How Did George Lucas Influence American Culture

"Star Wars" was arguably the first in a new breed of high concept, high budget sci-fi action films. It was directed by George Lucas and originally released in only a few cinemas in 1977. However, the buzz around the film grew, and it is now one of the highest grossing films of all time, and along with its sequels, prequels and re-mastered re-releases, has a large cult following. I feel this is because of Lucas` ability to engage the audience through careful use of sound and camera technique;

American Lore is just like any other lore it has myths, legends, and fairy tales, but American lore shows the history of America and how we live today, with a twist to the story. With Legends, myths, and fairy tales it expresses the way americans think and how creative we can be to come up with these stories from things that could actually happen. Legends are based on historical facts Myths are based on religion and gods and goddesses. Fairy Tales are made believe not real, includes special creatures. Tall tales and legends are more based in American lore and is heavily based on history and the many traditional stories that are spread from generation to generation. American lore is based on, “power social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources. Achievement which is a personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards . Hedonism pleasure or sensuous

The films he created allowed the new generation of movie goers to have their own movie, that everyone could relate too. Tying into the backbone of the American New Wave movement which was the realism within the films. The editing use within Star Wars was uncommon for films to incorporate the use of computers models, the use of the computer aided effects started to effect other films in the making, allowing them to add more to the story and attract the new age of the audience. Also lets take into account that Lucas was not only a one film director, he also had created the Indiana Jones series, another blockbuster film. Some on the trademarks used by Lucas in Star Wars and Indiana Jones are still used today within other films, some examples of Lucas’s trademarks are his use of battle scenes by a large pit, visual effects, and also the use of soft-edge wipes as transitions. In addition, everything Lucas was doing was to get the new generation of movie attenders to come and see the new film in the theaters. As a parallel too today, movies are coming out every week, each one different from the other, but if you look closely at each of the movies the use of visual effects within the movies have stayed the same, from having half of New York always destroyed or from having more

The impact of the the colonies on other cultures in America was huge for the native Americans. They were forced out of their land and homes by the colonists. They were also forced into slavery. This happened to many, but some formed good ties with the colonists. According to White (2012), “They wanted tools, weapons, and other goods that Europeans could provide.” This means that they had made strong connections and were willing to fight for the colonists.

Lucas’ movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was not only the biggest sensation of its time,”...winning seven Academy Awards…” (Kiminski 10) , but also a substantial influence on the toy world. Lucas stated in his interview, “Ten year old boys will

Star wars is a story of an ordinary boy turned extraordinary what each person in society aspires to be. For example. Luke is a meak and unassuming farmer he harvests water a necessity for his dismal desert environment. Luke has large aspirations to be a pilot for no other than the empire itself. Luke unaware of is ever changing environment will lose everything just to gain it back. The death of his childhood home and his uncle and aunt only pushes him out of his comfort zone to live in a world that he doesn’t know about. Obi won conbi his mentor and guide through life's trials give him hope when he teaches Luke of the faith in the force. Through battle and decisions the choices Luke makes are the same ones that Inspire us today. Luke is no

After fan fictions about the Old Republic and book series such as “Jedi Academy,” chronologically, “The Phantom Menace” is the first movie in the franchise, which came out in 1999. It’s an introduction to the Force, to the “Star Wars” universe, and to Anakin Skywalker, a major character in the saga. It’s about how the Jedi, along with the Galactic Republic, help the gorgeous planet of Naboo defend themselves against the Trade Federation.

George Lucas Imagine a boy walking down the street on a crisp Halloween night. He walks by many people and comes across many characters with blasters and whips. He asks the characters what movie they got their costumes from, and they told the boy they were from two very famous movie series. He decides to watch the movie series and he loves it. These series of movies are Indiana Jones and Star Wars, two of George Lucas’ many successful series.

and that is the reason he wanted to make a movie. To see if the same techniques could work on a modern audience, in which he proved to be true. With the Star Wars movies, he created a community for the fans, no matter the race, religion or area they are from, they are a community for having the same interests in Star Wars, allowing them to relate to anyone who is a

When Star Wars was first made in 1977, nobody expected to become into such a big movie. George Lucas had only a small crew, A few actors without much reputation, A bunc

If one thing is for certain throughout the history of music it is that all genres and composers in the music industry had an impact on the American Popular Culture. Starting in the 1920s all the way up to today people are constantly being influenced by the lyrics in the songs that they hear. Many musicians compose music and write lyrics in order to give the majority of the population something to relate to. Each decade of new composers and genres brought into account a lot of political issues that were going on during the time. This paper will examine the most important and influential composers and songs throughout the decades and how that affected the American pop culture.

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” This quote was expressed by the renowned novelist, Ernest Hemingway. Speaking of Hemingway, despite being an exceptionally successful novelist he was a very depressed man and often turned to alcohol to dwindle his feelings of depression. In collaboration with alcohol, the novelist, who established his literary dominance during the 1920’s, wrote amazing pieces of american literature. Hemingway was joined with many American icons including: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Lindbergh, Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, and many more famous men and women. With the amount of huge influences listed, the 1920s were undoubtedly a huge contributor in shaping American culture.

He had the whole space fantasy world painted in his mind, but it seemed to be just a fantasy after all since the technology available was still limited to produce such visual effects. Lucas quickly realized that in order for his universe to come to life, he was going to have to build it by hand (theneweconomy, 1). It may have sounded a little ridiculous at first, but for anyone who worked with Lucas knew that there were no impossibilities when it came to build one of the biggest franchises in the world. John Dykstra, a visual effect designer, was chosen to work as the head director in special effects by Lucas for the original trilogy described how he and his group were spending months to build models and robots from scratch to achieve the realism that Lucas wanted (theneweconomy, 1). He stated that, “Back in the days of Star Wars, we kind of walked into an empty warehouse and sat on the floor and went ‘How are we going to do this?”

While observing the set Lucas says that the set is so much better than his set and the movie will make much more money than Star Wars to Lucas’s dismay. Lucas also said “Oh my God, your movie is better than Star Wars! This is gonna be the biggest hit of all time. I can’t believe this set” Lucas said he would trade some earnings with Spielberg. They would each trade 2.5 percent of their movies earnings to each other. Then Spielberg agreed to the bet but actually Star Wars made $775 million at the box office and close encounters only making $304 million. Though Lucas did not lose much money since after the movie he was still a billionaire so there was not a giant hole in his wallet after the bet which surprised Lucas. He was very surprised that Star Wars got almost double the earning of close encounters and now had so much money.

Not only was Lucas’s filming behind schedule but the filming for the effects were behind schedule as well. The deadline was coming soon and Star Wars needed to be finished on time. The narrator in the documentary video, Empire of Dreams, said that “Lucas doubled his efforts to save Star Wars. The situation at ilm required drastic measures. To get the films crucial special effects back on track, Lucas had no choice but to step in personally.” (Empire of Dreams) Unfortunately this caused his health to fail. He was hospitalized due to stress related illness and was advised to rest more. He spilt up directing into three sections and gave two sections to people he