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Hoping to avoid the poster and graffiti pollution that plagued neighboring Portugal after the 1974 revolution, government officials erected more than 900 billboards throughout the capital with such mottos as "Play clean, don't paint the city." The government itself put up thousands of posters exhorting voters to "Think, analyze and choose" and "Democracy is among other things the acceptance of political pluralism...
...leafing through some 39 handouts--that Lucas has maintained an ongoing infatuation for many years with the sci-fi heroes who thrilled a generation, and then some, of American youths from the 1930s onwards. Lucas worked hard on Star Wars; his first film since the 1973 hit American Graffiti, the 33-year-old director spent the better part of three years writing the script (during which time he drew up four different versions) before he commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went into the movie, and the viewer must keep a grain of salt handy...
...American Graffiti Lucas did more than that. He worked out his entire adolescence. Set in Modesto, Calif, where he grew up, the film is the perfect image of bored, rootless teen-agers in 1962, the year he finished high school. Says Lucas: "I spent my teen years cruising McHenry Avenue in Modesto." At that time his only ambition was to race cars, but a near-fatal crash two days before graduation forced him to spend three months in a hospital. When he came out, he decided to go to college. After two years at Modesto Junior College, he entered...
...edge of trouble. I am inherently conservative. We complement each other." When he was only 23, Lucas received backing for THX-1138, an expansion of a science fiction short he had started at U.S.C. Though the movie failed commercially, it was impressive enough to encourage Universal to finance American Graffiti...
Lucas' goal is to be independent enough to make small, esoteric films. Marcia, however, wants him to continue directing movies like Star Wars and Graffiti, that everyone can enjoy. Both may have their way. Star Wars may well make Lucas a rich man, able to work on two levels. The movie may help the tribe as well. Instead of showing their friendship by pricking fingers and mixing blood like so many Tom Sawyers, the Big Four directors-Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg and Lucas-have traded scripts and sometimes even percentage points of the profits from their new films. They...