo sound. On February 3, 1986, he founded the popular animation studio Pixel.
He also credited Stanley Kubrick with creating the definitive science fiction film with “2001, A Space Odyssey.”
George Lucas was born in 1944 in Modesto, Colorado. A screenwriter, producer and film director, he studied film at the University of Southern California. Already as a teenager, he wanted to immerse himself in the study of visual narrative and creating imaginary worlds. Works like Robinson Crusoe Daniel Dafoe and Treasure Island Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson nurtured his imagination and laid the foundation for his future as a filmmaker. Immediately, he became an avid collector of comics, those wonderful worlds and heroes who defied the impossible. He was Coppola’s assistant The Rainbow Road (1968), While doing an internship at Warner Bros. In no time he filmed part of the documentary Don’t try Asilo (1970) about the violent Rolling Stone concert at the Altamont Festival in 1969.
Star Wars A plan he had in mind since he was eighteen claimed his life while recovering from a car accident. His tenacity prevailed over the low expectations created by science fiction at the time and the film became the key to redeeming adventure for the sake of adventure and for the heroes of the classic epic, whose story remained only to add some great special effects. .
A story that begins with the simplicity of a fairy tale…(“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…”), Aided by old master Obi-Wan Kenobi (cue an unforgettable performance by Alex Guiness here) and the somewhat sinister pilot Han Solo, it tells the adventures of young peasant Luke Skywalker to become a Jedi Knight like his late father. (Harrison Ford), to rescue Princess Leia from the treacherous Galactic Empire. A work that became a social phenomenon, rewarded with the greatest public success known to date and 6 Oscars awarded by the Academy (Scenery, Sound, Music, Special Effects, Editing and Costumes). A true epic that will feed the imagination of an entire generation of viewers who witnessed the birth of a myth that expertly blended the medieval Arthurian era, Westerns, pirate films and aerial warfare.
Light$Magic, the company created by George Lucas for Star Wars, is a factory of tricks that changed the history of cinema.
After great success, they arrived The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). In 1999 he presented a new cycle of installments of the saga, which began Star Wars, Episode I (The Phantom Menace), They followed Episode II (Attack of the Clones, 2002) and Episode III (Revenge of the Sith, 2005). In December 2015, the seventh installment was released, produced by The Walt Disney Company, which acquired the production company Lucasfilm Ltd in 2012 for $4 billion. George Lucas later said: ꟷ”I don’t have control of Star Wars anymore, so it will go in a different direction, although the first six episodes are mostly mine and will maintain my philosophy.” Now, new alternatives and stories are being sought to continue exploring this distant galaxy.
There is a documentary series that tells how the company Light$Magic was created by George Lucas for Star Wars. A factory of tricks that changed the history of cinema. In 1977, when James Cameron was 23 years old, he was going to visit Star Wars and He told his wife: ꟷ “I’m going to quit my job. You’ve got to pay the bills for a while. “I want to make a movie.” The next year, after he stopped driving trucks, he rolled xenogenesis, A short film about an apocalyptic story with space settings. First they were four crazy people who met in a warehouse in Van Nuys next to the Los Angeles airport, then they moved to studios in San Francisco, Singapore, Vancouver, London and Sydney with a total of 1,200 employees. They were the ones I watched as a child King Kong, “stop motion” animations or frame by frame by Ray Harryhausen. Some were mechanics, others artists, or model geeks…, good draftsmen… and together they achieved the highest level of results. All that’s left is to create stories and characters. when Spielberg Seeing them, he did not hesitate to create dinosaurs Jurassic Park. And a new era began.
Without further ado, let’s think for a moment about the technological innovations attributed to George Lucas.
1).- Proprietors and Promotional Materials. He not only created a saga, but an empire of derivative products. 2).- The sequence of credits in the last released movie. 3).- Advances in 3D animation. 4).- Digital cinema. 5).- New inventions like THX. Also color technique (technicolor), technologies for motion capture, CGI (computer generated images) and finally streaming (backgrounds of audio, video and other multimedia content in real time over the Internet) and digital distribution.
Lucasfilm was born out of necessity. After the release of his first film, THX 1138 (1971), the filmmaker was keen to achieve creative freedom, and to do so, he felt it necessary to start with no limited exposure at the box office, among other things. This new company outside of Hollywood. Eventually, he took her to Northern California. There were aspirations, hope and faith. As he said in an interview, “Dreams are so important that you can’t make them happen if you don’t imagine them.” That is imagination and freedom.
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